Link Wray
May 27, 1999
The Foothill Club
Long Beach, CA

A Tapegeek Master Recording/Hitwitstuff2 Upload!


Maxwell XLII-S 90 cassette, Sony 939 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.

*Technical note: The levels got bumped way up during the tape flip (track 15) and doesn’t get corrected until mid-Track 19. I’ve gone and evened out the levels best I could using audacity. Audibly this sounds like some low end bass distortion, but its not overwhelming and it only lasts for a few tracks.

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.

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!!!

My buddy peewee and I were very excited to go to this show and gladly neither Link or the venue disappointed - the Foothill Club was a perfect old roadhouse type of a joint amidst the oil derricks in Signal Hill right outside of Long Beach that opened in 1944 and closed in 2000, not long after this show - the crowd wasn't huge but it was a great mix of appreciative rockers and rockabillies, and Link came out blasting and never let up - I have to say that for me to finally get to see one of the real original guitar heroes in such a small club setting was a dream come true... I recorded this with the mic in my pocket on the dance floor in the crowd right in front. Enjoy!!!


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

Here’s some news links from back in the day:

http://articles.latimes.com/1999/may/25/entertainment/ca-40712

http://www.dekedickerson.com/photoarchive/2005-linkwray/index.htm

SET LIST:
1. Rumble
2. Gone Gone Gone
3. Rawhide
4.
5. Batman (1)
6.
7. Ace of Spades (1)
8.
9. Run Chicken Run
10.
11. Jack The Ripper
12. tuning
13.
14.
15. track 15 contains tape flip and quality change
16.
17.
18.
19. Jack The Ripper (2) contains the level adjustment/quality change
20. crowd
-encore-
21. Batman (2)
22. Run Chicken Run (2)
23.
24. Ace of Spades (2)
25.

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