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Pixies- University of Texas Ballroom, Austin Tx 10/22/89 xfer from master audio cassette Frank Black

I was wading through the excel sheets last night for a good On This Date in History post today and I saw this one there. I had traded Craig Hilmer for this one about 35 years ago, but he just handed me a grocery bag of master tapes a couple weeks ago. Hmm… could the master be in there? Yup. So I digitized it this morning. Same day service!

The quality is quite good for the main part of the set, especially after some EQ work. Quality falls off a bit for the encore- it seems like he might have moved. Craig, please chime in if you have any memories of this.

Recorded by: Craig Hilmer
Recording Equipment: Either a Sony WMD3 or an Aiwa
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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10,000 Maniacs- Liberty Lunch, Austin Tx 9/2/89 xfer f/Master Audio Cassette

This one is from Craig Hilmer’s collection and it is a bit puzzling to me. 10,000 Maniacs were playing big venues on this tour- we saw the stop at the 8,500 seat Greek Theater in Berkeley, and they played the 3,000 seat at the Bronco Bowl in Dallas right before this. Then they play the (about) 450 capacity Liberty Lunch. Wild. I had to look through newspaper articles to confirm that the year is correct. Probably the last club show until Natalie left the band.

EDIT: thanks to promoters Mark Pratz for the background! “it was sold out so at least 1,000 attended. They ended up there when some disagreement occurred between the band and promoter/s at a Barton Springs outdoor concert back then, before ACL fest was created. We had done the band at the Continental. Club in the early 80’s (to no one,Thanksgiving, oops!). So the agent called and asked if we could pick up the show which. Duh, of course we did. I remember it being an early show so we could still do the evening bands booked.”

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

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Crummy Musicians- Lubbock Tx 8/15/89 Transfer from Low Gen VHS tape w/Mike Dirnt Green Day on Vocals

What a nice coincidence- I was looking for an On This Date in History to post and realized that the Patreon Voter’s Choice is from today’s date! Awesome. Oh btw, YouTube subscribers, I am doing “on this date” again but you need to subscribe to the website or the facebook group).

So you get TWO from August 13th. This one and an upgrade to a previously posted thing that is processing now. Hot Damn!

Here is a new to youtube vid from Crummy Musicians. From Jason Ross’ collection.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Corrupted Morals- Lubbock, Tx 8/13/89 transfer f/low gen VHS tape w/Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day

Part 2 of the “On this date”/Patreon Voter’s Choice for today. I posted this one a year back but the copy in my collection was not nearly as good quality as this one. You can actually see the band and you can make out Billie Joe- he’s on the right.
Billie Joe toured with CM for this one tour before resuming Green Day operations upon his return.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Sweet Baby- Ft. Worth, Tx. 4/29/89 xfer from unknown gen VHS tape Jesus Pop Punk

A part of this show is on youtube but it is in comically poor quality and it is incomplete, so I figured I would post this for today’s On This Date in History.

Sweet Baby (Jesus) were pop punk pioneers- 2 years before Green Day formed, Sweet Baby were already cranking out pop punk gems like “She’s from Salinias” and “Baby Baby Baby Baby Baby Baby Baby I Love You”. I can’t think of another east bay pop punk band that preceded Sweet Baby Jesus.

They had a number of releases on a variety of labels including Ruby Records and Lookout. They disbanded for the final time in the late 1989 or early 1990 after they were dropped by Ruby. Clearly ahead of their time.

From Jason Ross’ collection.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9911U and Canopus ADVC300

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The Replacements- Austin Opera House, Texas 4/29/89 xfer f/1st gen audio cassette. Complete show

Here is one of the few from Craig Hilmer’s collection that he did not tape- he got this from a local taper named Charles. The show was split over multiple tapes, so I hope I got the entire thing and the set order right. If not, let me know.

Recorded by: Charles
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10

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fIREHOSE- Liberty Lunch, Austin Tx 4/6/89 xfer fmaster audio cassette Mike Watt SST Records Complete

Collections post from Craig Hilmer’s collection. He has so much great stuff on these tapes. I was EQ’ing this and stumbled upon a Reivers local radio thing on the end of this tape. After such a crap day, it was nice to find some good stuff. Thanks Craig!

Recorded by: Craig Hilmer
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge 10

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Red Hot Chili Peppers- Showcase Special Events Ctr, San Antonio Tx 3/10/89 xfer f/Master Audio Tape

As promised, here is a bonus 3rd post today, from Craig Hilmer’s collection. Thanks to Angelo Bertini for asking me to work it up for him.
Vocals were buried a bit. I ran an EQ job and a rebalance and it is pretty decent now, especially after the first couple songs. It kicks in at about 11 minutes.

Recorded by: Craig Hilmer
Transfer by: Shayne
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocals +6

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Red Hot Chili Peppers- Showcase Special Events Ctr, San Antonio Tx 3/10/89 xfer f/master audio tape

Here is a rarity for you, at least that’s what the hardcore RHCP completists are telling me. Craig Hilmer taped this one back in 1989 and gave it to me when we met up in SF last year. Thanks Craig!

Craig used an Aiwa deck but with a little EQ, this one turned out ok.

Recorded by: Craig Hilmer
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiphile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10


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Jane’s Addiction- Numbers, Houston Tx. 1/14/89 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape On This Day

Alrighty, here is the next “on this day” post. Yesterday’s was odd- either nobody cared about it, or it was buried in FB’s algorithm.. and then a bunch of fake fb profiles liked it. So, er, thanks to “grace grace”, “Lucy Lucy”, “Sally Sally” and the other 78 bots who liked the post along with the 3 real people. Man, that was weird. Let’s hope that this one goes better.
This one comes from my good friend Jim Utz- we started trading tapes in 1986 and have been friends ever since. We both used to trade with a guy name Mike Elias(I think that is his name). He was a personality- very funny guy. He would bootleg shows in small to midsize venues and then get super indignant when he would get busted. I still remember him writing me and calling some band “ess holes”. The joys of tape trading. Mike filmed this one.
Camera work is shaky, but it sounds decent and it is way better quality than the other one on YT at this time.

Recorded by: Mike Elias
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9911U- Canopus ADVC300-Windv (the old capture chain)

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