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Teeth Grinder's Collection

Siouxsie & the Banshees   03/12/1977

Track Records studios, London, England
Source BOOT
Checksums c6a9c5c91ae51ce58fd42edba6404eaf *Siouxsie_Track 1977-03-12_01_Captain_Scarlet.flac
82b73428ccb6e7f46659e02a05bc3e3e *Siouxsie_Track 1977-03-12_02_Scrapheap.flac
f0698f13db3ecbe077f128db25d14e79 *Siouxsie_Track 1977-03-12_03_Psychic.flac
d780b2f9a99d0252ae2126f4ff9a8f6b *Siouxsie_Track 1977-03-12_04_20th_Century_Boy.flac
f2a82edfbe9eb2d52707aad1e1fc74b9 *Siouxsie_Track 1977-03-12_05_Bad_Shape.flac
4a749ef8024c956de90b58d392f8f4a6 *Siouxsie_Track 1977-03-12_06_Love_In_A_Void.flac
c36c9bad281306ad74bd8cd1108c53e0 *Siouxsie_Track 1977-03-12_07_Lords_Prayer.flac
Media CD-R   1 disc
Notes Track Rehearsals 7" vinyl
Tech Notes bootleg EP[tracks 1,2,3,5,6,7(first minute)] & cassette[tracks 4,7(last 4 min)] ->wav->Soundforge(normalise, editing the 2 sources together)->CDWave(split on sector boundaries)->flac(6)
J-Card Comment length: 21:14

Lineup: Siouxsie - vocals, Steve Severin - bass, Kenny Morris - drums, P.T.Fenton - guitar

Most of this is taken from a bootleg EP. I think it was quite an early bootleg, possibly even released as early as 1977?, mines the one with the blue cover, clear vinyl.
The EP omits 20th Century Boy and fades out a minute and a half into Lord's Prayer. Thanks to j2bpep for the missing parts so I could make this complete. My first attempt used a cassette I had which was poor quality, his sounds much better. There's 2 bits of my cassette still in there - 8 seconds at the very start and 10 seconds after 20th Century Boy.

Out of curiosity I was looking at a spectral view to see how the two sources differed and on j2bpep's audio there's a weird line at 16000Hz and a corresponding little peak in the frequency analysis. I had a word with the mods as I was concerned it could be perceived as lossy (but it's not as the frequency analysis doesn't drop off at the point where a lossy would). One of them suggested it might be electrical noise either at the digitisation stage and I added that it could also be on the cassette if it was copied too near a tv set. I can't hear anything unwanted in the recording anyway so I wouldn't worry about it too much!

At one time I had a cassette of this which was possibly better quality than the EP but sadly it got recorded over. I got it from a record fair so it must have been fairly common in the 80's when these cassettes were being sold so it's strange how it's hard to find now. Anyway, here's this version.

At the time this was recorded Siouxsie had only played 3 gigs, and only 2 with this lineup.
Trades Allowed Yes   Traded from: sillyworm
Ratings Show: *    Sound: A-
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Owned by Teeth Grinder · Last Updated May 23, 2023