I was trying to find something on my youtube channel last weekend and I sorted for drafts.. and holy crap there is a bunch of stuff I forgot to post! Here is the first one. This is THE very last TM Doug tape from the ones he sent me last year. I thought I had done them all, but no. One more. Of course, it’s Slayer. This one sounds a bit better than the one from the night before at the Spectrum. I don’t know if Doug taped these- they didn’t have quite the same quality as his usual stuff.
Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I made a mistake on the post today- the tape was not marked at all, so I listened and made a guess- with the shout-outs to Voi Vod, I assumed it was the show that they played with them at The Ritz on 4/5/86. Doug just emailed me and told me that it was not the Ritz show, and that it might be Montreal. I went back and listened to the tape closely and Cronos does mention Montreal after Black Metal. A quick check of setlist.fm shows that the set matches the Spectrum show from 3/25/85. So, there you go. I totally whiffed on the ol’ detective work on this one.
here’s my original post for reference:
Since there are not one but two pieces of news about Venom in today’s news cycle, I figured I would post the last Tour Manager Doug master recording of Venom. About those news items- Tom talked about Cronos “hitting” him when we were all backstage at the Crest show in 85, and I think the black eye was still visible. Odd to see that story get some legs all these years later. Regarding the Venom Inc article about Abaddon’s departure from the band, I’ll keep my opinions (mostly) to myself… but I know how well Antony treats his fans and he was battling cancer as well (not mentioned in the article). He’s a good guy who seems to have gotten a raw deal. Anyway, this one is definitely a Doug master. You can hear him clowning with friends during breaks in the music- he clearly prefers Voi Vod over Venom “Voigod! haha). Classic!
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
It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday, and Christmas Eve. A perfect time to post some Slayer. Btw, it was nice to see everyone at Brian’s benefit show last night. My neck is killing me from looking up at my camera screen for 5 hours. Sorry to The Brodys, Storytellers and Snobs. I hit the wall after 5 hours of filming and had to bail. Kudos to Cardel for keeping the show relatively on schedule. 20 bands playing 12 minute sets was really something! Anyway, on to the Slayer tape. I suspect that Doug did not tape this one because the type of tape in his collection- it was not the same as what he usually used. Also, the quality of this one is not “tour manager doug quality ™”. It did not have that clear, clean, crisp high end sound while lacking low end that the rest of his does. Oh well, I did my best with EQ’ing it. Fair quality.
Recorded by: ? (from TM Doug’s collection) Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
It’s Tour Manager Doug Thursday! I am having one hell of a time signing in to youtube on my desktop pc, so I am typing this out on my phone. Man, I hate using my phone for stuff like this. anyway, here is yet another Slayer show from Doug on that Fall 84 run back east. I still have a lot of slayer to post- trying to get them all up before Slayer’s show here in October.
Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio audiophile 2496 card
What day is it? That’s right, it’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! Breaking up the endless onslaught of Slayer posts for this one- Slayer’s Metal Blade labelmates Witchkiller were from Canada, so it made sense that they would open a Canadian show for the band. It seems like live documents of the band are rare- I see zero live shows on the youtubes- looks like the only live witchkiller online is a cover performed by King Fowley and Oct 31! Every time I say something like that, someone always pops up to prove me wrong, so get to it. Haha. There seems to be an intro tape that plays for the first minute-plus, it starts sounding decent when the band starts up.
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
