1986-01-10 | The Radiators

View NotesBand:
Ed Volker - Keyboards, Vocals
Dave Malone - Guitar, Vocals
Camile Baudoin - Guitar, Vocals
Reggie Scanlan - Bass
Frank Bua - Drums
Glenn Sears - Percussion, Vocals

Notes:
-  found this as a filler on one of TB's tapes (all there was)
-  left channel had no signal, mixed to mono
-  "Movie Music" cuts off
-  "Slow Down" cuts in
-  the date might be wrong: Dave greets the audience after "Down The Road..." by saying "...we'll be here again tomorrow night...". etree lists 3 shows from Lee's Tomb 1986: Jan 9, 10; 11 (no show on the 12th or later). This might be either from the 9th or the 10th.
-  thanks always to TB for the tapes  

vg NOTES (2026-01-29):  
--regarding the date, I'm going with 1986-01-10 for the following investigated reasonings:  
--------etree lists the 1986-01-09 show as an 'FM broadcast' & these files almost assuredly are sbd sourced & do not contain the compression that you would find on an fm broadcast...now, I realize that it easily could have been recorded from the sbd prior to the broadcast (pre-fm), but when combined with the other reasons below, I still say that 1986-01-10 makes the most logical sense
--------before "Driller Killer", they say, "uh, we were kinda, we were here earlier today...& we made up this psychotic instrumental thing..." - that totally screams very strong evidence of a band in the middle of a residency coming in during the afternoon & just having fun at a rehearsal working something new out & not a band arriving on the first day of the run where they would be getting there & checking & then doing the show & not all settled in enough to be fully relaxed & coming up with new material (i.e.the 2nd day of the run was more a rehearsal than a soundcheck as all the sound issues were dialed in from the 1st night of the run)...also, saying we were here earlier just sounds like someone casually already being there for a day & not something where they would say 'we got here/arrived earlier today' & so forth (like one would if it was their 1st night, etc.)
--------after "Down The Road I Go", they say, "Good night everybody, we'll be back here again tomorrow night...for the rest!!  Thank you very much!!" - this again points to the fact that the next night they will be finishing up the 3-night run ('for the rest')...if it was the 1st night, they would more than likely say something along the lines of '...we'll be back here the next 2 nights, come on back' or the like, ya feel me??  
--------setlist.fm has a listing for the Radiators playing on 1986-01-12 at Ruby's Rendevous, Mandeville, LA with a full setlist listed for it...ya can't always trust setlist.fm on everything as they are not always 1000% accurate, but I'd say that's probably correct in this case when measured with all the other evidence at etree & so on
--if anyone out there knows the date for sure & can prove otherwise on any of this, please chime in & let us all know

Taper: Unknown

2:37:35

Rating:

rads1986-01-10.rads1986-01-10.flac16

Source:

Soundboard > Cassette > Cassette > Nakamichi CR1 A > Sound Devices 722 Digital Recorder (24/48)

Lineage:

Hard Drive Transer > Sound Forge 9.0 (normalize) then (noise reduction) then (Bit conversion 24/16 (Highpass Triangular & High pass contour) > Resample (48/44.1) (anti-alias filtering) > cd wave editor (tracking) > CD

Taper Notes:

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