Pictured above is my Dubbing Station, placed in our small home office within arm’s length of the massive tanker desk I picked up years ago cheap. While working on one project or another I’ll often multitask by digitizing a few of the cassettes, minidiscs and DATs stashed on shelves and in metal cabinets nearby. The audio is sent out of a Denon cassette deck, Sony MiniDisc machine or Marantz Portable DAT machine into a Sound Devices USBPre2. Then the zeroes and ones travel via USB to Audio Hijack on our iMac, with final editing and cleanup done on Adobe Audition. I’ve been trying to reduce the approximately metric ton of physical media I’ve accumulated over the decades but it’s a slog, leavened only by the occasional discovery of something I didn’t know I had. Like this 1989 Nihilistics rehearsal. I’ve written about my last gasp with the original lineup: we got back together in 1989 and recorded five songs for a new LP before Mike reverted to form and became a mean drunk. This is another rehearsal from that same time-frame. I’ll apologize in advance for the shitty PA causing the vocals to get lost under a layer of sludge. Songs include:
Working Class
Just For Me
My Creed
Misanthrope
Pal O’Mine
Fate
Antisocial
Poor Show
Mister 9 to 5
My Life
Black Sheep
There’s a whole bunch more Nihilistics audio to be discovered in my stash, so stick with me as they’re unearthed. And if you haven’t yet, sign up for my OTHER newsletter, See You Next Tue!
1989? Find!