Live @ LoveSexy, Hoboken, NJ, Nov 9, 1996

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Num	Title	Writer
1.	My Street (4:17)	Jim Robertson
2.	Instrumental E and Hazel Eyes (5:43)	Jim Robertson
3.	Roseland (4:01)	Anthony Marchese
4.	Leaving New England (4:14)	Anthony Marchese
5.	Halloween Theme Song (1:08)	John Carpenter
6.	150 Miles (5:17)	Jim Robertson
7.	Don't Let Me Down (3:42)	The Beatles
8.	Garden State Building (2:45)	Jim Robertson
9.	Lorain (4:24)	Anthony Marchese
10.	Pearl / Tokyo Salsa (6:35)	Jim Robertson
11.	American Girl (3:43)	Tom Petty
12.	Outtake 1 (4:29)	alt.sex.dentist
13.	Outtake 2 (5:42)	alt.sex.dentist
14.	Outtake 3 (3:10)	alt.sex.dentist
15.	Outtake 4 (3:10)	alt.sex.dentist

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The original source recording was from a recordable Walkman that Jim would duct-tape to the wall near his bass amp or otherwise find a nearby location for it. In 2016 Jim digitized these files from the cassette playing through the same Walkman. All attempts were made to keep between-song chatter. Only long stretches of silences have been edited out.

Garden State Building is cut off at the end. Jim probably ran out of tape and needed to flipped the cassette tape to the back side.

This was alt.sex.dentist's penultimate gig.

As a bonus, during digitization Jim discovered some Backwards Songs at the end of the gig. These songs are included for the alt.sex.dentist "purists." Several explanations for the backwards songs:

Tape Bleed -- in which the magnetized particles that encode the sound onto the tape can "bleed" from one tape layer to another.

To go completely on a tangent, the most famous example of Tape Bleed is Led Zep's WHOLE LOTTA LOVE. During the "breakdown," Robert Plant has a pre-echo of the lyrics "Way down inside, woman, you need me." This was a Tape Bleed accident. In these primitive early recording days, it was impossible to remove this accident, so in the mixing process Jimmy Page made the "bug" into a "feature" by adding echo to it. Listen now. Some say this wasn't actually Tape Bleed, but a Mixing Console "wiring" issue. You can read more.

Misaligned Tape: when originally recorded, the Walkman recording heads and the cassette tape didn't completely align, so some of the sounds intended to be recorded for stereo tracks A and B on Side One were also slightly recorded onto tracks C and D for Side Two
Tape Recycle -- Jim had recorded a rehearsal and then re-used the tape to record the gig. The new recording of the gig didn't completely record over the previous rehersal recording. This is unlikely, as the "tone" of the backwards songs match the tone of the LoveSEXY gig. Jim has some tape recordings of rehearsals (most or perhaps all exclusively in Aaron's basement), and the tonal quality (and intensity) doesn't seem to match.

Wow. The Halloween Theme Song was pretty ambitous. Jim butchered the bass line. Thank God we ditched it after barely a minute.

Don't Let Me Down was another debacle. Rambunctious? Yes. Rough? Oh, yes.

Garden State Building was a (at the time) recent Jim composition. It was inspired by a New Year's party on Larry Marchese's Hoboken apartment roof in 1991-1992. Jim wrote it around 1995-1996, and (for some reason) the band decided to play it. Jim supposes the most unique thing about the song is the droney lead guitar -- inspired by the Kitchen's of Distinction's Drive That Car. It's also an unusual A B B C pattern or chords.

Interesting that the boys audibled to Mosoko Tango at the end of Lorain. Yet, unsustained.

American Girl was also an audible for an encore. And, also unsustained. Why didn't Rosko hit the mic? The fans clearly wanted more.

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Live @ LoveSexy, Hoboken, NJ, Nov 9, 1996

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