"The Circus, Bergenfield, NJ, April 23rd, 1983"
This is the unaltered version (no eq applied).
And now for something completely different: THE PLASMATICS.
OU: I discovered this show just recently (that, just a side-note, stems from my slowest trade ever), tracked and edited it, only to find out that probably the finest example of the band's most uncommon (in terms of bootlegs) and next to last era had been sleeping on my harddisk for quite a while now.
It captures a performance of the PLASMATICS just before they vanished into this KISS-clone called WOW and then surfaced one final time with "Maggots - The Album", thus bringing back to life at least a few of the characteristics that made the PLASMATICS what they were: A band delivering albums that couldn't sound more different from one another. Yet they were all good and original, something that extremely few bands succeed in, imho.
Then, some ten years ago, Wendy put a final end not only to her life but also the PLASMATICS. RIP, Wendy, I owe you the spirit of not accepting things the way they are merely because they are and have always been that way. That is more than most people in the world can say (though it doesn't exactly make life much easier, only more honest ;-)
NOTES: This recording is special in many ways. Not only does it appear to be the only more or less complete concert document from this era, but also does it include guitar and drum solos, is rather good-sounding and includes this unreleased and therefore unnamed, rather proggy instrumental reminiscent of (viewed from back then) future bands such as Mekong Delta or Mercyful Fate (paired with the "epicness" of some of the longer early songs of Metallica), a sequel, in a way, to one of my personal PLASMATICS faves: the instrumental "Plasma Jam". Unfortunately the tape flip occurs towards the end of the song, so that we'll probably never find out how it ended...
Only tracking, some gain adjustment and fade in/out was applied.
LINEAGE: extremely slow trade [2 single track flac files] - Toast Titanium 7.1.3. - AIFF files - Roxio Jam 6.0.3. (tracking) - Sound Studio 2.2.4. (fade in/out, normalize) - sd2f image file - Toast Titanium 7.1.3. (flac (8) - DIME (you!)
THE TRACKLIST:
01 Mistress Of Taboo [cuts in] 04:39
02 Stop 04:51
03 Country Fairs 03:38
04 Sex Junkie 03:30
05 guitar solo 06:37
06 Path Of Glory 04:35
07 Pig Is A Pig 04:05
08 Lightning Breaks 03:57
09 No Class 02:48
10 unknown instrumental [cuts out, tapeflip] 06:32
11 drum solo 04:36
12 Put Your Love In Me 04:02
13 Rock And Roll 06:12
14 Just Like On TV 03:20
NOTE: The following could be regarded as as an medley of songs from the band's early days. For some reason beyond me, I decided to keep those "teasers" separate from one another.
15 Doom Song [short version] 01:16
16 Living Dead [short version] 00:43
17 Masterplan [short version] 00:45
18 Plasma Jam [short version] 03:22
19 Tight Black Pants [short version] 00:59
TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 70:32 min
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