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Fishbone- El Dorado Saloon, Sacramento Ca 10/19/87 xfer from 1st gen cassette

It’s mediocre Monday! Let me explain mediocre Monday a little, since I have had people come to me and say “what are you doing? This isn’t mediocre”. Mediocre Monday showcases recordings that are typically old and usually uncirculated, but were recorded with non-professional equipment. They aren’t bad (well, sometimes they are), they just aren’t Pro Walkman/DAT quality.
Today’s MM comes from my good friend Anonymous. He had an Aiwa consumer recorder that produced thin but clear recordings. I did everything I could to EQ this so it had some bass, plus I cut out some of the highs. It was too much high end, even my damaged ears.
Fishbone, in their prime, in Sacramento! I know a few friends were at this one.

Recorded by: Anonymous
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge 10

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Fishbone- Mississippi Nights, St. Louis Mo. 11/5/86 xfer from master VHS off studio Umatic

There are still a LOT of VHS tapes to be digitized (over 1,000) over here. I have done some as people have asked for things, but I have not started to do them all yet. Someone posted a link of the well-circulated Fishbone show from St. Louis 1986 and I noticed that the quality of the show on youtube is not very good, and the show is incomplete. So, I guess I’ll need to get to posting some of these.
This is the 1 hour version of the show that includes interview clips with the band. This came from KDHX directly- this is a VHS tape right off of their 1/4″ master tape. Huge thanks to Jim Utz & Dede Schofield for giving these to me 20ish(30?) years ago.

Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9911 w/TBD– Canopus ADVC300– Sony Vegas Pro 10.

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Fishbone- The Stone, San Francisco Ca 6/19/86 xfer from low gen cassette

This was on the “B” side of the tape with the RKL set that I posted yesterday. It’s poor quality, but I found this setlist from the show on the fishbonelive.com website and it sounds like a recording has never surfaced. There was a setlist image on the site that I used for the photo here. Thanks fishbonelive!
Anyway, this recording is just a bunch of distortion. That’s what happens when you mix rock concert volume with consumer recording gear. Oh well, I hope someone will appreciate it.

Recorded by: ? (from Barry Ward archive)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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