Happy Monday everyone! I am taking a break from the KROQ Acoustic Xmas daily posts for a few days to bring a little more variety. First one is from another L.A.- area broadcast, recorded by Kevin Haynes. This is an interview and album tracks only, no in studio performance.
Recorded by: Kevin Haynes
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496
The Geraldine Fibbers- KCRW Brave New World, SANTA MONICA CA. 9/11/94 xfer f/DAT Clone
Remember about a month back, I mentioned that I digitized a bunch of tapes for the KCRW archivist? Here is another one of them. You will see a post from each collection about once a month at this point, I think.
This was the introduction to one of my favorite bands. My friend Michael Pemberton told me about this band that I would love and he sent this to me, and he was right. Lifetime fan from this point on. Luckily, I lived in L.A. at the time and I was able to catch one of their shows before moving back to Sacramento in 1995.
If you have never heard the band before, forward to 5:03 and listen to Lilybelle. It was the lead track to their first album and a great representation. George Jones cover at 14:50 if that’s more your thing.
Recorded by: RG
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here’s an interview with Chris Douridas and Letitia/Tim from stereolab. Unfortunately no live performance, includes some album tracks. From Kevin Haynes’ collection- he taped it off KCRW on DAT, this is from a clone of the master.
Recorded by: Kevin Haynes
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
For today’s On This Date in History, I digitized a DAT that I cloned myself back in 1994. From 1992-1995, I lived in Whittier (southern cal). I had a few good friends during my time there. Kevin Haynes lived up in the northern part of the L.A. area and could pick up a good signal from KCRW. Almost all of these old KCRW DATs came from him. Thanks Kevin!
I was excited to digitize this one as I didn’t remember a Lush KCRW MBE performance. Well, now I know why- they didn’t perform. It was just interview along with CD tracks. It’s an entertaining interview with Miki and (I think) Chris, which makes it historically significant regardless.
R.I.P. Chris.
Recorded by: Kevin Haynes
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I lived in Whitter, Ca from Sep of 1992 through November of 1995. I loved the fact that I could see a bunch of shows in driving distance from my house- I could see some bands play 3x: Hollywood, Long Beach, and San Juan Capistrano or San Diego. It was awesome. One of the downsides to living in Whitter was that I would get spotty reception to the college radio stations. I taped this one myself and it had a bunch of radio static. I was able to de-static most of it without making it sound overprocessed. If I tried to push it more, it sounds odd.
Classic Luna performance on KCRW, before the station started archiving performances online.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
spectral de-noise in Izotope RX7.
I had some time off work so I was able to get a bunch of requests digitized, and sometimes the stuff that was also on the tape is even better than the requested show. That’s the case with this one. What a great performance in studio. The band features Amy Farina from Coriky and many others.
Recorded by: Kevin Haynes
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio 2496 card
I am a bit oversensitive to smooth-voiced “NPR Like” radio hosts. I can usually tolerate them OK, and I think that most MBEs have some good interview segments. This one just rubbed me the wrong way. Let me know if you pick up any unnecessary arrogance or smarm in the interview.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DTC-690 home deck recorded off FM
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I am hitting you with 2 early ones today because I got a busy day. This one is from my collection- I received it in a DAT trade with JEMS back in the mid-90s. Whenever there was an interesting artist on the radio that day (which was like EVERY DAY in L.A.), JEMS would start up their hifi VCR which was hooked to the stereo receiver and record the audio for the day. You could get 6 hours on a T-120 and 8 hours on a T-160. Brilliant idea! I probably should have done that (off KROQ) when I lived in Whittier.
Recorded by: JEMS
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
One from my collection today. It looks like this one might be online already but with no lineage info. This is a DAT transferred off the VHS Hifi audio master, which is a smart way to timer tape audio back in the day.
This is a really good performance and funny interview.
Recorded by: ? (JEMS Maybe?)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I forgot I had this one. It was one of those late era audio cassette trades, after I traded DAT only with rare exception. A live lush KCRW session is definitely a good reason for an old school tape trade. Unfortunately, the interview with Deirdre O’Donoghue (one of my favorite hosts) was edited out. Live songs only. It’s a little overdriven on the high end, but that’s kinda how Lush were back then. I recorded them a few days before this and holy high end saturation! I still need to hook up the DBX unit and do a proper transfer of that one.
Recorded by: ? (Josh maybe?)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakaichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
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