Hoarse Speak

Black Sabbath
3-16-72 Tucson Community Center Convention Hall
Tucson, AZ
VG+ audience recording

01-NIB
02-Tomorrow's Dream
03-War Pigs
04-Sweet Leaf
05-Iron Man
06-Snowblind
07-Wicked World
08-Orchid->Guitar Solo
09-Jam
10-Drum Solo
11-Jam
12-Wicked World (reprise)
13-Children Of The Grave
14-Paranoid
15-Crowd
16-Fairies Wear Boots

A VG+ audience recording that surfaced in 2003. Contains early versions of
Tomorrow's Dream and Snowblind with different lyrics.
Lineage : ? -> CDR -> FLAC

Wouldn't exactly call the quality VeryGood+ but it's all there and Tony Iommi's guitar is in all its 1972 splendor…

Faith in NC restored…

Just when you think Chapel Hill has been destroyed by yuppies, you have to go to see Donnie Barnes about some Honda Tailights. D. Barnes' yard is down 15/501 off Lystra Rd. Just past Cole Park plaza. Off of Lystra Rd is also the Governers Country Club - an old-school-very-rich-white-southern type of place, but around the corner not 1/2 mile away is Sam Jones Rd on which the first building is Barnes Auto Repair, but that isn't our D. Barnes. So I asked the only person around who was a man, probably 50ish wearing a black cowboy hat who drove up in a 66 2 dr Chevy Impala (that was cherry I might add) where I could find D. Barnes. He kindly pointed me further down Sam Jones Road he said that it was "'bout a 1/2 mile look for the log cabin and a big rock - If you hit the pond or you've gone too far." Ok, turns out a LOT of Barnes live down that road, in fact, there is a Barnes road a little bit beyond the pond. Seems like every house is inhabited by one Barnes or another. So at said rock and cabin was a sign that read "Donnies ->" and further down a dirt road was Mr. D. Barnes and his junkyard. Unfortunately no Hondas that had the same taillights, but I had a good time spending a sweaty hour wandering around a junkyard with a bag of tools crawling through doghair infested wrecks, proping hatches up with the old carburettor that someone pulled off and decided they didn't need, pulling off taillights that don't fit what I need, and trying to pry open hatchbacks with no key. My monday lunch.

Or Guizi lai le in the original Chinese. Best flick I've seen in awhile. See it if you get a chance and haven't yet.

Because I'm listening to this right now (while coding at work):

Artist: Slayer
Venue: Sports Arena
Location: San Diego, CA
Date: 10/12/88

Source: Unknown Audience (LOSSLESS) > CDR > WAV >
GoldWave 5.06 ("Time Warp" effect @ 95.2 ratio) >
Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 6.0 (To EQ) > WAV > SHN

Setlist

1.  South of Heaven
2.  Raining Blood
3.  Silent Scream
4.  At dawn they Sleep
5.  Read Between the Lies
6.  Mandatory Suicide
7.  Behind the Crooked Cross
8.  Spill the Blood
9.  Live Undead
10. Angel of Death

Comments: This is them opening for Judas Priest. This version has the correct
speed playback. The versions mainly in circulation are at a very high speed
playback, so now it's all taken care of. Also cleaned up the clarity and sound
quality with slight EQing. Enjoy!

I was actually at this show. And someone in the audience - sounds like on the floor towards the right side of the arena (since the right channel is louder) made a tape. 17 years later it finds its way onto the intarweb for trading…

ps. Thank Sassy for the Slayer revive - he prompted me to dig out my 19 year old Reign in Blood tape for him and Goatgirl to listen to.

I went to see Operation Dreamland last night at the Chelsea. The film makers were there and answered questions about the film after the showing to a packed theater audience. I really liked the film and was surprised by how good it was. I expected another somewhat antiwar documentary and was surprised by the lack of film maker's voice and how it was really much more just letting the soldiers speak.

The film is about 2 weeks in the life of a squad in I/505 82nd Airborne Division in Falluja in the winter of 2004. The film was shot about 1-1.5 months before the Marines rotated in to relieve the 82nd and the first siege promped by the killings of 4 Blackwater Mercenaries.

It is really a "this is the life of a squad of soldiers" in Iraq. The film makers go on missions, attend briefings and attend a "required" meeting for those who are thinking of mustering out after their term is up. The soldiers in the movie are incredibly candid, and according to the film makers liked the movie - they've all seen it. Particularly funny is that there are several scenes of soldiers speaking to Iraqis (doing their required community outreach on patrol) and the interpreter is translating about half to a third of what the Iraqis are saying such that the Sergeant and Lt. don't even really know what they are saying. When they got to see the film, the reaction was "Oh that's what the fuck they were saying to us". The filmmakers had no idea what they were recording at the time, in one scene, Ian said he thought the people were cursing at him and taking the piss out of him, when they were really asking him about why a woman had been detained.

Anyhow, go see it if you are interested, I highly recommend it. They opened it in North Carolina because the 82nd is based in Fort Bragg. It opens next week in NY and other cities. The greater the receipts at the Box Office this weekend, the more cities it will open in.

Note to self, in case of tornado or hurricane, get to a Waffle House and get under the benches and hang on…