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Exodus- Wolfgang’s, San Francisco Ca 1/30/84 xfer from master audio tape thrash metal

Let’s kick of the work week in a good way- here is the mighty Exodus with a pre-1st LP set from Tour Manager Doug’s collection. Man, I love these early sets with songs from BBB along with some pre-LP songs.
I really pushed the EQ on this one and I think it sounds really good. I am enjoying the hell out of it. Doug was the man when it came to finding a venue’s sweet spot.
Some low end noise in between songs because I cranked up the bass a bunch. I think it’s a good tradeoff.

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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Slayer- Wolfgang’s, San Francisco Ca 1/30/84 xfer from master cassette Thrash Metal

Here’s a lesson in the value of a good sound man. I was able to EQ the Exodus set from this night and it sounds pretty good. I don’t know what happened with the slayer set, but I can’t get it to sound even close to the same quality. I even tried to use the same EQ settings as the exodus set but no. So, I EQ’d the best I could and ran it through Izotope.. meh. I might take another swing at this later. It sounds like they were pushing a lot of guitar volume from the stage.
Is this the (in)famous show where the crowd yells at slayer to take off the eye makeup? I think it might be. I tried googling it and could not find much.
Anyway, more slayer from Doug. Thanks Doug.

Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Namakichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony SOund Forge
Reblance in Izotope Rx8 (Guitar and Bass +4, Drums +2)

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Savage Grace- Wolfgang’s, San Francisco Ca 1/30/84 xfer from master audio cassette Power Speed Metal

A couple months back, someone from the Savage Grace fb group asked me to put this up. I am glad he did, because when I went to search the RAID for this show, it wasn’t there. I somehow did not digitize the tape or accidentally deleted the file. So, I re-digitized it and here it is, for Tour Manager Doug Tuesday. Doesn’t sound too bad.

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

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Riot- Wolfgang’s, San Francisco Ca. 12/27/83 xfer from master tape R.I.P Mark Reale Rhett Forrester

This is one from Tour Manager Doug’s collection that I did first- I have always been a big fan of early Riot, but never got to see them. I lost interest a bit after 1988, but those early records are classic. I was just a year or 2 too young to make it to SF to see this one. Would have loved to been there.

I looked online, trying to find a good “in concert” picture of Riot with Rhett and there weren’t many out there. I did read up a bit on Rhett’s life after Riot- I heard that he was murdered in a gang fight, but I was mistaken on that. Totally random and tragic.

This is a totally different recording than the one that was released on the Riot Live Archives box set. That recording has a lot of audience noise- I like this one better. I did EQ the heck out of it to tone down the highs and get the bass up in the mix. That low end rumble is a bit distracting. I might re-do this one and post again.

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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Heaven- Wolfgang’s, San Francisco Ca 12/20/83 xfer from master audio cassette Australia Rock Metal

This one appears to be somewhat rare- I checked youtube and there are zero full sets from the Australian band Heaven from their 1983 US tour. Maybe they are out there and I am not searching correctly, but I see nothin’.
This one EQ’d well, but the vocals were buried. So I did the ol’ EQ-Izotope combo. It worked out pretty nice!
Heaven seemed to get a decent push when they released their first album in 1983 – it was everywhere. I even owned a copy, I might have done the Columbia record club (10 LPs for 1 penny!) to get this one. That’s how I got most of my albums as a kid. Then, Heaven were gone. It looks like they were around from 1982-1985 and then poof. I’m surprised that there is nothing out there from this 4 week USA tour.

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; Rebalance in Izotope Rx8 (Vocals +5)

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Exodus- Wolfgang’s, San Francisco Ca 12/20/83 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash Metal Baloff

It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! it looks like we have exactly enough Doug posts to get us to the end of the year. That was unplanned but convenient.

Since everyone is still buzzing from Exodus’ first headlining show around here in forever, let’s post this one today…
3 songs from this set have been on “Lord Pryderi’s ~ (great) Metal History channel” – check his out if you haven’t already. He posts from Verne’s master tapes, I post from Doug’s… 2 of the early bay area thrash tapers are covered between us(3 if you count Wayne Vanderkuil’s mostly punk with some metal collection). Now we just need Mr. Ron Quintana to get his stuff out there and we can call it done.
I love these early sets with the pre-LP songs in the set.

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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