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Transferrer: Richard Russell
1:28:41
SBD
Rating:
10.00 / 1 rating
Transferrer:
Richard Russell
SHNID:
subdudes1987-11-29.sbd
Source:
soundboard > ? > Tommy Malone's Sony UX90 (hi-bias) cassette (Dolby use not indicated) (Not clear if this was the master cassette or Malone's dub from the master. There is virtually no hiss.)
Lineage:
Transfer to flac (March 2007): cassette > Nakamichi CR-7A (head azimuth adjusted for optimal playback; heads cleaned and demagnetized; no Dolby on playback) > Harmon Kardon HK3480 > analog > Audiomedia III soundcard > Macintosh G3 > Bias Peak 2.62 > firewire hard drive > Macintosh Powerbook G4/1000 > Bias Peak 4.14 (normalized by 3.2 db; split into songs at sector boundaries) > X Audio Compression Toolkit 1.59 > flac
Taper Notes:
View NotesNo eq or noise reduction. This recording ran too slow. The pitch was increased by 75 cents (making the overall recording about 4 minutes shorter). Tommy Malone said the correction seemed appropriate: "Yeah the pitch-corrected one sounds right to me. I was much younger of course and my voice a little higher." Note: This is one of the band's first performances in Fort Collins, where the band members moved en masse (from New Orleans) in October 1987. Malone believes this recording likely to be the band's first performance at the Sports Page, where the band held a yearlong (or more) residency on Sunday nights. The performances at the Sports Page in Fort Collins and a similar residency at Herman's Hideaway in Denver helped the band build up a significant and lasting following in the Denver-Boulder-Fort Collins area. Even though this show was recorded several years before their first LP/CD was released, the set list is almost entirely originals - unlike just a few months earlier. Many of the songs wound up on later on official albums, but many did not, such as Can't Find Me, Hold It, Everybody, Black-Haired Girl, Rewarded and possibly others. Another interesting aspect of the show is that, again unlike a few months earlier when the four members of the subdudes almost equally share lead vocal duties, the lead vocals are dominated by Tommy Malone and John Magnie, as is the case today. Steve Amedee, who nowadays never sings lead, handles lead on a few songs on this recording, but they are all covers. Within a year or so, they would all disappear from the setlist. Five songs from this recording were included on the band's March 2007 podcast (She's Alone; Someday, Somehow; Hold It; Oh Girl; and Signed, Sealed, Delivered - the last one, however, was faded down as part of the background), but haven't been released commercially. Those versions were not properly pitch-corrected, however.