Husker Du Roxy 1986 compilation

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Sumant Ranji

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Aug 14, 2025, 1:29:11 AMAug 14
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Hi all,

I made this for my own amusement and thought I'd share.
The May 1986 shows at the Roxy in Los Angeles are some of my favorite Husker live tapes. They played three shows (May 7-9) and there are recordings of each gig, but each has its flaws. I put together a compilation from all three nights using the best version from each recording. For you completists, this is mostly from the "tapegeek" sources of the May 7 and May 9 shows, with one song and a couple of patches from the "RG" May 8 recording. I used Audacity to smooth out the song transitions and fix a few flaws in individual songs, but didn't do any EQing as the Tapegeek recordings sounded quite good.

Here is the link: https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/eba7fea4-d035-4c4f-b8ae-8a46567d3c39 (valid for 30 days - thanks Martin for the tip on using swisstransfer)

And here's the set list:

Husker Du
The Roxy, Los Angeles CA
Compilation from May 7, May 8, and May 9, 1986

Set list:
1 Intro
2 Flip Your Wig
3 Every Everything
4 Makes No Sense At All
5 Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill
6 I Apologize
7 If I Told You
8 Private Plane
9 Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely
10 Chartered Trips
11 What's Going On
12 Terms of Psychic Warfare
13 Powerline
14 Books About UFO's
15 Hardly Getting Over It
16 Dead Set on Destruction
17 Eiffel Tower High
18 Green Eyes
19 All This I've Done For You
20 Sorry Somehow
21 Celebrated Summer
22 Love Is All Around
23 Pink Turns To Blue
24 [break]
25 Ticket To Ride
26 Eight Miles High
27 [break]
28 Never Talking To You Again (acoustic)
29 Makes No Sense At All (acoustic)
30 Flexible Flyer (acoustic)
31 Celebrated Summer (acoustic)

Sources:
1 - 1986-05-09 unknown generation cassette
2-9, 11-12, 17-19 - 1986-05-07 "Tapegeek" master
10, 13-16, 21-31 - 1986-05-09 "Tapegeek" master
20 - 1986-05-08 "RJ" master
Patch between songs 2-3 from 1986-05-08 "RJ" master
Phranc guests on track 22
Michael Stipe guests on track 26

Enjoy,
Sumant

rap...@dds.nl

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Aug 14, 2025, 4:26:01 AMAug 14
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Thanks! Note that tapegeek's sources are available on archive.org: https://archive.org/search?query=tapegeek. His other recordings (Meat Puppets, Replacements, etc.) are nice too.

In the same vein, the other usual dimeadozen.org archive/taper suspects (bobfather, jems, mjk5510, stonecutter, etc.) are also well-represented on archive.org.

--Martin


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Cameron Metcalf

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Aug 15, 2025, 9:28:36 AMAug 15
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It gave me an enjoyable boost during the work day, yesterday Sumant - thanks for all your time in processing and then sharing this fantastic collection.Love this version of "Private Plane".

Cameron

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Sumant Ranji

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Aug 15, 2025, 11:07:43 AMAug 15
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Thanks Cameron - glad you liked it. Grant was incredible at these shows. 

Opu Anwar

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