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The Dickies- Ford Amphitheater, Hollywood Ca 5/7/88 xfer from master cassette complete show punk

For today’s on this date in history, I picked this totally wild Dickies show from 1988. I think I grabbed it off dimeadozen many years ago. It’s not on there anymore, and it isn’t on youtube.

I picked it for a few reasons. This show takes place the day before I saw (and video’d) them for the first time at The Omni in Oakland. The performance is excellent. “hitwithstuff” (the person posting on dime) had the greatest recap of the show. I liked it so much that I took the printed copy of the info sheet I had and scanned it to .pdf, then converted to text to include here… and it didn’t work. I will post the scans of the docs as comments on the facebook posts, because it was clearly a classic show!

Oh, and if “hitwithstuff” or “MC Ferret” wants this pulled down, let me know. Posting it out of love and respect, but happy to comply with whatever they wish.

An MC Ferret AUD Recordlng / Hitwitstuff2 mastering and upload
Extract from CD and prep for upload: Shayne Stacy

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The Dickies- Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach Ca 7/25/86 xfer from unknown gen soundboard cassette

I picked this one for today’s On This Date in History because I thought it would sound good.. and it does get better after the first 10 minutes. I did my best to rebalance it for the first 10, but it’s still pretty rough. Forward Tricia Toyota at 10min if you can’t take it, haha.
It seems to cut at 47min. The tape is labeled in a somewhat confusing way, but I think that’s all of it that exists.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +2, Guitar +5.

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The Dickies- Hollywood Palladium 1/17/86 xfer from 2nd gen soundboard cassette Punk

I put way too much work into today’s “on this day in history” post. The mix on this was pretty terrible, it lacked high end, and the volume goes from 5 to 10 for the last couple tracks.
Here’s what I did:

  • EQ in sony sound forge 10 to bring up the high end.. which also brings up the tape hiss, and normalize to 0.
  • Rebalance in Izotope to get some guitar and bass in the mix… but not too much as this is one of those tapes where the soundman pushed the guitar up during the leads.
  • discover that the first rebalance job blew the levels to peak at +4db for those last 2 songs, overblowing them.
  • tear down and start steps over again with lower levels
  • Normalize/vol boost everything except for last couple songs to make it even throughout.
    Was it worth it? Probably not, but I love the Dickies and I didn’t see this one out there on youtube. Before anyone asks, I have not seen the Toy Dolls set around from this night.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +4, Guitar +7.5

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