This soundboard recording came from the collection of another taper, known as Minnesota Mike, who made audience recordings of shows in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area between 1978 and 1992.
[Original notes provided by Regtrademark in 2019]:
This came from the collection of another taper, known as Minnesota Mike, who made audience recordings of shows in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area between 1978 and 1992. He used a stereo Sony TC-D5 tape recorder and two Shure microphones, top-of-the-line equipment in those days. He recorded shows just for himself and this tape has never circulated before. I made this digital copy in 2006 with azimuth adjustments on the tapedeck and a Terratec EWX soundcard to the computer.
This is straight from the mastertape. I have not done any EQing, filtering, editing, or any kind of tampering with the sound.
I don’t put sound ratings on these uploads — I’d prefer to have somebody independent (such as yourself) judge that. So, after you’ve downloaded and listened, post a comment on the sound quality.
Maxell UDXLII cassette > Yamaha KX330 tape deck > Terratec EWX soundcard > EAC WAV > Audacity FLAC
[Additional comment from Regtrademark on 2019-02-17]:
I talked to Mike tonight. This is actually a soundboard tape. He got a copy from a member of a band that was playing that night.
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[These are my additional notes in 2025]:
This fileset was discovered on a bit-torrent site in 2019, but was removed at a later date, likely due to a lapse in activity.
This show was originally dated 16 February 1992, but the date doesn’t coincide with the 1st Ave calendar for that month; which suggests this is from 9 Feb, on a bill w/ Arcwelder / Skeleton Ed, so I’ve assigned that date to this fileset.
Since Regtrademark mentioned that he digitized the tape for Mike from a copy provided by a band member, that would basically make this a 1st-generation copy.
It was discovered that the fileset included one erroneous track from a different artist, and one of the files contained four tracks, which I’ve sorted out for this fileset.
Track 13 is an instrumental jam that doesn’t appear on any of the band’s official releases, but was performed as a segue from Dork Magnet, during several early sets back in the day. It was also performed at the Uptown Bar on 1990-12-07, and was written on the setlist as Turkey Jam. Another Uptown set from 1991-03-21 also included the same track, listed simply as: Jam.
It seems likely that the sound person recorded the tape from the sound booth, so that’s what I’ve listed here. Bill Batson was a stage manager / sound engineer at 7th St Entry, who also lent technical assistance as a producer for several regional releases and was the vocalist for a number of prominent Minneapolis bands: King Kustom & The Cruisers, The Hypstrz, The Mighty Mofos.
Okay, enough with all the technical jibber-jabber – turn this one up and rock out, already!
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