Mouse & The Traps
1981-05-18 Arlington, Texas Pantego Sound Studio Q102-FM Studios (M?-FM)
"Texas Music Hour"

01. You're In The City Now
02. All You Really Need Is Me
03. Piney Woods (->)
04. American Boy
05. Public Execution
06. 1969
07. Head To Bricks (?)

Total Time ::: 28:03

::: Excellent quality live in studio radio broadcast. Check the samples for verification or to titillate.
::: Warts: Warble at the start that disappears after about 45 seconds.
::: Reunion of the great 60s Tyler, Texas garage band, albeit in more Southern slide rock mode here, but there are some moments!

Recording Information ::: Q102-FM Radio stereo broadcast -> off-air master tape -> unknown generations of tape -> unknown generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette, Dolby off.

Playback 2011-xx-xx ::: unknown generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette on Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck, Dolby off, azimuth & pitch adjusted, heads cleaned & demagnatized -> Tascam CD-RW900SL pro CD recorder -> CD-RW -> computer, EAC secure -> wavs -> Audacity (fades &/or glitches, dropouts, volume adjustments, no EQ) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> Trader's Little Helper -> yer ears. First uploaded week of 2011-01-21.

Line-up ::: Ronnie (Mouse) Weiss - guitar, vocals // Dave Stanley - bass, vocals // Ken "Big Nardo" Murray - drums // Ron Mason - keyboards // Slidin' Stevie Davis - slide guitar, vocals.

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

CoolSonics 083 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! ::: Corrections welcome ::: Latecomer that I was to Mouse & The Traps, circling in about 1982 with the Eva LP collection, I was a real fan. Song after song (actually single after single) on that album rocked in a great way & with a very different sound than the many dozens of Texas 60s bands I had discovered to date. I ran this tape for something else, but figured there would be some interest out there, so don't expect 1966, but enjoy. Having said that, there must be some vintage 60s recordings of these guys somewhere, even if marginal quality, can anybody help?!!

More recordings on the way, making up for years of slow netspeed. Kudos to Zongo for life support, Lochner for mikes & much more, & to Fast Freddie for runnin' Video Dick's Record Emporium with the bathroom office full of tape decks. Thanks to Hanwaker (few among us can keep his pace) for over 30 years of trading & friendship. Mountains of gratitude to Davmar, D.White, Sanchez, Elliot, The Florida Kid, Kloiber, Zingg, JTW, Bershaw, Boston Gold, Weeks, Dixon, Moore, Gough & SO many more for all that collecting & sharing... Royal thanks to The Man In The Palace, Doc Tinker, Brinkhoffs, Barely Eatin', Reel Master Gaule, Parrish & all the traders who housed me thru my music acquisition & travel years. Hats off to Brother Kent, Uncle Jake, Little Queenie (& her neighbor Frank) & his honor Ptomaine Thomas. Glasses raised to Byron for musical horizon expansion & much obliged to J & Thurston for keepin' my concert fires burnin' since my continental shift. Thanks to the Mods for keepin' DIME alive. Enjoy, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees

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