TORRENT TITLE : Snakefinger - 1980-12-27 Masonic Temple, Cleveland, OH ARTIST NAME : Snakefinger BOOTLEG TITLE : N/A VENUE, CITY, COUNTRY, DATE : Masonic Temple, Cleveland, OH 1980-12-27 TRACK LISTING DISC 1 (53:12) 01 Smelly Tongues...........................(2:55) 02 Trashing All The Loves Of History........(3:09) 03 Living In Vain...........................(4:04) 04 The Picture Makers.......................(3:59) 05 Magic And Ecstasy........................(1:15) 06 I Love Mary..............................(2:30) 07 The Vivian Girls.........................(1:45) 08 I Come From An Island....................(3:08) 09 Picnic In The Jungle.....................(4:32) 10 Kill The Great Raven.....................(2:59) 11 Here Comes The Bums......................(3:03) 12 UNKNOWN TITLE (?!?)......................(2:40) 13 Who Is The Culprit And Who Is The Victim? (CUT).......................(2:34) 14 Jesus Was A Leprechaun...................(1:41) 15 The Spot.................................(2:38) 16 What Wilbur?.............................(2:56) 17 Save Your Soul (?!?) (CUT)...............(4:13) 18 Save Me From Dali........................(3:02) (TITLES WITH "(?!?)" ARE GUESSES.) LINE UP Snakefinger - guitar, sing Miguel Bertel - guitar, sing George B. George - bass, sing Johnny B. Ryan - drums ARTWORK N/A SOURCE / LINEAGE Stereo AUD trade tape Trade tape > Computer WAV > Cool Edit 2000 > TLH v2.4.1 > FLAC 8 > DIME > you Big thanks to the original taper, and to the trader (unknown) who hooked me up with a copy. I mastered this 2002-08-31, & still had the original WAVs. The one thing I remember doing beyond adding track marks was with the levels at the end. The guess title "Save Your Soul" & "Dali" had loud booming drum thumps louder than the bulk of the show. I brought down those thumps, so that the overall levels for the whole show could them be brought up. So now in 2010, I removed a "range" mark in Picnic, SBE-fixed them all & FLAC'ed 'em up to this fileset. NOTES ---------- ---------- ******** **** FOR COMPLETISTS ONLY **** tho there's rarities that might still be a draw ---------- ---------- ******** Snakefinger's pre-Eric Drew Feldman band was called Bast & in early 1981, the Dead Residents. For this show I didn't hear a name (or the tape didn't catch it). He often introduced the band onstage, but didn't this night (or the tape didn't catch it). - - - - Cleveland? Snakey mentions LA at the end, and I wonder if this is really from there? Hey, my tape sayz Clevo & so that's what I've gotta note for now. - - - - It's stereo, but it's very limited separation, super hissy & also echoey. But it's Snakefinger, so you bounce high off the diving board before taking the plunge. Despite the audio, this one's a fine gig & has some gems in it: * the rarely played "The Picture Makers", "The Vivian Girls", and "I Come From An Island" * 2 tunes I've never heard anywhere else (too bad one of them's cut) (the first one's a Dick Dale-ish instrumental) There's a minute's worth of "technical difficulty" after Vain. There's more when starting Picnic, they doodle with it & start the song again afterwards. Either Snakey loses his way in I Love Mary, or had some git problems. Snakey talks in this one, but the echoes make it hard to interpret much of it. There's little I've seen to document his 1980 shows - a flyer & pics from CBGB's in October, and this tape. Given that, ya gotta take it & be happy we have it, warts and all. - - - - Crank it up and ENJOY! it as I have, and share it so others can hear it. - - - - 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. Two filenames have "QM" in the name, as a question mark 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. - - - - 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.