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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
Terrible news came out last night of Clif Croce’s passing at 65 years old. The Freeze were one of my favorite bands and were active once again in the past year or so. I was excited to see them again.
Today is all Freeze, all day except for the On This date.
I will write more about “devoted to the fans” stuff later but here is a great post by Jed Hresko about Clif:
The Abbie Hoffman of our generation. Lead singer of one of the most influential hardcore bands in New England – and despite his long Walter White phase – one of the only HC bands from that era still playing regularly. He also wrote many songs that pulled no punches regarding that chaos. Godfather of punk rock on the Cape. Voice of the Cape “year-rounders.” Brilliant lyricist. Occasionally a royal pain yet genuinely kind to friends, fans and bandmates. Totally devoted to the fans. That’s just some of the story.
This recording was dated 6/17/84 from San Francisco, but that does not seem possible as they were in Sacramento at the Vortograph that night. They played a few shows while they were in SF that week. This is not the soundtrack from the multicamera video- this is a separate soundboard recording.
Recorded by: Micgram Equipment used: Sony D5M Transfer by: Mike Singal Rebalance by Shayne in Izotope Rx8: Guitar +6, Bass +4, Drums -2
