Here’s the last show on that disc- a super early show of the band with tons of covers. This show took place a full year and a half before they released their first album. I think I also have a DAT soundboard of this show somewhere.
Recorded by: ?
Month: May 1993
Econochrist- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 5/14/93 xfer from master soundboard cassette
I was caught unprepared to post today- this weekend was very busy and work continues to be chaotic. So, let’s dip into the awesome archive of older Gilman soundboard tapes, courtesy of Radley Hirsch. There is some more KILLER Tour Manager Doug stuff coming this week! It will be the Ultimate Revenge of uncirculated audio posts (hint hint).
This one sounds great- this is Radley’s raw mix. I love this flyer I found online- complete with an apparent setlist on the back.
Oh, and one last thing- I am growing tired of facebook’s algorithm burying posts with shared links so I am starting something new today- each post will be a photo only, with the link to the sacmusicarchive website in comments. Let’s see if more people can see that. I post every day, believe it or not.
Recorded & transfer by: Radley Hirsch
Gruntruck- The Chance Poughkeepsie NY 5/13/93 Unknwown VHS Gen-DVD Dan Pettit Archive
This one looks GREAT for an unknown gen VHS tape. Since Dan was based in upstate NY, we can assume that it is low gen.
Recorded by: Dan Petit
Pavement- Old Ironsides, Sacramento Ca. 5/10/93 xfer from 1st gen audiotape R.I.P. Gary Young
My long-time friend and 1990s tape trader Mike Siou asked me to post this one. Pavement played a semi-secret show at Old Ironsides, as a warm up show for some Australian tour dates. It also happened to be Gary Young’s last show with Pavement in the US, ever.
Mike used some nice equipment from the KDVS radio station- a Marantz deck (most likely a PMD430) and a Sony Mic (Probably an ECM-929 from the sound of it.
Keep in mind that this was before Old I had many touring bands come through- in fact, it was before the stage was built. I tried to search for a flyer of this show and was shocked to see that the Old Ironsides facebook page posted some video of this show a couple years back… that is where this picture comes from. Let’s hope Kim K (or whoever has these tapes) is up for getting them digitized with the lossless setup so they won’t be so pixelated. It sounds like there are more early videos from old I!
I also EQ’d this one a bit and I think it sounds better now. Thanks Mike!
I can post more pavement if people are interested- looks like I have 178 items on the audio list available at the sacramento music archive website.
Recorded by: Mike Siou
Equipment used: Marantz portable recorder and Sony mic
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ (+Midrange and high end) in Sony Sound Forge 10
Rancid- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 5/2/93 xfer from master soundboard tape rebalanced
Here’s the last recording I have from that 5/2/93 show that Radley taped. This one was also a little light on the vocals and guitar so I rebalanced it in Izotope as well. The vocals are pretty high in the mix for the first song, but they get a little buried in the mix from then on, so I bumped them up a bit.
I know that the first song is repeated twice. That is how Radley’s CD was, and one track cuts in while the other fades in. I was going to trim it, but kept them both.
Flyer courtesy of Anthony Lew
Recorded by: Radley Hirsch
Rebalanced in Izotope RX8: Vocals +3, Guitar +1.
Unknown- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 5/2/93 xfer from master soundboard cassette The Spark?
OK, this one is a but of a mystery. Radley labeled this one as “The Spark” from Gilman on 5/2/93, opening for the Jawbreaker set I posted yesterday. But The Spark is not on the flyer, and when I looked up The Spark on discogs/youtube, they sound nothing like this. It is pretty certain that this recording is from the same show- it has the same matrix sbd/aud sound. If anyone knows who this is, let me know
This is an example of one of those opening bands at Gilman that clears the room- there were so many openers like this. Now that I listen 30 years later, it doesn’t sound that bad and I applaud the diversity that Gilman had… but to my 20 year old punk rock ears, bands like these were awful.
Recorded by: Radley Hirsch
Jawbreaker- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 5/2/93 xfer from master soundboard tape
Last August, I went to visit Radley (1st full-time Gilman soundman 1987-1996?) at his home in San Francisco. We had a blast talking about music. It was funny, I have diverse musical tastes, but nothing like him. I would want to talk about some type of rock music, and he was throwing on high def audio CD’s of country albums.. which I also enjoy.
While I was there, he brought out a binder full of CD’s of shows he mixed and recorded at Gilman. I think this was a binder of the best ones, as the mix on most of these are better than your average Gilman mix. So, thanks to Radley and I hope you don’t mind me posting some of these on occasion.
This one sounds like it could be a matrix tape- I hear a lot of audience and boomy bass in there. The guitar and vocals were a bit buried so I fixed it up a little in Izotope.
Posting since Jawbreaker is touring, and we got to see them Sunday night.
Recorded/transfer/etc by: Radley Hirsch
Rebalance in Izotope by Shayne Stacy (vocal and guitar +3db)
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