Blue Oyster Cult - Deerfield, IL 13.04.1996 (Uncirc.) flac

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Blue Oyster Cult
Shades Nightclub
Deerfield, IL USA
1996/04/13 early show
UNCIRCULATED MASTER recording
vg+ to ex- aud
COMPLETE show

The Rockin' Fender Skirts opened for
Blue Oyster Cult. They were sort of
a 50s-style band from Chicago and were
NOT recorded.

Setlist & Fingerprints:

Track 01 - Introduction.flac:6bc8d7709e53e9ced09f7e9e1a88444c
Track 02 - Stairway To The Stars.flac:bcc551764adadf434818b686613574c6
Track 03 - Dr. Music.flac:081a761fb7d3ca5e29c2454b1b130bb9
Track 04 - Extraterrestrial Intelligence.flac:56c3a4faa98ef2fe920ab70a887d5ef1
Track 05 - Harvest Moon.flac:83adc2464ae0789ad6f693718d470ca7
Track 06 - Before The Kiss, A Redcap.flac:ea7dab371548c603052ba8fd5e9df933
Track 07 - Buck's Boogie.flac:1573af707874f53fac30c73caef1af4b
Track 08 - Teen Archer.flac:84538dffdee04e8497c546a3ae7450bd
Track 09 - Cities On Flame (With Rock And Roll).flac:760c21cbc8061b6549891d303296e41d
Track 10 - Then Came The Last Days Of May.flac:35a06ca3fb6093b59e2694340a6b38db
Track 11 - In Thee.flac:54c233a5c44f14592ba19020f253e88c
Track 12 - Burnin' For You.flac:dcebbcdb6899d42987c54360fd749fdd
Track 13 - Godzilla.flac:d8c0bc7a3fe4c0c1bc7702044536b694
Track 14 - (Don't Fear) The Reaper.flac:ff09fb1aeac0dd3d48971c5e2a348028
Track 15 - This Ain't The Summer Of Love.flac:4e29b5dadf185e9e065ecb21633c167a
Track 16 - The Red And The Black.flac:f2334e012042cbe275b5d0cbdc3c5e77


CD 1: 9 tracks, 45:11
CD 2: 7 tracks, 45:21

This is the COMPLETE concert except for a tape flip.
I don't believe that any music was lost. TT: 90:32.
I'm grading this (as always, "IMHO") as a vg+ to ex-
tape, 8.5-9/10; see reasons below...

This is the RAW MASTER RECORDING. NO EQing or anything else
has been done to alter the sound.

Lineage:

Stereo tie mic > Aiwa stereo tape recorder, model forgotten >
Fuji DR-I 90 normal bias master tape >
SONY WM-D6C Professional stereo cassette-corder >
ZOOM H2 Handy Recorder >
SanDisk SD 2 GB sound card (tracked wav files here) >
transferred wav files to HD >
Cakewalk Pyro 2005 (edited wav files here) >
Trader's Little Helper (encoded wav to flac, level 8,
aligned on sector boundaries)

I arrived at the venue fairly early on Saturday, April 13,
1996. Shades was a nightclub out in the middle of nowhere.
I got the last parking spot in the lot and a tree branch
was pushing into my windshield after I parked. I bought my
ticket at the door for $10 and entered the club where the
people were packed in like sardines. I was lucky to find a
standing space near the bathroom fairly close to the
bathroom door. There was barely room to breathe, let alone
move. When the intro music started, I sadly discovered that
there were three types of people in the audience: people who
never stopped talking to each other, people who yelled and
screamed very loudly and people like me who were dedicated,
well-mannered music fans there to hear an excellent band. I
was VASTLY outnumbered. There were maybe 25 fans like me in
attendance ; the rest were loudmouth asshole screamers and
yellers and non-stop talkers. Attendance was no more than 200
people, if that ; Shades was a small club. I've been stealth-
taping for over 20 years now and have been to well over 1000
concerts. This show's audience is one of the 5 WORST audiences
that I've ever had the misfortune to witness. A bunch of people
must've escaped from the Chicago Institute for the Deaf that night
and arrived at Shades as several assclowns (male and female) kept
screaming all night at the band to "turn it up" !! I had earplugs
in and it sounded plenty loud to me. As I said, there was absolutely
NO way to get away from these fuckheads because of the packed
house so I had to suffer. One asshole repeatedly screamed very
close to my microphone so I had to edit him out several times.
One idiot kept talking to a guy named Carl. Another older asshole
kept talking to his friend about nothing. You'll hear all of these
motherfuckers in their glory when you listen to this tape. I
listened to this on headphones once all the way through when I
recorded the show onto my ZOOM H2 and came to the conclusion that
I would have to edit out as much screaming as possible to make this
show a pleasant document to hear. That's exactly what I did and it
took me ~ 3 hours. I had to leave a bit of the bullshit in because
some music was audible during some screaming but I cut out a lot of
crap that totally drowned out the music. When someone screamed, it
activated the squelch circuitry in my deck and the recording level
dropped for just a second and then returned to the factory-set
level. You'll hear several parts where the music gets quiet for just
a moment ; you'll know then that the scream was just before that
volume drop. I got lucky because every edit is seamless. The show
is now enjoyable and I think that you'll all like it. The sad thing
is that if the audience had been quiet, this recording would've been
a straight ex-. But assholes fuck everything up for everybody so that's
the way that life is. The rant is almost over...

Uncle Jojo likes to reward people who are kind to him by doing something
nice for them. He also likes to reward shitheads who fuck him over. Like
the assholes in this audience. I like to reward them with humiliation
and derision. That's why my final sound sample will consist of a complete
compilation of all of the audio shit that I excised from this recording.
You'll hear The Braying Bitch. You'll thrill to the sounds of the Turn-It-Up
Morons. You'll be awestruck at The Bleating Bastard. I don't know why these
fuckheads paid $10 to see this show because they sure weren't there for the
music !!! Well, enough ranting and raving. AFA the recording is concerned,
there is no: hiss, distortion or speed fluctuation. Eric Bloom's stage
banter is often difficult to decipher because of the constant talking in
the audience. The signal is pretty strong though, so you'll be able to
hear the music and vocals. That's about all that I have so let's get this
show on the golden road to spiritual enlightenment...

In conclusion, I read through this diatribe and it sounds like I'm saying
that this is a very bad-sounding concert. THAT IS NOT THE CASE !!! It's
actually quite good. It's just that there is a constant low-level drone
of talking mixed in with occasional loud shouts, comments and yelling.
The worst crap has been edited out. You'll hear all that noise in the
final sample. Listen to the 3 sound samples to get an accurate idea of
what this show really sounds like ; I think that you'll be impressed. But
you can be the judge. This audio document is COMPLETELY uncirculated and
I don't believe that any other tapers were there. I could be wrong but
I've never seen this show on any list and never saw it for sale at any
record shows. Hey, remember those ?? So grab it if you want it and if
not, just pass it by (to paraphrase the Grateful Dead).

If you're a BOC fan, you NEED this tape. A very high-energy show in
which everybody shines. I will post samples shortly for those of
you still undecided, but I think you'll find that this is a pretty
good-sounding tape even after all that I've said and a fine addition
to any Blue Oyster Cult fan's collection. Well, thanks for reading this
and Mr. Natural would like to add these few comments: have fun, don't
freak out and by all means, enjoy the concert!!!

If you were at this show and would like to share your memories, chime
in by all means !

jojogunne 1/16/11

Remember the motto: The King In Yellow and The Queen In Red.

http://www.rapidshare.com/files/4431702 ... .part1.rar
http://www.rapidshare.com/files/4431720 ... .part2.rar
http://www.rapidshare.com/files/4431740 ... .part3.rar
http://www.rapidshare.com/files/4431759 ... .part4.rar
http://www.rapidshare.com/files/4431779 ... .part5.rar
http://www.rapidshare.com/files/4431801 ... .part6.rar

enjoy it

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