TORRENT TITLE

Snakefinger - 1985-xx-xx Outtakes 1986-07-26-27 Basic Tracks

ARTIST NAME

Snakefinger

BOOTLEG TITLE

N/A

VENUE, CITY, COUNTRY, DATE

Outtakes 1985-xx-xx
(Recorded At Hyde Street Studios, San Francisco)
Basic Tracks 1986-07-26/27
(Recorded At Different Fur Studio, San Francisco)

TRACK LISTING

DISC 1 (35:44)

OUTTAKES
01 I Gave Myself To You.....................(4:47)
02 This Is Not A Disco Song.................(3:45)
BASIC TRACKS
03 The Golden King..........................(8:11)
04 There's No Justice In Life...............(3:27)
05 8 1/4....................................(4:22)
06 Move.....................................(2:20)
07 Bad Day In Bombay Pts. 1 And 2...........(5:56)
08 Bless Me For I Have Sinned...............(2:50)

LINE UP

Snakefinger - guitar, sing
Miguel Bertel - guitar, sing
Eric Drew Feldman - keyboards, synthesizers
Ben Guy - bass, sing
John "BongHit" Ryan - drums
Baby Meinhof - sound
(John Seabury - bass on Disco Song)
(Snakefinger - bass on Gave)



SOURCE / LINEAGE

Stereo STUDIO trade tape (low gen)

Trade tape > Computer WAV > Cool Edit Pro 2000 > CDR > EAC v0.99 > TLH v2.4.1 > FLAC 8 > DIME > you
Big thanks to Miguel Bertel, who let this soundboard out of his collection, and to the trader (paperhead) who hooked me up with a copy.
I originally mastered this in 2001 but no longer have the original WAVs.

This source came from the 2001 final mastered CDR, extracted via EAC / reports included.
Original computer work is elaborated on below in the notes.
This FLAC fileset comes from the EAC extracts, which did not need SBE corrections.

NOTES

So the trader befriended Miguel Bertel & he dug up a few goodies and traded them to him, this among them.
In theory MB's copy was ? 1st gen from the source / the trader's was 2nd gen / this is 3rd gen, or thereabouts.

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Normally I don't like noise reduction, or at least not my attempts to perform it on material.
You try that on live shows & you end up with "the swirlies" - yeah the hiss is gone, but man that's irritating.
You look at every other thing I've upped, and see I only touch the content to the point of editing or track marks.

In this case, given the lineage (low gens) and content (studio tape, not live), I tried it & it turned out excellent.
With a sample of "the hiss" & with hiss limited to start with due to low gens, one could do this & possibly have acceptable success.
Forgive me for not writing down the exact settings, but looking at Cool Edit now I can tell basically what was done:
* "get" of a profile of the very hiss on this tape (selecting a non-music part before/after/during), and save it to an FFT file
* use that FFT against the whole of the song with CEP's Noise Reduction feature, to subtract out that hiss
* listen & see if it really had the desired effect
This was done 1 song at a time, using "hiss source" immediately before or after that song & that FFT on that one song.

The results were superb - the music pieces are crisp and clear without that hiss, and the gaps are near-silent, no swirlies crap.
I remember even leaving a sample of the results - the lead-in to Justice, I left the hiss in for a few seconds but applied the moment the music starts.
The result is near-nothing in those silence gaps where all there coulda been was hiss.

Beyond that little hiss-leftover sample, the rest of the tape was left as-is, with 5-10sec pauses between the songs not removed.
At the end, I just put track marks in those pauses, tho closer to the song's start.

A sample for both Gave and Justice are included, the latter with that leading hiss-leftover.

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(Outtakes 1985-xx-xx)

The first two "outtakes" tracks are alternate versions of songs on his 1985 single "I Gave Myself To You" and "This Is Not A Disco Song".
Both tracks are flawed in that there's a tape munch within them.

* some differences that caught my ear, could be more
I Gave Myself To You - a different vocal take by Snakefinger, different background keyboard swooshes
(the tape munch is 3:23 into this file)
This Is Not A Disco Song - different background keyboard "laser sounds"
(the tape munch is 2:18 into this file)

(Basic Tracks 1986-07-26/27)

The remaining six are "basic tracks" for material that later ended up on the "Night Of Desirable Objects" LP.
One track has two source tape flaws.
All are instrumentals at this point, and all vary from the content on the LP in some way.

* some differences that caught my ear, could be more
The Golden King - no vocals, different intro with extra low-key segment, guitar solos not present, different ending
There's No Justice In Life - no vocals, keyboard fill-in's not present, guitar solos not present
8 1/4 - guitar solo in middle not present, guitar flourish near end not present
(there's a small tape flaw 0:06 into this file, & another at 3:19)
Move - middle keyboard solo not present, Snakey's solo near end is different
Bad Day In Bombay Pts. 1 And 2 - Pt. 1, no vocals, wobbly keyboard part not present, middle keyboard squeaks not present; Pt. 2, no piano solos or main guitar solo
Bless Me For I Have Sinned - no vocals, no ?cowbell clank just before the main refrains, no guitar solo, different ending

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Too bad there's those flaws, but if that's what it takes to hear these, oh well. Sweet stuff all!

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Crank it up and ENJOY! it as I have, and share it so others can hear it.

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Filenames have numbers on the end that are the TIMES (ex. - "...-359" is 3min59sec long).
One filename has "SL" in the name, as a slash isn't allowed in names.

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The usual schmack applies here:

Please don't post this anywhere but DIME.
Please retain this original info file data with any reseedings.
Please don't transfer to MP3 or other lossy formats.
Please only trade this with others, don't sell it.
Please support the artists involved by purchasing their official product in massive quantities.