999 @ Old Waldorf 1979-07-02 (Terry Hammer collection)

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999
Old Waldorf
San Francisco, CA
1979-07-02 - Set 2

THTP Release 10.

Recording chain: Stage snake > splitter > dedicated snake >
Peavy MkII 12 channel mixing board (10 channels snake, 2 channels audience mics) >
Technics RS-1500 Reel To Reel (mostly TDK Audua L-1800 & LB-1800 tape with back coating or Scotch 206 / 207 with back coating. Maybe a few Maxell UD-XL)
Archival Process: Reel to Reel > Transferred to DAT in 1999 using Tascam DA-30 DAT Recorder > DAT tapes transferred to 100 year archival quality CDRs in 2002 using HHb CDR-850 Professional CD Recorder (in real time)  > Transfered to HDD in AIFF file format 2005.
Recorded, preserved, and master AIFF files provided by: Terry Hammer
Dime release processing: AIFF > FFMPEG > 16 bit FLAC 8 > tagging, images, checksums.

Setlist:
01. Pick It Up
02. My Street Stinks
03. Hit Me
04. Me & My Desire
05. Let's Face It
06. Action
07. Feelin' Alright With The Crew
08. Lie, Lie, Lie
09. Nobody Knows
10. Inside Out
11. Titanic (My Over) Reaction
12. Rael Rean
13. Emergency
14. Nasty,Nasty
15. Homicide
16. Quite Disappointing
17. Boiler

Length: 57:52

Band:
Nick Cash - vocals, guitar
Guy Days - lead guitar
Jon Watson - bass guitar
Ed Case (Paul Edward) - drums

Notes:
* On this tour, like the April show, the drummer was Ed Case who was filling in for original drummer Pablo LaBrittain who had a motor cycle accident and could not tour until they came back 8 months later in March 1980.
* About 999: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/999_(band)
* Right before set 2 starts, Nick says "We figured the people who stayed tonight must be really into music", which shows that this was set  2 at the Old Waldorf, and not set 1.
* Note that only 1 of the sets they played 1979-07-02 were commercially released:
  Cleopatra records released a 4 CD box set of all Terry's 999 shows called 'Bay Area Homicide'
  The show from 07-02 on that CD are:
  Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA (02/07/1979) - Set 1
  Note that despite some sites on the web saying that 999 also played at Keystone Berkeley 1979-07-02 and 04-04, this is not correct,
  they did not play at the Keystone those nights. That appears to just have been made up out of thin air.
  Tery asked Matt at Cleopatra why they didn't release the 2nd set of 1979-07-02 Old Waldorf and he said Nick didn't give him that tape. Terry assumes Nick lost the Set 2 tape when he gave it to him, which is why it was not used.
  So this set 2 from the Old Waldorf has never been commercially released, even though set 1 was.
  Set 1 setlist: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/999/1979/the-old-waldorf-san-francisco-ca-53ff8f41.html
  Set 2 setlist: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/999/1979/the-old-waldorf-san-francisco-ca-43ff8f3b.html
  The 1979-04-04 Old Waldorf released by Cleopatra did feature both sets.

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Someone put my feelings very well about these recordings in the following quote. I can't really improve on their words beyond noting that these recordings sound absolutely and utterly stunning, and I consider myself incredibly lucky to be able to present these to you here in their original, first generation, lossless hi-fidelity versions, for the first time ever.

"[These recordings were] recorded and preserved by collector/engineer Terry Hammer, for broadcast over the UC Berkeley station KALX and several others from the 1979 -1981 period. Anyone who spent a night at one of these clubs knows how chaotic the atmosphere was. That he was able to, not only get a decent feed from the sound mixing board, but was also able to get clean recordings was something of a miracle. And the fact this guy did it over and over again is pure dedication to the cause of preserving history for decades to come. Fortunately for everyone, he’s been making these gems of history available and their value as historic documents is inestimable. This is really exciting stuff and I am grateful for Terry’s foresight and deft skill."
src: https://pastdaily.com/2014/06/25/gang-four-live-american-indian-center-san-francisco-1980-nights-roundtable-concert-edition/

If you've ever been looking for an excuse to upgrade your sound system, these recordings certainly should provide you with some motivation, because they have incredible sound. And if you already have a quality sound system, you are in for a treat!! The audio goes straight to 20k hz, no losses I can detect. Due to the reality of tapes, even high end as used here, the low end starts at 47 hz.

And if you want to learn more about this incredible musical era, listen to the stuff you haven't heard, there are amazing gems in there.

Do we call these soundboards? Technically not precisely because this is not the house mix, these shows were mixed using a dedicated mixing board, with an additional 1 to 2 audience mics in the mix. But I call it the Terry Hammer Tape Project (THTP) to make sure there is no doubt about the project's creator.
 - teetering