A Holiday Gift to All....

Heres alittle gift to everyone to everyone for the holidays. A great sounding GNR show from 1988.

Special thanks to Let it Rip Productions, the Mad Taper, John Atyim, and Eric for this. I am leaving all files in flac, if you d/l be sure to do the same if you post anywhere to preserve traders wishes and keep lossy shows off the web. For more information on flac format go here http://flac.sourceforge.net/ or here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC
thanks,

Show info:
The Band: Guns And Roses
Venue: Montezuma Hall; SDSU
Location: San Diego, California USA
Date: February 8, 1988
Source: Audience
Lineage: Master cassette>cdr
Title: Chrystal Meth City
The Taper: The Mad Taper
Recording Equipment: Sony Cassette recorder,
model unknown
Engineering & mastering: John Atyim
Artwork by: Eric
Label: Let It Rip Productions
Set list:
(79: 53)
1. It's So Easy
2. Move To The City
3. Mr. Brownstone
4. Out To Get me
5. Sweet Child 'O Mine
6. I Used To Love Her
7. My Michelle
8. Rocket Queen
9. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
10. Welcome To The Jungle
11. Night Train
12. Patience
13. Paradise City
14. Mama Kin
From John's txt file from the show," It's not every day you see a recording like this surface. I finally got permission from the taper to bring
this recording out to you. From what I've gathered there was no known source to this show in the trading circles. I searched the internet high & low and nothing pertaining to this show turned up. So... here it is !
Guns & Roses in their prime, the boys are playing a pretty tight set and Axl's voice is strong, singing on all cylinders hitting the highs & the lows this night. At the time this show was recorded, Guns & Roses were showcasing new songs from their "G'nR Lies" album. The master cassette used
for the transfer was starting to suffer from "tape oxidation" at the very beginning and at the end of the show-I don't think you'll notice that too much as I gave my very best efforts in the digital restoration part of doing this production. I think you are really going to like this show! There is feed back coming from the speakers every now and then and no noise or hiss reduction was used in this production. I did add some bass eq to balance this recording, and the reason for that
is the taper doesn't recall where he was standing when he recorded this show, he recalls he was extremely stoned on marijuana and mentioned to me that it was loud as hell in that Montezuma Hall at SDSU. This is evident in the recording itself, the band is almost overpowering the taper's recording equipment. The taper refers to himself anonymous as the; "Mad Taper", he's brought you other recordings in the past under Let It Rip Productions. Well, anyways, I'm just glad to bring this show out to you all and as with Let It Rip Productions, justtrade 'em, torrent 'em and please do not exchange currency for the recordings we bring to you
because this recording, and especially this recording, is intended to be shared amongst fans.
Enjoy !
John "

Its So Easy
http://www.mediafire.com/?ejdjky9uexa
Move to the City
http://www.mediafire.com/?czdmnnldc2m
Mr. Brownstone
http://www.mediafire.com/?2nxwxwjmnn0
Out To Get me
http://www.mediafire.com/?cqmgrdhlya2
Sweet Child 'O Mine
http://www.mediafire.com/?5em911dgs1t
I Used To Love Her
http://www.mediafire.com/?65hc0ctdgb0
My Michelle
http://www.mediafire.com/?1gxujtig1f2
Rocket Queen
http://www.mediafire.com/?4mgkp2im1wl
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
http://www.mediafire.com/?2xjyjw5y5w4
Welcome To The Jungle
http://www.mediafire.com/?cj2tzzsbg92
Night Train
http://www.mediafire.com/?1mmexmmmtmd
Patience
http://www.mediafire.com/?8i54xw9qfgi
Paradise City
http://www.mediafire.com/?etwixvlx5bx
Mama Kin
http://www.mediafire.com/?fd0vxyjmpov
Artwork,show info txt,etc.
http://www.mediafire.com/?cxyms1gm2ky

Also, this is still the coolest pinball machine hands down.


More GNR goodness
Guns N' Roses - Nightrain (Ritz, 1988.02.02)


Guns n Roses Civil war live (Voodoo Child intro)

The Cure

As hinted at through previous posts I am a pretty big Cure fan. Heres some tracks off one of my favorite Cure bootlegs: "Full Moon Concert" from July 6,1990
@ Leysin,Switzerland. These files come from my own copy and thats why they're in mp3 format.
Enjoy
The Same Deep Water As You
http://www.mediafire.com/?8ev9dbgvdxs

A Forest
http://www.mediafire.com/?dsysds3xnx3

Disintegration
http://www.mediafire.com/?0nqlxxemodg

Back into Gear

A single final obstructs my free time, otherwise I am back to posting. I am a little bummed, my recent acquisition of the Fluid's Clear Black Paper's B-side is fucked up after Try Try Try, I emailed the ebay seller to notify him of this glaring problem, no resolution. total weak sauce. Anyhow, by sheer luck I stumbled upon this blog Wilfully Obscure http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2007/10/fluid-clear-black-paper-lp-freak-magnet.html
[Still working on linking issues]
that has vinyl rips of both Clear Black Paper (Glitter house version) and Freak Magnet (Also Glitter house version). However what truly makes this link the tits is that there is another link to another blog that has their entire discography up for dl. Anyone that has any bootlegs of their shows I want them so send me emails. I have to go decode Cure bootlegs to cdrs now.
heres a sick Radio Birdman video from 1978 [PS- Radio Birdman Slays, so does fellow Aussie Rockers Asteroid B-612]

Counter Productive

So after running all day for job interviews/internship circus hoops and a group Q&A for a final, I was supposed to be working on another paper. But I got a totally rad package from ebay today. The Fluid's Subpop debut Clear Black Paper on vinyl and a cd comp of some of their later work Glue and Roadmouth. I heard about the Fluid about a year ago thanks to Dave Clifford/Buddyhead collective. Ive been looking for this on and off since then and now I finally got the treaure. The Fluid were a rock band from Denver in the late 80s and they rock. A blend of the best parts of the Stooges/MC5 and the Dolls-Option (from promo sleeve). I am kinda phoning it in tonight, too much wine and subsequently too much coffee to counter balance (not counter balancing) has left me incapable of literary merit or listening samples. Oh and check this sweet Philip K. Dick blog http://totaldickhead.blogspot.com/ it slays. I am adding it to the links in the corner. This is me leaving.

Lack of Updates

Sorry for lack of updates. Finals are getting into gear. So heres a photo of me guest bartending (on far left) to raise money for the CSB (College Students in Broadcasting).
Regular Updates in the next few weeks. A JAMC @ Fillmore review from SOMA, Spiritualized Bimbos review, possibly a Goon Moon recap. Cool Shows coming up: Wooden Shjips are playing the Independent w/ Autolux Jan . 31 tix $16, and Black Mountain w/ Howlin' Rain on Feb 2 tix $14.