Well, I'm finally getting around to digitizing my 700+ cassettes (at my wife's insistence--she wants them out of the house), so I'm going to start posting some goodies here. I taped many a show in the Toronto area from the late '80's to the late '90's, and also recorded a lot of radio broadcasts, mostly from CFNY, 102.1 in Toronto. Hope you stumble across something you like, or even a show you were at!
addendum: I have had many comments about the fate of my tapes, so for those worried about them...the masters I am boxing up and storing in my parents' basement. The others (mixed tapes, recorded LP's, etc) are getting tossed. My wife is not evil or insensitive--we live in a small place, and the many boxes were getting in the way. This is something I'VE wanted to do for awhile, as well. She just gave me the push. Oh, and she doesn't have shelves of makeup, or hundreds of shoes, no matter what stereotypes you care to buy in to. Her comic collection, however....
Sonic Youth--Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Canada, Feb. 14, 1991
Not my recording, but I was at the show. Second of 2 back-to-back nights I saw SY opening for Neil Young. I was 12th row on the floor, over to the left side for this one. Unlike the crowd in Hamilton the night before, who were just confused by SY, the folks in Toronto were a little more hostile. You can hear folks yelling "go home!", for instance. Thurston wasn't enjoying the atmosphere, you could tell. At one point he threw his guitar at the crowd, then went down to retrieve it. I was cheering him on, but most of the crowd just didn't get them. This is why the hippies died out--they couldn't adapt. (no offense to open minded hippies on DIME, or Neil himself, who adapts quite well.)
Lineage: first gen aud>M audio sound card>wav>flac editing with CDWav
Track Listing:
01. Tom Violence
02. White Kross
03. Eric's Trip
04. Brother James
05. Catholic Block
06. Kool Thing
07. The Crucifixion of Sean Penn
Enjoy!
This is number 67 in an ongoing series.