Blues Traveler
"Greene Street Dumps", 1989
Recorded at Greene St. Recording, New York, NY

Master:
Rich Vink & Dave Swanson, aka Panfish Productions
Cass(x) provided by Dana Fletcher

Conversion:
Nakamichi CR-2A > Lunatec V3 (A/D) > Tascam DR-100 mkIII > 
WAV > Sound Studio 4.10.1 > xACT 2.50 > FLAC
by Dave Mallick, October 2022

01. Weird Chick        [03:37.086]
02. 100 Years*         [03:49.519]
03. Dropping Some NYC  [02:47.976]
04. Mulling It Over    [04:14.703]
05. Gina               [05:31.778]
06. Crystal Flame      [10:33.538]
07. Slow Change        [08:02.982]
08. But Anyway         [04:51.339]
09. Hard To Exist//    [05:51.663]
                Total: [49:20.584]

* with Joan Osborne on vocals

Flaws:
The first note of 100 Years is missing, and Hard To Exist cuts out. 
If there is more to this recording, it is not on this tape and does
not circulate to the best of my knowledge.

History:
Rich Vink recalls: "[These were] work mixes from pre-production tracks
we did. Dropping Some NYC was a finished thing they sold at gigs, we
recorded more stuff at Greene St. before they got signed but they never
got put out. Me and Swanny had more access to Greene St. downtime and
were recording the [Spin Doctors'] first self-release, Chris Whitley and
those Traveler tracks in and around the Fear of a Black Planet and
Daydream Nation set ups."

Notes:
Rich's comments date these recordings sometime between July/August of
1988 (when Sonic Youth's "Daydream Nation" was recorded) and June
through October of 1989 (when Public Enemy's "Fear of a Black Planet"
was recorded). But given that the "Dropping Some NYC" demo was recorded
the day after Christmas 1988 at LoHo Studios rather than Greene St.,
these are likely recordings made during the later window in 1989. And
due to the nature of the work mixes, no official cassette release or
artwork was likely ever available.

Weird Chick, 100 Years, and Dropping Some NYC are on the "Dropping Some
NYC" demo as well, but are different recordings. Weird Chick has some
swirling guitar sounds at the beginning and Brendan's drum kicks in
later than the previous version; 100 Years features Joan Osborne rather
than Roger Fox; and Dropping Some NYC has a longer intro and does not
feature extra backing vocals during the outro.

Finally, this is the only known studio recording of Hard To Exist; the
Spin Doctors would release their own version on the "Can't Say No" demo
in late 1989, and then on "Pocket Full Of Kryptonite" in 1991.