The Residents and Snakefinger
10th October 1986
Frankfurt, Germany

(VENUE)
Batschkapp

Linage: Tradetapes (maybe 1. gen) (TDK TYPE-II) > JVC UX-T4R (tapeplayer, volume setting on 25) > Mini-Jack Cabel (headphone plug) > ZOOM H2 (16/44 wav, recording volume 90) > Audacity (fade in/out, track seperation, conversation to flac) > SoundKonverter (to add seekpoint, my audacity creates files without) > Amarok 1.4 (tags) > Dime

The Residents 13th Anniversary Tour Live in Frankfurt 10th October 1986
Tracks:
1. Intro
2. Lizard lady
3. Semolina
4. Hello Skinny
5. Constantinople
6. Jailhouse Rock
7. Where is She?
8. Picnic in the Jungle
9. Smelly Tongues
10. Eloise
11. Ship's A'Going Down
12. New Machine
13. Tourniquet of Roses
*cut* (assuming that this set is like most others, missing here is: I Got Rhythm + Passing the Bottle)
14. Monkey and Bunny
15. Theme for an American TV Show
16. Its a Man's Man's Man's World
*Intermission* *cut*
17. *Audience*
18. Walter Westinghouse
19. Easter Woman
20. Amber
21. Red Rider
22. Die in Terror/Coming of the Crow
23. Eva's Warning/Coming of the Crow [reprise]
*cut*
24. Cry for the Fire
25. Big Bubble
26. Hop a Little
27. Cry for the Fire [reprise]
28. Kula Bocca Says So
29. Kaw-Liga
30. Diskomo
31. *Audience* *cut*
32. Kamikazi Lady


Notes:
This is the first time i ever had any real tradetape in my hands, and so i was very curious. They was mailed to me from a guy who later told me he got these tapes from the original taper, and so this is a first generation copy, i think. But at the time i got these, I did not knew. I just one day got these 2 letters, each containing 4 cassette-tapes.
It was with much anticipation i turned on the equipment to listen to this. I knew the material from the tour rather well, one could claim, because i heard around 10 shows from same tour. But this still stroke me as something special. The sound that came out was just very good I thought! I was truly amazed that this show, that happened 23 years ago, and had travelled, from tape to tape, through I do not know how many tapedecks to get to my ears, still sounded very pleasant. As you can see from the linage its not like i have any fancy equipment, but never the less, well instead of my just praising this, take a listen to the sample, and make your own judgement!

If you are in doubt if you heard this show, you might have noticed that there is a guy shouting for Boots!
Seems like the taper is moving the equipment during Jailhouse Rock, since the sound changes... Maybe its something else, and i think it does not spoil to much.
During Eva's Warning the taper messes with the recording volume, its rather short, and i choose to leave it as is, because i have no training removing these kinds of fluctuations in the audio levels, and i do not find it to annoying anyway. But if anyone have training and feel like playing around with it, please do a remaster, and upload!


Thanks to Michael for lending me his tapes.
Thanks to the original taper, Jurgen (Michael say something like "i got the tapes from the guy who made the recording, he was called Jurgen or something, that's all i know"

And thanks to The Residents, and everyone who played with them!
Thanks to the cryptics, but please realise that downloaders do not buy less music, and please everyone who gets this, prove my point and buy plenty of goods at www.ralphamerica.com, if you haven't got all, or most, of it already!

Transfered, edited and uploaded by hamp_