Wallets, The
Walker Art Center - Minneapolis, MN

Recording Date   8/14/1981

Rock/Pop
Files, 9   Tracks, 39:31  Length
01 Trapped In The Congo 05:14
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02 On The Radio 04:38
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03 Liturgy 04:42
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04 That Don't Make No Never Mind 03:45
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05 The Cowboy Song 05:26
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06 Kojak 04:10
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07 The Diddley Diddley Doo Song 05:50
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08 Oxnard 04:01
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09 Crimson And Clover 01:45
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Music Details
Product Details
Venue Walker Art Center
City, State/Country Minneapolis, MN
Packaging FLAC
Live Yes
Sound Stereo
Musicians  &  Credits
Musician Wallets, The
Personal Details
Index # 3744
Owner Dave
User Defined
Purchased ROIO
ROIO Source Soundboard
Notes
The Wallets
Minneapolis, MN; U.S.
Walker Art Center
14 August 1981
(soundboard recording; total running time: 39:30)

001 Trapped In The Congo (5:13)
002 On The Radio (4:37) [Donna Summer]
003 Liturgy (4:42)
004 That Don't Make No Never Mind (3:45)
005 The Cowboy Song (5:26)
006 Kojak (4:09)
encore:
007 The Diddley Diddley Doo Song (5:50)
008 Oxnard (4:00)
009 Crimson And Clover (1:45) [Tommy James & The Shondells]

Here's a little treat from one of my old favorite groups in the Minneapolis music scene. I don't believe they garned much of a reputation outside the Twin Cities, but that shouldn't stop anyone from checking them out. They left a miniscule legacy of precious little recorded output, but if you can find it, I'd heartily reccomend any of it. As can be said for a lot of bands, I don't feel their real energy was ever captured in the studio, and I recorded them a number of times over the years, in order to keep a record of what I felt they were truly capable of. This is the only tape I have of the band that I didn't record myself, a pretty decent-sounding soundboard mix.

This particular recording came to me by way of a former girlfriend who "knew someone" and was able to borrow a cassette for a day, so I could make a copy for my archives. I doubt that it was the original, but as I recall, it was copied from the master tape. For some reason I can't recall in the present, the tape had a lot of starts and stops - perhaps the sound engineer (or the original recordist, if it wasn't the same person) kept stopping the tape between songs. I don't know. Possibly, the person who loaned my friend the tape made some edits - I don't know that either. In the day I had the tape in my possession, I played around with all the truncations, creating fade-ins and outs for my copy. In the digitization process, I tried to smooth some of those places a bit more than I could back in '83, when I made my cassette copy. It's not perfect, but it's a pretty good picture of a band that had too much imagination to convey accurately through just about any medium, other than witnessing them live.

first or second-generation cassette > my cassette > Azimuth-optimized analog/digital transfer to hard drive > CDWav (track splits) > SoundForge (DC offset; level adjustments) > Traders Little Helper [SBE check; .flac conversion (level 8)]