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Meat Puppets- Club Minimal, Sacramento 3/11/84 unknown source AUDIO only EDITED

HUGE thanks to Jim McLain for making this sound as good as it can. Hiss and hum removed, L/R levels leveled, etc!

So this is the only document that I have been able to find from an actual Club Minimal concert. The only other thing I have been able to find is Terry O’Reilly’s crowd video footage, but no music.
Anyway, this was from the old cassette trading days. Back before digital (sonny), you never knew what you were going to get. Sometimes you would trade a tape and it would sound pristine. Other times, they would sound like this. There is a hum on this that drives me INSANE. Someone must have dubbed the tape too close to a TV source- maddening. If anyone knows how to de-hum a wav file, let me know.
PS: Hummmm (UPDATE: Jim fixed it!! THANKS!)

 

Recorded by: Unknown

Equipment used: Unknown

Edited by: Jim McLain

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Dead Kennedys- Club Minimal, Sacramento Ca. 12/10/83 xfer from master cassette w/Nakamichi Dragon

Before I get started on this, I wanted to give a HUGE thank you to Tim Soriano for loaning me his master tape to digitize. Thanks also to Jennifer Curtsinger who connected me & Tim about a year ago about this. Thanks to Scott Soriano for bringing the tape to Tim from his place in SF.

One of my biggest music regrets was missing the entire Club Minimal scene. I started going to Clear & Distinct shows in 1985- the year after Minimal closed down. I have been searching for tapes from Minimal for 35 YEARS now. I see flyers with so many of my favorite bands playing there and it kills me. I only found one show before these- Meat Puppets from a good friend in the late 80s.

So here is one of the two shows that is on the tape. The tape is pretty beat, so I had to delete the channel and duplicate the “good” one. It doesn’t sound all that bad when you consider the age of the tape, the venue(brick walls and concrete floors) and the equipment (boom box). Some of those old boom boxes had some nice mics!

Recorded by: Tim Soriano
Equipment used: 1980’s heavy duty boombox
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Flyer Image: Ken Doose

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