X Men @ San Francisco, CA 1981-06-01

 

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X Men
Mabuhay Gardens
San Francisco, CA
1981-06-01

THTP Release 32

Recording chain: 
House soundboard > Cassette Deck (Dolby ON) > TDK D-90

Archival Process: 
1999: Sony TC-KA3ES > TDK SA-90/DA-90 tapes playback (NO Dolby) > BBE 462 Sonic Maximizer (to clean up tapes) >
Tascam DA-30 DAT > HHb DAT-125 DAT tape
2002: HHb CDR-850 Professional CD Recorder (In real time) > HHb CDR74 Gold 100 year archival grade CDRs
2005: Transfered to HDD in AIFF file format

Dime release processing: AIFF Master Files > FFMPEG > 16 bit FLAC 8 > tagging, cover artwork, checksums.

Recorded, preserved, and master AIFF files provided by: Terry Hammer

Setlist:
01. It Feels Bigger Than Life
02. Drive It Home >
03. Drive It Home
04. I Should Run
05. I'll Take You Away
06. My Chances
07. All Night Long
08. I Love, I Love, I Love You

Length: 24:23

Band:
? - bass, vocals
? - guitar, vocals
? - drums

Notes:
* I can tell you this is NOT the UK X-Men, also a punk band, they started in 1982. 
* They sound like a 3-piece, but can't find info on them, anyone know?
* All track list titles are based on the lyrics, just guesses.
* One Monday night at the Mabuhay gardens, the soundman decided for reasons he can't remember to pop a cassette into the cassette deck and record this show. So out of the mist of time comes this show, no information about the band besides the name, no information about who was in the band, and only the faintest clues about the names of the songs. That soundman was Terry Hammer, who also did sound at the Mabuhay Gardens, and later at the On Broadway (the club next door and upstairs), as well as for a variety of bands. Busy guy.
* Terry remembers that the band had an cute girl bass player who used a Cerwin-Vega bass cabinet that reggae bass guys would have died to have. The bass is really thundering, it pounds through your speakers even 40 years later.
* This recording sounds almost like proto-grunge, which makes me wonder if the group may have been from up North, Seattle, but http://pnwbands.com/ does not list any such band. Maybe they arose out of the primordial sludge, looked around to see what was out there, then with some gurgles sank back into the sludge, to wait until a more welcoming grunge would accept them? All we can do is speculate, there's just no information.
* Despite being on a TDK D-90 cassette, this sounds remarkably fresh and alive, in fact, it was hard to turn off when I first played it.

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Please correct any errors or oversights in this information in the comments section so the information can be as accurate as possible.

If you can find related materials like flyers, posters, ticket stubs, even photos, etc, please add them in a comment and I will add them to the main release folder, so that can be included on the next re-seeding. Every bit is welcome, and as I am time constrained on this project due to the amount of material, I cannot spend as much time on each release doing research as I would like, so if we can add to and improve the information and release contents during this series, that would be great.

Please make an effort to pick at least one of these THTP releases and keep it seeded for as long as you can, particularly the lesser known groups. That will really help out long term.

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About Terry Hammer and the THTP:

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/ 

Besides his amazing KALX/KTIM radio shows, which were recorded on reel to reel (for the radio stations), and an Akai cassette deck (for Terry and backup, and also the source for the THTP releases), Terry also worked as a soundman in venues like the Mabuhay Gardens, the On Broadway, and also did sound for specific artists, like Earl Zero, and various others. This release comes from his work as a sound engineer, and was not part of the live radio broadcast series.

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.

This is called the Terry Hammer Tape Project (THTP) to make sure there is no doubt about the project's creator.

The sound boards and recording devices vary from location to location, and are not that critical in terms of the lineage of these soundboard recordings. But each recording is interesting and relevant today, some 40 years later.

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 - teetering