Live Recordings
Monday, May 25th, 2009
Ah, my first death metal band (as well as my first time recording in a studio). Funny because I knew who the guys in this band were and vice versa because we had some of the same friends (and went to the same high school), yet it wasn’t until a year after high school until we actually met for the first time. We recorded this at the infamous Sheffield Studios while I was home from school that summer. Coincidentally, Nick (co-creator of this site) was there and filmed the whole recording of this demo at the studio. We put on all this black metal corpse paint for our band pictures although we weren’t even close to being a black metal band. That was the fun of the band though: evil death metal band full of goofy dorks from Indiana who wore corpse paint even though they weren’t a black metal band. Demo didn’t go very far, although I think we did get a review in Terrorizer and one or two small ‘zines overseas I think. We made another demo the year after but changed the band name to Morthona for that one. Two of the guys in this band (as well as Nick) ended up standing up in my wedding 11 years later!
Submitted by:
Chris Janus
Tags: Chris Janus, Indiana, Morthona, Snuffleupagus
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
SIDE A:
The first side is the home-recorded demo we made as Morthona a year after we recorded the Snuffleupagus River Thy Eyes demo. We recorded it at Bryan Booher’s (bass) house one weekend. Big Steve (guitar/vocals) was out of town camping or something with his whoa-man at the time, so all the guitars and vocals are Neil. We recorded it on an electronic drum kit (Roland TD-5) I had back then – this was way before Roland V-Drums came along, so there were no dynamics to any of the drum sounds so everything came out full volume even if you just barely tapped one of the pads. The sensitivity wasn’t very good either, so sometimes there might be an extra hit that was triggered by something else, or maybe a hit might not get triggered ’cause of interference with another hit… so there are plenty of random and missing hits throughout the songs (AWESOME!) Just for the record: electronic drums suck for recording death metal. By the end of that summer, we had gone back to Sheffield Studios to record the full Morthona demo which included these three songs. Steve was there for that one!
SIDE B:
The next summer, I stayed in Boston so Snuff/Morthona was pretty much done. One of my friends at Berklee, Joe, was taking classes over the summer and he asked if I’d play for his recital… which I gladly did. I think our friend, Eric MacPherson, played bass if i remember it correctly. Crappy recording – maybe one or two room mics. Two or three prog-rock songs… Vinnie Moore song (the loner) maybe? Joe went on to get his master’s in business I think and has worked for a pretty big record label in Florida for a number of years now.
Submitted by:
Chris Janus
Tags: Berklee, Bryan Booher, casette, Chris Janus, demo, Eric MacPherson, Neil, Roland TD-5, Sheffield Studios, Snuff, Snuffleupagus, Steve, tape, Vinnie Moore
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
An incredible mix tape dated 2/8/87 from an old college friend from Allentown PA, thanks Paulie K., your gift to me has survived the test of time, and travel. I have listened to this tape up and down the east coat, and coast to coast. One of my oldest non self made mix tapes.
Side 1
Trampoline – Julian Cope
Angels Don’t Cry – Psychedelic Furs
It Doesn’t Have To Be That Way – The Blow Monkeys
It Didn’t Matter – The Style Council
Man With A Gun – Jerry Harrison
In A Lovely Place – The Smithereens
Greetings To A New Brunette – Billy Bragg
The Answer Is Clear – Peter Murphy
This Wheel’s On Fire – Siouxsie And The Banshees
Side 2
Angels Of Deception – The The
V Thirteen – B.A.D.
Shoplifters Of The World Unite – The Smiths
That’s What I Call Love – Crowded House
Ever Fallen In Love – Fine Young Cannibals
Earn Enough For Us – XTC
Bludgeoned – Shreikback
Buoy – Mick Karin
Not My Slave – Oingo Boingo
Seven Year Scratch – Madness
This tape is playable.
Submitted by:
Peter J. Daley
Tags: 1987, B.A.D., Billy Bragg, Crowded House, Fine Young Cannibals, Jerry Harrison, Julian Cope, Madness, Mick Karin, mix, mix tape, Oingo Boingo, Paulie K., Pete Daley, Peter Murphy, Psychedelic Furs, Shreikback, Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Blow Monkeys, The Smithereens, The Smiths, The Style Council, The The, Xtc
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
As you can see from the various tapes I have posted on this site, my labeling of individual tapes was pretty atrocious. I used to know exactly what was on each tape just by these simple labels. Some of these are now a mystery, but a quick run through the Walkman clears things up. This tape has an R.E.M album on one side and a dub of U2’s fan club-only release called Melon, which was later released commercially over a year later. Melon was an electronic remix album of songs from Zooropa and Achtung Baby. I got the dub from Pat DiMichelle when he got the envelope from the U2 club office. I have to say, Achtung Baby and the Zooropa interlude was what we thought of as good U2. Most U2 fans complained, as the story goes, and electronic U2 faded away after the release of the Passengers album.
Submitted by:
Nick De Pirro
Tags: cassette, DiMichelle, dub, fan club, Maxell, Melon, Nick De Pirro, Pat, tape, u2
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
This is my dub of the original Naïve album with the orange cover art, not to be confused with the later remix album Naïve Hell to Go with the green cover art. I was never quite sure what that was all about, but it gave us long time fans something to mark our history as fans of the band once they briefly became popular nationally, and especially in the Chicago area because it is where Wax Trax was. Everybody got the Drug Against War single once the video hit MTV. Some people bought some other albums, but ha! They all got the green cover graphics.
This is another dub from Randy. The other side is a dub of What Do You Know, Deutschland? We saw KMFDM play numerous times. I will never forget the first KMFDM show that I saw at Metro in Chicago that was part of the Money tour. As far as I know, they really had only done the Ministry tour before that, but I could be wrong. I had been to a few big concerts before that show, but maybe not too much in a little hall like Metro. It was simple and amazing.
I should have been more careful with this tape. It appears to have a chunk missing from the upper right.
Submitted by
Nick De Pirro
Tags: Cabaret Metro, cassette, Deutschland?, dub, KMFDM, Maxell, Naive, Nick De Pirro, Randy, Wax Trax, What Do You Know, XL II 100
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
I have no back story for Uncle Jim. I can’t remember who gave me the tape, or anything about it. I found it yesterday when I was going through my tape box, and thought you might find it interesting.
Submitted by:
Peter J. Daley
Tags: Jim, mix, mix tape, Peter J. Daley, tape, Uncle
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
A tape of beats from ‘97.
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Substandard
Tags: beats, cassette, CD IT, SONY, Substandard
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
[audio:mix.mp3]
This is one of the mix tapes that I probably made for myself, but I am not sure. The cursory and careless treatment of the label just about guarantees it. I would estimate that this is from as far back as 1991 or 1992. It had to be pretty close to the Ten release date. All the other songs are 1990 or earlier. I generally split alt rock from industrial when I made tapes. I am not exactly sure why, but they seemed pretty incompatible. The tape is just labeled with the word mix. It is pretty standard stuff that I liked and still like for the most part. The best thing on this tape is a live track from R.E.M that I recorded from WXRT. It is a pretty rough recording. Radio recordings are pretty cool. A definite thing of the past. I have not listened to anything from Ten for years, but I think I will revisit it after hearing Once on this mix tape when digitizing it. Maybe this tape was just a way to get some variety while mowing the lawn. I have no idea.
Side B is Revolting Cocks Beers Steers and Queers that I dubbed from Randy. That album also has a 1990 release date so it all makes sense, I guess.
Submitted by:
Nick De Pirro
Tags: cassette, Maxell, mix, Nick, Nick De Pirro, Once, Pearl Jam, Rev Co, tape, Ten, WXRT, XL II 90
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
A fine product of Sheffield studios in Northwest Indiana. These guys were one of my ultimate idol bands in high school. I was/am still friends with the bass player, Art Hernandez, who I met while working as a line cook at Al’s Diner in Merrillville, IN (which was actually quite the musician hole somehow.) He actually signed the tape for me then.
Art once sent me to an audition with his friends’ band who was looking for a drummer – I didn’t even get to any playing with them cause I was so out of my league and embarrassed (I was like 16! I ran home.) Although the lineup had changed since that audition, these guys ended up turning into Gravelbone a year or so later, and Art was now playing bass for them. I went to their practices over in Calumet City next to Redline Raceway, Mike Sheffield’s house and later studio in Gary, whichever shows I could get into, and I also remember being a roadie for a big show they played in Racine, Wisconsin. I saw Mike Sheffield a number of times because my bands/friends all recorded at his studio.
Eventually, they recorded a full length CD consisting of a few new songs and redone versions of all the demos they put out; I picked it up on eBay several years ago and was severely disappointed – the demos were way better. I caught a show once while in Indiana over Christmas. They had a few new members, they were all crazy skinny, and they played everything several notches slower than I was used to. Years later, they slightly regrouped while nu-metal bands were all the rage and added a rapper for dueling vocalists. They put out a CD and played a few good shows from what I understand, but nothing came out of it and eventually they split up.
RIP Gravelbone.
Submitted by:
Chris Janus
Tags: Add new tag, Al's Diner, cassette, demo, Gary, Gravel Bone, Metal, Northwest Indiana, nu-metal, rap, rap metal, rapper, Sheffield Studios, tape
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
A recording of Substandard tracks.
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Substandard
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
This is the master tape of the Iconoclast recording session which resulted in the Incorporated 7″. Recorded at Trax East by Eric Rachel, it was the last release our band ever put out. What is cool about this tape? It marks the last time five intensely close friends came together to make a recording. It documents the end of an incredible chapter in my life.
Submitted by:
Ian Williams
Tags: Eric Rachel, Ian Williams, Iconoclast, Incorporated, master, Maxell, punk, session, tape, Trax East, XL II 90
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Why would anyone want to record the inside of their car while they drove? I did, circa 1996! It was meant for sound effects. On the flip side of the tape is me walking around the old Strack and VanTil supermarket with the tape recorder in my pocket, catching candid conversations and ambient noises.
This tape is still playable.
Submitted by: Substandard
Tags: 1996, ambient, car, pocket, recording, sound effects, Strack and VanTil, Substandard, walking
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Live recording of my friend Dave (where is he now?) mixing tech step jungle tracks on vinyl at the CJ Substandard/CJ Jason Trauer/Replicant/DJ Penny garage show in the summer of 1999. During his mix, the cops showed up lights blazing and told us to turn it down. Great mix. I have long since preserved the tracks via mp3.
Submitted by: Substandard
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