Well, I'm finally getting around to digitizing my 700+ cassettes (at my wife's insistence--she wants them out of the house), so I'm going to start posting some goodies here. I taped many a show in the Toronto area from the late '80's to the late '90's, and also recorded a lot of radio broadcasts, mostly from CFNY, 102.1 in Toronto. Hope you stumble across something you like, or even a show you were at!

Stray Cats--"Live from Central Park" AM radio broadcast circa 1982

For two awful years, I lived in Whitefish, Ontario, just outside of Sudbury. You could walk the length of the town in 30 minutes. My father, for some reason, had decided he should buy the only variety store in town and move the whole family up north. Never mind that the new highway now bypassed us, so tourist traffic was now light, and that the local nickel mine that was the main employer was on a year long strike. We lasted 2 years, went bankrupt, and came back home to southern Ontario.
Needless to say, the music scene up there was abysmal. There was no FM rock station, even. Sometimes the CBC would play a decent show late at night, but I usually had to make due with CHNO AM, which was the usual drivel that all AM stations are. One night, though, they played this, which for them would have been cutting edge. It's obviously some kind of network feed, with a vacuous announcer ("now here's more rock and roll from Duran Duran!"), and it's AM, which means it's mono. Recommended for completists, really. I will also be posting the Duran Duran set. I did not record the Genesis set.

Lineage: AM broadcast>M audio sound card>wav>flac track splits with CDWave

Track Listing:
01. intro
02. Double Talking Baby
03. Built For Speed
04. Stray Cat Strut
05. Rock This Town

Enjoy!

This is number 26 in an ongoing series.