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Matthew Sweet- Backstage Tavern, Ballard Wa 9/29/93 xfer f/DAT FM Master Clone Complete Concert KXRX

Let’s do another one of these regional live FM broadcasts for today’s On This Date in History. This one sounds quite a bit better than the Son volt one the other day. The early 90s were such a great era for Matthew- this is the Altered Beast tour, so you get a lot of that and a lot from the classic Girlfriend album.
Complete 80 minute set- sounds great and the band is ripping! Enjoy.
Thanks KXRX FM !!

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Meat Puppets- Palace, Hollywood Ca 9/26/93 xfer from DAT Soundboard Master Rock for Choice benefit

I was surprised to see that this one wasn’t up on Youtube for LMA. Then I played it and realized why… the mix was not great- almost no guitar. this whole night was kind of a mess. There were about 10 tapers up at the board and we tried to do a live matrix of Mudhoney. We did not take into account the delay between stage volume and board feed and the Mudhoney matrix is a mashup of board mix and half second delayed audience. At least this one is clear, with not enough guitar.

Why didn’t I tape the others? No idea.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Recording Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 line into soundboard
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-audio Audiophile 2496 card

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The Cranberries- Cattle Club, Sacramento Ca 9/23/93 xfer f/1st gen casette-DAT Complete Show

Here is our Patreon voter’s Choice for this week. Actually, it was a 3 way tie and instead of posting them all or only picking what I like, I thought about what people would want to hear. This one was the obvious choice in that case.

I lived in L.A. at the time of this show, so I didn’t tape it. I got it on DAT from Mike Siou- Mike, can you let me know who taped this so I can give credit?

This one didn’t sound too good, but I was able to fix it up a bit with EQ and Izotope. It’s listenable now.

Recorded by: Mike’s friend
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10 (boost highs, drop 1 problem band) Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocal +5, Guitar +2

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Mommy- Sacto Active Rock Sacramento Comm Cable 9/22/93 xfer f/Umatic Master Magnolia Thunderfinger

Mommy seems to be the bridge between Skid Jones’ band Go Dog Go (active late 1980s-1992) and Magnolia Thunderfinger (mid-90s until early 2000’s). The band has the original Go Dog Go trio (Skid, Paul Niklewicz and Timm Freeman) along with G.B. on 2nd guitar. Magnolia Thunderfinger would bring a trio (G.B., Skid and Timm) over to join T-Bone (Terry Bohm) on bass to finalize MTF’s lineup.

I have never seen or heard any recorded output from the band other than this video. The interview is definitely worth a watch!

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

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Tilt- Blue Chair, Ybor City Fl. 9/22/93 xfer from unknown gen VHS tape enhanced East Bay Punk

The quality on this one isn’t great- it was generated a bit and extremely dark- but there are ZERO early complete shows of Tilt on YT. Yet another one digitized for the Turn it Around movie. From the collection of Jason Ross

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9811U and Canopus ADVC300
Enhanced with Adobe Premiere and Neat Video

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The Offspring- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 9/19/93 xfer from 1st gen audio cassette incomplete

OK, trying to get back to some semblance of order after all of the aftershock posts. I still can’t comprehend how I did/filmed 4 days of it back in 2021. ONE more aftershock post and that’s it for ’24.
Anyway, let’s pick up Dal Basi’s weekly posts from his tape collection today. I spent too much time searching for any documentation of this show, but there is none online. Setlist.fm has a placeholder for the date with no setlist, so we can safely assume that it’s not out there/online. Dal got it from his friend who taped shows back then, and this was filler on that Moist(posted)/D.I.(not posted yet) from Berkeley Square.
Enough rambling, on to the recording. This sounds shockingly good, compared with the Moist set. Gilman is not a great sounding room, so kudos to Radley or Marshall, or whoever mixed the show that night. Unfortunately, it cuts at 22 minutes. Hopefully we can track down Dal’s friend and see if he still has the master tapes.
I could not find any flyers or photos of the show, so I used an LA times photo from UC Irvine Crawford Hall from around the same era.

Recorded by: Dal & Sunita’s friend (trying to remember name)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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The Muffs- KXLU live in studio, Los Angeles 9/17/93 xfer from unknown gen audio tape

I made a new facebook friend today- his name is Ronnie Barnett. You may know him from The Muffs. Looking forward to hearing more about the boom boom room, Kiss magnets and Phyliis Diller’s record collection Ronnie! I just happened to be transferring this tape as part of Todd Pritchard’s requests from Jason Ross’ collection, so today seems like a good day to post it.
This is awesome- Kim only drops the F-bomb once or twice on the air. The tape had a ton of reception static, so I ran 2 passes of denoise in Izotope rx7. There is still static, but it is WAY better than before.

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

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Belly- Impaxx, Buffalo NY 9/7/93 xfer from 1st gen cassette Live Audience Recording

Here is one from an old taping friend who taped some really amazing stuff in Buffalo. He also had connections with 10,000 Maniacs and he shared some cool stuff by them as well. In fact, this was on a tape with a soundboard tape of 10,000 maniacs that he mastered. That one is coming soon.
He had a ton of jam bands that I didn’t care about, but he would tape all of the alternative bands coming through and they always sounded stellar. This is an example. He has been gone about 25 years now. R.I.P.

Recorded by: Joel Gershon
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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