NOVA MOB Tuesday, 30 June 1992 Loft Nollendorfplatz 5 10777 Berlin Germany FLAC master, 15 October 2020, by elegymart: Digital audience recording (stereo): unknown mics/DAT recorder > DAT master > 1994-95 European Maxell XLII-S (Type II CrO2) 90-minute analog audio cassette {from the Stonecutter Archives} > Sony TC-WE435 (azimuth adjustment) > Roland R05 (24/96) > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 (audio cleanup, convert to 16/44) > SHNtool (fixed SBE) > CD Wave (track splits) > TLH (WAV > FLAC8). Created this text file. Total running time [56:27] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 01 Come, Come [4:00] 02 Old Empire [3:28] 03 Pink Turns to Blue [3:03] 04 Oh! To Behold [2:03] 05 Hare Krsna [4:09] 06 Evergreen Memorial Drive [5:18] 07 Ballad No. 19 [5:39] > 08 Admiral of the Sea (79 A.D. Version) [2:28] 09 2541 [3:39] > 10 Anything [2:36] 11 Never Talking to You Again [3:09] 12 Shoot Your Way to Freedom [3:18] 13 It's Not Funny Anymore [2:42] 14 Please Don't Ask [7:02] 15 The Main [3:45] Band line-up: Grant Hart - vocals, guitar Tom Merkl - bass Marc Retish - drums Notes: THE RIDE OF YOUR AMAZING LIFE VOL. 34 Now we're coming to the point where there's unfinished busy-ness on top of inflows and outflows of a wealth of material, while we run into NAB and other questionable forks in the road, and the blurring of TGPC and the Stonecutter Archives along with one's own. We're getting close to Vol. 200 of TGPC, so it's time to rummage through the old storage and get some unshared older and newer transfers out there in a parallel race to the finish line, so we can accelerate this and move on to the elegymart archives before that turns to dust. The previous shares of the Stonecutter Archives weren't named or numbered, because there was no foresight that the bot would one day disappear into thin air. Thankfully we now have that database salvaged, but since the numbered series functioned so well to keep track of TGPC, we're applying the same approach here. Here's the next major drop courtesy of the Stonecutter Archives. There was a thought about calling it Ticket to Ride, but that seemed to connote some exchange of currency, while Free Ride would mistakenly lead others to believe this series focuses on Foghat or Edgar Winter uploads (apologies to those of you who just had your hopes squashed there). For the rest of you, buckle yourself in, because you want to do this safely -- let's see if you can all handle having TGPC and the R.O.Y.A.L. series running neck-in-neck. That's if we don't crash over here first. For now we won't divulge who has the inner or outer track, but brace yourself for the ride. Let's shoot our way to the Metropol building in Schöneberg this time for a set from Nova Mob. At this juncture, Tom Merkl is still in the trio but Michael Crego's spot has been assumed by Marc Retish for a while. With a heavy itinerary that began in early May of 1992, Nova Mob concluded the end of their tour by playing at the end of June 1992 going into early July for about week in Germany and Belgium. Four dates from that visit have been documented on the Hüsker Dü Archive, but this Berlin stop at the avant-garde Loft has gone unnoticed... until now. The sound here is very clear but it does seem to have acquired a slightly warbly analog hiss in the transfer from the DAT master, primarily because there are so many alternating loud and quieter passages. Grant opted for the softer version of "Admiral of the Sea" for these shows, which made way for Merkl to play his bass while Grant sang off-mic in the middle of the song. The warble itself is probably a function of the cassette transport from the initial transfer, and may not even be all that noticeable had you not been reading about this. The setlist is the usual fare for the Nova Mob shows played during this time, except that in addition to allotment of three or less Dü ditties redux, we get a rare bonus in this setlist -- a live version of "Hare Krsna" which doesn't seem to have ever been performed live by Nova Mob, at least not on any previously circulated live recording. Or by Hüsker Dü for that matter. So tip of the hat once again to another surprise discovery from the Stonecutter Archive... be patient, we promise you it's gonna be a ride. Enjoy, elegymart