TORRENT TITLE

Meat Puppets - 1987-08-28 Eagles Club Presidents Room, Milwaukee, WI

ARTIST NAME

Meat Puppets

BOOTLEG TITLE

N/A

VENUE, CITY, COUNTRY, DATE

Eagles Club Presidents Room, Milwaukee, WI 1987-08-28

TRACK LISTING

DISC 1 (60:51)

01 Not Swimming Ground......................(4:05)
02 She's Hot................................(4:00)
03 Quit It..................................(2:58)
04 Get On Down..............................(2:52)
05 Confusion Fog............................(3:46)
06 Automatic Mojo...........................(3:11)
07 Leaves...................................(2:26)
08 Hot Pink.................................(2:56)
09 Such A Beautiful Night (?!?).............(3:11)
10 Out My Way...............................(6:09)
11 Paradise.................................(4:52)
12 Lake Of Fire.............................(1:51)
13 Lost.....................................(4:06)
14 I Can't Be Counted On....................(4:44)
15 Big Rock Candy Mountain (?!?)............(0:24)
16 I Am A Machine...........................(3:45)
17 No Money In This Deal (?!?)..............(2:16)
18 Eternally (?!?)..........................(3:09)

DISC 2 (56:26)

01 Up On The Sun............................(4:28)
02 Love Our Children Forever................(7:07)
03 Maiden's Milk............................(4:10)
04 Swimming Ground..........................(2:59)
05 Liquified................................(3:04)
06 Bad Boy..................................(2:11)
07 I Just Want To Make Love To You..........(7:06)
08 Plateau..................................(3:05)
09 I'll Tell You Folks (?!?)................(1:33)
10 In Dreams................................(2:39)
ENCORE
11 I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide..................(3:37)
12 Bad Love.................................(3:33)
13 Buckethead...............................(2:29)
14 Crazy....................................(4:41)
15 Climbing.................................(3:33)
(TITLES WITH "(?!?)" ARE GUESSES.)  < CORRECTIONS ARE WELCOME!! >

LINE UP

Curt Kirkwood - guitar, vocals
Cris Kirkwood - bass, vocals
Derrick Bostrom - drums

FLAC FINGERPRINTS or MD5 checksum for the musical content only (*)

101 Not Swimming Ground-405.flac:185cad79455b98094f6c3cb0e9f02d22
102 She's Hot-400.flac:a56286d0ec27cc791b15983f35d5784a
103 Quit It-258.flac:d77e0f59f48e1ede09574998fc5b0b06
104 Get On Down-252.flac:f2a8a362243a1dd3f2033a9d3f21200b
105 Confusion Fog-346.flac:b0ea50fb1e39ea9b5bd4554bc480d99b
106 Automatic Mojo-311.flac:1d992eac72991a50f7d20a388d16ca5c
107 Leaves-226.flac:744711a244610be6cde6a23e396eb6a5
108 Hot Pink-256.flac:16aad4fb89bc7cf032a13e288d358680
109 Such A Beautiful Night (QMEXQM)-311.flac:62195ab611b2acc321fe3c2e07657340
110 Out My Way-609.flac:eaf50155eef63fb80953e15501352cca
111 Paradise-452.flac:ed7e047f3bc57dd260e7c0094deafd08
112 Lake Of Fire-151.flac:2599301ae9dc112477cdc81ebafd39b4
113 Lost-406.flac:6a7683e1dcbffff591117f183e478778
114 I Can't Be Counted On-444.flac:b570f9841eedd93e7cff4f3403e94db3
115 Big Rock Candy Mountain (QMEXQM)-024.flac:df675970a3bbfde50e90b791f3855296
116 I Am A Machine-345.flac:5173430fa99a493e55e5de5a967c4b6e
117 No Money In This Deal (QMEXQM)-216.flac:6ca839bab6b86686bdd451e2f9773cde
118 Eternally (QMEXQM)-309.flac:b8532dc66a108f8534ba4625fe1b1966
201 Up On The Sun-428.flac:13fbb70c0ef7d16db4f141c13752ae2e
202 Love Our Children Forever-707.flac:e129fb5ce7bff666d778b4af8363e602
203 Maiden's Milk-410.flac:4caa85a1c8cd65e9b279c5bb1cc3f136
204 Swimming Ground-259.flac:f166f227e9198c7296de7b8adc089cd8
205 Liquified-304.flac:41527a9dad9c0332150870707006634b
206 Bad Boy-211.flac:8d9f3bcc4c6980cbbb42754659a0ec34
207 I Just Want To Make Love To You-706.flac:02bdfc25dc2018f9dcb2f6bbdff348e0
208 Plateau-305.flac:ae517ea4a7110ac51f1f0c62e0a2f005
209 I'll Tell You Folks (QMEXQM)-133.flac:0af7e9345920db19ddfd44b396973b57
210 In Dreams-239.flac:8daf3812345219ccbb32733621a63068
211 I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide-337.flac:0a75de5be662d8258c05cc9288007b84
212 Bad Love-333.flac:bf90ca65429493ca5d81dd25a724ce81
213 Buckethead-229.flac:e558cd9019ae073bbd743d5e9f39574d
214 Crazy-441.flac:3436c3e8738b2adf8f5a627936466d65
215 Climbing-333.flac:3477fe28c833767ca10a5f502ab5a6d0

ARTWORK

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SOURCE / LINEAGE

Stereo AUD master to Maxell METAL tape

Borrowed mics > Borrowed Sony WM-D6 > Master METAL tape > Computer WAV > Cool Edit Pro 2000 > TLH v2.4.1 > FLAC 8 > DIME > you
I don't have the specific model for the mics, but the buddy from which I borrowed the gear (thanks K!) said they cost approx. US$500.
Mics were physically separate left / right channel lines which fed back to a single stereo line into the deck.
The left / right lines were either pinned over each shoulder facing stage, or pinned to left/right sides under an open-holed baseball cap.
I originally mastered this 2009-08-22.
The left channel was lower than the right, so I bumped it up - on the dub to computer & again during some spots.
After adjustments trying to compensate for mic flaws (SEE BELOW), I just added in track marks.
This FLAC fileset comes directly from those final WAVs's, which only needed SBE corrections in TLH; no CD-Rs or EACs.

NOTES

As this is an original master & isn't too bad to start with, please DON'T remaster and repost it.
(ok well it's not great, but no one's gonna be able to make this one better anyway.)

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*******
WARNING: audiophiles or casual fans may wanna skip this one & pick another Meat Puppets show.
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Audio-wise, this is a dogshit venue for bands to play; a place with the worst acoustics.
Maybe it was fine in the '40s to hear big bands play there, but rock bands, nuh-huh.
Given that, this bugger doesn't sound too bad - NOT great, hard to hear spoken parts, but certainly listenable.
But there are irritants thru large parts of the show (see below), which may cause the average fan or purist to look elsewhere.

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This is another in a line of 1987 shows I taped which had some nasty mic problems.
For this one, the bulk of the show is okay, but about a third of it constantly had one channel cutting out & in.
That left a loud scratchy skronk in one channel (VERY irritating), & often "digital click"-like sounds in the good channel too.
I previously had made a 90min summary from this show of the "songs without the cutouts/ins", my listening tape for years.
A few years ago, I had another 1987 show in a similar state & I was able to do a little "computer surgery" to make more of the show listenable.
So now it was time to try the same thing with this Pups show.

The first 40mins & last 40mins of this show were mostly fine - it's the middle 40mins that had the worst of the nastiness.
I attempted to fix the click-like sounds in the good channel (sometimes it came out clean, sometimes not).
Then I took patches from the good channel to replace those short "cut out/in" bits with the skronk.
(How many? - 2 in the first 40mins / 3 in the last 40 / a couple hundred in the middle 40; many <11+> hours of work was required.)

The results sure aren't perfect - all of this is part of the final master here / not "flaws with your download files":
* you still hear the mic connection clicks in spots where it wouldn't let me remove them
* you hear what sounds like dropouts / tape muches / mic bumps, all really residue from the mic probs & skronk removal
* instead of cutting out, it switches to mono & back again to stereo
I know these flaws provide their own irritation, but at least ya can hear the whole show AND not shred yr speaker cones.
If the flaws bug ya, you could delete everything between Lost & Maiden's Milk, and have something like "my old listening tape".

Why would I go through all this crap for an imperfect tape? - because IMO it was an ass-kickin' show.
That middle segment had some really nice versions of tunes in there / fine Curt guitar bits (Machine), and I'd hate to just toss 'em out.
I'm including samples of both an okay song (Hot) & one with some'a the flaws (Machine), so you know what you're in for.

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Putting aside the flaws with my tape, it really *WAS* a fine show.
A nice bunch of tracks from Huevos, some oldies & some covers too. < HELP ME OUT ON SOME OF THE COVERS!!! >
They said it was the first time they played Bad Love live.
I esp. like the super-fast version of She's Hot, and Out My Way with the fast ending.

The bit after Hot Pink may just be an extended jam, but "such a beautiful night" is hollered out near the end.
Big Rock Candy Mountain is just a teaser verse.

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I had this documented in my list for years, but never remember trading a copy (with all the problems, small wonder).
I know I made a copy (of the 90min edit) for a few friends, but that's it, so this is its debut for most of you & for sure it's the first time complete.
Crank it up and ENJOY! it as I have, and share it so others can hear it.

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Tape gaps - there was a tape flip after Paradise / a swap after Liquified / one last flip after Crazy.
Following Liquified, the opening notes (or maybe just tune-up) to Bad Boy are missed, but not the first verse.
The tape segment lengths required adding a gap to break things apart for 2 discs.
There was a quiet spot b4 Up On The Sun & it's kinda near the show's midpoint, so I did a straight track break right there.
I SBE-fixed to both those natural tape breakpoints & to that 2nd-disc added breakpoint.
I edited out about 40sec of clapping b4 the encore, and I added a fade at the end to toss out a bit more clapping.
Besides maybe those first couple notes of Bad Boy, all that's missing is some clapping.

Speaking of...  I clap.  Sorry.  At least there's no talking from me.
And I leave everything in, warts and all - tuning, some of the claps before the encore & at the end.

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Filenames have numbers on the end that are the TIMES (ex. - "...-359" is 3min59sec long).
Filenames for guessed titles have "(QMEXQM)" in the name, as "?!?" isn't allowed in names.

I mark the start of tracks when the music or count-in begins, not the talking about it before it starts.

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The usual schmack applies here:

Please don't post this anywhere but DIME.
Please retain this original info file data with any reseedings.
Please don't transfer to MP3 or other lossy formats.
Please only trade this with others, don't sell it.
Please support the artists involved by purchasing their official product in massive quantities.