Wallets, The
Walker Art Center - Minneapolis, MN
Recording Date
8/14/1981
Rock/Pop
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01 | Trapped In The Congo | 05:14 | |||||||
02 | On The Radio | 04:38 | |||||||
03 | Liturgy | 04:42 | |||||||
04 | That Don't Make No Never Mind | 03:45 | |||||||
05 | The Cowboy Song | 05:26 | |||||||
06 | Kojak | 04:10 | |||||||
07 | The Diddley Diddley Doo Song | 05:50 | |||||||
08 | Oxnard | 04:01 | |||||||
09 | Crimson And Clover | 01:45 | |||||||
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Notes
The WalletsMinneapolis, 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)]