Here is another FS show from Club Deep, their home away from home in NJ.
From Jordan Wolfe’s collection
Tag: New Jersey
Yo La Tengo- Maxwell’s, Hoboken NJ 12/5/02 MiniDV Master-DVD KISS Velvet Underground Richard Hell
Very busy day so I am late with the posts. Today’s On This Date is one you don’t want to miss. I wonder if this was the precursor to the run of Hanukkah shows that they do now. Covers from KISS, Velvet Underground, Richard Hell and more! The actual set of their songs is very good too- not too snoozy.
recorded/transfer by: Aya from Japan
Extract and prep for upload: Shayne
Yo La Tengo- WFMU Live in Studio Fund Raising Benefit,E Orange NJ 3/13/99 COVERS VHS Hifi Master-DAT
Here’s another really unique thing for On This Day in History. For many years, Yo La Tengo has helped WFMU raise money by playing live in studio for a couple hours during their fund raising telethons. The fun twist is this- if you donate $50, they will play any cover you request; or for $100, they will play an actual Yo La Tengo song. So you get a ton of coevrs and at least 1 YLT song that I heard.
This is the full 2 hour and 10 session, including the DJ discussion in between songs. If you want to hear YLT only, skip forard to about 15 minutes.
It’s really a fun listen.
Oh and PS: I know that this photo is from the 2000 WFMU fundraiser, but it was the closest thing I could find to represent this.
Recorded by: ? Jim Romeo maybe?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Son Volt- Birch Hill Club, Old Bridge, NJ 5/11/96 xfer from DAT Clone complete show w/ Covers!
Sorry for the late On This date in history. Rough day.
Speaking of rough days, imagine playing this kickass show which includes a cover of “Love’s Gonna Live Here”, which has not been played much since the Coffee Creek days, then get hit with this review in the local paper. Damn, I guess it’s good that this was done back when the band probably never got wind of this. Yikes.
Out of the 200+ pre-2000 Son Volt shows on my list (I was trying to collect every show for a bit), I decided to post this because of that cover. It sounds pretty decent and is representative of the era. That reviewer needs to chill out. That’s just Jay.
Recorded by: Stacey Taylor I think. I got it from the taper and she did most/all of the northeast shows.
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Wives- WFMU Live in Studio, E Orange NJ 1/9/95 xfer from low gen audio cassette Go-Kart CBGB Records
Collections post time, this one is from Jason Ross’ collection.
Man, there are a lot of bands who called themselves some variation of “Wives”. This is the band with Mary Dunham, Susan Horwitz, and Tracy Almazan and had releases on Go-Kart and CBGB records.
Jason usually got his WFMU tapes from a guy who taped them off the radio, but this one has a little hum in the background, and it isn’t Pat Duncan’s show. Might have been taped by someone else. Still sounds good.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Fifteen- WFMU Live in Studio, E. Orange NJ 4/14/94 xfer from low gen audio cassette RIP Jack Curran
We received news this morning that Jack Curran, bass player from the band Fifteen passed away this week. I had seen posts about him trying to get housed and back on his feet while sick recently. Terrible news. Jack also created the first documentary about 924 Gilman, released in 2007.
I dug through Jason Ross’ collection of tapes here and found this Fifteen appearance from WFMU in 1994. I think Jason was trading with a guy who was taping these off the radio since this has very little tape hiss.
I think Jack is performing here, it is hard to tell with all the lineup changes the band had.
R.I.P. Jack
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Sleeper- WFMU Live in Studio, East Orange NJ 4/7/94 xfer f/ 1st gen audio tape Serpico Hardcore Emo
It’s been a while since I posted this late. Busy day. I had planned on a WFMU post that needs some audience participation, but I will settle for this one for now.
I will let Discogs tell the story of this band, since it is probably better than what I could explain:
Melodic punk / hardcore band from Staten Island, New York – USA.
Originally known as Sleeper (3), the band was offered $125,000 for the exclusive US rights to the name by a UK-based band of the same name, Sleeper (2). Sleeper (3) accepted the offer, and thus changed its name to Serpico.
Members:
John Telenko – Vocals
John Lisa – Guitar, Vocals
Michael De Lorenzo – Guitar
Marc Treboschi – Bass
TJ Quatrone – Drums
Recorded by: Matt (from Jason Ross’ collection)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Screeching Weasel- Maxwell’s, Hoboken NJ 3/18/93 xfer from VHS tape
I had a few options for today’s On This Day in History, but this one looks good enough. It’s from Jim Utz’ collection. It might be worth re-transferring this one and doing the lossless xfer/denoise/upscale. Jim, do you remember who you got this from? It doesn’t seem to be online anywhere. Actually, I wonder who did all of those late 80s Maxwell’s videos. I have never seen even a 1st gen surface.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9911U and Canopus ADVC-300
Sebadoh- Maxwell’s, Hoboken Nj 3/14/92 xfer from DAT Clone Complete show Lou Barlow
Here’s another one from the same DAT as Luna. Jim Romeo put this on the DAT without me requesting it, but I ended up being a fan of the band later on. Thanks, Jim!
Recorded by: Jim Romeo
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Luna- Maxwell’s, Hoboken Nj 2/22/92 DAT Clone xfer 2nd show ever Dean Wareham Galaxie 500
It wasn’t easy getting a post ready for today. The original audio I had prepared would not read from the disc, so I will need to recapture that one. This one was next and Stanley’s drumming dominated the recording, so I rebalanced it… and totally buried the vocals. This is the second rebalance attempt (an hour processing each) and the vocals are still buried but it sounds as good as it is going to get.
I remember getting these in trade from taper Jim Romeo right when they happened and being so excited to hear the new songs.
Recorded by: Jim Romeo
Equipment used: Portable DAT and ? mic
Transfer/rebalance by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope RX8: Vocal +5, Bass +4, Guitar +4.