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Vicious Rumours- Ruthie’s Inn, Berkeley Ca 3/30/84 xfer from master audio cassette Heavy Power Metal

Well shoot. I was going to post a tape from Arica Pelino’s collection today, but I just found that Eggplant had posted the tape a few years back. There goes that plan. Let’s do another Tour Manager Doug tape instead.
Here is a Vicious Rumours set from a show they played with Exodus back before their debut album. It sounds pretty nice for the time- little to no (unwanted) distortion at all. Thanks Doug!

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- Ruthie’s Inn, Berkeley Ca 3/30/84 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash Metal Paul Baloff

It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! Or, as archive follower Mike Peacock says, “never heard of him”. Of course you have never heard of people taping. We were in the background, trying not to get caught! Just making fun, Mike.
Here is a fun and loose set from Exodus at Ruthie’s. As is usual with this time period, you get most of BBB and 3 demo songs.

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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Michael Schenker Group- Kabuki Theater, San Francisco Ca 3/22/84 xfer from master audio cassette MSG

Another Doug tape for you here. It looks like there is some kind of CD bootleg out there of this show that touts “perfect sound”, but I haven’t heard it. I wonder if it is similar to the Yngwie Kabuki show from 1985 I posted recently– the bootleg of that show was clearly a different recording.

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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Ted Nugent- Santa Rosa Pavilion, Santa Rosa Ca 3/20/84 xfer from master audio cassette complete show

Here’s another one from the Tour Manager Doug archives. I have to admit that I have never been much of a fan of the Nuge, but I know a lot of the early metal scene liked them a lot… I made my choice to ignore him long before the recent right wing nuttiness and the (unproven according to Snopes) fact that he crapped his pants to avoid the draft.
The show itself sounds decent. It has that big concert hall echo, which some folks dig, but clarity suffers a bit. Not much distortion in the source recording, so I was able to fix it up so fans should find it enjoyable.

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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Slayer- Ruthie’s Inn, Berkeley Ca 3/17/84 xfer from unknown gen soundboard cassette Thrash Metal

Man, historically craptacular work day today. Damn. Like, never-seen-before bad. Sobering.
Anyway, here is the 2nd of the two-for-tourmanagerdoug-thursday posts. There are a bunch of posts online which claim to be Ruthie’s 3/17/84, but none of them have the same setlist or sound. I tend to believe Doug’s tapes since he was there.
This mix was not great- I ran it through Izotope and boosted the guitar and bass A LOT and it is listenable. Lots of dead space between main set and encore, then more dead space until Tom tells the crowd that they blew a fuse and it is time to go home. Haha!

Recorded by: ? (a bit hissy to be recorded by Doug)
Equipment used: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge

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Slayer- Ruthie’s Inn, Berkeley Ca 3/17/84 SOUNDCHECK xfer from master or low gen audio cassette

Let’s make today a two-for-tourmanagerdoug-thursday!
First off is a short soundcheck from Slayer’s well-circulated Ruthie’s inn show. I don’t think I have ever seen this one around, but the board tape has been pressed onto vinyl by bootleggers. If you would stop buying those, bootlegs would stop. Just saying. Supply/demand and all.
This one is short and was less tinny than most TM Doug tapes, hence the “master or low gen” designation. Probably a master, knowing Doug.

Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug (I think)
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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Meat Puppets- Club Minimal, Sacramento 3/11/84 unknown source AUDIO only EDITED

HUGE thanks to Jim McLain for making this sound as good as it can. Hiss and hum removed, L/R levels leveled, etc!

So this is the only document that I have been able to find from an actual Club Minimal concert. The only other thing I have been able to find is Terry O’Reilly’s crowd video footage, but no music.
Anyway, this was from the old cassette trading days. Back before digital (sonny), you never knew what you were going to get. Sometimes you would trade a tape and it would sound pristine. Other times, they would sound like this. There is a hum on this that drives me INSANE. Someone must have dubbed the tape too close to a TV source- maddening. If anyone knows how to de-hum a wav file, let me know.
PS: Hummmm (UPDATE: Jim fixed it!! THANKS!)

 

Recorded by: Unknown

Equipment used: Unknown

Edited by: Jim McLain

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