I have an 80 gig hard drive full of mostly live soundboard recordings I’ve collected over the years. I stumbled upon and opened the wingless.txt file this morning to discover an album I never knew I had:
Nelcote, FR 7/12/71-10/23/71, Mobile Unit**Philadelphia, PA 7/20/72#Philadelphia, PA 7/21/72#n/a - STUSB
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One of my favorite compilations. Great ver. of Get A Line On You (Shine A Light) and Bye Bye Johnny.
GET A LINE ON YOU SHAKE YOUR HIPS * GOOD TIME WOMAN * SWEET VIRGINIA * SWEET BLACK ANGEL ** LOVING CUP * LET IT LOOSE ** ALL DOWN THE LINE * STOP BREAKIN’ DOWN * SHINE A LIGHT * BYE BYE JOHNNY # RIP THIS JOINT # GIMME SHELTER # HAPPY # SWEET VIRGINIA # ALL DOWN THE LINE # TUMBLING DICE #
Whoa nelly it’s good! I found out later this comprises Exile On Main Street outtakes.
Imma huge fan of this record:
Listening to vinyl on a turntable is fun. Some say even quaint. At the same time it’s a pain in the ass having to flip the record every 20 minutes or so. Not to mention the inevitable scratch or warp that sends you scurrying across the room to adjust the stylus. I’ve been meaning to experiment with digitizing some of my vinyl for a long time. This is the first record I decided to experiment with:
This 2 record live album was a seminal listening experience in my youth. The record is more ‘new wave’ than punk really and still a lot of fun. Last I checked Amazon a ‘very good’ copy fetches $70. Whoa.
Last night I patched our turntable directly to a G5 iMac with Griffin’s iMic cable and software. The results were disappointing though it was great listening to Urgh! A Music War for the first time in how many years?!
Without a pre-amp or receiver the configuration didn’t seem to do a very good job cutting out an annoying low-end hum. There is an “RIAA EQ” function that is supposed to serve as some sort of pre-amplification but the results this first time around were just o.k.
I read this helpful tip yesterday, “May I suggest that you connect the turntable earth wire to the iMic RCA plug, as leaving this connection float may cause that nasty 50 Hz test tone.” The “50 Hz test tone” might be the annoying low end hum caught on my recordings? How cool if that’s the fix! Any audiophiles willing to translate?
Next time around I will first try connecting the earth wire and if the hum’s still there I will run the turntable through a receiver.
Swervedriver was a sadly overlooked ’shoegazer’ band in the 90’s. I still listen to their music a lot and this evening stumbled upon a treasure trove of live material. Hit that link, right click and download to your heart’s content.
To quote the site, “Please do not sell these recordings. They may be freely traded.” Right on.