It’s early but not too early for today’s audio post. I digitized some of KALX’ reels a few months back and most of them sounded terrible- the tapes probably need to be baked. This is one of the only ones that transferred well. Good X interview with a DJ named Xandy.
From Rick Sylvain’s collection of KALX tapes
Recorded by: KALX
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Otari MX-5050 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here’s one from Anonymous 1’s collection that has been sitting on the shelf here for many years and I finally got around to digitizing. Thanks for your patience, my friend.
This is a rare early spoken word performance from Exene, opening for Henry Rollins during a 3 night run at McCabes in 1990. My friend Anonymous 1 drove down there from Sacramento and stayed with a taper friend (Jon Vogel). The stories that came out of that were legendary.
McCabes is a tiny room- it holds maybe 150 seated. I used a photo from the back of the room so you could see how tiny the place is. I saw so many killer shows there- Meat Puppets a bunch of times, Tweedy(when he was good), J Mascis, Buffalo Tom, Evan Dando and more. The place is a treasure.
The crowd applause in between spoken word segments was overpowering. I did my best to pick through it and normalize it (manually- ugh) the best I could. As a side note, I just discovered that Rollins put out an official CD from this run of shows- not sure how I missed that.
Recorded by: Anonymous 1
Equipment used: Sony WMD6C & Sony ECM909 Mic
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon cassette deck & Audiophile 2496 capture card
I was at this show and even filmed the opener (Movie Stars), but Exene put the ol kibosh on video so Anonymous’ audio recording is the only document we have. It sounds pretty good- I remember Anonymous not being too happy with the recording because it sounded thin and there was a lot of audience chatter (it was packed that night). I was able to rebalance it in Izotope to boost vocals, bass and guitar. Chatter still present but not too bad.
Recorded by: Anonymous
Equipment used: Sony WMD6C and Sony ECM-909 Mic
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocals +6, Bass +3, Guitar +4
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