Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
Worcester Artists Group ("WAG")
Worcester, Mass. U.S.A.
November 3, 1989

performance quality: B+ (good music as usual for them)
recording quality: B to B+ (Most is pretty good)
source: 2nd generation (probably) audience tape
(this one may have had some sbd mixed in too, not sure)

runtime: 79:57 (14 tracks)

original Glasnost Radio show broadcast date: May 21, 1993 on 91.3 WCUW Worcester FM radio
(this was likely also broadcasted prior to this on a different WCUW show)
lineage: unknown microphones (pretty decent ones) >
Tascam cassette deck (I think it
was one of the "porta-studio" models) >
4 track master cassette > 2 channel mixdown copy >
my copy (same, I think both with no dolby)
played on Naka. 125 into soundforge 4.5 >
FLAC 6 > torrentially yours.

comments:

What's the next best thing to a 3 step torrent? A 4 stepper, I suppose, which this is because from a 1st generation tape, but this is a pretty good one. This was my first time hearing Birdsongs live. I didn't see this show, but Mark Paolini did, and he was one of the first WCUW Birdsongs fans. He also hosted a show at WCUW for many years. I recall broadcasting this concert just before 1993 show which is part 2 of my Birdsongs Trilogy. This is part 1, right about the time I began working at WCUW radio in Worcester. I didn't know who BOTM were until I heard this, which was around the time of their CD "Faultline" (not the song Deep Purple does, very different than that and also good). Very hard to describe or put into a category, they play a wide range of style and had already been playing together several years (very well) when they played this show. It's tough to hear alot of the between song talk, volume very low, but the music comes through clearly, only a couple of weirdnesses in the mix. Most of it not very noticable any more after some level balancing. This now sounds better than it did over the air (even if it was a rare night that WCUW's transmitter was working) and is one of 3 BOTM shows I am uploading on the dime. The other 2 are both from my masters. This came from Mark P. who recorded it and did a good job of that and getting me a cleanly recorded copy. I have edited out about a minute of between track silence and nothing-happening time of this to fit it on 1 disc. It appears to be the whole show. The other 2 are a little shorter than this, and all 3 are fine music, nice performances and recommended listening. They mention that they recorded a studio album in Worcester, and they liked the WAG enough to return there in 1993 (maybe one or two times in between that I might have missed). This may sound a little cleaner than the master I made of that because the levels were a bit too low for about 1st 20 min. of that one, not this. Quality is pretty good on this.

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