Another one from Tour Manager Doug to round out the audio portion of the week. I have been so busy with work and kids, I had to dig deep for this weekend’s videos. Be prepared for some cool and obscure stuff!
Here is Abattoir, opening Megadeth’s first show ever. I did the normal EQ work and it sounds alright!
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
Another Doug post for Wednesday. I have talked about my cluelessness with Trouble here before. I mostly disregarded them when they released their first album. I mean, I bought it and it was very good, but they had this “White Metal” promotional campaign when all of the great bands were going the other direction. So I wrongly dismissed them for the most part. It wasn’t until years later, when I revisited Psalm 9 that I realized that I was an idiot and this was one of the best metal albums of all time.
When Eric and Ron got the band “The Skull” together in the 2012/2013 time frame to celebrate the early Trouble albums, I could not miss the show. They played Los Angeles in 2013 and I drove down from Sacramento for the show. When I told Eric about driving to the show, his first reply was “why didn’t you fly?”. Eric’s acerbic nature usually come out, but he was pretty cool.
All of the above doesn’t have much to do with this post- I wish I had my act together and was able to see a Psalm 9 era set from this band. Thankfully, Doug was there for it and it sounds pretty nice.
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
OK, before you get real excited about the description of this one, please read this. I digitized this a couple of months ago. Something must have gone wrong with the soundboard- maybe the tape levels were too high or the output from the board was too hot- but this is pretty distorted. I took a swing at un-distorting it in Izotope and just made it worse. I reached out to people who are very good in audio software and they told me it was too distorted to fix. So, hopefully in the future, these audio AI software programs will make this better… but for now, this is it.
Since it is Megadeth’s first show ever and it is from the master tape, it is still worth a post. Thanks Doug!
Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
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