black_flag1981-12-15.flac16

Black Flag
1981-12-15
Venue: AUD - unknown (low) gen - B/B+ quality
Location: Unknown

01 Rise Above
02 Revenge
03 American Waste
04 I've Heard it Before
05 Room 13
06 Depression
07 Scream [early take]
08 I've Had It
09 Nervous Breakdown
10 Jealous Again
11 Spray Paint
12 Damaged I
13 Six Pack
14 No Values
15 Clocked In
16 Life of Pain
17 Fix Me
18 Police Story [instrumental]

Source: Decent audience recording of an early, rare and high-energy Black Flag set. I don't think this one has been shared on DIME before, the original tape transfer came from hothcanada several years ago. Back when I was actively trading more, I might have cleaned this one up in Audacity to some extent, but if I did that copy is long gone (lost a ton of shows in a move, including many "remasters" I did). Maybe one of you guys can try tinkering with it, although the quality is listenable already. I wish I had saved the lineage information for most of the shows I acquired via hoth, maybe he'll see this and fill in the blanks. A very early and skeletal "Scream" is played at double speed, while "Damaged I" trudges along as usual. Hank's vocals fade out during the last verse of "Fix Me" and "Police Story" appears to be instrumental, maybe the mic got unplugged?
I plan on posting a few more rare shows in the near future, so watch for those. My upload speed is terrible so please bear with me on that.