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
I wasn’t planning on posting this, but it was on the DAT after that Suicide show, and the set sounded really unique. I then researched the timeframe and this looks like the last few shows with John Strom- this tour ended at Reading, at the end of August.
The reason it caught my eye (ear?) was that Evan seems to be teaching the band songs while they were onstage. The set has some killer covers that they seemed to be playing for the first time. Great stuff.
Evan catches a lot of flak for having some trainwrecks of a show, but sometimes they turn out great, like this one.
Sounds like the covers start 30ish min in.
Recorded by:?
Equipment used: Portable DAT
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCMR500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
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
Today’s On This Day in History is a short one. Twee(2) Meter Sessions is a really cool independent music program from Holland. They have been recording live in-studio sessions since 1987. Golden Smog did one in 1996 and it seems that there is some date confusion. The tape I received (1st gen cassette-DAT-DAT) shows the date as 2/17/96, but the actual twee meter sessions website shows it as 12/2/96. This session is not on the program’s youtube channel, so it is possible they don’t even have a copy.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 DAT- M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I was digitizing a cassette last night for a friend and this show was at the end of tape. I liked it so much, I thought I’d share. This is a great interview with Steve and they do a couple of my favorite Shellac songs live in studio.
Tracks: Crow/Blockhead/Dog & Pony Show
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2406 card
Here’s another show from the UT archive. Man, this one sounds great. This is from a short run of shows they did, opening for Sugar.
Setlist: Whiskey Bottle/ No Depression/ Watch Me Fall/ Moonshiner/ Grindstone/ Weary Blues from Waiting
Recorded by: Tony Margherita(?)
Transferred by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: 1994 DAT transfer- Playback with consumer Aiwa belt drive deck (big regret)- Sony DTC690 using monster audio cables.
Equipment used: 2019 DAT to WAV transfer: Sony PCM-R500 — Audiophile 2496 card — WAV
Transfer Lineage: Band Archive Tape – My DAT (90 meter DAT in 32khz- big regret) – You
I called another audible for the On This Day post. After looking for shows from March 8, I discovered that I have a bunch of consecutively numbered CD-R’s from holland of bands like Soul Asylum and fIREHOSE – right off the master tapes- and I have no idea who I got these from. These shows took place too early for them to be Jan the Lazyman’s work. I think I traded with other Holland folks like Thomas Willer Jensen on DAT… ugh. I can’t remember. If you taped this, please let me know who I can give you credit.
Anyway, this SA show sounds great- nice and clear. It lacked a bit of low end so I EQ’d that up in the mix. This era of the band was my favorite.
Recorded by: Stef Kullik
EQ by: Shayne (low end +2-3db)
Here’s another tape from Eric Mcintire’s collection. I thought I had all the Crucifix stuff that was available, but he had about 10 more. It has been fun digitizing all of these.
This one was all bass, drums and vocals. I popped it into Izotope and boosted the hell out of the guitar. The result isn’t perfect, but it is listenable. The mix changes throughout the show. The guitar is still a bit low to start, but toward the end the guitar almost overpowers everything else. I tried to make it “good enough” throughout.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon & M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Boost guitar a lot and drums a little in Izotope.
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