Today’s On This Date in History actually IS Thin White Rope. I know I threatened to post a lousy quality FM broadcast from Roskilde yesterday, but this one is much better quality… even with the odd “taping outdoors” high end swirl. This is the band’s 2nd to last show ever, with the final one being the well-documented show from Democrazy in Gent Belgium. The recording was lacking bass and guitar (I think the taper was right next to the PA main) so I did my best to fix it up in Izotope. I got this directly from the taper, but I (once again) can’t remember their name. Whatta festival lineup, btw!
Recorded by: ? Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +7.5, Guitar +6.
Like I mentioned yesterday, I went to see Dinosaur Jr but stayed to tape as much of the Cure as I could before my batteries conked out. I got 2 hours and 10min of the show, and they were still playing as we headed for the parking lot. Wow! The start of the show sounds a little uneven, but gets a lot better as it goes on.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 and Nakamichi CM-300 Mic Transfer Equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Well, I told you this post was going to be late… I wasn’t planning on going to this show since I am not a Cure fan, but my stepson Jeremy really wanted to see the show, so we bought last minute tickets… and they were WAY the hell up there. That’s why this recording, while crisp and clear, has a strange mix. It was recorded from the top lip of the rose bowl grandstands. The best thing about this show is that Dinosaur Jr covered “Just Like Heaven” at a Cure show! I wonder if they asked Robert if it was cool, or if they just launched into it.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 DAT and Nakamichi CM-300 mic Transfer with Sony PCM-R500 DAT and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I had originally planned to post the Thin White Rope part of the FM broadcast for today’s On This Date in History, but it sounded so bad that I didn’t want to subject anyone to it. There is a nice audience recording of the entire TWR set that I need to digitize one day. This was on the tape after the TWR and sounds a bit better. I can’t tell if the last song (ballad of John and Yoko) is TFC perrforming the cover- it sure sounds similar, but setlist dot fm doesn’t show them playing it. In fact, out of the 85 sets documented over there, they don’t have record of anyone playing it. So, if you understand dutch, please let me know what this guy is saying so I can clarify.
EDIT: Dutch guy tells us that this is from La Cigale, Paris France 11/4/93
PS: I should post wrong stuff more often. That Bazooka Joe post has gotten more comments than just about anything recently!
Recorded by: ? Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Today’s post continues the project of posting better versions of all of these Sacto Active Rock performances. The ones on youtube previously now were digitized from VHS tapes, these are from the TV station Umatic master tapes. Better audio and video quality. Thanks to Lizz for sending her tapes over to the archive here.
Not much info on this band- members are not listed on end credits but they did say their names during the interview: Johnny Nightmare- Guitar; The Nightmare- Drums; Reuben Nightmarez- Keyboards & Samples; Nightmare Nightmare- Bass. Either that is a crazy coincidence, or these aren’t their real names.
They played the Jerry Perry benefit in 2018 as well.
Recorded by: Lizz Fisher and crew Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony BVU-800, Datavideo TBC-1000, Tevion USB adapter into virtualdub Light Denoise in Adobe premiere elements
Another nice board tape from Radley’s collection. I am just working through the folder of discs that he let me rip, from A-Z. We finished Cap Punishment, on to Econochrist. This is another nice mix. I can’t recall if I did anything to this one. I don’t think so. Just a raw mix.
Recorded by: Radley Hirsch Transfer by: Radley Hirsch Extract and prep for upload: Shayne
I should be at the awesome Kepi/Kevin Seconds/Hutch Harris/Dog Party concert at the Side Door right now, but family obligations won out today. Instead, here is an Ozzy Osbourne vid from Cal Expo amp. My friend taped this, and he is not happy with the audio. It’s not bad, it has quite a bit of crowd noise. If anyone has a line on a better audio recording, let me know. PS: This version of War Pigs caused this video to be blocked. I trimmed it out, but if it is still showing blocked, it should be vieable once YT trims that song out eventually.
Recorded by: Bootleg Cowboy Equipment used: Sony DCT0TRV340 — Datavideo TBC-1000 — Tevion USB capture — Virtualdub Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Here is the most complete document of the legendary Coffee Creek- this show has a few cuts, but appears to be mostly complete. Coffee Creek were a side project of Uncle Tupelo (Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweddy, Mike Heidorn) plus Brian Henneman from the Bottle Rockets.
btw, I know that this ticket stub is for the other Coffee Creek show I posted (7/30/93). I should have used this image for that show, and the coffee cup (which I have been searching for, for many years) image for this show. Oh well. Both images from Michael Pemberton’s excellent factorybelt.net website.
Setlist:
Buckeroo (end)/ Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?/ Love’s Gonna Live Here/ Your Gentle Way Of Loving Me/ I Wanna Destroy You/ Sleeping Room/ Wallflower/ Is Anybody Going to San Antone/ You’re Still On My Mind/ Sing Me Back Home/ Powderfinger (has a cut)/ Atomic Power/ Wrote A Song For Everyone/ instrumental/ Back to the Country/ Wasted Days and Wasted Nights/ Blue Eyes/ Moonshiner (has a cut)/ Wasn’t Born to Follow/ A Good Year for the Roses/ Do Re Mi/ Thanks A Lot/ Are You Ready For the Country?/ Texas Me/ Mendocino/ Movin’ On/ Texas in the Rain (?)/ Turkey in the Straw/ She’s About A Mover/ Waltz Across Festus (sic)
Recorded by: Tony Marghertia(?)
Transferred by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: 1994 DAT transfer- Playback with consumer Aiwa belt drive deck (big regret)- Sony DTC690 using monster audio cables.
Equipment used: 2019 DAT to WAV transfer: Sony PCM-R500 — Audiophile 2496 card — WAV
Transfer Lineage: Band Archive Tape – My DAT (90 meter DAT in 32khz- big regret) – You
Yet another awesome gift from James R Edmonds- a master soundboard of Neurosis. At least I think he told me it was the master. And by the way James- I am still working on your CD’s- that turned out to be a HUGE project. I am trying to get them all done by end of week. There will be about a 50 spindle of discs coming! Anyway, this recording is super clean but was almost all drums and vocals. I tried to rebalance it in Izotope and it happened to boost the high hat to obnoxious levels, so I EQ’d it in Sony Soundforge then rebalanced… and the high hat is still too high. Oh well, I hope you can still enjoy it. It does settle down a bit later on.
Recorded by: James R Edmonds Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card EQ in Sony Sound Forge 10 (15khz minus infinity) Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +9, Guitar +8
Some friends and members of the band asked me to dig this one up, so I bumped it up on the priority list. Cracker is opening for Primus here, and someone in the crowd apparently threw something and hit David early in the set. To retaliate, they play the current song (Euro-Trash girl) for over 20min. You can hear the crowd howling in protest about halfway through the song. Classic! David hurls the insults mid-song after he gets hit at about 15:50. MUST LISTEN.
Recorded by: ? Equipment used: ? (sounds like a sony WMD6C) Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card Hiss removed with Izotope rx7’s spectral denoise.
