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Minutemen Live at Folk City West on 1983-03-09

by Minutemen

Publication date: 1983-03-09 ( check for other copies)

Topics: Hardcore, Indie, Punk

Collection: Minutemen

Band/Artist: Minutemen

Minutemen
Folk City West
New York, NY
March 9, 1983

Source\Lineage: Aud(2)>Azimuth Correction>Cooledit Pro 2.0>.wav>CD>eac>.wav>flac (level 8)

1) …Split Red
2) If Reagan Played Disco
3) Colors
4) The Maze
5) Sell or Be Sold
6) Static
7) Fake Contest
8) Joy
9) Faith
10) Prelude
11) Search
12) Dream Told by Moto
13) ‘99
14) Black Sheep
15) Tin Roof
16) Ack Ack Ack
17) Self Referenced
18) Life As A Rehearsal
19) One Chapter in The Book
20) Beacon Sighted through Fog
21) The Only Minority
22) Mutiny in Jonestown
23) The Anchor
24) Cut
25) I Felt Like A Gringo
26) Ain’t Talkin’ ‘bout Love
27) Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
28) This Road
29) My Part
30) Polarity
31) Fanatics
32) Joe McCarthy’s Ghost
33) Plight
34) The Process
35) Paranoid Chant
36) More Joy
37) Pure Joy
38) The Product (cut)

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This is the GORGEOUS and VERY RARE Minutemen Folk City West recording. I’ve had it for years, but have only now just digitized it.

This was the minutemen’s first US tour, and first ever appearance in NYC, and they are on FI-YAH! The recording would be an A+ if the vox were just a C.H. higher in the mix…and the show was complete…As it is, the first song cuts in, and the last song cuts. If ya listen really closely to the stage chatter, it seems like The Product was the last song of the set. Only 6 secs of it is here, which hurts, but what’s here is blistering. Watt blows a clam and starts the song in the wrong key, but gets it back in key just in time fer the recording to cut…oh well…

Don’t let that detract ya, silly! Ya got 36 songs that ARE complete! I have only traded this once, on cassette (which means if ya DO have this, however unlikely, it’s probably at least a gen higher than this.This recording has been outta circulation fer a while. I hope ya enjoy.

PLEASE DO NOT SELL!!
PLEASE DO NOT DISSEMINATE IN MP3 FORMAT!!

Addeddate: 2007-02-10 15:06:27

Identifier: minutemen1983-03-09..flacf

Lineage: Aud(2)>Cooledit Pro 2.0>.wav>CD>eac>.wav>flac (level 8)

Location: New York, NY

Source: Aud(2)

Taped by: unknown

Transferred by: notsaved

Type: sound

Venue: Folk City West

Year: 1983

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Reviewer: relefunt - - May 30, 2012
Subject: Sweet! Fantastic show, glorious analog sound

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Lineage: Aud(2)>Cooledit Pro 2.0>.wav>CD>eac>.wav>flac (level 8)

THANKS and RESPECT to notsaved for his tireless efforts to get these shows out there. Read his review of this show -- he mentions using azimuth alignment and to anybody who is transferring analog cassettes to digital -- please read up on this topic! It makes a huge difference in being able to get all the information off the tape.

The Minutemen were truly one of the great unsung bands of all time. Anyone who is interested in eccentric, beautiful, amazing, terrifyingly brilliant songwriting and guitar playing needs to have a very careful listen to them. This would be a great starting place. To think that I can carry around my smartphone and stream this show anytime and anywhere I want to is mind boggling.

Reviewer: Shahius - - July 2, 2009
Subject: Where are "flac" archives???

I downloaded all these Minutemen's albums in flac some years ago. Unfortunately they lost. I have to download again. But I remember that then they were in zip or rar archives - big archives. Now they dissapeared, only mp3 archives exist. Why or where are they? It's more comfortable to download 1 archive, not loads of tracks.

Reviewer: Qumby the Talentless Mouse - - May 19, 2007
Subject: Excellent!

BOB!...
DYLAN!...
WROTE!...
PROPAGANDA SONGS!
The sorely missed "small" (as in minute) men.
Damn van accidents.

Reviewer: pwig - - May 19, 2007
Subject: my sincere aplogies...

i uploaded this show as i downloaded from DaD. this is a tremendous recording that i have listened to countless times. i want to make sure they get to the archive when possible so they can be downloaded as much as possible.

i once put the tapers email up and they got really mad at me saying they were getting too much spam as a result. so, much respect for this show!

Reviewer: notsaved - - May 18, 2007
Subject: credit...

now, i am psyched that all the uploads i've shared in the past have wound up here...i surely don't wanna horde stuff...

Share The Music!

i sure do wish that someone would give an acknowledgement of the time and care put into the transfer of the recordings...

i used Azimuth Correction on the transfer, by the way...

enjoy...

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