Fetchin Bones
1985-09-28 ::: Charlotte, Mecklenberg County, North Carolina, USA
Schoolkids Records ::: acoustic in-store appearance ::: M2-AUD (48kHz/24bit files)
~*~ Carefully remastered fixing various issues, without EQ or NR ~*~
01. ==tuning//talk==
02. A Fable
03. ==applause//tuning//talk//song intro==
04. Leaning On The Horn
05. ==applause//tuning//talk==
06. Greensburg
07. ==applause//tuning//talk//song intro==
08. Asteroids
09. ==applause//tuning//talk//song intro==
10. Plus Seven
11. ==applause//tuning//talk//song intro==
12. Gloria
Total Time ::: 23:02
::: VG++ up-close AUD in small record store space. Check samples for "No way, baby", "Maybe, baby", "Ooh yeah, baby!".
::: Warts (almost none!): Repaired a few dullspots & dropouts. Bit of background talking in Rchan in a few places. #10 telephone rings once in background.
::: "Cabin Flounder" current LP (3 songs here). 2"new"songs played that would appear on "Bad Pumpkin" in '86.
::: Remarkably, as of 2021, 2 branches of Schoolkids Records are still floggin' slabs (& brew!?). More power to 'em!
::: Thanks to TC for weighin' in on the city! Trying to verify that there was actually a Carlot Schoolkids branch in the mid-80s proved difficult. Schoolkids Records ongoing location does not answer their phone or emails & has their answering machine always full. Another Carlot friend LP junkie has not answered 3 different inquiries on the subject. TC said, "I remember Hope Nicholls working at a record store on Montford Drive in Charlotte around that time. It’s very possible that it was a short lived Schoolkids location". Anyway, if for some reason the tape label is incorrect, then the location was Schoolkids Records in Carrboro, Raleigh or Chapel Hill, but I think it is likely correct given my source.
Recording Information ::: unknown cassette recorder/microphones -> master cassette -> 1st generation cassette -> 2nd generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette, Dolby off.
Playback 2021-02-xx ::: 2nd generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette on Nakamichi 680ZX cassette deck, Dolby OFF, azimuth adjusted for individual tape, heads cleaned & demagnetized -> Sony Linear PCM Recorder PCM-M10 (48kHz/24bit wav file) -> computer -> Audacity [normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, bump, clap, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, -1.3% averaged pitch (speed) fix with single pass after frequency analysis & with CD pitch verification, NO equalisation or noise reduction] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> 48kHz/24bit flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. Freed 2021-04-xx.
Line-up ::: Hope Nicholls - vocals // Aaron Pitkin - acoustic guitar, backing vocals // Danna Pentes - electric bass, backing vocals // Marc Mueller - bongos, percussion.
Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.
DimeTravel 774 ::: Thanks to the original taper & trader! Sincere thanks to whomever uploads this for me. ::: Corrections welcome ::: Sometimes things sit in storage for way too long, but perhaps they are all the more appreciated once they climb back outta the nest. Glad to bring this back to life - a unique on-off acoustic Fetchin Bones set with only a few people in attendence in a record store. They pull it off with informality & style. I do recognise at least one fine gent's voice in the "crowd" & I can guess at another. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yrs truly, Knees
Support the artists! https://fetchinbones.bandcamp.com -- www.facebook.com/Fetchin-Bones-5689212972 -- https://itssnakes.bandcamp.com (Hope & Aaron's band) - and...maybe a Facebook site but not accessible here due to a 1000 cookie explosion
Do whatever you want with it except sell it, 'cause that ain't cool!