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Metal Church- Rock Palace, Portland OR 6/30/84 xfer from master audio cassette Slayer Mace

It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! It’s doesn’t feel like a Tuesday with so many people off for the holiday yesterday, including my kids. Not much time in the studio lately. Anyway, this one suffered from some high end distortion. I did my best to pull as much as distortion as possible out while boosting bass. I think it is uncirculated, so it has that going for it.

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- Rock Palace, Portland Or 6/30/84 xfer from master cassette tape Thrash

Doug joined the band on their first tour of the northwest in June of 84. Along with taping the shows, he took some amazing photos that are being added to the Sacramento Music Archive website today. So, if you only subscribe to the youtube channel, you might want to hop over to the website and sign up for updates there.
On to this tape. This one cleaned up real nice. I was able to EQ the excessive high end out of it and boost bass/mids, then pop it into Izotope Rx8 and bring up vocals and bass guitar. Sounds alright!

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 (Bass & vocals +4, drums +2.5)

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Metal Church- Mountaineers, Seattle Wa 6/29/84 xfer from master audio tape

Here is another nice sounding Doug tape. Man, it is awesome to hear how these old shows are coming out. Some people were asking about MC’s opening slots when I posted the Slayer show.. here it is…
I can’t put my finger on why I loved this band so much, but they were one of my favorites. I think the lyrics hit me more so than a lot of bands at the time.. and was probably an early gateway into those anti-nuclear punk bands like Crucifix and Discharge.
Some folks were complaining about someone clearly using a stolen image from a Baron Rojo album for this flyer- I didn’t make it, I just use it for the post. It’s been 39 years, so maybe the statute of limitations has run out on flyer image theft.

Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge 10

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Wild Dogs- Mountaineers, Seattle Wa 6/29/84 xfer from master audio tape PNW Power Metal

Back to Doug’s archive of tapes for today. This one needed no EQ at all- it is the best sounding Doug tape so far. Doug traveled with Slayer up to their shows in Portland and Seattle in 1984- I have some awesome tour photos to share with the upcoming Slayer posts of these shows. Thanks Doug!
Back in the early 80s, these guys had a decent amount of buzz going- that first album on Shrapnel was listened to a bunch in my circles. They put out 3 records from 83-87 then fizzled out, reuniting in 2004.

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

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Slayer- Tropicana, Olympia Wa 6/28/84 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash Metal Kerry King

It’s tour manager Doug Tuesday! Here is one that has been requested by some people on YouTube after I posted some of the other PNW Slayer shows, so it is highly anticipated by some folks. It’s a little tinny but listenable.

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 6/23/84 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash Metal Kerry King

It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! And another Slayer show from Ruthie’s.
Man, it kills me to see all of these Slayer shows that I could have attended… I did not know they were happening. Back in the 80s, if you weren’t going to the club on a regular basis, you wouldn’t know what was playing there. There was very little advertisement outside of the club. Same with Gilman and a bunch of others. Steve Koepke’s The List solved that “knowing about shows” problem, but he did not start until 1990. Before that, it was hit and miss.
This one might be less circulated than other Slayer Ruthies shows- they are usually well-documented on setlist dot fm, but not this one.

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

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Exodus- Ruthie’s Inn, Berkeley Ca 6/23/84 xfer from master Audio Cassette Thrash Metal Metallica

Let’s do another Doug tape today. This one was clean enough that the EQ job was pretty effective. It’s definitely an enojyable listen.
Band Introduction by James Hetfield.
Sorry so short today, I have a migraine and can’t take meds until after an important meeting this afternoon… and it keeps getting worse.

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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Violent Femmes- Vortograph Center, Sacramento Ca 6/21/84 transfer f/master audio cassette full show

More amazing stuff rom Dave Carness’ collection. This is another example of a legendary show/venue only existing in flyers and images… until now. This one sounds pretty decent for the time and venue. This place was a huge room with hard surfaces, so not the best acoustics. I have a boombox recording of redrum from this room in 1987 when it was called Hardin hall and it sounds like ass. So good on Dave for getting up close to the PA.

Recorded by: Dave Carness
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Y & T (Yesterday and Today)- Keystone, Palo Alto Ca 6/11/84 xfer from master audio cassette

It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! Even though all of these aftershock recordings have thrown the rest of the schedule into chaos, you can depend on TMDT.. at least for the rest of the year or so.
Here’s a nice headlining set from Y&T. Could not find a flyer for the show so you get a nice match box as the photo.

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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