The Dictators
August 9, 1991
Bogarts. Long Beach, CA
A Tapegeek Master Recording/Hitwitstuff2 Upload!
Maxwell XLII 90 cassette, Sony 737 Stereo Mic, Sony D6 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.
This one is FEROCIOUS!!-hitwitstuff2 (but you can call me hitwitstuff)
TAPEGEEK (OUR RECORDIST) 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 in the past - however, 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!!!
If you never got to see the Dictators, if you never got to see a show at Bogarts, well then you definitely missed out, and so you should probably just get this and crank it up - when cool bands came through, they would often play a larger LA venue and then play a smaller show at Bogarts, a good-sized club with a really good sound system - I saw (and recorded) so many great shows there - I went with a bunch of rowdy friends to this show and the reunited 'Tators truly delivered the goods, of course!!! - well I'll let you be the judge... I recorded this from about 30 feet back from the stage monitors, with a Sony ECM 737 stereo microphone and a Sony D-6 recording walkman.
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. Introduction
2. Master Race Rock
3. Science Gone Too Far
4. banter
5. The Party Starts Now
6. The Next Big Thing
7. Stay With Me
8. Minnisota Strip
9. Baby Lets Twist
10. Young Fast and Scientific
11. Weekend
12. Slow Death
13. California Sun
14. banter
15. I Stand Tall
16. Faster and Louder
17. New York New York
18. Two Tub Man
19. crowd and banter
20. Haircut and Attitude
21. Search and Destroy
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