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The Skull- Blue Lamp, Sacramento Ca. 6/10/18 Multicam w/ Matrix audio Doom Metal Trouble

This was an odd night. The show was on a Sunday night and even though it was well-promoted, everyone seemed to forget it was coming up. Chris Lemos had to remind me a couple of times. I think it was because it was on a work/school night, at the end of a run of a bunch of killer shows. Anyway, not many people showed… which means that we didn’t get the encore with all of the Trouble songs. I was bummed. I hauled my ass out of the house, AND had to be on a plane for work at 6am the next day. No excuse for such a weak turnout.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Canon HFG40x2, Gopro Hero 4 silver
Audio recorded through the soundboard with sony PCM-M10, mixed with Rode Videomic Pro Stereo audio from one of the G40’s
Edit by Tromster

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Trouble- El Dorado Saloon, Sacramento Ca 8/2/87 Xfer from Master Audio Tape

I have a few concert-going regrets in my life and this is one of them. I LOVED the first Trouble album when it first came out, but I went into my black/death metal phase and did not appreciate how great they were at this show. I talked through a good part of the show. And they might have let me video as well, they were one of the few artists who seemed to be cool with taping in the late 80s. So dumb. Oh well. Enjoy.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Consumer Panasonic Recorder

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Trouble- The Stone, San Francisco Ca 10/16/84 xfer from master Audio Cassette Doom Stoner Rock Metal

It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! Since Brian Walsby was talking about the band a few days ago, let’s go with this.
Man, this sounds fantastic for an old recording. The stone had really great sound.
I mentioned that it is probably time to start posting from all of the collections I have here, including my own. Well, I just did a quick inventory and there are EIGHTEEN collections here! So, I plan to start doing this- probably starting in early December. Expect a post from each collection about every 3 weeks .. unless I can do this full-time and post multiple things a day. lol.

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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Trouble- Ruthie’s Inn, Berkeley Ca 2/17/84 xfer from master audio tape The Skull Eric Wagner Doom

Another Doug post for Wednesday. I have talked about my cluelessness with Trouble here before. I mostly disregarded them when they released their first album. I mean, I bought it and it was very good, but they had this “White Metal” promotional campaign when all of the great bands were going the other direction. So I wrongly dismissed them for the most part. It wasn’t until years later, when I revisited Psalm 9 that I realized that I was an idiot and this was one of the best metal albums of all time.
When Eric and Ron got the band “The Skull” together in the 2012/2013 time frame to celebrate the early Trouble albums, I could not miss the show. They played Los Angeles in 2013 and I drove down from Sacramento for the show. When I told Eric about driving to the show, his first reply was “why didn’t you fly?”. Eric’s acerbic nature usually come out, but he was pretty cool.
All of the above doesn’t have much to do with this post- I wish I had my act together and was able to see a Psalm 9 era set from this band. Thankfully, Doug was there for it and it sounds pretty nice.

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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