Inventory/tapes

Tapes which have been digitized

CLTR-01

Cassette - Triad MG-X 90

• Side A "layering/transfer #1 1988-03-28"
  • brief piano & synth thing (one in each channel)
  • Blue Fields of String (guitar sounds out of sync; need to do digital remix... also, I don't hear the synth)
  • Middle of Perpetual Motion
  • other stuff, including components of Trilogy
• Side B "~4 min. left"
  1. Monorail to Nowhere - bounce mix (xylophone + digital piano; voices, starting faint - maybe there was another layer on top in final mix?)
  2. guitar arpeggio thing - later became Sweet Dreams, Good Night
  3. Ensoniq piano thing (several false starts)
  4. Ensoniq piano thing again, without reverse reverb
  5. Attempt to redo Primordial with Ensoniq piano... OSLT... and multiple attempts to go somewhere with it...
  6. Backwards intro to Blue Fields of Green ... Blue Fields of Green with vocals turned way down, no solos except guitar; echo fades into --
  7. Antarctica; echo fades into --
  8. Psychiatric Interlude; fades into --
  9. Daydream of the Psychoanalyst
  10. tuning orchestra as whales
  11. R2 - B2
  12. BFoG: backing vocals and synth

CLTR-02

Maxell MX90

• Side A: layering/transfer #2 1989-08-03
  1. The Tape Ran Out
  2. something piano backwards; short
  3. Monorail to Nowhere (with piano intro; not the best mix, and not complete)
  4. overdub tracks for BFoG (vocals, echo-keybd, whistle...)
  5. overdub tracks for BFoG (vocals, whistle, lead vocals, echo kbd... stops abruptly)
  6. overdub tracks for BFoG (backwards intro, chorus-y lead vocals, piano, strings, organ, electric guitar solo) -- is this a mixdown?
  7. another BFoG submix; no high/echoey lead vox, no synth solo; has organ and elec guitar solo
  8. rewinding sound (brief)
  9. overdub tracks for BFoG (high/echoey bg/fg vox, keyboard solo...)
  10. overdub tracks for BFoG (high/echoey bg/fg vox... truncated near end.)
• Side B: no label
  1. BFoG mix: no high/echoey lead vox, no synth solo
  2. overdub tracks for BFoG (high/echoey bg/fg vox, synth solo; no elec. guitar)
  3. Facsimile mix: only one lead vocal, no real drums, no solos
  4. Facsimile mix: prelude, two vocals, real drums...
  5. Facsimile mix: prelude moved closer; two vocals, real drums, no solos; drums drop out properly
  6. Facsimile mix: additional prelude; guitar solo; no vocal solos
  7. Facsimile mix: adds vocal solos
  8. Post-Atomic Wasteland: no lead vocals
  9. Facsimile mix: slightly better mix? (This sounds like the final one I used...)
  10. Monorail to Nowhere (with piano intro; missing some elements, including the end part; a bit fuzzy...)
  11. Monorail to Nowhere (with piano intro; much as above, though this sounds like a submix that got used)
  12. Monorail to Nowhere: cuts in near the end (the part missing from the above mixes); echoey ending

Maxell MX90

cassette

• Side A: "The Cheap Imitation - demo 1988dec21"
• Side B: "The Cheap Imitation - layering/xfer 2A" (?)

REH-AN-1993-10-22

Abbey Normal rehearsal, recorded on oddball clock-alarm-cassette recorder. Is this a copy of the "rehearsal #3" tape? Or is this the original, and that's the copy? My solo in "Shoobee Doobee" is kind of unmistakable, so it has to be the same session. Cleaned & demagnetized heads right before starting transcription. Recorded at 2872 Danielsville Road.

• Side A:
  • fragment of "Somehow I Don't Think So"; ends in feedback when Brad starts singing
  • hoppy rhythm piece (Tim's?), mostly sloppy with some good bits
  • "Somehow I Don't Think So"
  • "Shoobee Doobee"
  • "Think About It"
  • re-take of ending
  • solo drumming which might be usable as loop
  • lots of talking about the ending
  • re-take of playout/ending - drummer stumbles
  • "Just One Look" - attempt at beginning
  • "Just One Look"
  • "Harmony"
  • "Guitar Lonely" - false start
  • "Guitar Lonely" (music, vocals: Tim Kunkle; lyrics: Brian Crum)
  • (cut)
  • remains of older recording
    • ending of some song of Tim's
    • talking and noodling around
    • Interplanetary Love Affair - gets lost in the middle
    • Interplanetary Love Affair - tape ends after first verse
• Side B: sounds like another rehearsal with Abbey Normal
  • cuts in to "Two Ways",
    • played a bit fast (maybe this is how Tim likes it?)
    • keyboard solo is kind of interesting, briefly...
  • Tim explains how it works musically
  • "Interplanetary Love Affair" - passable? (Brad seems to know all the riffs this time)
    • Tim's vocals at the end kind of... gaah.
    • End kind of stumbles
  • "Them"/"Same Spot Twice"
  • lots of talking
  • [cut to older recording - probably earlier rehearsal at 2872]
  • cuts into "Somehow I Don't Think So" (keyboard on plinky organ patch; somewhat slower pace; sloppy)
  • talking... Livia arrives...
  • cuts off

RSK-001

7" Radio Shack reel tape - working tape 1989-19901992

• Part 1
  • Facsimile 1.2 - drums, vocals
  • Facsimile 1.3 - 1991 master version
  • Facsimile 1.4 - above + bass, lead guitar
• Part 2
  • Post-Atomic 1.1
  • Post-Atomic 1.2
• Part 3
  • Chameleon 1.1 (phone interrupts)
  • Chameleon 2.1
• Part 4
  • guitar sequence (featuring Weird Arnette Ave. Noise)
  • guitar song w/whistling
• Part 5
  • YBC 1.1 1992-06 -- just piano, nothing else
  • YBC 1.2 1992-06-16 *this version*

RSK-002

7" Radio Shack reel tape

• You Never Give Me Your Munchies 1.1 1992-03-18 20:00
• You Never Give Me Your Munchies 1.2 1992-03-18 20:30

TEAC MDX90

Cassette - 1988-01-28

• Side A: Durham / Greensboro
  1. Primordial (full early version)
  2. middle of Brave New World (no synths; voice-sample-splice thingy at end)
  3. primordial guitar/harmonica thing
  4. strange click-echo thing (very brief)
  5. water-guitar thingy, with piano (mixed down, fortunately)
  6. jam with people at Milner Hall
  7. "Birds" :-P
  8. Those Satchnarp Blues
  9. Anticipatory Piano Thing
  10. Dana Auditorium 3AM
  11. brief harpsichord thing
  12. Through Space & Time (by Chris Kimmel)
  13. variations in D major thing
  14. Shannon & Fran flute/synth jam
  15. guitar chord thing
  16. rhodes & strings
  17. rhodes & horns
• Side B: Ann Arbor / Providence
  1. middle of Perpetual Motion
  2. Antarctica, abrupt ending (poor tape quality)
  3. BFoG instrumental tracks (probably 4-trk cassette mix)
  4. Daydream of the Psychoanalyst (poor tape quality)
  5. Stringy Fields of Green (short version; poor tape quality)
  6. Let's Annoy Caroline
  7. Dangerous Interlude (without reverb)
  8. harpsichord bass thing
  9. spliced voice thing for Brave New World
  10. Slow Stringy Thing
  11. Thing That Needs Words
  12. Pepperonipitsaa

Tapes which have not been digitized

in progress

APX-101

has been partly digitized

• Monorail to Nowhere - source for mix with Rhodes intro

Not formally listed, but here's what I heard listening to it just now (towards the end):

• sort of dreamy guitar thing
• The Penguin Song (original tracks?)
• "Perpetual Motion" on stereo piano (fading poorly into "middle of" mix, which is cut off by the tape ending)