This is the only recording I’ve ever seen of Zuzu’s Petals after 1994, so there is some merit in that alone. I don’t know the story behind this show, but it could very well be one of the last shows the band ever performed at the time.
Zuzu’s Petals
Moorhead MN
Minnesota State University
Comstock Memorial Union Ballroom
Saturday 14 January 1995
stereo audience recording
24/48 analog > digital transfer from 1st-generation cassette
duration (52:39)
cassette side A (42:54.06):
[01] start (00:46.34)
[02] God Cries (03:14.40)
[03] Sisters (02:32.26)
[04] Come True (03:22.70)
[05] interim / comments (00:20.46)
[06] Feel Like Going Home (02:20.72)
[07] Chatty Catty (02:12.13)
[08] Love Bullet (02:44.59)
[09] The Girl He First Met (02:34.16)
[10] Remembering Why (04:06.31)
[11] Madrid (03:46.07)
[12] Happy (03:14.27)
[13] Cinderella’s Daydream (02:50.33)
[14] White Trash Love (02:30.35)
[15] interim / comments (00:17.40)
[16] Slacks (03:09.56) >
[17] Psycho Tavern (02:50.01)
cassette side B (09:45.59):
[18] Do Not (02:54.59)
[19] Don’t Bother (02:53.28)
[20] interim / comments (00:19.58)
[21] Star Baby [The Guess Who] (03:17.07)
[22] end runout (00:20.57)
Coleen Elwood : vocals, bass
Laurie Lindeen : vocals, guitar
Linda Pitmon Wynn : drums
soundcheck [not included with this fileset]:
guitar
drums
bass
Love Bullet
Remembering Why
Feel Like Going Home
• • • •
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I had ducked out of the local scene for a bit before 1994 was over, and it seemed Zuzu’s Petals had called it a day during that time. In 1995, Linda was playing drums with Fauna, then moved NYC to work with Steve Wynn, which turned into quite the fruitful collaboration over the years.
This recording came from a cassette received in a tape trade around that same time – possibly from a former pen pal in North Dakota named Steve. It’s pretty lo-fi all the way – a pretty low signal to noise ratio [the noise floor of the tape alone hovers around -20dB], and a pretty under-powered mic that can barely handle the volume in the room. Still, those of us who used to record bands in this manner would never be sure if anyone else was documenting the same bands, and this is the only recording I’ve ever seen of Zuzu’s Petals after 1994, so there is some merit in that alone. I don’t know the story behind this show, but it could very well be one of the last shows the band ever performed at the time.
The soundcheck was also recorded, but there didn’t seem to be any real reason to include it with this fileset, since the first part was just establishing instrument levels, followed by a few quick run-through takes to dial in the live mix. For the show itself, about the only thing I did was make a few slight adjustments to the levels, in the hopes of achieving a better balanced stereo image. It’s a raucous little set that somehow matches the edgy sound quality, and I’m sure someone who hears this will remember having been there that day, so I hope it brings back some good memories!
• • • •
This is definitely an audience recording recorded on an unidentified deck with an unidentified mic.
Recorded by: unknown [ – if you’re out there, please get in touch! ]
Transferred by: J.Free / Sonic Archives [sonicarchives.com]
This fileset is a raw 24 Bit Depth / 48kHz Sample Frequency analog > digital transfer from a 1st-generation copy; some minor processing has been applied.
Lineage:
2-channel stereo cassette > Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck [Azimuth adjustment applied to playback head] > Edirol R-04 [RCA/analog in; 24-bit/48kHz transfer (.wav)] > PC [via USB] > Sound Forge Pro 11.0 [Build 299] (adjustments to levels / stereo image) > CD Wave Editor (sector boundary tracking) > Trader’s Little Helper (Level 8 .wav > .flac conversion, .ffp) > flacs
Source:
unidentified recording deck and unidentified mic > master cassette > 1st-generation cassette copy
Download or stream the show from Live Music Archive:
https://archive.org/details/zp1995-01-14.aud.flac2448
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