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Slayer- Rock Palace, Portland Or 6/30/84 xfer from master cassette tape Thrash

Doug joined the band on their first tour of the northwest in June of 84. Along with taping the shows, he took some amazing photos that are being added to the Sacramento Music Archive website today. So, if you only subscribe to the youtube channel, you might want to hop over to the website and sign up for updates there.
On to this tape. This one cleaned up real nice. I was able to EQ the excessive high end out of it and boost bass/mids, then pop it into Izotope Rx8 and bring up vocals and bass guitar. 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
EQ in Sony Sound Forge
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8 (Bass & vocals +4, drums +2.5)

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Slayer- Tropicana, Olympia Wa 6/28/84 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash Metal Kerry King

It’s tour manager Doug Tuesday! Here is one that has been requested by some people on YouTube after I posted some of the other PNW Slayer shows, so it is highly anticipated by some folks. It’s a little tinny but listenable.

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- Ruthie’s Inn, Berkeley Ca 6/23/84 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash Metal Kerry King

It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! And another Slayer show from Ruthie’s.
Man, it kills me to see all of these Slayer shows that I could have attended… I did not know they were happening. Back in the 80s, if you weren’t going to the club on a regular basis, you wouldn’t know what was playing there. There was very little advertisement outside of the club. Same with Gilman and a bunch of others. Steve Koepke’s The List solved that “knowing about shows” problem, but he did not start until 1990. Before that, it was hit and miss.
This one might be less circulated than other Slayer Ruthies shows- they are usually well-documented on setlist dot fm, but not this one.

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

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Slayer- Stone, San Francisco Ca 5/24/84 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash Metal

It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! This tape is one of the best quality recordings from his collection, if not THE best one. I don’t know how he was able to get such amazing results from that walkman- all of the instruments are clear and have a good amount of separation, including the bass. I didn’t have to do anything to this tape- this is how it sounded, right off the playback. Thanks Doug!
Anybody know what happened to Roxz (pictured in the ad)? No releases on discogs, never heard of ’em.

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

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Slayer- Keystone, Berkeley Ca 5/23/84 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash Metal

It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! There were no TM Doug Slayer posts last week, for the first time in a while. Here’s one that appears uncirculated- it’s not on youtube, not on setlist.fm. I know one of the old school guys will chime in and say “I had it in the 80s, man”. So I guess I mean “uncirculated outside of the OG thrash traders”
I did my best with the EQ, there was no bass at all in the recording!

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- Ruthie’s Inn, Berkeley Ca 3/17/84 SOUNDCHECK xfer from master or low gen audio cassette

Let’s make today a two-for-tourmanagerdoug-thursday!
First off is a short soundcheck from Slayer’s well-circulated Ruthie’s inn show. I don’t think I have ever seen this one around, but the board tape has been pressed onto vinyl by bootleggers. If you would stop buying those, bootlegs would stop. Just saying. Supply/demand and all.
This one is short and was less tinny than most TM Doug tapes, hence the “master or low gen” designation. Probably a master, knowing Doug.

Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug (I think)
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- Ruthie’s Inn, Berkeley Ca 3/17/84 xfer from unknown gen soundboard cassette Thrash Metal

Man, historically craptacular work day today. Damn. Like, never-seen-before bad. Sobering.
Anyway, here is the 2nd of the two-for-tourmanagerdoug-thursday posts. There are a bunch of posts online which claim to be Ruthie’s 3/17/84, but none of them have the same setlist or sound. I tend to believe Doug’s tapes since he was there.
This mix was not great- I ran it through Izotope and boosted the guitar and bass A LOT and it is listenable. Lots of dead space between main set and encore, then more dead space until Tom tells the crowd that they blew a fuse and it is time to go home. Haha!

Recorded by: ? (a bit hissy to be recorded by Doug)
Equipment used: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge

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Slayer- Wolfgang’s, San Francisco Ca 1/30/84 xfer from master cassette Thrash Metal

Here’s a lesson in the value of a good sound man. I was able to EQ the Exodus set from this night and it sounds pretty good. I don’t know what happened with the slayer set, but I can’t get it to sound even close to the same quality. I even tried to use the same EQ settings as the exodus set but no. So, I EQ’d the best I could and ran it through Izotope.. meh. I might take another swing at this later. It sounds like they were pushing a lot of guitar volume from the stage.
Is this the (in)famous show where the crowd yells at slayer to take off the eye makeup? I think it might be. I tried googling it and could not find much.
Anyway, more slayer from Doug. Thanks Doug.

Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Namakichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony SOund Forge
Reblance in Izotope Rx8 (Guitar and Bass +4, Drums +2)

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Slayer- Keystone, Berkeley Ca 1/27/84 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash Metal

It’s Tour Manager Doug Thursday! Just kind of rolls off the tongue. Here is one with on of the funniest flyers ever… Hmmm.. I wonder which band was in charge of making this one? And the 1980s computerized “Slayer” at the bottom just kills me. Haha.

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 (EQ settings in fb comments)

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