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Overkill- Rio Theater, Valley Stream NY 10/31/84 xfer from master audio cassette speed thrash metal

Late one today- work was intense. Another one from Doug’s collection- Overkill (opening for Slayer) at a venue I have never heard of before. I searched it up on setlist dot fm and it seems like it did a few shows 40 years ago and that was about it.
This one sounds pretty decent- it was clean enough to push the EQ and no big distortion issues, just a little high end crispiness. Thanks Doug!

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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Slayer- Rio Theatre, Valley Stream NY 10/31/84 xfer from master audio cassette thrash metal

It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! OK, I just made that up but it does have a nice ring to it.
This one was a tough one to prep. I was able to get most of the distortion out of the source by dropping the mids/highs, but doing that buried Tom’s vocals in the mix. I went to the old standby Izotope Rx8 to bring up vocals, and the bass a bit.

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
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocals +5, Bass +4

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Slayer- Live Undead Rough Mix, Tiki Recording Studio, New York 1984 xfer from master audio cassette

Since all I have seen on my timeline for the past day is SLAYER REUNION, I figured I would join in the fun and post this one from TM Doug’s archives.
I think all Slayer fans know by now that this was not recorded during a live concert. They played live in a New York studio with about a dozen people in attendance, who won entry through a radio station contest.
This tape is definitely a rough mix of that session. It sounds like Doug popped a tape into the board without any mixing being done at all– sounds like a live soundboard tape. Cool to hear it like this!

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

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Riot- Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale NY 5/2/81 xfer from unknown gen audio cassette Hard Rock Metal Band

This one is not good quality. I did my best to EQ the distortion out while making it somewhat listenable, but any time I have a chance to post a “not on youtube” Riot set with Guy Speranza on vocals, I’m gonna do it. And I’ll spend way too much time trying to make it sound decent.

I got this one in a tape trade with Ron Quintana back in the 80s. I think he had more Riot w/ Speranza that I never got before he quit trading. I wish those would pop up online someday…

This show takes place after Fire Down Under is recorded, but the guy introducing the band makes it sound like it hasn’t been released yet. Wikipedia shows February 1981 release. The set is heavy on the first 2 albums. I did hear “Don’t Hold Back”

And while doing research on all that above, I discovered that a Japanese pop artist covered “Warrior” with Japanese lyrics. Awesome and bizarre!

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Thanks to Howie Abrams for the flyer image

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Joy Ryder and Avis Davis- Max’s Kansas City New York City late 1970s f/Umatic tape Davis/Ryder band

Let’s keep the wayback machine going this weekend. This is a tape that I got off Ebay a couple years ago and now that the good umatic machine is fixed, it was finally time to digitize. I would assume that it is a master since there were pretty much no Umatic traders. In fact, I have never seen a umatic dubbed tape. This one has some smearing and some shadows, which could mean that it is a copy but I just think that was 1970s tech back then. Where else are you going to find this anyway?

Davis/Ryder was an early punk band who put out a 7″ on Monongo records in 1979 and the “B” side- Nasty Secretary- was their most popular song. Both Joy and Avis have passed away.

Pretty cool time capsule.

Recorded by: Some cool person with a umatic
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony BVU800- Datavideo TBC-1000 into tevion USB capture adapter
Denoise in Adobe Premiere elements/neat video

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