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Megadeth- Keystone, Berkeley 4/15/84 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash Metal Dave Mustaine TMDT

It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! Here is the last Megadeth recording that I digitized for him, and it was the first show of a 3 night run in the bay area. these shows take place just 2 months after they played their first shows ever up in the bay.
This one is probably the best quality out of all the 1984 shows. The Stone and this one sound pretty nice.

Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug
Equipment used: Sony Walkman WM-R2
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge

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Megadeth- Stone, San Francisco Ca. 2/19/84 xfer from master audio cassette 2nd show ever Kerry King

Another CLASSIC show from tour manager Doug’s box of tapes here. This is Megadeth’s 2nd show ever, with Kerry King filling in on 2nd guitar duty. How amazing is it that Los Angeles-based Megadeth chose the bay area to have their debut shows? Bay Area Thrash, indeed.
I pushed the EQ on this one hard- there is still this little band of shrilly high end I can’t seem to get out of there, but it sounds pretty nice. As usual, the show was recorded from the sweet spot by Doug, but the Stone had pretty nice sound- hard to go wrong there.

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

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Megadeth- Ruthie’s Inn, Berkeley Ca 2/17/84 xfer from master soundboard cassette First Show Ever

OK, before you get real excited about the description of this one, please read this. I digitized this a couple of months ago. Something must have gone wrong with the soundboard- maybe the tape levels were too high or the output from the board was too hot- but this is pretty distorted. I took a swing at un-distorting it in Izotope and just made it worse. I reached out to people who are very good in audio software and they told me it was too distorted to fix. So, hopefully in the future, these audio AI software programs will make this better… but for now, this is it.
Since it is Megadeth’s first show ever and it is from the master tape, it is still worth a post. Thanks Doug!

Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Megadeth- Soundcheck with Original Lineup, No known Venue/City/Date xfer from master cassette Thrash

Today’s post lacks a bit of detail- I think that Doug taped this, so I will update if we have more detail later on. I am assuming that the “Original Lineup” statement on the cassette means the early 1984 lineup w/Kerry… so that’s what I am running with.
Regardless, it’s cool to hear a soundcheck from so early on.

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

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