The Dictators
1976 CBGBÕs NYC

audience recording

From The Moose Track Collection

Sony Cassette Deck>Alesis 9500 Masterlink (no EQ)>AIFF
File conversion done with xACT setting of 6


The story of The Moose Track collection

In the late 80Õs a buddy of mine in Pennsylvania told me during my visit to the East coast about a tiny independent record store in Port Jervis, NY called Moose track Records. He thought I be interested in a box of live tapes he saw for sale in there. I went over almost immediately and sure enough there it was, a box of 72 cassettes. Some without labels. Some were generic white cassettes with a white cardboard insert. Most were TDK normal bias. Some were from the sixties, most from the seventies. Some were from BBC, most were audience recordings from the NY/east coast area. I bought them all at 50 cents a tape. Bands I knew: Devo, NY Dolls, Capt. Beefheart, Runaways,Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, Led Zeppelin, Graham Parker, Rockpile, Damned. Bands I didnÕt know: Ducks Deluxe, Eddie and The Hotrods, Frankie Miller. Some cool oddballs: Johnny Rotten DJ-ing at the BBC, Monty Python in a radio appearance, a 10 minute radio clip devoted to the death of Paul McCarthy.
Yes, IÕve digitized them all with no EQ. All are a bit hissy, some have drop outs, the listening qualities vary wildly and IÕll do my best to describe them and post samples.
A lot has surfaced in better qualities over the years so feel free to ask about anything IÕve mentioned, you might already have it.
ALSO! Feel free to EQ or tweak the pitch or whatever. If you can genuinely clean up any of these do it, post it just be clear that itÕs your whatever version. I hear the potential in a lot of these recordings, but I simply donÕt have the time or place to do it myself. I was recently near the master cassettes for a short time and retransferred a ... I donÕt know. A dozen or so and I intend to post and seed as much as I can.
-Hitwitstuff2 (but you can call me Hitwitstuff)

A Rip Roaring Dictators show from their prime years. I have no exact date, Ō1976 CBGBĶ is all that is typed on the label card. Good recording, but a lot of tape hiss.
Enjoy!

1. California Sun
2. CanÕt Go Home Again
3. Search and Destroy
4. ?
5. Tallahassee Lasse
6. The Next Big Thing
7. audience and banter
8. Master Race Rock

NOTE: This is the same show and source as this still active Torrent #232161:

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=232161

The above link is to a copy of an EQ'd and speed corrected version from either a cassette or CDR I made and use to trade a long time ago. Back then I used an old graphic equalizer (can't recall the name) to take out the upper-most frequency almost completely and then boosted some of the mid. The EQ'ing took out a lot of the hiss, but made the overall sound a bit cold.
Today's new upload is totally raw. No EQ or Speed correction (I'm not sure It ever needed the speed correction). The hiss is big and loud, but all the dynamics are there. The challenge to upgrade this with shmancy modern EQ'ing programs is there as soon as you hear the potential. A white hot Dictators show from back in the day covered is a haze of hiss...