Here is Zuzu’s Petals from Minneapolis, playing at Bottom of the Hill. The band was Coleen Elwood, Laurie Lindeen, and Linda Pitmon. They had a couple of LP’s on Twin/Tone in the early 1990s. Linda went on to play with Golden Smog, Steve Wynn, The Baseball Project, Filthy Friends and many more.
Zuzu’s Petals
San Francisco CA
Bottom Of The Hill
Wednesday 9 November 1994
stereo audience recording
24/44.1 analog > digital transfer from master cassette
duration (63:19.64)
[01] God Cries (03:35.19)
[02] Feel Like Going Home (02:21.38)
[03] Chatty Catty (02:45.40)
[04] Love Bullet (03:07.72)
[05] The Girl He First Met (02:28.42) [tape paused here – ?]
[06] White Trash Love (02:52.51)
[07] interim / comments (00:13.32)
[08] Slacks (03:47.26)
[09] Come True (03:49.36)
[10] Remembering Why (04:20.32)
[11] Cinderella’s Daydream (03:11.30)
[12] interim / comments (00:28.14)
[13] Happy (03:12.74) >
[14] Psycho Tavern (03:00.15) >
[15] Don’t Bother (03:02.74)
[16] Do Not (03:22.36)
[17] interim (00:15.19)
[18] Johanne (01:24.57) [truncated – twice! – patched + end cut]
most likely this is when the tape was flipped:
[19] Star Baby [The Guess Who] (02:54.52) [start truncated]
encore:
[20] interim / applause (00:49.28)
[21] Shipwrecked [aborted] (00:29.01)
[22] unidentified title [i want you] (02:30.15) >
[23] Jackals (02:50.19)
encore:
[24] interim / applause / technical difficulties (01:57.47)
[25] Human Being [Johnny Thunders] (04:00.61)
[26] end runout (00:27.34)
Coleen Elwood : vocals, bass
Laurie Lindeen : vocals, guitar
Linda Pitmon Wynn : drums
Bill:
Everclear
ZuZu’s Petals
Baby Snufkin
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This recording is one I did not personally record – I received it in 2023 from an old tape trading pen pal from the ‘90s named Shayne Stacy. In recent years, Shayne has been digitally transferring much of his own audio archives, including many different collections along with his own collection of 10,000+ tapes, and sharing them online at:
Shayne and I had lost touch with each other over the years, and when we re-connected in 2023, he mentioned that he didn’t have much free time to devote to our old shared hobby – generally about enough time to put together one post per day. This Zuzu’s Petals set came from his digital transfer of the cassette master, which was part of a collection of tapes originally recorded by a friend of his named Rick Arroyo. The complete bill was determined by going through a number of posts on Shayne’s site and matching the venue and date.
This had been listed on Shayne’s site as an FM source, but it is clearly an audience recording. Although I know that some community radio stations would sometimes play audience recorded bootlegs on the air, I was curious if there actually was a soundboard tape of this show, or if possibly the notes for this had gotten mixed up with another show. I reached out to Shayne again in 2025 with a few questions, and he provided this update:
“Here’s everything I know:
Rick Arroyo contacted me a couple years ago about taking on some KALX reels from their archive. He went by the DJ name Rick Sylvain and hosted a radio show called Friday Night Live, where local bands would play live in studio. He brought me 3 big boxes of tapes – about 100-ish cassettes and at least 50 reels. Most of the tapes I received from him were those Friday Live sessions. There are other KALX tapes that are not Friday Live sessions in the boxes, which is where the Zuzu’s Petals comes from. After going through a lot of cassettes and a few reels, I can confidently say that yes, the DJ’s would take the portable reel to reel, interview the band, then record mediocre audio from the audience.”
At any rate, I did spend some hours working with this recording – tracking it out, adding titles and tags, and adjusting levels in places where the volume jumped around a bit, and also patched one song where it sounded like a tape flip might have repeated part of a verse. I did not add anything like EQ, normalizing, etc, but just balancing the levels in places helps it quite a bit, I think. There was not much I could do to fix the first track, which sounded like the tape had gotten mangled at some point. It is what it is.
Despite the caveats about sound quality, the band sounded like they were having a great time playing, and it sounds like it would have been a blast to have been in attendance that night, two months after the last time I ever saw them. During the first of two encores, they attempted to pull out one of their oldest songs, Shipwrecked, and then launched into another song with a Joan Jett meets AC/DC vibe, which was allegedly built out the ashes of that single. Wrapping things up for the send encore, a Johnny Thunders cover which only ever appeared on their 1993 UK EP Cinderella’s Daydream.
This recording has already been on the internet in its raw form – via Shayne’s site, and also youtube:
Sacramento Music Archive – Zuzu’s Petals
Here’s the description from Shayne’s initial post:
“Happy Monday! Here is another one of those live shows where the soundboard mix was simulcast on KALX. I knew KALX did these from Gilman – I actually taped a Naked Raygun show off KALX while watching the show inside the club! I did not know (until receiving this box of tapes) that they branched out to other venues.
Here is Zuzu’s Petals from Minneapolis, playing at Bottom of the Hill. The band was Coleen Elwood, Laurie Lindeen, and Linda Pitmon. They had a couple of LP’s on Twin/Tone in the early 1990s. Linda went on to play with Golden Smog, Steve Wynn, The Baseball Project, Filthy Friends and many more.
Pretty cool to find this one in the box – thanks Rick!”
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This is definitely an audience recording recorded on an unidentified recording deck.
This fileset is a 24 Bit Depth / 44.1kHz Sample Frequency analog > digital transfer from an original master cassette; some post-transfer processing has been applied to this fileset.
Recorded by: Rick Arroyo
Transferred by: Shayne Stacy [sacramentomusicarchive.com]
Tracked / minor processing / tagged by: J.Free / Sonic Archives [sonicarchives.com]
Lineage:
2-channel stereo cassette > Nakamichi Dragon > M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 card > wav > PC > CD Wave Editor [Version 1.98; Windows Build Number: 0000.23F0] (sector boundary tracking) > Sound Forge Pro 11.0 [Build 299] (minor adjustments to pitch and stereo image): > Trader’s Little Helper [Version 2.7.0; Build 172] (Level 8 .wav > .flac conversion, .ffp) > flacs
Source:
unidentified recording deck and unidentified mic > master cassette
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Photo Credit: The Zender Agenda
from
Uptown Almanac
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Download or stream the show from Live Music Archive:
https://archive.org/details/zp1994-11-09.aud.flac2444
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