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Soul Asylum- Ace of Spades, Sacramento Ca. 4/6/13 Master audience recording DPA 4061 Mics Live

I usually post 1 new to youtube thing per day and I don’t pay much attention to that “on this day” type of thing.. but this show came up in my facebook memories and I thought what the hell.
Man, was this show depressing. I think there were probably about 50-100 people in the 600-capacity club. I even got a cheap discounted ticket from the local arts and entertainment paper here… so they couldn’t even give tickets away. Sad.
On the bright side, the show sounds great. No audience means no annoying audience noise, plus I was able to stroll around and find the acoustic sweet spot. It starts sounding really nice about 20min in. I missed part of the first song of the set- I got in the door right when they started playing, so I had to scramble to get mics set up in a couple minutes.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-M10 and DPA 4061 mics

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Soul Asylum- Choice Rocks Benefit, First Avenue, Minneapolis Mn 1/22/96 xfer from DAT Clone

I was turned on to Soul Asylum by an old tape trading friend (Katie Dee, Buffalo NY!) in 1988 and have been a huge fan ever since… especially of the 1986-1990 era. They were untouchable then. I just checked the tape list and I have ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SEVEN live tapes of the band. So, why don’t I post them more often? Well, there are some big fans out there who have done a great job of getting their concerts online, and they have a very good facebook group to discuss the band. When I post there, people are like “who the heck is THIS guy” lol. Many of the shows I have are already online, shoutout to the “littletooclean” channel.
Anyway, I am pretty sure I got this from the guy who taped it. That guy might be Mark Janovec, but I don’t recall him having the type of mics that produce this (low end heavy) type of recording. This was part of a “choice rocks” benefit, which might be a rock for choice thing? There is nothing online about it at all. I just happened to get lucky and find an image of the concert shirt.

Recorded by: ? (possibly Mark Janovec)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Soul Asylum- The Tavern, Washington D.C. 2/26/93 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape Enhanced

Here’s another one that Ross Weyman sent over to be digitized- this is #2 of 3 that he sent. This had to be one of Soul Asylum’s last shows in an apparently small venue before Runaway Train took hold.
This one is a bootleg job- lots of heads in the way but the filmer does a pretty good job of getting some clear shots of the band members.

Recorded by: ? (Joe Hunter asked is Tom Leahy did it, so possibly him)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (denoise)

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Soul Asylum- DAR Constitution Hall, Washington D.C. 2/10/93 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape

Here’s the last VHS tape from Ross Weyman. Thanks to Ross for sending these my way. This one has been posted online a couple of different ways, but neither are as clear as this one. This one comes from a 1st gen VHS tape, so that helps.
The band was opening for Keith Richards which is why you get a short set. It’s heavy on Grave Dancer’s Union material, but those first 3 songs are a killer start to the set. Neil Young cover toward the end as well.

Recorded by: ? (Possibly Tom Leahy)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (denoise)

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Dave Pirner and Dan Murphy (Soul Asylum)- Der Rathskeller,Madison Wi 4/12/91 xfer f/1st gen VHS tape

For today’s On This Date in History, I figured I would post something early to give the Soul Asylum fans something to do while waiting in RSD lines for that After the Flood vinyl. Unfortunately, I can’t make it out today due to Little League scheduling conflicts. If record stores would open at 8am, I would be all set. Stupid rock & roll time anyway.
This one has been online before, on Mike Wilson’s excellent “littletooclean” youtube channel. If you are a SA fan, check out that channel- a treasure trove of stuff. The reason I decided to post it again is due to the quality of this one. I got this directly from the filmer (Steve Hanson- R.I.P.) so along with the lossless VHS transfer setup and denoising, it looks as good as it can. Audio is surprisingly distorted for an acoustic show.

Recorded by: Steve Hanson
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Soul Asylum- DOORNROOSJE, NIJMEGEN HOLLAND 3/8/89 xfer from cassette master tape full complete show

I called another audible for the On This Day post. After looking for shows from March 8, I discovered that I have a bunch of consecutively numbered CD-R’s from holland of bands like Soul Asylum and fIREHOSE – right off the master tapes- and I have no idea who I got these from. These shows took place too early for them to be Jan the Lazyman’s work. I think I traded with other Holland folks like Thomas Willer Jensen on DAT… ugh. I can’t remember. If you taped this, please let me know who I can give you credit.
Anyway, this SA show sounds great- nice and clear. It lacked a bit of low end so I EQ’d that up in the mix. This era of the band was my favorite.

Recorded by: Stef Kullik
EQ by: Shayne (low end +2-3db)

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Soul Asylum- CBGB, NYC 12/8/88 Audio Only xfer from 1st gen cassette tape

Here’s a post for John Moulton, Channing Lewis, Michael Crow, and Jersey Joe. Everyone is trying to figure out who the guest is playing the strat in this picture. My guess is Ira Kaplan from Yo La Tengo, but Dave calls out a special guest that is not intelligible. but is definitely not Ira. Can anyone solve the mystery of the mystery Strat guest?
I’ll be posting 12/7/88 tomorrow, lesser quality than this one.

Recorded by: George Norton
Equipment used: Consumer handheld recorder
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ’d in Sony Sound Forge 10

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Soul Asylum- CBGB, NYC 12/7/88 Audio Only xfer from 1st gen cassette tape

Soul Asylum played 2 nights at CBGB in December of 1988. This one doesn’t sound quite as good as the 12/8/88 show, but I mixed out as much distortion as I could. Again, this is for John Moulton, Channing Lewis, Michael Crow, and Jersey Joe. Everyone is trying to figure out who the guest is playing the strat in this picture. My guess is Ira Kaplan from Yo La Tengo, but Dave calls out a special guest that is not intelligible. but is definitely not Ira. Can anyone solve the mystery of the mystery Strat guest?
The pic is likely from 12/8/88, but I did not listen to 12/7 closely enough to hear if there are guests on this one as well.

Recorded by: George Norton
Equipment used: Consumer handheld recorder
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ’d in Sony Sound Forge 10

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Soul Asylum- Texas Records, Santa Monica 11/22/86 xfer f/unknown gen audio cassette Acoustic instore

Today’s On This date in History comes from the old days of 1980s tape trading. I think I got this from Katie Dee in Buffalo, she was a big SA fan and I think she even turned me onto the band.

This one is clearly done with a cheap consumer recorder, but since it is an acoustic set it is still enjoyable. Not many acoustic sets from the band this early on. In fact, this is the earliest acoustic performance that I have out of the 177 Soul Asylum recordings I have. Maybe Mike Wilson (owner of the cool “littletooclean” youtube channel and tons of SA tapes) can chime in to confirm.

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

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