The Three O'Clock
1985-05-30 Northampton, Massachusetts Pearl Street Nightclub (M-AUD)

01. Her Head's Revolving
02. Each And Every Lonely Heart
03. When Lightning Starts
04. Mrs Green
05. Underwater
06. Hand In Hand
07. In My Own Time
08. Knowing When You Smile
09. Half The Way There
10. Stupid Einstein ->
11. The Girl With A Guitar
12. Simon In The Park (With Tentacles) ->
13. Another World
14. Spun Gold ->
15. Sorry (->)
16. Jet Fighter -> ?
Encore :::
17. With a Cantalope Girlfriend
18. Paperback Writer

Total Time ::: 59:54

::: Very fine stereo audience tape. Check samples for verisimilitude, aesthetic attenuation, resonation reality or brief flashes of elation.
::: Warts: No real problems at all. Drums are a bit loud in the mix.
::: Touring for the "Arrive Without Traveling" album. They play the entire album plus 6 other songs.
::: Three O'Clock was the headliner. The Sighs (from Northampton) opened.
::: Couldn't identify the song the segues outta "Jet Fighter".... Anyone recognise it?

Recording Information ::: Sony D-6, Sony stereo mike -> master Maxell XLII-S 90 stereo audience tape (stealth), Dolby off.

Playback 2011-08-01 ::: master Maxell XLII-S 90 stereo audience tape 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 (normalisation to remove DC offset, fades &/or glitches, dropouts, volume adjustments, no EQ) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> Trader's Little Helper -> yer ears. First uploaded week of 2012-06-29.

Line-up (unconfirmed) ::: Michael Quercio - lead vocals, bass // Louis Gutierrez - guitar, vocals // Mike Mariano - keyboards, vocals // Danny Benair - drums, vocals

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

CoolSonics 161 ::: Corrections welcome ::: A little honesty here. I was fascinated by this band from through about 1984. While many songs had a similar sound, I really dug them. I only got to see them a couple of times. First was opening for REM in Hartford in 1984 & they were still pretty damn good, but they got seriously harassed by the audience, a weird scene. Then the second time I saw them (this tape), their major label album had been sprung, and their songwriting efforts seem to have been downplayed & buried in lieu of big production, loud keyboards & the hopes that the paisley underground was going to be the next big thing (way wrong!). The show has it's moments, but still doesn't seem the pinnacle of their success (to yers truly). However the quality is just fine (considering the venue which was rather notorious for half-ass sound in them days) & you get a lot of material as they were the main act. In fact, if "Arrive Without Traveling" is your bag you get to hear the entire album polayed live here. I'll transfer a number of my earlier Three O'Clock tapes (no masters) at some point, but am trying to get my masters done, and this one fell into my lap today, so here ya go... Enjoy!

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!