A night at The Alphabet Club 🙂 I think this was recorded over one of my grandma’s old Oldies tapes; you can hear a creepy voice deep behind the beginning of Tesla Girls, haha.
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Tape 18
Taped September 25 1994 (date courtesy the mention of the Nine Inch Nails show mention, hehe)
Ugh I was calling ALL night to win Disco 2, but of course didn’t win.
Tape 17
Way back on Tape 4 I mentioned the story behind Over Exposure and hoped it was on another tape… well, got some of it here at least, haha. I tried to date this tape using the Melrose Place promo but I failed, boo.
When I recorded this, it was the first time I ever heard PSB’s Where The Streets Have No Name, and I played this tape to death until I got Discography a few months into the 8th grade, so the best I can estimate is that it’s another Summer of ’94 tape 🙂 (siiiiigh. what a great summer.)
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With Always being considered new (dating that part to Spring of ’94), and with “Thank You” being given away (dating that bit to the Spring of ’95)… this tape kinda goes back and forth through time. Some of the live club broadcast is from the Acme Dance Club, and some is from The Alphabet Club.
The Shawn & Jeff bit at the beginning has been seared into my mind for over 20 years and I had no idea I had recorded it. But even to this day, the thought of chocolate shakes with extra cheese cross my mind every time I go into a Del Taco.
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I REALLY wish I didn’t skip through this one when I recorded it, it would have been a good one. Oh well. I don’t think I ever usually recorded Sounds Of Sacramento, I most likely only did here because Ambiance’s host guest-hosted it here. Haha.
Tape 09
Ugggghhhh, another tape where I put the two sides together wrong.
Pretty sure this was recorded either 8/25, 9/1, 9/8, 9/15, or 9/22 1995. Yeah, I know that really narrows it down. Heh.
This was recorded on a knock-off Martika tape I got at the Oakland flea market back in like ’89, hahaha.
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The first ten songs were put together by yours truly; I remember making a quick compilation to listen to at school on my walkman. The rest is all Movement, from either August 11 or 19, 1996 🙂
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This one starts out with a few minutes of Transmitter Adjustments on Live 105, then goes into some Movement (with a couple F-bombs scattered in there! Hahaha)… Then back to more Transmitter Adjustments (I proooobably accidentally flipped the sides on this one… my bad. I’m sure it’s going to happen a lot though. Heh)
Tape 03
I used to make my own compilations, and it looks like a big chunk of side A on this tape was a compilation of all the live Erasure I’d collected to this point, haha. Then it goes into some Alphabet Club for a while, then some pretty hard Movement stuff (Ministry to Nitzer Ebb to KMFDM = perfect block, haha) then some more Alphabet Club.
The majority of this tape was probably recorded in ’95, but I had caught wind of a new OMD song being played on Live 105 in the summer of ’96. To get Live 105 at my house, I had to rig a wire from my boom box’s antennae out my window and up to my roof. Worth it! I was able to catch Walking On The Milky Way twice this way. I wouldn’t be able to get my hands on the Universal album until about 2000.
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This was recorded during the “Modern Evolution Weekend” on KWOD – which, as far as I could tell, meant it was a weekend of playing blocks (by the same artist, or from the same decade, etc). There’s mention of bands I don’t recall them playing usually (Xymox, for example) so it sounds like they dug deep in the alternative vaults for some of them, hehe.
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