Digital audio of the first SUGAR show?

[D. N. Israel]

Does anybody have the files of the full show and would be willing to share?

http://thirdav.com/hd_discog/05_live_audio.html#20Feb1992

https://sugarlist.org/performance-archive/1992/02/20/athens-ga-40-watt-club/

Thanks,
-D

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Artist:Sugar

Date Recorded: 20 Feb 1992

Location: 40 Watt Club, Athens GA

Recording Quality: B+

Time:90 min

Notes:DAT audience tape.  Soundstage migrates back and forth

annoyingly.  The guitar is too low in the mix.  

 

 

Contents:

The Act We Act

A Good Idea

Changes

Running Out Of Time

Helpless

If I Can't Change Your Mind

Fortune Teller

Slick

Hoover Dam

Clownmaster

The Right Words

Come Around

Tilted

The Judas Cradle

JC Auto

The Slim

The Door Into Summer

Armenia City In The Sky

Dum Dum Boys

Helter Skelter

Man On The Moon

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[rap...@dds.nl]

That's widely circulated, so I probably have it somewhere. Will try to upload today.

If I recall correctly the full circulating recording (like so many Athens shows) is by Chunklet a.k.a. Henry Owings; the truncated version from the "Whatever Makes You Happy" bootleg was sourced from someone else's recording. If I recall correctly (redux) Owings' recording sounds better.

--Martin

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[rap...@dds.nl]

Plugged in hard drives, I was wrong:

* Found a "Sugar_Athens_40Watt_29OCT92_untracked.flac" file on drive #2 which was sent to Paul by Henry Owings. Was this ever tracked and circulated?
* Found two folders each of Whatever Makes You Happy and the full recording of the Athens show on drive #3. Will compare and upload a.s.a.p.

--Martin

[Sumant Ranji]

Never heard the Henry Owings version, for what it’s worth. The circulating version has some phase shifting but overall sounds pretty good. 

Hoping against hope that a recording of the November 1994 Chicago gig shows up in the Aadam Jacobs archive, but I’m pretty sure he has stopped taping at larger venues by then. 

Sumant 

Sent from my iPhone

On May 16, 2026, at 7:50 AM, rap...@dds.nl wrote:



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[Paul Hilcoff]

I’m on the road for the next few days but I’ll check my hard drive when I get home. 

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[rap...@dds.nl]

Following David's question here's a quick text dump of my drive #3 which contains most of my Sugar live stuff. It's mixed with official releases, which I will not upload -- I was just too lazy to edit those out. ;-) Upload requests welcome.

https://pastebin.com/JUC0LiKz

--Martin

[rap...@dds.nl]

Copy/paste/whittle to just the salient bits, otherwise it's a wall of text:

David:

> Does anybody have the files of the full show and would be willing to
> share?
>
> http://thirdav.com/hd_discog/05_live_audio.html#20Feb1992
>
> https://sugarlist.org/performance-archive/1992/02/20/athens-ga-40-watt-club/

Martin:

> Found two folders each of Whatever Makes You Happy and the full
> recording of the Athens show on drive #3. Will compare and upload
> a.s.a.p.

OK, so I compared everything:

* The two folders with the full recordings were the same checksums, so deleted one
* The two folders with Whatever Makes ... were two distinct rips

Hence:

Download 1 of 3:

Whatever Makes You Happy, rip #1:
https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/2a53dae7-6990-4e23-98af-1ae2f6546d24

Download 2 of 3:
Whatever Makes You Happy, rip #2:
https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/21a3cc5b-67a9-467b-8df7-4b72645a937d

Download 3 of 3:

audience DAT > cassette (unknown generation):
https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/73377f96-d99f-47d7-9f66-deec8c469d45

Have at it!

Trainspottingly yours,

Martin

[Frederick Martens]

Amazing, thank you for sharing!

I had (have) a cassette of this not too long after the show, and by the time I saw them at Maxwells Hoboken NJ in July 1992, know just about every word!

Fred

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[d...@d-n-i.com]

Fantastic!

Thank you!

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