Venom, Slayer, Exodus
Crest Theater
Sacramento, CA
04/13/85
Flyer scan by Ken Doose
Tag: slayer
Slayer- Kabuki, San Francisco Ca 4/12/85 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash Metal Kerry King
I am a little late, but it is still TMDT- Tour Manager Doug Tuesday.
A couple weeks back, I mentioned that I had just a few slayer things left from Doug’s collection and it should bring us right up to the week of their show here in Sacramento next month. Well, as I was doing the “check out” process of ensuring I had every tape digitized, a CD burned for each show, and a post complete or ready… I realized that there were about 10 more tapes that I still needed to do, including one from a legendary location that the old school guys (Especially the Old Bridge east coast dudes) will like. So you still see TMDT for the rest of the year.
One of the tapes was this one. I knew that there were recordings circulated from this show, but I did a close A/B comparison of the Venom set, and these appear to be Doug’s masters. I can hear his voice heckling Cronos on the Venom show, haha. Not sure why this is incomplete, but this is all that was on the tape.
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
Slayer- Eagles Club, Milwaukee Wi. 4/6/85 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash Metal
Here is the correct info for today’s post. When I don’t have enough time to prep these posts, I make mistakes. Thanks to TM Doug for shooting me a mail right away to let me know.
I found this image online and it made me laugh. It was outside the venue on the day of this show, but it’s exactly how I remember the scene when we hung out backstage in April (Crest Thtr) and August (Club Can’t Tell) of 1985. Nice guys and a party atmosphere.
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 AND rebalance in Izotope Rx8 (Vocal/Bass/Drums +3)
Slayer- L’amour East, Queens NY 4/2/85 xfer from master or 1st gen audio cassette Audience Recording
It’s an early Tour Manager Doug Tuesday post today. It looks like my son got me sick again, and the ol “vice on the lungs” feeling woke me up at 5am. Let’s hope it’s just allergies.
Anyway, after promising a Slayer post every week, I realized that this is the only one I had prepped and uploaded for today. Next Thursday, on the day that Slayer returns to Sacramento, I will post a really cool one- one of the most unique in Doug’s collection.
I am not sure if Doug taped this one, so I am calling it master or a 1st gen copy. It looks like there is a board tape of this show up on youtube, but here is an audience recording as well. It has a bit of distortion that I did my best to EQ out.
Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug? (from his collection)
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
Slayer- Concert Hall, Toronto Canada 3/31/85 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash Metal Kerry King
It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! This might be the last Ultimate Revenge tour tape that is in his box. It has been so much fun to listen and clean up all of these shows for him.
This one sounds pretty damned good- no distortion, you can hear the low end in the mix, it’s an enjoyable listen. Before all the Venom freaks ask, no- there was no Venom tape in the box from this show. Sorry Joseph!
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
Slayer- Showplace, Dover NJ 3/17/85 xfer from master audio cassette thrash metal kerry king
It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! This one is confusing. At first, I thought the image I used for this might be wrong and it wasn’t a show with Carnivore. Setlist.fm has the show as part of the Ultimate Revenge tour w/Venom and Exodus and not a show w/Carnivore. But Slayer plays 80min here and their ultimate revenge sets were 40-50min long… So I am running with it. Let me know if you can confirm .
Show starts off pretty harsh sounding with some high end distortion, but improves as it goes.
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
Slayer- Spectrum, Montreal Canada 3/25/85 xfer f/master/1st audio cassette Tour Manager Doug Archive
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
Slayer- Spectrum, Montreal Canada 3/24/85 xfer from master or 1st gen audio tape Thrash Metal
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
Slayer- Seagull Inn, Baltimore Md 3/16/85 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash Metal Kerry King
Wow, we made it a whopping 8 days without a Slayer post. This one comes from Baltimore, in the very non-Slayer sounding Seagull Inn. That makes me wonder- is this the most wimpy-named venue that Slayer ever played? I know that they were too big to play the Sit-n-Spin laundromat/music venue in the 90s. Chime in if you know of any evil bands playing silly venues. Venom at Unicorn Stables or some sh*t.
I would say that this is an average Doug recording- slight distortion, bass rumble since I had to push the EQ to get anything low in the mix, and slightly fuzzy separation of instruments. Still, Slayer at Seagull Inn!
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
Pap Smear- First Instrumental Demo xfer from 1st/2nd gen Tape Jeff Hanneman Slayer Papsmear
Happy Tuesday Everyone. This one will probably be a total TL;DR.
These posts are for Bobby Khan- thanks for the Slayer book! It was pretty damned good.
Pap Smear was a side project featuring Jeff Hanneman & Dave Lombardo (Slayer), and Rocky George from Suicidal Tendencies. My friend & Roseville High School Alum Matt Polish (IGD) also handled vocal duties on one demo. I believe I have the best copies of these tapes, as I got them from Matt.
Here’s the backstory of Matt’s involvement (and how I got the tapes). Matt befriended Slayer in August of 1984- he approached Tom Araya at the Aquatic Park show in Berkeley with beer and became fast friends with the band. He toured with them on the Summer Fashions Tour in 1985. At about this time, Jeff Hanneman would invite Matt to L.A. where they would get hammered and do music or other stupid stuff. One time, they went to Toys R Us to buy the most stupid thing they could think of. Matt won the competition by buying a kiddie pool.
So every few months, Matt would call me (he lived in Rocklin) and tell me to come over. He would play me tapes that he got from Jeff from his trips to L.A.. Some of them were classic punk tapes (Wasted Youth, Black Flag etc) and some were Pap Smear demos. I would copy everything and keep them stored away. Matt’s original (1st gen) copies from Jeff are gone, so this 2nd gen is probably the lowest tape available.
Here is the first tape that Matt brought back. In fact, this one may be the actual tape that Matt brought back—I never bought realistic tapes. So, this one may be a 1st gen from Jeff’s tape, or it may be a 2nd gen.
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon- Audiophile 2496 card- sony soundforge