Plasticland
1983-05-06 Bridgeport, Connecticut Pogo's (M?-AUD)

01. Too Many Fingers
02. The Glove
03. Color Appreciation
04. Pop! Op Drops
05. You Were Such A Bad Time
06. The Prince's Playroom
07. Her Decay
08. Rattail Comb
09. Posing For Pictures
10. Disengaged From The World
11. The Mushroom Hill
12. The Garden In Pain
13. Euphoric Trapdoor Shoes
14. Elongations
15. Office Skills (false start, but with full intro)
16. Office Skills (complete)
17. Driving Accident Prone

Total Time ::: 39:59

::: Quite fine AUD in small, nearly empty club. Check samples for self-audiolytical analysis or to dose yrself drops to start yr trip.
::: Warts: Certainly missed some dropouts (cross channel patches are easily done). Latter part a bit muddier probably due to band increasing volume.
::: We'll assume Pogo's was branching out here as Plasticland at a punk club seems too good to be true!
::: The audience sounds like 10 people at the start & by the end of the set, maybe 3 or 4...
::: Features early single & EP tracks & a dozen tracks off the first album!
::: Warning! Best say goodbye to yr family & friends before taking this 40 minute trip. It's a total reality experience & you'll be disengaged from the world...

Recording Information ::: unknown recording equipment -> master (narrow stereo) tape -> unknown generations of tape -> unknown generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette, Dolby B on (acquired in mid-80's).

Playback 2012-08-01 ::: unknown generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette on Nakamichi 680ZX cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth & pitch adjusted, heads cleaned & demagnatized -> Sony Linear PCM Recorder PCM-M10 (LPCM 44.10kHz/16bit WAV files) -> computer -> Audacity (normalisation to remove DC offset, channel alignment, fades &/or glitches, dropouts, volume adjustments, no EQ) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> Trader's Little Helper -> yer ears. First uploaded week of 2012-08-05.

Line-up (most likely...) ::: Glenn Rehse - keyboards, guitar, vocals // John Frankovic - bass, vocals // Dan Mullen - guitar, vocals // Rob McCuen - drums.

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

CoolSonics 177 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! I belive this came from the Millsman, long may he write! ::: Corrections welcome ::: I believe this was the first live Plasticland recording that swam into my collection. It spent many hours on my car stereo among other things. We were quite fascinated by this band, as they exceeded the psychedelic limits most mortals could handle, hovering somewhere in the stratosphere like a musical personification of acid you could spin on a turntable. It was not all pretty, it captured the whole trip, from the colors to the bad part of the trip that left you wondering which part of yr mind wasn't coming back with you. By the time the "Plasticland" aka "Color Appreciation" album hit the stores we were already dumbfounded by the singles. In fact, though I contnued to dig their records, |H|I|G|H| times for this band for me were in the period before the 2nd album. Certainly some songs are bit bit in Rain Parade territory, like "The Prince's Playroom", but these guys didn't use the drone/trance effect that Rain Parde took to new heights, but dragged yr mind through doorway after doorway, kinda like watching the Monkees movie "Head" after chewing on some peyote buttons & getting catapulted out of yr universe into the 8th dimension, a little like seeing the Pretty Things in the midst of the SF Sorrow era.

Kudos to Zongo for life support, Lochner for mikes&more & 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). 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

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