Problem Child
Starry Plough, Berkeley, CA.
Sept. 20 1986

01 opening tuning and talk
02 Hideaway
03 Can't Hold You Down
04 ?
05 Not Fade Away > Mona > Not Fade Away
06 ?
07 All Worth The Price You Pay
08 Red House (variation)

AUD - 3rd gen.
AUD C (unk. equip. used) > C (unknown) > C (Robert's Maxell XLII) > C (my copy, Maxell XLII) > CDR (by someone dumb)
> EAC > WAV (CUE Sheet) > CDWAVE (cut tracks) > TLH (turn into FLAC, make checksums) > FLAC + these notes by Tom Shyman ( a.k.a. amellowsoul )

Line-up, upon research, believed to be...
Mike Pegeus - vocals
John Cipollina - guitars
Greg Douglass - guitars
Alex Dore - bass
Greg Elmore - drums

Dedicated to Les Lizama, whom passed away on Oct. 19, 2014. (bass player of Problem Child in 1987, Link Wray, early Eddie Money and many other bands.)

I have never circulated this recording before now. Obtained it at a Eugene's Tapers Club meeting in the late 1999. This was a tape before CDR burning became common. The person who lent me had his tape marked as 2nd gen, so this would be 3rd. A few years later, I sent my tape to someone to burn to CD for me. My requests were easy and simple. "Please leave flat, and no EQing or editing. Just leave as it is." I waited for over 6 months for him to get to it, when he said me it would be a week. When the CD came, he did everything I told him not to do. He edited out all the banter, minus the opening. He also said he EQed it a bit, but didn't say what he did. Last, and the worst, he lost my damn tape! It was the first, and last time, I lent out my few remaining tapes to someone I don't fully know. Needless to say, I am also unable to get in touch with the fellow who had that 2nd gen. tape. So, the CD sat in my Cipollina archives for over the past decade. I was hopeful it would surface online, over the years, but it never did. So I offer it to you now, after all this time. As you can hear, it wasn't the best sounding AUD to begin with. However, Cipollina and Douglass are completely on fire, and that easily makes up for that. If you have this show somewhere, give it a listen and see if you can outdo mine. I will be glad to accept any other versions.

As always, enjoy!
-Tom Shyman (amellowsoul@gmail.com)
Nov. 15 2014