It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! This might be the last Ultimate Revenge tour tape that is in his box. It has been so much fun to listen and clean up all of these shows for him. This one sounds pretty damned good- no distortion, you can hear the low end in the mix, it’s an enjoyable listen. Before all the Venom freaks ask, no- there was no Venom tape in the box from this show. Sorry Joseph!
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! This one is confusing. At first, I thought the image I used for this might be wrong and it wasn’t a show with Carnivore. Setlist.fm has the show as part of the Ultimate Revenge tour w/Venom and Exodus and not a show w/Carnivore. But Slayer plays 80min here and their ultimate revenge sets were 40-50min long… So I am running with it. Let me know if you can confirm . Show starts off pretty harsh sounding with some high end distortion, but improves as it goes.
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
I was trying to find something on my youtube channel last weekend and I sorted for drafts.. and holy crap there is a bunch of stuff I forgot to post! Here is the first one. This is THE very last TM Doug tape from the ones he sent me last year. I thought I had done them all, but no. One more. Of course, it’s Slayer. This one sounds a bit better than the one from the night before at the Spectrum. I don’t know if Doug taped these- they didn’t have quite the same quality as his usual stuff.
Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I made a mistake on the post today- the tape was not marked at all, so I listened and made a guess- with the shout-outs to Voi Vod, I assumed it was the show that they played with them at The Ritz on 4/5/86. Doug just emailed me and told me that it was not the Ritz show, and that it might be Montreal. I went back and listened to the tape closely and Cronos does mention Montreal after Black Metal. A quick check of setlist.fm shows that the set matches the Spectrum show from 3/25/85. So, there you go. I totally whiffed on the ol’ detective work on this one.
here’s my original post for reference:
Since there are not one but two pieces of news about Venom in today’s news cycle, I figured I would post the last Tour Manager Doug master recording of Venom. About those news items- Tom talked about Cronos “hitting” him when we were all backstage at the Crest show in 85, and I think the black eye was still visible. Odd to see that story get some legs all these years later. Regarding the Venom Inc article about Abaddon’s departure from the band, I’ll keep my opinions (mostly) to myself… but I know how well Antony treats his fans and he was battling cancer as well (not mentioned in the article). He’s a good guy who seems to have gotten a raw deal. Anyway, this one is definitely a Doug master. You can hear him clowning with friends during breaks in the music- he clearly prefers Voi Vod over Venom “Voigod! haha). Classic!
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 Christmas Eve. A perfect time to post some Slayer. Btw, it was nice to see everyone at Brian’s benefit show last night. My neck is killing me from looking up at my camera screen for 5 hours. Sorry to The Brodys, Storytellers and Snobs. I hit the wall after 5 hours of filming and had to bail. Kudos to Cardel for keeping the show relatively on schedule. 20 bands playing 12 minute sets was really something! Anyway, on to the Slayer tape. I suspect that Doug did not tape this one because the type of tape in his collection- it was not the same as what he usually used. Also, the quality of this one is not “tour manager doug quality ™”. It did not have that clear, clean, crisp high end sound while lacking low end that the rest of his does. Oh well, I did my best with EQ’ing it. Fair quality.
Recorded by: ? (from TM Doug’s collection) Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Wow, we made it a whopping 8 days without a Slayer post. This one comes from Baltimore, in the very non-Slayer sounding Seagull Inn. That makes me wonder- is this the most wimpy-named venue that Slayer ever played? I know that they were too big to play the Sit-n-Spin laundromat/music venue in the 90s. Chime in if you know of any evil bands playing silly venues. Venom at Unicorn Stables or some sh*t. I would say that this is an average Doug recording- slight distortion, bass rumble since I had to push the EQ to get anything low in the mix, and slightly fuzzy separation of instruments. Still, Slayer at Seagull Inn!
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 election day AND Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! Get out and vote, and try not to OD on the endless political talking head news programs going on today. We won’t know results until tonight at best, so I suggest you spend your time doing something positive rather than worrying about the outcome. This tape would have been super exciting if we digitized it 10 years ago, as it was a true rarity back then. Since then, Metallica released a soundboard of this show on the Ride the Lightning box set… anyway, here it is for the completists.
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
