Violent Femmes
November 16, 1984
Irving Plaza, NYC

A Tapegeek Master Recording/Hitwitstuff2 Upload!

Maxwell II-S 90 cassette, Aiwa CM30 Stereo Mic, Aiwa Recorder->LUXMAN K-111 HX Pro Stereo Cassette Deck->Audacity (Levels adjusted, tracks created, no EQ).
flacs created with Switch, MD5 file created with xACT.

HITWITSTUFF2 SAYS:

Its a long weird path that brings these recordings to DIME. It starts in 1997 when on a work assignment in Los Angeles I started talking with a co-worker named Scott and it turns out that he’s into lots of the music stuff I’m into and he’s a taper! Its almost the final days of this project and Scott appears one morning with a Paper Grocery bag filled with first gen copies from master recordings of Replacements, Husker Du, Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Meat Puppets, Butthole Surfers, Robin Hitchcock…..I got dizzy. I had only three or four days to get them all copied and that could only be done while on my ten hour turnaround between work; thats the time I should be sleeping. I went crazy dubbing with my dubber and cassette to DAT with my other set up (instead of sleeping). I didn’t get em all, but I got all that was very important to me. Fifteen years later, I uploaded one of these “Scott Paper Bag” shows to Dime and told this story. Turns out Scott is on Dime as “Sporkpie” and identified himself to me. I also met his friend who is also on Dime. He goes by Tapegeek. Those first gen copies that were in the bag were mostly copies of Tapegeek (and his friend and fellow DIME’r Peewee’s) master recordings. Tapegeek coincidently is in the same profession as myself. Small world, huh? Well, guess what. These are his recordings off of his master cassettes that we are now going to enjoy and share so lets reward Tapegeek for handing over his master, for trusting me and for his generosity. Lets get some great comments.

TAPEGEEK SAYS:

If you have ever heard this recording of this show before, it is because I used to trade cassettes with people all over the world, and so dubs of this master have made the rounds - I have been waiting for a very long time for someone like hitwitstuff2 to help me out with getting these shows properly digitized and shared, and so many thanks are due to him - share your recordings folks!!!

Now I thought that I remembered that this show was part of a benefit for Folk City, that was held at Irving Plaza - if so then apparently to accounts Gordon wore a bathrobe the whole time, a thing I vaguely remember - also the Ben Vaughn Combo opened, who I did not record?

I do know that I recorded this from the center of the balcony, and I seem to remember missing a big chunk of the beginning of the recording of this show (I think that the deck was accidentally on "pause" when I first hit "record"?)

Hey, I was a taper newbie! You learn, eventually.... It seems unlikely from the set list that it was the whole 1st 45 minutes but it may have been....

Now, if I was "feeling no pain" by the time the Femmes came on (and I was, as you can guess from the haziness of my "memories"), their sheer level of inebriation seemingly put mine to shame - it would not be until a few weeks later (12-09-84) when I would see a band more drunk trying to put on a show (Replacements CBGBs)... Enjoy!


Please trade this show freely, but do not alter the files or any of the info, do not convert the FLACs to MP3s unless it is just for your own personal use, and above all do not sell this recording in any way! - Tapegeek

1. Gone Daddy Gone
2. Banter
3. I Held Her In My Arms
4. Its Gonna Rain
5. banter
6. Black Girls
7. Add it Up
8. crowd
9. Blister in the Sun
10. Kiss Off
11. Good Feeling