Mike Watt & The Black Gang
October 24, 1998
Louisville, KY @ Mercury Paw
SBD > RCA Out > Sony D8 DAT @ 16 bit / 48 kHz > Fostex D5 > Opti > JB3 > USB > PC >
WAV > Adobe Audition (Edit channel dropouts in 1st 20 minutes) > CD WAV (tracking) > flac > CDR

Disc One:
01. In The Engine Room
02. Red Bluff
03. The Bluejackets' Manual 
04. Pedro Bound!
05. The Boilerman
06. Black Gang Coffee
07. Topsiders
08. No One Says Old Man To The Old Man
09. Fireman Hurley
10. Liberty Calls!
11. In The Bunk Room/Navy Wife
12. Crossing The Equator
13. Breaking The Choke Hold
14. Wrapped Around The Screw > Shore Duty
15. Rebel Girl
16. Big Bang Theory
17. I Have Always Been Here Before
18. Forever/One Reporter's Opinion
19. Friction (Television)

Mike Watt : Bass, Speil
Nels Cline : Guitar, Vocals
Bob Lee : Drums, Vocals
Steve Reed : House Mix, Vocals

Disc Two:
01. Little Johnny Jewel (Television)
02. This Is A Prayer
03. My Head Is My Only House (Unless It Rains)
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October 23, 1998
Detroit, MI @ Alvins
04. The Red and The Black
05. Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
06. Maggot Brain (Funkadelic)
07. Walking The Cow
08. Secret Garden
09. The 15th
10. Big Train
11. Drove Up From Pedro
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Scarcity of Tanks
January 15, 2009
San Pedro, CA @ Harold's Place
Sony D-50 > soundforge (eq, limiting) > FLAC > CDR
12. (2:32)
13. (3:44)
14. (6:17)
15. (6:30)
16. (4:32)
(3:53) REMOVED
(4:39) REMOVED
Matthew Wascovich - voice
Chris Grier - guitar
John Petkovic - guitar, vocals, clarinet, tamborine
Mike Watt - bass guitar
Weasel Walter - drums

a band led by cleveland based poet Matthew Wascovich featuring various underground luminaries. The modus operandi features improvised rock with wascovich's singular poetry on top. could this version of the band be Flipper meets CCR? an avant garde version of the John Cafferty Beaver Brown Band? we'll let you decide. Scarcity of Tanks debut LP release "No Endowments" has just been released - these shows were part of a series of West Coast shows promoting the record. 
the recording is a decent, close room recording. the instruments are fairly well balanced, but the vocals suffer a bit from the placement of the recorder at the side of the stage.