Guns N' Roses
"Use Your Illusion" Tour
Oakland Coliseum
Oakland, CA
September 24, 1992
** 16 BIT **
Source: Sony stereo mic (unknown model) > Sony WM-D6
Transfer: Master cassettes (Maxell XL-IIS 100m) > Denon 790R > Kenwood A-522 amplifier > Kenwood GE-622 Equalizer > .WAV @ 16 bit/44.1 kHz
Mastering: .WAV > Sound Forge Pro 11.0 (Build 299) [iZotope Mastering Suite (declick); minor edits, normalize, & fades] > CDWav (tracking) > Trader's Little Helper (level 5) > FLAC > TagScanner 6.0.18 (tagging)
Location: On the main field, DFC, in front of the soundboard - probably an easy 60-80 yards from the stage
Recorded & transferred by: Steve "ballsdeep" Hagar
Mastered by: Dennis Orr
Setlist: (2:13:45)
01 Intro
02 Welcome To The Jungle
03 Mr. Brownstone
04 Chat
05 Live And Let Die
06 Attitude
07 Band Intros (partial)
08 Bad Obsession
09 It's So Easy
10 Double Talkin' Jive (with Voodoo Child tease)
11 Civil War
12 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (tease) > Wild Horses
13 Patience
14 Band Intros (remainder)
15 Drum Solo >
16 You Could Be Mine >
17 Guitar Solo >
18 Theme From The Godfather >
19 It's Alright
20 November Rain
21 The One (intro) >
22 Sweet Child O' Mine
23 Chat
24 Only Women Bleed (intro) >
25 Knockin' On Heaven's Door
26 Encore Break
- Encore -
27 Don't Cry
28 Mother (intro)
29 Paradise City
30 Crowd & Fireworks
Axl Rose - lead vocals, piano, & percussion
Slash - lead guitar & backing vocals
Gilby Clarke - rhythm guitar & backing vocals
Duff McKagan - bass & backing vocals
Dizzy Reed - keyboards & backing vocals
Matt Sorum - drums, percussion, & backing vocals
Teddy Andreadis - keyboards, harp, percussion, & backing vocals
Roberta freeman - backing vocals
Tracey Amos - backing vocals
Diane Jones - backing vocals
Cece Worrall Rubin - saxophone & flute
Anne King - trumpet
Lisa Maxwell - saxophone
Mastering Notes:
Some minor wind noise
Tape flip @ 6:43 0f "Double Talkin' Jive" - seamlessly spliced, some music lost
Tape flip @ 5:15 of "Theme From The Godfather" - seamlessly spliced, some music lost
Tape flip @ the very end of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" - no music lost, but an abrupt end, cutting off Axl saying "Thank you"
Show Notes:
It's always nice a day or two before the big, rescheduled Guns/Metallica/Body Count (due to James catching on fire) show to be taping Exodus at One Step Beyond in San Jose and get caught by the 6'3", 290 lb. security guard who opens your deck, ***snaps the tape in half***, and throws it, and the batteries into the garbage right in front of your face...but lets you stay to watch the rest of the show.
It's even nicer to realize that in the melee either the microphone fell out of the deck, or he threw it in the garbage, too.
All this at age 20, barely a month+ into an over-25-year taping "career".
So, the next day, we had to go to the big, shiny Sony store in San Jose, and try and get a replacement mic (we couldn't, they had no PC-62 on the shelf).
So I ended up buying some weird Sony mic with an AA battery, and a plastic divider that divided the head into L/R. Probably twice the length of a 909, and 2-3 times as thick. Pretty sure it had an on/off switch (i.e. battery)...no idea what it was, though if I saw a picture of it, I'd probably recognize it.
It lasted for this one show, as I much preferred the wider range of the PC-62...though listening back I'm glad we made the 80 mile round trip to San Jose vs. no tape at all.
And, of course, this was the show in Metallica's "home base", and roughly $100,000 damage was caused to the A's field BEFORE GNR even hit the stage...many a dirt clod hit me in the head during their set.
There's some jostling, and some wind noise, but for the most part this is a pretty enjoyable listen.
It's GNR, I'll let you folks' comments stand as testament to the show...
So if you made it thru ALL that "blah blah"
THANK Dennis
And curse me all to high heaven...ain't gonna do any good, but do it anyway. Do it for Mikey.
Back to the tape mines....
---ballsdeepOVERandOUT!!!!