The Tubes - November 22, 1977 - Circus Krone, Munich, Germany **from known 1st gen AUD, remastered, MWM 0006**


Last month my friend 38f uploaded his masters from these
3 fantastic Tubes-shows in Italy 1981, their first italian tour.
And this month TTDaddy seeded some incredible tapes...
Thank you, boys !

This inspired me to visit our vaults
and bring you one of the first german shows...
NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO TODAY !
Never seen this one on DIME before.


This one here comes directly from the "Men With Microphones" archive.
"MWM" started in the 70ies in South Germany with analog recording equipment,
and at least two of them are still recording sometimes (since the 90ies on DAT).


The Tubes in Munich 1977

It was (and still is) a very special show for us...

We read (and heard) incredible stories about the liveshows of this band.
And we've seen some pictures, pictures that inspired our fantasies...
Fantastic music, great songs and lots of tits onstage, what else could
a couple of full aged bavarian guys desire ?

Circus Krone is legendary, kinda big wooden tent they used for the winter,
when they are not touring with their animals and artists.
Nearly everybody played there, starting in the 60ies...

The venue was filled, but not too crowded. Security was not that heavy as
we thought, so it was easy to bring the ITT Schaub Lorenz and the Grundig
recorder inside. But THIS was not necessary...but read on...

Looking around for the best spot both to record AND watch the nudies ;-)
we could not believe our eyes:
Two big, long microphones on a stand over the crowd's heads, and a large
Akai reel-to-reel machine near the soundboard.

Nothing in our short life had prepared us for what happened on stage...
An incredible sound (especially fo Krone), a more than tight grooving band,
and a show...WHAT a show...we stood there...drooling, mouth wide open...

The interacting between band and audience was intense, listen at the end
of song #6, "Show Me A Reason", when they pulled this yong lady out of the
audience to ask her those silly, pythonesque questions to win an apple...
or this fake encore after the incredible Prairie Prince-"Drum Solo" to get
all visitors into an enthusiastic "Boy Crazy"...

Sadly, there's no video of this concert available ! OR IS IT ???

After the show we asked Mr. Reel-To-Reel for a copy. He denied. He was an
American living in Europe, working for the army, and "close to the band".
We talked for ten, fifteen minutes, helped him with his gear, and finally
showed him our recorders...he laughed because of the "cheap stuff", but then
he wrote our address on a sheet of paper, and took the two TDK SA90 we offered.

At home we found out that both our recordings sounded like (is this allowed
on DIME ?) shit - it was SO FRUSTRATING ! I bet most of the tapers working
at those times with related, so-called "cheap gear" experienced similar moments,
and erased tapes...

About two month later a small parcel arrived, filled with one C-120 tape.
A cheap Ferric-Oxide-cassette...and 120 minutes...we hated it, we never worked
with those long tapes ! Two expensive TDK chrome for one low-cost Universum-crap...
what a lousy deal...on first sight.

But listening to this cassette brought back a smile to our faces, the longer
we listened, the broader we smiled...at the end we had problems to close our
mouthes...it was like having a neverending trismus !

This special concert was never traded (by us), and at the end of the 90ies
(22 years later) we found out that this tape was not longer playable.
A friend of ours, RUS, had experience and a small studio. He never told us
exactly what he did, but it was this kind of "baking-in-the-oven"-thing,
with studio-eq and some hiss-reduction...we called it "RUS-REMASTER".



Here is the complete 1977 "Krone"-show, 106 minutes long...
maybe for the first time:





The Tubes

Circus Krone,
Munich, Germany
November 22, 1977

"Munich" is the german "München"



lineage:
recorded by Mr.Reel-To-Reel, Audience to reel-to-reel to tape


AUD > Akai, 10,5 inch reel-to-reel > Compact Cassette (Universum C-120 FeO)

Universum C-120 FeO > Tascam > harddisc > studio software > my CDr

my CDr > Exact Audio Copy > Harddisc > Trader's Little Helper (SB aligned/level 8) > FLAC > DIME





the concert:

CD1 :
01. Intro 0:41
02. Overture 5:44
03. Got Yourself A Deal 6:55
04. Show Me A Reason 4:03
05. God-Bird-Change 4:43
06. What Do You Want From Life ? 6:59
07. Don't Touch Me There 5:42
08. Mondo Bondage 4:04
09. Smoke (La Vie Em Fumer) 7:37
10. It's Not Unusual 4:37
11. Album Promotion Spot 4.30
12. Haloes 5:02

total: 60:37 mins


CD 2:
2.01. Crime Medley 4:31
2.02. I was A Punk Before You Were A Punk 4:56
2.03. I Saw Her Standing There 3:03
2.04. Drum Solo 6:42
fake encore:
2.05. Boy Crazy 3:31
2.06. You're No Fun 3:24
2.07. Stand Up And Shout 9:10
real encore:
2.08. Having My Baby (Reggae Style) 0:55
2.09. White Punks On Dope 9:21

total: 45:33 mins


musicians:

Fee Waybill - vocals
Roger Steen - guitar
Bill "Sputnik" Spooner - guitar
Vince Welnick - keyboards
Michael Cotten - synthesizers
Rick Anderson - bass
Prairie Prince - drums
Mingo Lewis - percussion
Re Styles - vocals

(copied from TTDaddy's 1977 shows - is there a real good Tubes-database somewhere ?)



Added are two samples, love it or hate it...
This is the ONLY recording of this show we have to offer.
Maybe it's the only recording, i don't know.

We researched this carefully for official material and found none.
If you like hissy tapes, please stay away,
and please don't blame us for the mastering...



Please support the artists, buy their CDs and visit their concerts...




THIS TORRENT IS DEDICATED TO THE TUBES and all their former or late members,
to RUS, the tape-wizzard (wherever he may be),
and especially to my friends Fabio and TTDaddy...


Leo




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Transfered, & uploaded by lonetaper on Dime, September 2007. This is "MWM 0006"