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Centro-Matic: Good Records, Dallas Tx 3/31/00 xfer from early internet download-CDR Live in-store

Since a lot of my time and the audio capture PC is taken with the reel to reel captures, it is all video or CDR for the On This Date in History.. not that I am complaining, this one is great!

Speaking of the reels, what a goddamn pain in the ass these are. They are ancient and all gummed up, so I need to “help” the Otari mx-5050 rewind them by manually spinning the reels with my finger while it unit struggles. So, I guess these upcoming posts will be hand-pulled artisan reels. The squealing of the reels behind me during playback is driving me kinda nuts right now.
Today’s post is from a CDR that someone burned for me 25 years ago- it says “CDR download from web”, as it was a novelty to get your live shows in this way at the time. Great performance from Will and Scott at this in-store.
On a more serious note, we received news of Christopher Todd Penn from Good Records suffering a catastrophic fall at the store that has left him paralyzed and in ICU. I will post his gofundme below today’s audio post.

Recorded by: Good Records
CD rip by Shayne

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Yo La Tengo- WFMU Live in Studio All Request Set 3/18/00 unknown lineage CDR

Audio collections post courtesy of Matt Hargrove tonight. It’s late because this file was sitting on the RAID in Orangevale and I didn’t get there until about 7pm. Had it all worked up last weekend and forgot to upload it!

These Yo La Tengo WFMU shows are legendary. I can’t remember the exact amounts, but if you pledge a certain amount, you can ask the band to play any song. You can pay more for an actual YLT song, haha. You can usually hear them working out the songs in the bacground while DJ’s ask for donations, but this one is heavily edited.

Unfortunately, this one also doesn’t sound so good. That is one of the downsides of the change from DAT tapers and traders to CDR traders. The meticulous care in lineage went away. This one was obviously transferred from an audio cassette with some wow and flutter issues. Regardless, this does not exist anywhere in any form that I can see, so happy to have it.

Recorded by: ?
Extract from CD and prep by Shayne

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Grandaddy- Spaceland, Los Angeles Ca. 3/17/00 Audio Only Jason Lytle

I ran out of time to transfer something from my archive of stuff, so I dug through a box of discs that I received from Matt Hargrove for something Sacramento related… and happened to pull out one of my favorite bands from Northern Cal- thanks Matt!
I was late to the party with Grandaddy. I heard KEXP play “Now its On” from Sumday in 2002 and was hooked. Then I learned that the band was from Modesto and I missed out on years of local shows, doing (even better) early stuff. D’oh! I am still hoping that Brian McKenna finds that demo tape (1 of 5) that the band gave him.
This recording has unknown lineage, but it seems like all recordings of the band are really nice quality.

recorded by: ?
equipment used: ?

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Slobberbone- SXSW, Club Deville, Austin Tx. 3/16/00 xfer from DAT Soundboard Master Clone

I got this from the person who taped it, but once again I can’t remember who that was. It might have been Marcus Winfree, Maybe Mike Shiner, or any of my friends who would bring their DAT to sxsw every year.
I was about 15 minutes into this one and it sounded like a standard set so I stopped the DAT transfer, but about 20min in it gets really good. Scott Danbom gets up there and plays violin on some songs. Say Zuzu appearance as well.

Recorded by: One of my old DAT taping friends who went to SXSW
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Drums +2, Guitar +2 (I think, I did not save the settings)
Photo by Anne Warth (pic is from the 12/31/02 show I posted the other day)

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Quasi- Crystal Ballroom, Portland OR 3/10/00 DAT Master to CDR Coresound Mics Pink Floyd Sam Coomes

I really enjoyed prepping today’s “on this day in history” post. I love the band and this is a great performance and sounds nice. The vocals were a little buried so I izotope’d them up a bit.
I am still a bit irritated about missing their show at The Chapel last summer, when they played all of “Featuring Birds”. I love that album and it would have been great to see it performed. They do quite a bit of it on this one.
Killer jam into Pink Floyd’s Interstellar Overdrive to end the show.

Recorded by: Joanne Chu, I think
Recording Equipment: Coresound Minaural mics and Sony TCD-D8 DAT
Transfer by Joanne
Equipment used: Roland UA30-G4 Mac
Rebalance by Shayne in Izotope Rx8: Vocals +3

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