Recently I received a box of DATs from another taper. This has happened before to me. People get out of the hobby and eventually decide to part with their media and masters. Often they have shared the recordings to some degree but sometimes the recordings are uncirculated.
In this case it's a mixed bag. This PUSA show is from a batch of shows that was recorded but MarcR. He ran MarcSounds in the 90s and manufactured and sold some very well liked stealth mics to lots of people. Of the batch of tapes I received some appear to have been shared over the years. Like the PJ Harvey at Mackey show seems to have been shared in the 90s. This PUSA show on the other hand I don't think have ever been shared. MarcR made some pretty nice recordings and I'm excited to share some of these with y'all. Most all of my batch is shows from 1995 in Denver.
The Mercury is still around and still hosting shows. The original owner Marilyn Megenity started it in 1975 at a different location. She hosted lots of early punk rock shows in Denver there including The Misfits. It moved to it's current location in 1990 and continued to serve up it's great food and host bands in it's 300 cap ballroom.
PUSA was riding starting to enjoy the success of their odd hit single Peaches and pack the Mercury. They only had the one album out at the time but the crowd got treated to multiple new songs including "Toob Amplifier" which they mention they wrote the day before. Some fantastic covers to including the Willie Nelson song "Devil In A Sleepin' Bag" which they covered for the Twisted Willie comp.
MarcR did a great job with this capture and I think it sounds really nice. I did minimal post production on it. Enjoy.
The Presidents of the United States of America
Mercury Cafe
Denver CO (USA)
1995-10-07
Recorded: MarcR
Transferred and Presented: SxPxDxCx
Source: MarcR binaural mics > D7
Transfer: DAT master > D100 > Oade Digi I/O-A > DAC > AAE-9 > Audition > CDWave > FLAC
Time: (65:17.70)
01 Kick Out The Jams (MC5)
02 Back Porch
03 Boll Weevil
04 Naked and Famous
05 Kitty
06 Supermodel
07 Devil In A Sleepin' Bag (Willie Nelson)
08 Lump
09 Stranger
10 Bug City
11 Candy
12 Dune Buggy
13 Mach 5
14 Feel Like Makin' Love (Bad Company)
15 Peaches
16 - encore -
17 Body
18 Feather Pluckn
19 Baby, You're a Rich Man (The Beatles)
20 Toob Amplifier
21 We Are Not Going to Make It
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