Green On Red
1985-09-09 ::: Charlottesville, Commonwealth of Virginia, USA
Mineshaft Cellar ::: 1106/1107 West Main Street ::: M2-SBD (48kHz/24bit files)

~*~ Carefully remastered fixing various issues, without EQ or NR ~*~

"All our friends were Republican or on heroin!"

01. ==intro talk==
02. Honest Man
03. ==talk==
04. (Gee Ain't It Funny How) How Time Slips Away
05. ==stage talk==
06. Time Ain't Nothing
07. ==song intro==
08. No Free Lunch
09. ==talk//Chris spills beer on his organ! Organ dryer requested//song intro==
10. Hair Of The Dog
11. more organ drying talk - Keith Mitchell intro'd
12. Down To The Bone ->
13. Down By The River
14. ==talk//tuning//song intro==
15. Sixteen Ways
16. ==talk//tuning==
17. Send Me A Postcard
18. ==talk//tuning//intro to Dream Syndicate cover==
19. Burn
20. ==talk//tuning==
21. No Easy Way Out
22. ==talk//tuning==
23. Mighty Fine Day
24. ==talk//tuning//false start==
25. The Drifter//
26. ==talk==
27. Sea Of Cortez
28. ==talk//thanks==

Total Time ::: 50:47

::: EX/EX- mono slightly weird mix delightful SBD. Check samples to bolt, for curiosity salvation, to start hatching eggs.
::: Warts: Repaired dullspots & dropouts but surely missed a few. Very slight distortion/buzz in some places. #25 tapeflip cut at 2mins on master so removed 20secs&spliced seamlessly at end of song.
::: Monday nite gig, but the Univ. of VA was within walking distance & the club very well-known.
::: Tour for new"No Free Lunch"LP, released ~6months after"Gas Food Lodging".Banner year for GonR.
::: Very cool scarce SBD version of GonR covering the early Dream Syndicate song/staple "Burn".
::: "Mineshaft Cellar"aka"The Mineshaft"or"Mineshaft"-tape came from VA trader&was labeled as noted.
::: The Mineshaft was a basement club underneath the Charlottesville Music store.
::: Unknown if there was another band on the bill. Do you remember?
::: 3 weeks after this, GonR started a legendary EU tour which we fortunately have excellent tapes of.

Recording Information ::: mono soundboard -> unknown tape recorder -> master tape (two channel mono) -> 1st generation tape -> 2nd generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette, Dolby B on (except last 2 songs #25-28 M3).

Playback 2021-02-xx ::: 2nd generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette on Nakamichi 680ZX cassette deck, Dolby B on, 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, +5.5% averaged pitch (speed) fix with single pass after frequency analysis & with pitchpipe verification, NO equalisation or noise reduction] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> 48kHz/24bit flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. (NOTE: Mono SBD&left channel 2000KHz higher so after remastering/patches, used only that channel doubled up). Freed 2021-04-xx.

Line-up ::: Dan "Big Daddy" Stuart - vocals, guitar, vocals // Chuck "Billy The Kid" Prophet IV - guitar, vocals // Chris "Chez" Cacavas - keyboards, vocals // Jack "Jake" Waterson - electric bass // Keith Mitchell (†R.I.P. 2017†) - drums, percussion.

Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.

DimeTravel 742 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! Sincere thanks to whomever uploads this for me. ::: Corrections welcome ::: Keith Mitchell on drums intro'd as having "joined the band the previous Saturday" (so 3rd night?), or he'd been in the band 9 days or so, perhaps with some rehearsals before they started their East Coast tour in early Sept. This can presumably be verified by careful listening of the Hoboken 1985-09-05 or NYC 1985-09-06 tapes & see if Mitchell is playing or whether Alex MacNicol bailed after NYC. This show really points nicely to the tremendous maturity & versatility this band already had at a young age - rather extraordinary in many ways, just check out Dan's delivery in the first couple of songs - Most any singer would be jealous. Slightly odd mix, as instrument balance isn't really correct, the guitar (unbelievably tasty leads!) somewhat low in mix in parts, drums loud overall, but damn... NICE sounds... GonR changed my world in this era - leaders of the Americana-vibed segment of the Paisley reconstruction crew. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yrs truly, Knees

Support the artists! www.greenonred.net -- www.marlowebillings.com (Dan Stuart) -- www.facebook.com/pages/category/Musician/Chris-Cacavas-Music-238196507069648/ -- www.chuckprophet.com

Do whatever you want with it except sell it, 'cause that ain't cool!