The Stray Cats 1984-07-08 Trout Aire Amphitheater Forest Lake MN

 
Stray Cats
Forest Lake MN, USA
Trout Aire Amphitheater
8 July 1984
stereo audience recording
(46:14)

***This torrent is incompatible with the CD-Audio standard. The sound is in 24-bit stereo sampled at 48kHz.***

cassette side A (46:14):
A01. start (00:28)
A02. Rumble In Brighton (4:08)
A03. Make Up Your Mind (3:45)
A04. Little Sister (3:09)
A05. Hey Tonight (3:50)
A06. Somethings Wrong With My Radio (3:02)
A07. C'mon Everybody (4:00)
A08. Looking Out My Back Door (2:38)
A09. Runaway Boys (3:23)
A10. Stray Cat Strut (4:19)
A11. Barbed Wire Fence (3:42)
A12. Sexy + 17 (3:28)
A13. Love Is All Around (2:37)
A14. Rock This Town (3:39)

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digitizing notes:

I don't really have any Stray Cats stories, as I'm afraid my rocker tendencies around the late '70s / early '80s leaned a bit more toward the mod sound rather than the retro Teddy Boy rockabilly revival, taking a left turn somewhere in the midst of the punk / art-rock / damage scene. Let's see... I was unceremoniously thrown out of a Stray cats show at 7th St Entry because my own band had been banned from the club; years later I saw the Brian Setzer Orchestra at a First Avenue New Year celebration; then in 2009 Stray Cats did a one-off reunion in Mpls - one year *after* I moved away from Minnesota, so that's all I got.

There is a brief start / stop between Little Sister and Hey Tonight; my guess is the taper was bumped hard enough to shut the deck off, but they managed to get it switched back on again so no music was lost there. There's another instance of something like this right after Barbed Wire Fence, which makes for a sudden start into Sexy + 17, but there can't be much more than a second or two missing there.

All in all, this previously uncirculated tape reveals a tight little set captured by Mr. Smith, that does a pretty good job of demonstrating the high-energy of the Stray Cats in their early heyday, laying pretty heavily on tracks from their Stray Cats and Built For Speed LPs. Short and sweet, since it was part of an outdoor rock / blues festival, the band doesn't waste any time between songs, just knocking out a fast-paced set of thirteen high-octane rockers in 45 minutes flat. Go Cats, go!

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additional notes:

This doesn't seem to have been on the tracker before, unless I missed something!

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lineage:
original master cassette [2-channel stereo] > Nakamichi LX-3 cassette deck [Azimuth adjustment applied to playback head] > Edirol R-04 [RCA/analog in; 24-bit/48kHz transfer (.wav)] > PC [via USB] > CD Wave Editor [Version 1.98; Windows Build Number: 0000.23F0] (sector boundary tracking) > Trader's Little Helper [Version 2.7.0; Build 172] (Level 8 .wav > .flac conversion, .ffp)

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The Mr. Smith Tapes.
Made available to the world through the collaborative resources of these people:
Recorded in 1984 by “Mr. Smith”.
Digitized in 2020; and technical notes by J. Free [sonicarchives.com]
Uploaded to DIME in 2020; any additional notes: 01001010

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Audio sample: Approx. 30 seconds each of: Looking Out My Back Door and Love Is All Around

 

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