"Metal" tape compilation

That's one fancy tape

At some point in (probably) early 1991, I "comped" a few of my favorite LOOB performances onto a super-expensive "metal" cassette (one cassette = $25!) that, I can now confess, I shoplifted when I was much younger from a major retailer!  I held on to this tape forever, figuring I would put a 16-track mixdown or something fancy on it.

But after a long time, I was just dying to see what the big fuss was.  $25 for one tape?  How good could it possibly sound?

Finally I broke down and put a few random things on......and frankly, I don't know what the hubub is all about!  Maybe it's my ears, or what I'm playing it on, but I don't hear the 25 bucks! The expense certainly didn't prevent it from having tape dropout in the beginning of "I Owe"! I'll tell you this, though: the tape is very heavy.  As in what it weighs!  It literally is a "heavy metal" tape!

What's good about this compilation is that it contains three of our performances from Tony Traguardo's "One More Saturday Night" show on the CW Post college station (WCWP) in early 1991.  As of now, I don't have the remainder of this - possibly our best - radio appearance.  Anyone out there have it? 


This tape also has the original (better) mix of the July 1990 "Return Britain" that I posted a couple of weeks ago.  I ran this one song through a "de-noiser", the first "treatment" I've done to any of these tapes.  It also has a couple of things that are "trailers" for upcoming posts: a summer 1990 rehearsal ("I'm Crying", which could bring a tear to the eye of even the most-hardened of criminals!), our WUSB radio broadcast (Hubie & Mike singing "Babaloo"), and "Steve Antos Night" ("It's All Right"....back in the early 90s when I was mixing this, I must have discovered that playing "Babaloo" backwards was really beautiful, haunting, almost scary!......so at the end....where "It's All Right" segueways into "Sailing" (!), I flew in this backwards track.  Because it was such an "oddity", I included it on this tape/blog.  The full, untouched version of this, and the rest of "Steve Antos Night", is coming soon, Loobsters! )

This short tape is a somewhat good introduction to Frank-era LOOB!

Life Out Of Balance metal tape compilation
I Owe (from WCWP broadcast, January 5, 1991)
Return Britain (original mix, July 1, 1990 demo)
What You Say (from WCWP broadcast, January 5, 1991)
I'm Crying (from Rocky Point house rehearsal, summer 1990)
Don't Step On The Bluegrass (from WCWP broadcast, January 5, 1991)
It's All Right (from "Steve Antos Night", August 1990)
Babaloo (from WUSB broadcast, August 1990)

Hubert Poole - guitar, vocal
Frank Russell - guitar, vocal
Ted Schreiber - bass, guitar, vocal
Michael Goodman - drums, quatro, vocal

special guest: Steve Antos: 3rd guitar on "It's All Right"
 
Download here:  http://www.mediafire.com/download/iwbyx6z8ka18pem/1991-01-05+and+various+1990+stuff.zip