Here, finally, is today’s On this Date in History. Anonymous was kind enough to grab this off the internet and burn a CD for me during my inactive years. What a friend.
What a show this is. Smoking cover of Powderfinger for the encore. This looks like a really cool festival. Seems to still be happening.
Recorded by: Anonymous off primitive internet radio
CD Rip and prep: Shayne Stacy
Hiya- did you miss me? I woke up with severe back pain and a whopper of a headache that was moving into migraine territory. I stumbled to the PC and offed my Napalm Death/Melvins ticket for tonight and laid on the couch. Now I am feeling a lot better and kind of regretting the ticket sale.
Here is one of at least 9 shows that Jan de Bever taped in the summer of 2000- he was a huge SB fan and documented just about every show in his area. He passed away a while back- R.I.P. Jan.
I had the quality on this one rated lower than his usual recordings, so I checked it out. The quality of his recording was great- the problem was that the mix in the room was a bit off. Vocals were buried and guitar was a bit low in the mix. Izotope fixed all of that up.
Recorded by: Jan De Bever and Michiel
Equipment used: Microtech Geffel M300 — Deneske PS1 — Zefiro Inbox — Sony D8
Rip, prep, and rebalance by Shayne Stacy
Izotope settings: Vocal +4, Guitar +2.5
Here’s something that came up last week on the pacific northwest music archives fb group (great group- you should join). Someone posted a picture of the Fastbacks playing in Portugal on the Pearl Jam tour of 1996. I mentioned that I had recordings from that show (and more from that PJ/Mudhoney/Fastbacks tour) and Kurt asked for the Fastbacks stuff to be posted. Here’s the first one.
The What is Eddie Vedder and the Fastbacks doing The Who covers. (get it? The Who, The What)I think this was probably a one-off headlining show for the Fastbacks on a day off during the Pearl Jam tour. They mix in a couple of pearl jam songs (one about Matt Lukin who I think was on the tour with Mudhoney) and finish up with a rousing rendition of Leaving Here.
The quality isn’t spectacular, but it was mastered on DAT with decent mics. I don’t think they had a soundcheck, since the quality improves throughout the short set.
Recorded by: ?
DAT Clone transfer: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Following on yesterday’s The What post, here is the Fastbacks’ headlining set from that same night. This was one of the few (only?) one-off headlining shows for the Fastbacks while opening Pearl Jam’s No Code European tour. This is the longest set I have ever heard of the band playing- I have 30 live shows and this is the longest (sans soundcheck).
Sound quality is not the greatest- I did everything I could to help- I boosted the highs +2 in EQ plus I popped it into Izotope RX8 and tried to push the guitar +5…. the problem is that there is not much guitar there. Those sonic studios/coresound mics are decent when you are close to the stack/line array but if someone is blasting stage volume (KURT!), you won’t get it on the tape.
Still a fun, listenable show.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10, Rebalance in Izotope RX8
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