Excellent sound. Thanks to the original uploder on Dime.
Original Info Files:
The Members
Recording chain:
Stage mics > splitter (split to house snake/SBD and TH snake) > TH dedicated snake >
Peavy MkII 12 channel mixing board (10 channels snake, 2 channels audience mics) >
AKAI GXC-570D Cassette Deck (Dolby B on) > BBE 482 Sonic Maximizer > TDK SA-90 tape
Archival Process:
1999: AKAI-GXC-570D Cassette > TDK SA-90 tapes playback (NO Dolby) > BBE 482 Sonic Maximizer (to clean up tapes) >
Tascam DA-30 DAT > HHb DAT-125 DAT tape
2002: HHb CDR-850 Professional CD Recorder (In real time) > HHb CDR74 Gold 100 year archival grade CDRs
2005: Transfered to HDD in AIFF file format
Dime release processing: AIFF Master Files > FFMPEG > 16 bit FLAC 8 > tagging, cover artwork, checksums.
Recorded, preserved, and master AIFF files provided by: Terry Hammer
Setlist:
01. Electricity
02. Muzak Machine
03. Flyin' Again
04. Offshore Banking Business
05. Stand Up And Spit
06. Romance
07. Gang War
08. Don't Push
09. Police Car
10. Sound Of The Suburbs
11. Soho A-Go-Go
12. Solitary Confinement
13. Chelsea Night Club
14. GLC
Length: 55:03
Band:
Nicky Tesco (Nick Lightowlers) - vocals
JC Carroll - guitar, vocals
Nigel Bennett - guitar
Chris Payne - bass
Adrian Lillywhite - drums
Notes:
* The Members were a first generation punk band from the UK.
* A little Ska, a little Reggae, a little Punk, all mixed up, and out come... the Members.
* Band website: http://www.themembers.co.uk/
* About band: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Members
* One of my favorite bands of that time, really clever, creative, and wrote good songs. Hard to wait for this release, but here it is!!
* This show, which featured Magazine (THTP 1) along with Pere Ubu, The Members, and Stiv Bator's Dead Boys (THTP 15), was actually a Bill Graham show, it was called URGH #1, after that he took the show to L.A. and actually they made a movie called URGH! A Music War, they recorded in L.A. and the U.K. This show was the first. Too bad they didn't record video footage in SF.
* GLC was the Greater London Counsel, a subject of frequent conflict in those days, particularly in punk and reggae circles.
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Dead Boys
Setlist:
01. Sonic Reducer
02. Dead Boy
03. Caught With The Meat In Your Mouth
04. Third Generation Nation
05. It's Cold Outside
06. Circumstantial Evidence
07. Tell Me
08. I Won't Look Back
09. Nothing To Do
10. I Need Lunch
11. Son Of Sam
Length: 34:47
Band:
Stiv Bators (Steve Bator) - vocals
Cheetah Chrome (Gene O'Connor) - lead guitar
Jeff Magnum (Jeff Halmagy) - bass
Johnny Blitz (John Madansky) - drums
[not sure if there was a rhythm guitar player replacing Jimmy Zero (William Wilden)]
Notes:
* Hey, it's the Dead Boys. It's an awesome recording. What are you waiting for?!!
* "Where's Zero? Zero is in a mental hospital"
* About band: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Boys [note: wikipedia says the Dead Boys were not active in 1980 but here they are!!]
* There's a bit of channel balancing happening in opening seconds of Sonic Reducer, but it comes in quick. Terry is fast, mixing live like this is really difficult.
* At start of track 8, Stiv does a brief Johnny Rotten 'RRrrright now' impersonation (from Anarchy in the UK)
* Event flyer and band images included.
* This show, which featured Magazine along with Pere Ubu, The Members, and Stiv Bator's Dead Boys, was actually a Bill Graham show, it was called URGH #1, after that he took the show to L.A. and actually they made a movie called URGH! A Music War, they recorded in L.A. and the U.K. This show was the first. Too bad they didn't record video footage in SF.
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Magazine
Setlist:
01. Intro Music The Book
02. Feed The Enemy
03. Stuck
04. Permafrost
05. The Light Pours Out Of Me
06. Because You're Frightened
07. Parade
08. Thank You Fellettin' Me Be Mice Elf
09. Shot By Both Sides
10. I Want To Burn Again
11. A Song From Under The Floorboards
12. Model Worker
13. 20 Years Ago
Length: 1:05:13
Magazine in 1980 was:
Howard Devoto - lead vocals
John McGeoch - guitar (not sure which played this show)
Robin Simon - guitar (not sure which played this show)
Barry Adamson - bass guitar
Dave Formula - keyboards
John Doyle - drums
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No distribution in lossy formats!!
No selling!!
No bootlegging!!
No remastering!!
Yes sharing. Definitely share.
Support the artists when or if they play, and buy their records/merchandise.
Please correct any errors or oversights in this information in the comments section so the information can be as accurate as possible.
If you can find related materials like flyers, posters, ticket stubs, even photos, etc, please add them in a comment and I will add them to the main release folder, so that can be included on the next re-seeding. Every bit is welcome, and as I am time constrained on this project due to the amount of material, I cannot spend as much time on each release doing research as I would like, so if we can add to and improve the information and release contents during this series, that would be great.
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About Terry Hammer and the THTP:
Someone put my feelings very well about these recordings in the following quote. I can't really improve on their words beyond noting that these recordings sound absolutely and utterly stunning, and I consider myself incredibly lucky to be able to present these to you here in their original, first generation, lossless hi-fidelity versions, for the first time ever.
"[These recordings were] recorded and preserved by collector/engineer Terry Hammer, for broadcast over the UC Berkeley station KALX and several others from the 1979 -1981 period. Anyone who spent a night at one of these clubs knows how chaotic the atmosphere was. That he was able to, not only get a decent feed from the sound mixing board, but was also able to get clean recordings was something of a miracle. And the fact this guy did it over and over again is pure dedication to the cause of preserving history for decades to come. Fortunately for everyone, he’s been making these gems of history available and their value as historic documents is inestimable. This is really exciting stuff and I am grateful for Terry’s foresight and deft skill."
src: https://pastdaily.com/2014/06/25/gang-four-live-american-indian-center-san-francisco-1980-nights-roundtable-concert-edition/
If you've ever been looking for an excuse to upgrade your sound system, these recordings certainly should provide you with some motivation, because they have incredible sound. And if you already have a quality sound system, you are in for a treat!! The audio goes straight to 20k hz, no losses I can detect. Due to the reality of tapes, even high end as used here, the low end starts at 47 hz.
And if you want to learn more about this incredible musical era, listen to the stuff you haven't heard, there are amazing gems in there.
Do we call these soundboards? Technically not precisely because this is not the house mix, these shows were mixed using a dedicated mixing board, with an additional 1 to 2 audience mics (1 for Mab because he needed 11 snake inputs), 2 at other clubs) in the mix. But I call it the Terry Hammer Tape Project (THTP) to make sure there is no doubt about the project's creator.
TECH:
Note that Terry made 2 master recordings (recording at the same time) when he mixed these shows live:
1: Reel to reel, for the radio stations:
Technics RS-1500 Reel To Reel (mostly TDK Audua L-1800 & LB-1800 tape with back coating or Scotch 206 / 207 with back coating. Maybe a few Maxell UD-XL). All the KALX shows went to KALX, they supplied the reel to reel tape.
2: For his own use, and as backup in case something happened to the reels:
AKAI GXC-570D Cassette Deck > TDK SA-90 tape > BBE 482 Sonic Maximizer > (transfered to) Tascam DA-30 DAT > HHb CDR-850
Terry isn't sure, but thinks the audience mics he used maybe were electro Voice EV-DS35's.
Info: http://www.bbesound.com/products/sonic-maximizers/482i.aspx
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