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Riot- Wolfgang’s, San Francisco Ca. 12/27/83 xfer from master tape R.I.P Mark Reale Rhett Forrester

This is one from Tour Manager Doug’s collection that I did first- I have always been a big fan of early Riot, but never got to see them. I lost interest a bit after 1988, but those early records are classic. I was just a year or 2 too young to make it to SF to see this one. Would have loved to been there.

I looked online, trying to find a good “in concert” picture of Riot with Rhett and there weren’t many out there. I did read up a bit on Rhett’s life after Riot- I heard that he was murdered in a gang fight, but I was mistaken on that. Totally random and tragic.

This is a totally different recording than the one that was released on the Riot Live Archives box set. That recording has a lot of audience noise- I like this one better. I did EQ the heck out of it to tone down the highs and get the bass up in the mix. That low end rumble is a bit distracting. I might re-do this one and post again.

Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug
Equipment used: Sony Walkman WM-R2
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge

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Exodus- Wolfgang’s, San Francisco Ca 12/20/83 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash Metal Baloff

It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! it looks like we have exactly enough Doug posts to get us to the end of the year. That was unplanned but convenient.

Since everyone is still buzzing from Exodus’ first headlining show around here in forever, let’s post this one today…
3 songs from this set have been on “Lord Pryderi’s ~ (great) Metal History channel” – check his out if you haven’t already. He posts from Verne’s master tapes, I post from Doug’s… 2 of the early bay area thrash tapers are covered between us(3 if you count Wayne Vanderkuil’s mostly punk with some metal collection). Now we just need Mr. Ron Quintana to get his stuff out there and we can call it done.
I love these early sets with the pre-LP songs in the set.

Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug
Equipment used: Sony Walkman WM-R2
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge

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Heaven- Wolfgang’s, San Francisco Ca 12/20/83 xfer from master audio cassette Australia Rock Metal

This one appears to be somewhat rare- I checked youtube and there are zero full sets from the Australian band Heaven from their 1983 US tour. Maybe they are out there and I am not searching correctly, but I see nothin’.
This one EQ’d well, but the vocals were buried. So I did the ol’ EQ-Izotope combo. It worked out pretty nice!
Heaven seemed to get a decent push when they released their first album in 1983 – it was everywhere. I even owned a copy, I might have done the Columbia record club (10 LPs for 1 penny!) to get this one. That’s how I got most of my albums as a kid. Then, Heaven were gone. It looks like they were around from 1982-1985 and then poof. I’m surprised that there is nothing out there from this 4 week USA tour.

Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug
Equipment used: Sony Walkman WM-R2
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge; Rebalance in Izotope Rx8 (Vocals +5)

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Butthole Surfers- Club Minimal, Sacramento Ca. 12/10/83 xfer from master cassette w/Nakamichi Dragon

Before I get started on this, I wanted to give a HUGE thank you to Tim Soriano for loaning me his master tape to digitize. Thanks also to Jennifer Curtsinger who connected me & Tim about a year ago about this. Thanks to Scott Soriano for bringing the tape to Tim from his place in SF.

One of my biggest music regrets was missing the entire Club Minimal scene. I started going to Clear & Distinct shows in 1985- the year after Minimal closed down. I have been searching for tapes from Minimal for 35 YEARS now. I see flyers with so many of my favorite bands playing there and it kills me. I only found one show before these- Meat Puppets from a good friend in the late 80s.

The other side of this tape (Dead Kennedys) had some issues with one channel, but this side played through pretty nicely, and it sounds way better than the DK side, probably because they were not playing as loud.

Recorded by: Tim Soriano
Equipment used: 1980’s heavy duty boombox
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Flyer image: Ken Doose

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Dead Kennedys- Club Minimal, Sacramento Ca. 12/10/83 xfer from master cassette w/Nakamichi Dragon

Before I get started on this, I wanted to give a HUGE thank you to Tim Soriano for loaning me his master tape to digitize. Thanks also to Jennifer Curtsinger who connected me & Tim about a year ago about this. Thanks to Scott Soriano for bringing the tape to Tim from his place in SF.

One of my biggest music regrets was missing the entire Club Minimal scene. I started going to Clear & Distinct shows in 1985- the year after Minimal closed down. I have been searching for tapes from Minimal for 35 YEARS now. I see flyers with so many of my favorite bands playing there and it kills me. I only found one show before these- Meat Puppets from a good friend in the late 80s.

So here is one of the two shows that is on the tape. The tape is pretty beat, so I had to delete the channel and duplicate the “good” one. It doesn’t sound all that bad when you consider the age of the tape, the venue(brick walls and concrete floors) and the equipment (boom box). Some of those old boom boxes had some nice mics!

Recorded by: Tim Soriano
Equipment used: 1980’s heavy duty boombox
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Flyer Image: Ken Doose

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