Pylon - 1983-04-22 Athens, GA (sbd M1)

40 Watt

Athens, GA

April 22, 1983

  

soundboard recording (EX quality; cassette copy of master)

SAMPLE: Feast On My Heart

Pylon:

Randy Bewley (R.I.P.) - guitar

Vanessa Briscoe Hay - vocals

Curtis Crowe - drums

Michael Lachowski - bass

  

LINEAGE: online download of 16-bit lossless file > Audacity 3.7 for Mac for normalization & DC offset, track splits, removing dead spots, fades, tagging, and 1 pass of EQ > FLAC16  *NO COMPRESSION, NO NOISE REDUCTION*

  

Vanessa fronts Pylon Reenactment Society.

ROB SEZ:  If you like a feisty lead singer delivering your Pylon art-punk vocals, look no further. Vanessa growls and screeches impressively here. HUGE thanks to the kind trader who shared this with me. He prefers to remain anonymous, and told me this is a copy of the soundboard master. As received, I only needed to split and tag the tracks, normalize, apply fades, remove dead spots, and apply one pass of modest eq to bring the high frequencies into better balance. No compression and no noise reduction were used in this edit. 

  

This recording had a couple of anomalies: it's missing the first few seconds of the opening song, and an oddly-placed cut resulted in only a minute-ish of track 04 being captured and just a bit more of track 05. I applied fades judiciously to preserve as much music as I could. All other tracks are full song renditions.

  

This is my last post in the Pylon mini flood. I hope someone enjoyed it; it's been awfully quiet in the comments department lately.

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Pylon - 1988-12-31 Athens, GA (sbd M1)

40 Watt
Athens, GA
Dec. 31, 1988
  
soundboard recording (EX quality; from cassette copy of master)
  

SAMPLE: Gravity

An old Pylon gig flier I defaced.

LINEAGE: online download of 16-bit lossless file > Audacity 3.7 for Mac for normalization & DC offset, track splits, removing dead spots, fades, tagging, and 1 pass of EQ > FLAC16  *NO COMPRESSION, NO NOISE REDUCTION* 

Pylon:

Randy Bewley (R.I.P.)  - guitar
Vanessa Briscoe Hay - vocals
Curtis Crowe - drums
Michael Lachowski - bass

ROB SEZ: HECK YES: New Year's Eve with Pylon. HUGE thanks to the kind trader who shared this with me. He prefers to remain anonymous, and told me this is from a cassette copy of the soundboard master. As received, I only needed to split and tag the tracks, normalize, apply fades, remove dead spots, and apply one pass of modest eq to bring the high frequencies into better balance. No compression and no noise reduction were used in this edit. Vanessa announces Catch as "a new song" (a studio recording appears on the 1990 LP Chain). On this recording, Crazy features a minute-long Randy Bewley instrumental prior to the rest of the band joining in; I like it.

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Pylon - 1988-07-23 Athens, GA (sbd M1)

40 Watt

Athens, GA

July 23, 1988

soundboard recording (EX quality; from cassette copy of master)

00 stage entrance, tuning

01 Driving School

02 Cool

03 Working Is No Problem 

04 Gravity

05 Altitude

06 Show

07 Crazy

08 Danger

09 No Clocks

10 Read a Book

11 There It Is

12 Weather Radio

13 Volume

14 Beep

15 Stop It

16 pre-encore applause, etc.

17 M-Train

18 Feast On My Heart

19 pre-encore applause, tuning, etc.

20 Dub

SAMPLE: Cool

Pylon:

Randy Bewley (R.I.P.) - guitar

Vanessa Briscoe Hay - vocals

Curtis Crowe - drums

Michael Lachowski - bass

LINEAGE: online download of 16-bit lossless file > Audacity 3.7 for Mac for normalization & DC offset, track splits, removal of dead spots, adding fades, tagging > FLAC16   -NO EQ, NO COMPRESSION, NO NOISE REDUCTION-

Do yourself a favor: get Pylon Box

ROB SEZ: HUGE thanks to the kind trader who shared this with me. He prefers to remain anonymous, and told me this is from a first-generation cassette copy of the soundboard master. As received, I only needed to split and tag the tracks, normalize, apply fades, and remove dead spots. No eq, compression or noise reduction were used; no small animals harmed.

Vanessa not only thanks the 40 Watt, but also R.E.M. — the reason for which is not evident, since REMTimeline has the band in N.Y. state in this part of July, and they played no known gigs on 23 July. 

I like this recording a bit better than the 1983 soundboard I shared last week. Vanessa's voice is more prominent in the mix, and the band sounds tighter than ever. Please enjoy.

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Pylon - 1983-06-29 Athens, GA (sbd M1)

40 Watt

Athens, GA

June 29, 1983

  

soundboard recording (EX quality; from cassette copy of master)

   

SAMPLE TRACK: Buzz

Pylon:

Randy Bewley (R.I.P.) - guitar

Vanessa Briscoe Hay - vocals

Curtis Crowe - drums

Michael Lachowski - bass

The recording I'm sharing is pretty good.
But this official release is AMAZING.
A must have; go get it.

ROB SEZ:  HUGE thanks to the kind trader who shared this with me. He prefers to remain anonymous, and told me this is from a first-generation cassette copy of the soundboard master. Sounds pretty damn good to me! Apparently, two sets were played this night: Set 1 is comprised of tracks 1-9. The tape flip happened near the end of Yo-Yo and the start of K. About 30-45 seconds from the end of the former was lost as a result, but only a few seconds of the latter's opening notes are missing. Otherwise, this is the complete performance. 

 

As received, I only needed to split and tag the tracks, remove dead spots, create fade-ins and fade-outs, and apply 1 pass of modest eq to bring the high frequencies into better balance. No compression and no noise reduction.

Vanessa: if you happen to read this, please remember I did ask! 42 years later, I hope you'll agree there's no real harm in letting the band's fans hear this amazing performance. No one's making any money here. This is from a fan for fellow fans.

    

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