Mudhoney + Lemonheads @ Club Lingerie 1989-09-02 (SB)

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Mudhoney
Club Lingerie
Los Angeles, CA
September 2, 1989
RG Master First Cassettes via JEMS
New Wave LA Series Vol. 50

Recording equipment: soundboard feed to unknown cassette deck

JEMS 2021 Transfer: RG First Generation Cassette > Nakamichi RX-505 (azimuth adjustment) > Sound Devices USBPre 2 > Audacity 2.0 capture > iZotope RX6 > iZotope Ozone 6 > CD Wave > ffmpeg > FLAC

01 intro
02 In 'n' Out of Grace
03 Here Comes Sickness
04 tuning & talk
05 You Got It
06 Running Loaded
07 Come to Mind
08 This Gift
09 Touch Me I'm Sick
10 The Farther I Go
11 Get Into Yours
12 If I Think
13 When Tomorrow Hits
14 Dead Love
15 outro

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The Lemonheads
Club Lingerie
Los Angeles, CA
September 2, 1989
RG First Generation Cassette via JEMS
New Wave LA Series Vol. 51

Recording equipment: soundboard feed to unknown cassette deck

JEMS 2021 Transfer: RG First Generation Cassette > Nakamichi RX-505 (azimuth adjustment) > Sound Devices USBPre 2 > Audacity 2.0 capture > iZotope RX6 > iZotope Ozone 6 > CD Wave > ffmpeg > FLAC

01 (cuts in) Die Right Now
02 Nothing True
03 Burying Ground
04 A Circle Of One
05 Don't Tell Yourself It's Ok
06 Hate Your Friends
07 Come Back D.A.
08 Ride With Me
09 Mallo Cup
10 Out
11 Stove
12 Take Her Down
13 Left For Dead
14 Your Home Is Where You're Happy
15 Uhhh
16 Fucked Up
 
JEMS is pleased to extend a range of historic recordings made by our longtime friend and diehard music collector RG. He was on the scene in LA as a teenager, began recording shows in 1977 and continued on well into the 2000s. Our series will focus on tapes he made between 1977 and 1987.

What sort of music was he into? Well, one simple way to put it is KROQ music, meaning the bands that LA's "world famous" new wave radio station was playing were the bands he saw and recorded. First wave if you will, with forays into indie and punk(ish) artists. The early years are dominated by UK artists breaking in the US. Over time his work expands to US bands in the second wave. Some of the artists RG taped include:

Siouxsie & the Banshees (Vol. 4)
Madness (Vol. 8)
The Specials (Vol. 6)
OMD (Vol. 10)
The Damned (Vol. 25)
The Stranglers (Vol. 1)
Public Image Limited (Vol. 3)
John Cale (Vol. 9, Vol. 30, Vol. 44)
Magazine (Vol. 21)
The Buzzcocks (Vol. 7)
Orange Juice (Vol. 13)
U2 (Vol. 28)
Wreckless Eric (Vol. 27)
The Cramps (Vol. 22)
Johnny Thunders (Vol. 18)
Talking Heads (Vol. 24)
Iggy Pop
XTC (Vol. 2)
The Jam (Vol. 31 and Vol. 40)
The Only Ones (Vol. 19)
The Undertones (Vol. 17)
Boomtown Rats (Vol. 5)
The Birthday Party (Vol. 15)
Penetration (Vol. 26)
The Bluebells (Vol. 12)
The Plimsouls (Vol. 11)
Athletico Spizz '80 (Vol. 29)
Killing Joke (Vol. 14)
Jonathan Richman (Vol. 16)
The Records (Vol. 20)
Robert Fripp (Vol. 23)
Bram Tchaikovsky (Vol. 32)
Peter Gabriel (Vol. 33)
R.E.M. (Vol. 34 and Vol. 42)
Elvis Costello (Vol. 35)
Hüsker Dü (Vol. 36 and Vol. 39)
Alex Chilton (Vol. 37)
Style Council (Vol. 38)
The Replacements (Vol. 41)
The Smiths (Vol. 43, Vol. 47)
True Believers (Vol. 45)
Uncle Tupelo (Vol. 46)
Tom Waits (Vol. 48)
Neil Young (Vol. 49)
Mudhoney (Vol. 50)

RG used good, not Millard-level recording gear, which means his tapes are mostly solid and listenable, with the occasional very good one and also sorta crappy one. What makes his tapes compelling is that RG was recording in a particularly vital window of time. In many instances these were the first or second times these acts played Los Angeles. Some never did proper US tours, only playing select dates in key markets like LA or NYC. Also, for many of these gigs, RG was the only taper. He grabbed a few local radio broadcasts along the way, too.

Because these early shows were often at clubs like The Whisky and The Roxy, the sets are generally short, 45 to 60 minutes because that's what you did at The Whisky. On occasion, RG would copy his own masters to save tape and we have done our best to distinguish what's a true master and what's a first generation copy. If there's a doubt, we will note it. Regardless, the series will offer the lowest generation copies available of his recordings, digitized directly for the first time from RG's tapes which had been stored in boxes for the last 15+ years.

Twelve days after recording Neil Young at the Greek, RG was at Club Lingerie for a fine double bill of The Lemonheads and Seattle's own Mudhoney. As we learned on Vol. 45 of the New Wave LA series (True Believers), RG had a hookup at Club Lingerie that would allow him to record some shows from the board and this was one of those nights.

The Club Lingerie performance comes two months before the release of Mudhoney's self-titled Sub Pop debut album but following a string of attention-grabbing singles and the Superfuzz Bigmuff EP that collectively served as some of the first shots across the bow of what would become the grunge juggernaut. The setlist blends songs from the singles and EP with previews from the forthcoming album.

A soundboard recording of the Mudhoney set has been in circulation for some time, presumably from RG's tape, though for all we know more than one person plugged into the board that night. What I can say is that the raw board feed has very little bass guitar and through the use of Music Rebalance in iZotope RX, I was able to restore much of the missing instrument. The result is a much improved board mix of a very lively and relatively early Mudhoney performance. Samples provided.

We're grateful to RG for letting JEMS dig through his tape boxes and pull out the assets for this series. He witnessed amazing LA music history. Tip of the hat as well to cpscps who volunteered to handle post-production on our series which is a huge help to us and makes it possible to get more music in your hands. Stay tuned for more New Wave in LA.

BK for JEMS