Kai Kln

Kai Kln Live 6-27-92 @ The Nightbreak San Francisco, CA
2 PZM mics(stereo on drums) + vocal mic(on monitor) > Tascam 4-track(mixed live) > Sony 2-track > cdr(0)* > EAC > FLAC frontend(5)
*CD from 2-Track Master recorded and mixed live by Randall Mantei.
Transfered by Randall Mantei, flac by Sherman Loper.

1) intro
2) More intros (Gene improv-Chicken song)
3) Pilot
4) Old Shoes
5) Rhythm of Strange
6) Junction
7) Kong > Eighteen
8) Because They're Bored
9) Punker
10) Lost in a Dream
11) Blur
12) Thirteen
13) For What or What For
14) Roadrunner

The Nightbreak was just an amazing place to see a band, especially Kai Kln, because the stage was only about two feet high and the narrow shape of the room made it always feel packed.  Kai Kln seemed to have an extra strong draw in that part of SF anyway and they packed the house on 6-27-92.  I lived on Haight near Masonic (just above Pipedreams head shop) and packed my Sony two-track, Tascam 4-track, PZM mics, and a vocal mic into backpacks for the short walk down to the club.
I set up early on the right (band's left) on the stage.  I taped the 20' cords down and set up a stereo PZM recording of the drum kit.  The vocal mic was taped down to Gene?s vocal monitor, and I mixed it as best I could with the PZM room sound.  The vocals are a bit quiet throughout, but the EQ on the vocals was so tinny that too much from that ruined the room sound.  All in all, the recording is a bit hollow and for all the equipment, time and work put into it, a bit disappointing.  However, a show this hot could never be disappointing, and the lower-fi sound reminds the listener of that sweaty, cramped, drunken, party atmosphere that the show had.  People danced and banged their heads in the best grunge ways as the band showered them in guitar-rock genius while pounding their nervous system into complete submission with the bass and drums theatrics!  This is burned straight from my master tape.
*Great to listen to with headphones and a good equalizer!  The stereo separation is a treat!


Kai Kln 12-05-92  Whispering Clam Room, Duffy's Tavern, Chico, CA
Opening for the Motherhips

Unknown analogue aud > cdr(1) > cdr(2) > EAC > FLAC frontend(5)

Unknown taper saw Larry Boothroyd (Bass player of Victim's Family) wearing a Kai Kln tee shirt while Larry was visiting a friend in the SF building that the taper resided.  That taper made a copy of his mastered cdr(0) for Larry and then Larry made a copy for Neil.  I do not have the source information nor do I have any idea what software was used in the copying.  I used EAC (see .log header below) to rip Neil's copy to my Dell Dimention 4600c pentium 4 WinXP computer, Sound Forge 6.0 to join original tracks 8, 9 & 10 (the taper must have split Thirteen by mistake) and 12 & 13 (track 13 was just crowd noise), and FLAC frontend to compress the show.


Show date confirmed at http://www.geocities.com/tapersalmanac/hipsgigs.html

Electric Floor
Old Shoes
Punker than Thou
Chasing the Wind
Rock Star
Fragments
Junction
Thirteen
-- tape flip --
Whipping Post
Rhythm of Strange



EAC extraction logfile from 24. April 2004, 22:31 for CD
Kai Kln / kaikln1992-12-xxd1

Used drive  : PHILIPS DVD+RW SDVD6004   Adapter: 1  ID: 0
Read mode   : Secure with C2, accurate stream, NO disable cache
Read offset correction : 91
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : Yes

Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
                     44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo

Other options      : 
    Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
    Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
    Installed external ASPI interface

SHNID	Date	Venue	City	State
24615	1992-06-27	The Nightbreak	San Francisco	CA
2 PZM mics(stereo on drums) + vocal mic(on monitor) > Tascam 4-track(mixed live) > Sony 2-track > cdr(0)* > EAC > FLAC frontend(5) *CD from 2-Track Master recorded and mixed live by Randall Mantei. Transfered by Randall Mantei, flac by Sherman Loper.
70172	1992-06-27	The Nightbreak	San Francisco	CA
2 PZM mics(stereo on drums) + vocal mic(on monitor) > Tascam 4-track(mixed live) > Sony 2-track > Sony 2-track > cdr(0)* > EAC > FLAC frontend(5)
23685	1992-12-05	Whispering Clam Room, Duffy's Tavern	Chico	CA
Unknown analogue aud > cdr(1) > cdr(2) > EAC > FLAC frontend(5) // Opening for the Motherhips, the taper taped them too. See text doc for source story, any additional info would be appriciated - contact swloper at hotmail dot com. Show date confirmed at http://www.geocities.com/tapersalmanac/hipsgigs.html
70173	1992-12-05	Whispering Clam Room, Duffy's Tavern	Chico	CA
Unknown analogue aud > cdr(1) > cdr(2) > EAC > FLAC frontend(5) > Third gen digital from master tape (see notes).

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