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 - live in Athens 1988-07-23

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-

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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 was 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.

FLAC

MP3@320