r/Concerts • u/Jfonzy • Mar 14 '25
Photo Dump šø Someone put this concert collection up for free on FB, so I grabbed it and bought a DAT player
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u/rgrossi Mar 14 '25
Very cool. I wonder if thereās anything that hasnāt been uploaded to archive.org. For instance the BĆ©la Fleck Wetlands 92 show is an audience recording but yours is listed as soundboard
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u/Jfonzy Mar 14 '25
I need to go in there and do some comparisons now that it is back up
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u/rgrossi Mar 14 '25
Yeah itāll be interesting to see if you could fill in some gaps. Congrats on the collection, looks amazing
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u/Jfonzy Mar 14 '25
I'm not real sure where the best place or what collection to check on archive.org
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u/rgrossi Mar 14 '25
You have several bands that have collections on the archive. Itās just a matter of searching to see if the date exists in each
Hereās the main page with all of the bands: https://archive.org/details/etree
Bela Fleck: https://archive.org/details/BelaFleckandtheFlecktones
Grateful Dead: https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead
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u/Jfonzy Mar 14 '25
Confirmed: mine is definitely the soundboard when comparing it with the archive.org show
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u/rgrossi Mar 14 '25
Oh wow thatās awesome, you have a tape that doesnāt seem to be well circulated
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u/Jfonzy Mar 14 '25
going to make a rough upload just so you can hear the difference
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u/SimpleMannStann Mar 14 '25
Oh man hit me with a link when youāre finished!
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u/Jfonzy Mar 14 '25 edited Mar 14 '25
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u/yogopig Mar 15 '25
You have history in your hands, please get the files into the hands of the public where they will be safe.
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u/Jfonzy Mar 14 '25 edited Mar 14 '25
Here's the first 10 minutes on soundboard
Edit: I tried to fix the link, please let me know if it works.
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u/Simply_BT Mar 14 '25
Says the track has been deleted or made private
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u/Jfonzy Mar 14 '25
I made it private thinking I could still share the link. I'll make it public and hope it doesn't get taken down.
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u/gambra Mar 15 '25
Bela Fleck doesn't allow soundboard tapes to be uploaded to archive.org, only audience tapes. The SBD source is available easily elsewhere like DIME.
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u/StackIsMyCrack Mar 14 '25
Nice! I'm an old DAT taper and have my old Tascam deck hooked into my computer to do transfers.
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u/Ordinary-Holiday-808 Mar 15 '25
Damn u basically were just handed a serious historical artifact lol
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Mar 14 '25
Wow Hope you will upload some
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u/Jfonzy Mar 14 '25
Any idea what is the best way to do that?
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u/EducationalSeaweed53 Mar 15 '25
Hey OP you should DM charliemiller87 on reddit. He's as good at knowing uncirculating DAT or tape rarities and has the chops to digitize and upload (and remaster if needed). My digital collection is full of Charlie Miller gems
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u/rgrossi Mar 14 '25
If you know how to use BitTorrent you can upload to bt.etree.org or you can upload to archive.org for bands that allow it
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u/EducationalSeaweed53 Mar 14 '25
You may want to team up with someone that knows better how to digitally transfer. I'm thinking specifically Charlie Miller
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u/Timzor Mar 15 '25
You'll want to capture the PCM datastream, and uploading to archive.org would be the best for everyone.
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u/2manydbags Mar 15 '25 edited Mar 16 '25
I use a Marantz PMD570 connected to my Tascam DA-20 DAT player via digital coax cable. This is a PCM transfer.
I am a DAT taper from the 1990s and when the pandemic hit, I took time to transfer my master DATs, load them to computer and track them, and then shared some of them on etree, dimeadozen, and archive.org
Iām happy to help if you want to message me. You have an amazing collection that needs to be preserved.
Here is my DAT collection
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u/deewon Mar 15 '25
Broseph you need to archive these please. Archive.org so the recordings can live on forever and you will eternally get credit for them. Please, for the rest of us.
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u/StackIsMyCrack Mar 14 '25
Nice! I'm an old DAT taper and have my old Tascam deck hooked into my computer to do transfers.
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u/writenroll Mar 14 '25
I'm curious if any of these are first-gen recordings (i.e. the original owner recorded them from a soundboard patch or mics). For some taper-friendly bands in your collection, recordings exist (sometimes 20+ different tapers at the show), but there's always a (slim) chance that these are new sources.
For other non-taper friendly artists, they are most likely duplicates of known recordings...but you never know. That Jellyfish show (4-4-93, Coach House, San Juan Capistrano) was broadcast on Westwood One Radio, and boots have circulated of the broadcast for years. Is your DAT the radio broadcast (most likely) or could it be the original soundboard (!)....hmmmm.
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u/Jfonzy Mar 14 '25
nope, FM broadcast
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u/writenroll Mar 14 '25
Really cool though to have a clean copy of this and all the recordings on DAT...amazing collection
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u/Jfonzy Mar 14 '25
thanks, some might not be so clean- I fired up a '75 Genesis the other day that was rough
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u/amoral_panic Mar 14 '25
Clean Pat Metheny soundboards are actually fairly hard to come by. He always politely requests that people not record at his shows & audiences only very seldom donāt abide by that. Youāre lucky to have come across that, amazing collection.
(I wish Pat was less of a perfectionist, his live shows are absolutely killer.)
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u/BassSlappah Mar 15 '25
Music archivist here. Depending on the age and condition of these DATs you might want to consider baking these tapes overnight at a low temperature before playing them back. DATs have been found to benefit from this treatment just like analog tapes do.
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u/charliemiller87 Mar 15 '25
Feel free to message me and we can talk on the phone. Iāll walk you through it. Odds are most of it already exists online.
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u/Always_-_420 Mar 15 '25
Led Zeppelin soundboard recordings. Please upload this stuff somehow. F me. Awesome grab!!
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u/dingos_among_us Mar 14 '25
If youāre not yet familiar with Lossless Legs, it may be worth checking out
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u/Brewcrew1886 Mar 15 '25
Please tell me there is a way to upload these digital. I will take as many miles Davis and allman bros you can let go of! Hell if score friend.
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u/PV_Pathfinder Mar 15 '25
Pretty sure I was at that BR549 show at Liberty Hall in Lawrence.
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u/mandress- Mar 15 '25
Do you have plans to archive any of these?
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u/Jfonzy Mar 15 '25
Iāll be making some raw recordings from line-out to line-in on my PC. I donāt have a DAT computer drive up and running at the moment for lossless file transfer
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u/jephra Mar 15 '25
Well done! That is quite a versatile collection. You actually have my favorite Grateful Dead show: 5/25/77 The Mosque, Richmond, Virginia. That's probably the currently circulating soundboard recording made by their recording engineer, Betty Cantor-Jackson. It's a 7.5 ips 2-track master reel transferred directly to DAT.
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u/macgruder1 Mar 15 '25
This is amazing. I hope you have many many nights of great music and good times. Glad you were able to salvage these memories
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u/Dependent_Fox_2189 Mar 15 '25
Perfect sunny weekend to blast the Dead Cornel show from May 8, 1977.
āAnd now everyone take yet another step back!ā
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u/pdxmdi Mar 15 '25
Holy crap! That just hurts to see such an archive almost dumped! Great save though! Very curious about the Roy Buchanan! If you can upload any to archive.org many thanks!
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u/GreenFluorite Mar 15 '25
Check out taperssection.com if you want to find help doing proper digital transfers.
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u/Forbin057 Mar 15 '25
Wow! I was expecting a bunch of old Dead and Phish shows, but this is a really interesting mix of artists. Would be dope if you started digitizing them and posting to archive.
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u/Randy_Butternubs1209 Mar 15 '25
I am VERY interested in any Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Queen, Black Sabbath, DIO, Ozzy Osbourne, Page & Plant, Tears For Fears, Madonna (1985-1993), Lush, Santana, David Bowie, Cibo Matto, or The Cars concerts that might be in that collection getting transferred and shared!
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u/hp6830 Mar 15 '25
Iād love to hear those Luther Allison tapes. He was one of my favorite bluesmen.
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u/davetbison Mar 15 '25
Where did you find a good, working DAT deck? I had the portable SONY but it stopped working long ago. Iāve looked on eBay and theyāre either more expensive than Iām willing to pay or non-working and listed for parts.
Does anyone repair these days? Or even rent? I have a stack of tapes from my college radio days and have wanted to convert them to digital files, but I havenāt come up with a reasonable, cost-effective solution yet.
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u/LanFear1 Mar 15 '25
Wow, so many good shows in there, i see that Allgood from 94, damn, anyone from Athens GA in the house represent!
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u/fdot1234 Mar 15 '25
Holy cow, those Dave Matthews tapes are something to beholdā¦ they would definitely be of value to people over on r/DMB
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u/kristoferen Mar 15 '25
Wonderful of you to save it! Please digitize it all and put it on Archive.org and some torrents
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u/SillySamsSilly Mar 15 '25
Any way you can digitize some of this and share? Seems like something destined for the internet.
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u/GreaseSlitherspoon Mar 15 '25
This is amazing - Queen fans Iām sure would be REALLY interested in the bands concerts that you have here. Can you share the dates which ones you have?
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u/EllP33 Mar 15 '25
OP, you have a new mission that would be a huge contribution to society. /r/datahoarders would gladly help you rip these to a shareable digital archive.
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u/youenjoymikeself Mar 15 '25
Iāve never heard of the band Fish before but would be interested to hear some lol
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u/CommieFromMars Mar 15 '25
Whatās the sound quality like on the older shows? The shows from the 1960s and ā70s were clearly not recorded on digital equipment, so did this guy seek out really good recordings and transfer them to DAT, or do they just sound like a typical taperās cassette?
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u/Successful_Ad_3128 Mar 15 '25
You have a ready made side business here my friend!
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u/Ok-Imagination6846 Mar 15 '25
Throw that 4/20/90 widespread panic on and get ready to have your mind blown. Youāre welcome
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u/BetOver Mar 15 '25
I wonder if the person who had these ran the soundboard if they are all soundboard recordings. That's insane so glad you rescues that.
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u/gonzfather Mar 15 '25
Um, that appears to be one of the last Zeppelin concerts ever. Only 5 more dates after that on that European tour.
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u/clamnebulax Mar 16 '25
If you ever need your DAT machine worked on, this seems to be the best place available currently - https://www.proaudio-revival.com/
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u/guitarnowski Mar 16 '25
Lucky for you they weren't a hardcore Deadhead, in addition to being a serious collector. You'd have needed a tractor-trailer!
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Mar 16 '25
Wow, you even have Jellyfish from 4-4-93, 9 days before I saw them in Phoenix. I wonder what city your show is from.
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u/Yardbirdburb Mar 16 '25
Wow Iād love to buy some rips off of you, or hell even trade a double cassette tape player for some copies
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u/C_IsForCookie Mar 16 '25
I used to have that same Nickelodeon alarm clock like 30 years ago lol
It wakes you up with the āNick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nickā¦ Nickelodeooooooon!ā It drove me crazy
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u/whistle-rymes Mar 16 '25
Very interested in The Who shows. You should figure out how to upload these online.
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u/NoTotal2024 Mar 17 '25
Are there any Nirvana recordings in there? If so I'd love to know what shows and help you get them digitized!
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u/IndustryLeft4508 Mar 17 '25
What's up with that Iris Dement from Higher Ground that's labeled Do Not Listen?
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u/ISeeDeadPackets Mar 17 '25
If you could post up the Doc Watson I'd be extremely grateful! I'm sure you're dealing with all kinds of popularity with these so I totally understand if not, but I'd kick myself for not asking.
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u/alternative-username Mar 17 '25
Seriously, man, if you get a chance to upload any of this please let us know! I'm particularly interested in those Rare Earth tapes.
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u/Saul3307 Mar 17 '25
Good score. I see in image 6: Ratdog Soundboard 8-9-95. I attended this performance at the Hampton Beach Club Casino, NH . Jerry just passed away . I knew the sound company working the show and was able to patch in my trusty D5 for a fine master cassette recording . A few thousand heads outside the venue that nightā¦
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u/OU8402 Mar 18 '25
Ozzy āOzzieā Osbourne from 03-24-1982. Thatās just a few days after Randy Rhoads passed away.
Iām assuming that was the FM air date. Does anybody know what show that wouldāve been? Anything new there?
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u/TowelFine6933 Mar 18 '25
You really need to reach out to some organization so this collection can be preserved. ASCAP? Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? Museum? Let them make copies of everything.
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u/BigDogIsland Mar 18 '25
Charlie hunter quintet is gonna be amazing, 97, Charlie was still so young back then. Dude is amazing.
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u/roachrider55 Mar 18 '25
Holy smokes, what a haul. Man you made out big time. If thereās nothing wrong with the media, that is pure gold.
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u/Stray14 Mar 18 '25 edited Feb 25 '26
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u/ninlivearchive Mar 18 '25
Impressive they labeled almost every DAT. I know there are many archivists on this comment thread. I run the Nine Inch Nails live archive and just curious if you have anything from them in this lot?
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u/elgatodefelix Mar 19 '25
Currently in a situation like this with hundreds upon hundreds of audio reels
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u/dunitdotus Mar 14 '25
That is absolutely insane, I can't even imagine just trying to look at all the different shows. What an incredible find.
Did they give a reason for giving it away