I didn’t have time to transfer a tape for today’s post so I poked around the hard drive and found this classic. I digitized some tapes for the AOD reissues and this one didn’t get used, but I really loved the WFMU in studio sets. The one from 1985 with White Flag is the best one, I think. I might have listened to that tape more than their albums.
The quality on this one is decent, but you can tell that they were playing pretty loud in the studio. This performance was just before their US tour in the summer of 87. Sounds like it may be one of the first shows with Keith Hartel (he is referred to as the new kid).

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

Here’s a nice surprise for On This Date in History. I knew I had posted the White Flag portion of this before so I was checking the archived spindles for tape #314, since it had to be digitized already… but it wasn’t there. Some searches of the 2 RAIDs led me to it- I hadn’t digitized my tape, I had digitized Bruce Wingate’s better quality tape!

So enjoy this better quality version of White Flag plus the (main) AOD portion. This was one of my all time favorite tapes that I traded for, so big thanks to George Norton of sending it my way back in 1986! And of course thanks to Bruce for trusting me with his stuff a couple years ago.

I can’t remember the details, but White Flag was in studio and hopped on AOD’s gear and then had to hurry to catch a flight.. that they barely made? Missed? Can’t remember.

As I was writing this up, I realized that Paul’s vocals were buried. In fact, the mix was super heavy on guitar.. so I rebalanced it and reuploaded it. Enjoy!

Recorded by: WFMU
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocal +4, Bass +6, Drums +5.