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Melt Banana- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 12/6/96 xfer from 1st gen soundboard tape Rebalanced

Here’s one from Robert Eggplant’s collection of tapes. This one was labeled “melt banana gilman last song cut off”. No date. I started researching and I think that this is from 12/6/96, since we also have a recording from Rudolph on that same night that has already been posted to the archive. That’s just an assumption, it could be any of the ones listed in the image here. Let me know if you can confirm the date.

Recorded by: Tall Tim
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: boost guitars

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Melt-Banana: Loft, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan 11/19/94 xfer f/DAT Clone Punk Thrash

Man, has it been a DAY so far. More on that later. That TSOL that I posted earlier for today’s On This Date in History actually happened in MAY of 2020. No idea how I screwed that up. Consider it a bonus post.

Instead, let’s do this one that my friend Saki Honma taped 30+ years ago. Saki was a big Uncle Tupelo fan, flying from Japan to see the band’s final shows. We lost touch later in the 1990s. I wonder what she is up to now.

This is a very early Melt-Banana show. It sounds great, but there is almost no crowd noise at all in between songs. I had to keep checking to see if the show was over since it was so quiet. Sounds like this might be incomplete, but there was still room on the DAT so maybe that’s all there was.

Recorded by: Saki Honma
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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