Well, I'm finally getting around to digitizing my 700+ cassettes (at my wife's insistence--she wants them out of the house), so I'm going to start posting some goodies here. I taped many a show in the Toronto area from the late '80's to the late '90's, and also recorded a lot of radio broadcasts, mostly from CFNY, 102.1 in Toronto. Hope you stumble across something you like, or even a show you were at!

addendum: I have had many comments about the fate of my tapes, so for those worried about them...the masters I am boxing up and storing in my parents' basement. The others (mixed tapes, recorded LP's, etc) are getting tossed. My wife is not evil or insensitive--we live in a small place, and the many boxes were getting in the way.  This is something I'VE wanted to do for awhile, as well.  She just gave me the push. Oh, and she doesn't have shelves of makeup, or hundreds of shoes, no matter what stereotypes you care to buy in to. Her comic collection, however....


Cowboy Junkies--Ontario Place Forum, Toronto, July 25, 1989

EDIT: I just opened box number 3 of tapes, and found one labelled "Cowboy Junkies, Ontario Place, pt. 2".  If only I had labelled the first one as part 1! Anyway, enjoy an extended version, now with 4 more songs! If you downloaded this before, you just need everything from track 17 on down. 

I've said it before, and I'll say it again--I miss the Forum.  Theatre in the Round, surrounded by lawns.  Torn down and replaced with the concrete monstrosity known as the Molson Ampitheatre. 
Perfect night to see the Junkies--a little on the cool side, but not chilly.  I was sitting on the lawns with a friend of mine, eating cherries (the occasional "pth" sound on the tape is me spitting out pits--sorry about that).  At one point, a light rain started up, but it just seemed to fit the mood.  Tape sounds better than I remember, with Margo's wonderful voice very up front.  Suffers from the usual problems with outdoor tapes--a little wind, planes flying by, etc., but actually, I really enjoyed it again. 

Lineage: aud master from Sony Walkman>M audio sound card>wav>flac  editing with CDWav

Track Listing:
01. Blue Moon Revisited
02. I Don't Get It
03. 'Cause Cheap is How I Feel
04. 200 More Miles
05. Me and the Devil
06. Escape is So Simple
07. Sweet Jane
08. Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning
09. Whaling Song
10. Mariner's Song
11. Shining Moon
12. Thirty Summers
13. You Will Be Loved Again
14. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
15. Misguided Angel
16. To Love is To Bury
17. Walking After Midnight
18. encore break
19. band intros
20. Powderfinger
21. Where Are You Tonight?
22. Dead Flowers

Enjoy!

This is number 50b in an ongoing series.


