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  • Oroborous
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    Why…

    5/16/80 of course!

    Dammit PF, we went and checked out some GK tunes to refresh our old synapses, and now TOO and myself can’t get that GD ear crack from the Breakup song outta our heads ; ) lol

    Why earcrack you say? Because its almost as addictive and damaging as crack!
    Ok, Jerry’s 5/16 High Time might just erase it lol

  • Oroborous
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    Greg Kihn

    Immediately makes me think of the first show “that got away”
    Crotchfester 9/1/79. Greg Kihn and the Goodrats opened.

    I was still only 16 so the rents were not gonna let me go “all the way to Rochester” (that’d have to wait a year) to do anything, let alone go with a bunch of known “drug addicts” lol But I did hear all about it from said DAs, including how the GoodRats gave out these little toy Rats (think Florida Panthers) as a promotion, which of course the unruly east coast Dead Heads, who had had enough warm up noise and wanted the Dead, began pelting the band with the Rats, literally forcing them off the stage!
    “When you go down to deep Elem…the DH will put you on the rocks”
    Now on one hand I’m sure it was hilarious, if you were there, but on the other hand kinda embarrassing. But that was unfortunately often the case when promoters picked poorly. As kind as DH mostly were, we weren’t always polite to openers. Another ugly one I recall was poor Joan Jet opening up for Bobby and the Midnights: booed her off…

    Anyway, 4 winds Greg Khin

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    Family Dog

  • TN John
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    6-19-76

    Capitol Theatre
    Passaic, NJ

  • proudfoot
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    RIP Greg Kihn

    Part of the soundtrack of my younger days with his 80s hits

    "No one here gets out alive"

    Indeed

  • proudfoot
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    9/18/90

    Good stuff, Maynard

  • DeadVikes
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    Go to Nassau

    Love go to Nassau.

    Man, we are due for some 1980 to be released. Will it ever happen again?

  • proudfoot
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    May 80

    Mighty tasty

    It has indeed been a long time since I heard GTN

  • Oroborous
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    5/14/80

    First time checking out the whoke shows from this run.
    Of course I’ll need to fire up Go To Nassau later, haven’t heard that in too long!

  • Oroborous
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    5/12/80

    …I mean, why wouldn’t ya ; )

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Absolutely no noise reduction ON THE RECORDING, but that doesn’t mean some kind of processing on the final release, and, it seemed like 4/12 sounded much different, especially in the frequency spectrum we’ve been discussing.
There are other ways in mastering to treat noise beyond basic noise reduction, like, not your 80s tape deck Dolby…
I’ve been looking at pics and some don’t seem to have overhead drum mics where others certainly do. But haven’t dug deep so don’t know dates that correspond to pics etc. Just wonder if that was something Betty was messing with as she’s known for her mic placement perhaps above all else…
Also noticed JG moved into the center, and Bob to the left, (as per their stage orientation at the time) of the soundstage on maybe the 10th? Before that they were switched, and the 12 all kinds of things going on lol,
Always fun to try and dissect things!

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Hmmmm?
Another quirky good but inconsistent show?
Definitely a creeper. Starts a bit off (technically and otherwise) but by mid set they start settling in and syncing up. Second set, like much of this tour may not be flawless, but their is some fine playing and highlights!. And I’ll have to find that video cause wondering WTH was up with JG at the end etc? Wow?
These shows are hard to pin down, interesting run.
14 mañana…

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4 11 78

Finished 10 8 89 and 4 14 78 earlier today

Scarlet Fire

GBtGD

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Among others they would have a mic over each drummer either hanging or on stands four feet above each drum kit since sound rises from the drums, cymbals.