Venom, Slayer, Exodus
Crest Theater
Sacramento, CA
04/13/85
Flyer scan by Ken Doose
Month: April 1985
Venom- Kabuki, San Francisco Ca 4/12/85 xfer from master audio cassette Black Metal
It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! I am pretty sure Doug taped this one- I think I hear him heckling the band at times. Pretty much all Venom recordings from this tour sound terrible due to the stage volume that they were pushing along with 1980s sound systems trying to keep up… but this one sounds better than most.
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
Slayer- Kabuki, San Francisco Ca 4/12/85 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash Metal Kerry King
I am a little late, but it is still TMDT- Tour Manager Doug Tuesday.
A couple weeks back, I mentioned that I had just a few slayer things left from Doug’s collection and it should bring us right up to the week of their show here in Sacramento next month. Well, as I was doing the “check out” process of ensuring I had every tape digitized, a CD burned for each show, and a post complete or ready… I realized that there were about 10 more tapes that I still needed to do, including one from a legendary location that the old school guys (Especially the Old Bridge east coast dudes) will like. So you still see TMDT for the rest of the year.
One of the tapes was this one. I knew that there were recordings circulated from this show, but I did a close A/B comparison of the Venom set, and these appear to be Doug’s masters. I can hear his voice heckling Cronos on the Venom show, haha. Not sure why this is incomplete, but this is all that was on the tape.
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
Venom- Kabuki Theater, San Francisco Ca. 4/12/85 Audio Only xfer from low gen audio cassette
I wasn’t planning on posting this one, but I gave this another listen while prepping the disc for Eric and it sounds pretty good for a 1985 Venom tape!
This is yet another gen from Eric Mcintire’s collection.
Recorded by: Verne “inhel”
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon & M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Slayer- Eagles Club, Milwaukee Wi. 4/6/85 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash Metal
Here is the correct info for today’s post. When I don’t have enough time to prep these posts, I make mistakes. Thanks to TM Doug for shooting me a mail right away to let me know.
I found this image online and it made me laugh. It was outside the venue on the day of this show, but it’s exactly how I remember the scene when we hung out backstage in April (Crest Thtr) and August (Club Can’t Tell) of 1985. Nice guys and a party atmosphere.
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 AND rebalance in Izotope Rx8 (Vocal/Bass/Drums +3)
Exodus- Studio 54, Manhattan, NY 4/3/85 xfer f/ master audio cassette partial set audience recording
No week is complete without an Exodus tape from Doug. A LOT of Doug’s remaining stuff consists of master Slayer tapes, but I keep reaching for the Exodus shows. This partial show filled the rest of the B”B side of the L’Amour tape I posted last month. Same show as is on the officially released video, but this has more of the performance.
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
Slayer- L’amour East, Queens NY 4/2/85 xfer from master or 1st gen audio cassette Audience Recording
It’s an early Tour Manager Doug Tuesday post today. It looks like my son got me sick again, and the ol “vice on the lungs” feeling woke me up at 5am. Let’s hope it’s just allergies.
Anyway, after promising a Slayer post every week, I realized that this is the only one I had prepped and uploaded for today. Next Thursday, on the day that Slayer returns to Sacramento, I will post a really cool one- one of the most unique in Doug’s collection.
I am not sure if Doug taped this one, so I am calling it master or a 1st gen copy. It looks like there is a board tape of this show up on youtube, but here is an audience recording as well. It has a bit of distortion that I did my best to EQ out.
Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug? (from his collection)
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
Exodus- L’amour, Queens NY 4/2/85 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash MITFR
Here’s a cool historical document- the night before the Studio 54 show (seen on the Ultimate Revenge home video), Slayer and Exodus played a show 7 miles away at L’amour East. Lucky New Yorkers to get 2 shows, for sure.
I think this is one of Doug’s master tapes. I hear him yelling as Exodus does Impaler as an encore. It also sounds like one of his walkman recordings.. but the tape does not say “original” as many of his masters do and it is on a different tape brand than usual. I am sure Doug or Mark Kurtzner will correct me if I am way off base.
EDIT: It’s a master tape. 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 10