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Yo La Tengo- CBGB, New York City 1/31/92 xfer from 1st gen audience cassette

For today’s “On This Day in History” post, I chose this Yo La Tengo set that I received from the taper. I had thought I got it from Jim Romeo (gloriously depicted in the Tom Courtenay video), but as I was trying to find an image for this post, I discovered that 1 track from this set was officially released AND it helped me remember an old trader friend. Double Dare (Sominextraction) from this set was released on the Big Day Coming 7″ and the notes helped me remember trading with Rich Baybusky, the taper of the show. I have close to 200 Yo La Tengo recordings on the ol’ tape list, and just about all of the early ones came from Rich and Jim.

Recorded by: Rich Baybusky
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Rush- Oakland Coliseum, Oakland Ca. 1/30/92 Audio Xfer from DAT Clone Soundboard

Others have given nice tributes about Neil Peart, I would not be adding anything new with my opinion.
I bought my first DAT recorder in June of 1991, plus I was recording my own shows on DAT– this put me in some good tape trading company- lots of deadheads who also had killer old tapes of other bands, and the upper echelon of tapers at the time. There were a bunch of shows like these being traded around- it was a lot of fun back then… until the bootleggers started go press up CD’s.

Amazing quality full show soundboard from Roll the Bones tour

Recorded by: ?

Transferred by: Shayne Stacy
EQUIPMENT USED: Sony PCMR500– Audiophile 2496

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Uncle Tupelo- Blue Note, Columbia Mo. 1/25/92 xfer from band archive cassette-DAT Nirvana Cover

I got the last Uncle Tupelo Band Archive DAT back from the repair man, and he was able to salvage some of the shows on it. I will tell you about the saga of DAT# 253 at a later time.
Anyway, this show does not sound very good. The one redeeming quality that it does have, is the only complete performance of the band’s Mashup of Smells Like Teen Spirit/Stepping stone. If you want to hear Uncle Tupelo do Nirvana (kinda), forward to about the 1 hour mark in this show.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer equipment: Aiwa cassette deck line in to Sony DTC-690 DAT
Transfer from DAT with Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10 (boost highs, drop mids)

Setlist courtesy of factorybelt.net:
Before I Break/ Discarded/ Gun/ Fall Down Easy/ Watch Me Fall/ Looking For A Way Out/ Nothing/ So Called Friend/ Cold Shoulder/ True to Life/ D.Boon/ ?/ Punch Drunk/ Still Be Around/ Postcard/ Screen Door/ Graveyard Shift/ I Found That Essence Rare/ John Hardy/ Smells Like Teen Spirit-Stepping Stone/ Love’s Gonna Live Here/ No Depression/ Off The Hook/ I Wanna Destroy You/ Factory Belt/ Sin City

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The Pixies- Barrymore Theater, Madison Wi 1/25/92 xfer from 1st gen audio cassette complete show

Here’s another “On this day in history” recording, that I received from the taper and can’t remember who that is. I had moved to trading on DAT almost completely at this point and this is on cassette, so this person must have only taped on cassette, and had good stuff that I had to have.
This is a pretty nice quality recording of The Pixies that I can’t find anywhere else online. I think this was a WMD3 or WMD6 recording. I did a little EQ (drop bass slightly, boost mids), but it didn’t need a lot of help.
For you Sacramento folks, my DAT recording of The Pixies at the Crest Theater is on the archive. Check it out if you want.

Recorded by: ? (I got it from the guy who taped it)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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The Mighty Strangers- Live in KDVS Studio A, Davis Ca 1/23/92 xfer from 1st gen cassette indie rock

Thanks once again to Mike Siou and Sam Habash for this one. Mike was a KDVS DJ and made a cassette copy off of the master reel, and Sam recently digitized it with his Nakamichi. Mighty Strangers were a Davis band who were active in the early 90s. Dave Thompson on Bass, Rusi Gustafson on drums, Mike Duey on guitar, Eric Janssen on guitar and vocals. They had some stuff released on comps, but I am unsure if they had any proper full length releases.

Recorded by: Mike Siou from master reel onto TDK MA110
Transfer by: Sam Habash
Equipment used: Nakamichi DR-1

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Metallica- Hemisfair Arena, San Antonio Tx 1/22/92 Xfer f/ VHS Master Rock the World Cable Broadcast

I wasn’t planning on posting this today- I was going to do a Four Eyes multicam from a recent show but I could not find it in my youtube drafts, so I filtered on them.. holy crap, there is some stuff that I meant to post a LONG time ago, including 1 last Tour Manager Doug tape! Expect some of that next week.

This one is from a VHS tape that my friend Craig Hilmer sent me over 30 years ago. He taped a few segments off of the local San Antonio community cable show back then and mailed them over. Even though it was broadcast on community cable, it seems that this one is not out there- at least not on youtube. Don’t get too excited- even though it sounds good, most of the video is shot off the video screen so quality ain’t great.

Stay tuned for more from this tape. There is even a cool segment with some local San Antonio bands from around that time.

Recorded by: Craig Hilmer
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Dread Zeppelin- Triple J FM Interview, Australia w/ Tortelvis 1/16/92 xfer from 1st gen cassette-DAT

I had some options for today’s “on this day” post. The first Gilman show I ever video taped (RKL) was today in 1988, using a borrowed camera. Thanks to Barry Ward, I now have a 2nd angle of that show and a soundboard tape that may not be salvageable. Hopefully I can put those all together one day, but that is a multi-day project.
I decided on this. I videotaped DZ at Sac State in 1990 and posted it on YT years ago. I recently saw a huge uptick of views and comments and wondered what the hell was going on. Turns out there is a new Dread Zeppelin documentary called “A Song of Hope” that is bringing new fans out. That’s cool.
A bunch of folks sent hate mail/hate comments because I called them a gimmick band. Sorry, but I usually enjoy bands like this for a short while and then I am done with them. Same with GWAR- it’s on me, not you. It’s fun and funny for a bit then it wears thin. They are a great, talented and super entertaining band.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-audio audiophile 2406 card

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Kevn Kinney, Peter Buck and Friends- 40 Watt Club, Athens Ga 1/9/92 DAT Master Clone R.E.M. Live

When I first got my DAT decks in 1991/1992, there were maybe 5 people I knew to trade DATs with- a guy in Bend, Or (Dick Bell) with all kinds of cool 60s stuff, a Neil Young DAT trader, the JEMS guys, and Chuck Erb. Chuck taped this one- he was based in Atlanta and he would get inside info about secret R.E.M. happenings. He taped the R.E.M. 40 Watt show from 1992 as well.
Kevn Kinney from Drivin and Cryin and Peter Buck from R.E.M. made an album together (Macdougal Blues) and toured the US for it in 1990. Here is a one-off local show with all kinds of guests.

Recorded by: Chuck Erb
Equipment used: Portable DAT and I think he had Audio technica mics
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Metallica- The Forum, Inglewood Ca 1/7/92 xfer from 8mm master tape Black Album Tour complete show

We have a new contributor to the archive! My old friend Erik F sent me a couple of boxes of 8mm master tapes to digitize over the past 6 months, but I was not sure if it was OK to post them. Erik just came back and let me know that the shows were filmed by Barry Goldstein and we are good to start posting them.
The first one is one of 2 Metallica shows from early 1992 that Barry filmed. I see other versions of this show on youtube, but I think this is a different angle/source. This was back when they had the tapers section and people could bring their recording devices. This one is about 3min longer than the other one posted. This one has a substantial amount of the early part of the show filmed off the video screen.
Also, I think that this concert poster image I found online to use for the facebook posts is bogus, but I could not find a legit one.

Recorded by: Barry Goldstein
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony EV-S2000- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Denoise in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Monsula- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 1/4/92 xfer f/master or low gen soundboard tape punk lookout record

Collections post, this one comes from Robert Eggplant. Sounds like it was taped off radio- most likely KALX. Robert’s notes do not tell me if he taped this or if it is a copy, so let’s leave that open.

Pretty decent soundboard mix.

Recorded by: Robert Eggplant off radio?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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