Recorded (videotaped) by: Jody Urbati-Moore
Shared by: the Billy Ruane live archive preservation
Note: camera gets knocked badly, taping is aborted after about the 12m mark, it continues on for a couple more minutes, but is too distorted to be watchable.
I don’t normally post stuff here that I did not film, but Tiger Trap was one of the local Sacramento bands from the ’90s that I did not get to see. They were active when I lived in L.A. from 92-95. Here is a good video of their set in St. Louis, courtesy of my good friend Jim Utz’ archive, Enjoy!
Recorded by: Jim Utz
Recorded by: Tomzero, using Sonic Studios DSM-6 mics into a Sony WM-D6.
Transferred by: Tomzero, using his Nakamichi 682ZX, I’ve merely tracksplit and sharing as lossless 24 bit/48kHz FLACs.
Setlist
For Sure
(same as 3:59 on Middle East Cambridge upstairs vid)
Don’t Ask
Hiding
(same as 31:12 on the Middle East Cambridge downstairs vid)
Sour Grass
Puzzle Pieces
unknown ‘one of our newest songs’
Words & Smiles
Alien Space Song
Treasure
You’re Sleeping
‘Take Me Away’
I Hate You
(same as song 15 on 1993-08-10 Slim’s)
Their penultimate SF show, they would only go on for a month or two more before calling it quits. Rose Melberg went onto play in Go! Sailor, The Softies, and her own acoustic projects. Heather continued on in music, but the other two seemed to have bee less active.
Several tracks remain unreleased, and others only have id’s based on Matt Hartman’s efforts in annotating the video performances.
This is a group that my friends loved back in the day and have passed this onto me, so hoping others also derive pleasure from hearing. Unfortunately, neither could make their final SF show in December 1993.
Recorded by: Tomzero, using Sonic Studios DSM-6 mics into a Sony WM-D6.
Transferred by: Tomzero, using his Nakamichi 682ZX, I’ve merely tracksplit, performed some slight edited, and presented this as lossless 24 bit/48kHz FLACs.
Setlist
Don’t Ask
Carrie’s Song
Tore A Hole
Hiding
You’re Sleeping
Baby Blue
(same as 31:12 on this Middle East Cambridge video)
Sour Grass
For Sure
Treasure
Words & Smiles
Cheater
Puzzle Pieces
I Hate You
? (same as song 15 on this August 10th Slim’s recording)
Supreme Nothing
A few songs on here that merit IDs…but don’t think have been released… enjoy! I’ll flesh this out with whatever observations Tom has about this particular show, don’t think Mike went with him for this.
Band: Tiger Trap
Venue: The Cattle Club
Location: Sacramento, CA
Date: 7-15-1993
Setlist: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/tiger-…
Source: Soundboard
Tape Type: Maxell XLII 90
Generation: Unknown (likely 3rd)
Recorded by: Unknown
Digitized by: oaklandcory (1-18-2021)
Processed via: VEED
Recorded (videotaped) by: Jody Urbati-Moore
Shared by: the Billy Ruane live archive preservation
Hello, everyone. This is my first post to the Sacramento Music Archive.
Am going to start by helping out Shayne and filling in when I have something to share.
Matthew Hartman kindly provided the tracklist in a comment.
0:40 Hiding
2:57 Don’t Ask
5:05 Sour Grass
8:30 Carrie’s Song
10:33 Word and Smiles
13:06 Baby Blue
16:02 For Sure
21:40 I Hate You
24:50 Heather’s Song
27:58 Treasure
31:12 ???
34:30 You’re Sleeping
37:27 Chester
41:00 Eight Wheels
43:47 Puzzle Pieces
47:07 You and Me
50:04 ???
52:05 Supreme Nothing
Band: Tiger Trap
Venue: KDVS Radio
Location: Davis, CA
Date: 7-2-1992
Source: FM Radio
Tape Type: Maxell XLII90
Generation: Unknown (likely 3rd)
Recorded by: Unknown
Digitized by: oaklandcory (1-12-2021)
Processed via: VEED
Recorded by: the band, as while this is labelled “demos”, this to me sounds like a rehearsal recording
Shared by: tomzero
Tracklist
01 For Sure
02-03 Words And Smiles (two takes)
04-05 Supreme Nothing (two takes)
06-08 Unknown #1 (three takes)
09-10 You And Me (two takes)
11 You And Me (bass mix)
12 Puzzle Pieces
13 Tore A Hole
14 Unknown #2
15 Unknown #3 (“Dumb Song”)
16 Sweetheart
This copy is labelled SBD3 meaning master > tape > tape > tape, so it’s not the best, but this does include the *vocal* version of Tore A Hole that Rose stopped singing to because she thought her lyrics are bad, so subsequent live performances of this are instrumental.
I haven’t done any mastering/cleanup, though there were a few dropouts I patched, as well as clearing out bumps caused by stop/starting recording, it’s pretty much as Tomzero ran these off tape…
I checked against the extant videos since they also have unreleased songs, but the other three aren’t anything that’s out there.
My friend Mike Siou has SBD2 and one day I’ll encourage him to make me a lower-gen copy, but suspect this won’t be a huge improvement. Mike got his version from a fellow concertgoer/fan by the name of “Matt” that we met at a 2016 Guided By Voices SF show, and Matt got his from Rose Melberg.
Update: Mike kindly provided additional commentary:
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