For today’s On This Date in History: Here’s another one of those KCRW recordings that seems to have been too early for their online archive, and it also doesn’t seem to be on youtube. I got a CDR of this one from a guy who taped it with DAT off the radio. I don’t think it was my old friend Kevin Haynes- we had lost touch by then. Nice quality.
Recorded by: ?
CDR extract & prep: Shayne
I don’t know what the deal is, but I have been sleeping a lot lately. I have been getting tired at night, which is usually my productive time and waking up late. This is why I have not done my collection post yet. I will try to stop sleeping so much and get to it today. I am still groggy now.
I really loved Magnetic Fields’ 69 love songs release. I have tried to see them multiple times over the years but something always comes up. I had tickets for the show in San Francisco where they do the entire love songs albums but I had a work conflict. I ate those tickets, yum.
I got this in the early days of CDR trading and lineage is listed as “CDR CLone”, whatever the hell that means. It does sound good, so it seems to be all digital up to my copy.
Recorded by: ?
CDR extract and prep for upload: Shayne stacy
I don’t think labels do this much (if at all) anymore, but back in the 80s/90s, they would give out tapes of special performances from the vaults. I have a bunch of them from Elektra with Old 97s demos along with other bands. It was a cool treat.
This one is from Eddie Jorgensen’s collection. Beth Orton’s performance from MBE back in 1997. I checked youtube and it has not been posted there, which makes me wonder how many of those tapes were given out.
Speaking of KCRW MBE, I have a TON of performances on DAT that I need to get on my PC and posted one day. Most of them are likely uncirculated. When I lived in L.A., my friend Kevin Haynes would tape the sessions off the radio (he was closer to santa monica than I was) and I would clone the DAT. I really need to free up more time to post more of this stuff.
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here’s a pretty special performance that has been sitting on the RAID for a couple years. The Magnificent Seven were a one-off (or maybe a short lived All-Star band) made up of Tuatara, The Minus Five, and Mark Eitzel’s band.
Recorded by: WB
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here’s a short one for you today, but it sounds really good. This happened a few months after I moved from L.A. back to Sacramento, so Kevin Haynes must have taped this for me and sent me the master tape. Thanks Kevin, wherever you are
Features a few songs acoustic and deliciously awkward interview
Recorded by: Kevin Haynes
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here’s today’s thing. I was working on a video of one of my all-time favorite bands, The Geraldine Fibbers and I found this DAT along with the other one. Here is a DAT clone of their appearance on KCRW MBE, right around when “Lost Somewhere…” was released. I love GF, especially pre-Nels.
Recorded by: Kevin Haynes
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment: PCMR500, M-Audio Audiophile 2496
I mentioned this before, but it’s relevant to the post today. I lived in Whittier California from 1992-1995 and didn’t go to nearly enough concerts since I was raising a family. I was also just outside of a decent signal for KCRW, so anything I taped there would be super staticky.
Thankfully, my good friend Kevin Haynes lives closer to the station and was able to get a nice signal. I would call him on occasion (no email for me back then) and ask him to tape certain things.. and that is the only reason that this tape exists. It’s a full session with them playing live in studio, preceding their show at the Alligator show that night. So, thanks to Kevin for this one.
Recorded by: Kevin Haynes who gave me the master DAT
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
It always amazes me when I search on youtube- so many obscure things are out there and posted 10 different ways, and then I check on something like this. You would think this would be common, but I only see 1 track from this session up there and with no lineage. Here’s the entire 40 minute thing.
May 1995 was a good time to be a Wilco fan in southern cal. They played 4 times in 48 hours- this is the first performance, then at the Whisky that night. They played the next day during the day- noon maybe? at Rhino Records in Westwood, and finally at Galaxy Concert Theater (now The Observatory) in Santa Ana. I was at all of them. Except for this one obviously.
I need to synch up my high quality DAT audio with RG’s video of the Rhino Records in store when I get time.
Recorded by: Kevin Haynes (thanks Kevin!)
Transfer by Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here’s a short one for today’s On This Date in History. Why did I pick this one? Convenience. It was already digitized as part of the KCRW project. Sorry, haha. It’s only 3 minutes long, so low time investment needed.
Recorded by: I got it from the taper and forgot his name
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
It was my turn in the rotation for an audio post from my collection and it’s been a while since I posted something from the batch of KCRW tapes I digitized for the station a year or so back.
I think this was during the time that ML was managing them. I think I saw him at the Troubadour when the band played there around this time.
Recorded by: I can’t remember
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
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