Skinny Puppy live on the Last Rights tour, San Francisco, 1992. Back when they were at the height of their darkest, most nightmarish noisescape industrial style. And of course, back when Dwayne was still alive. RIP Dwayne.
Board tape (stereo! no distortion!) landed in my lap recently. So it sounded pretty great in the first place, but as with everything, it needed some substantial work.
For major reconstructions like this, I’ll go so far as to reverse engineer some group multi-track stems (drums, bass, vocals, synths) to give me more control over everything. Definitely the right choice with this one, as the final mix sounds mind-blowing. Especially after I added in crowd sounds.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the complete show. They opened with Addiction and Love in Vein. Addiction didn’t make it onto the original recording at all, and only the last past of Love in Vein did.
Also, Dirty Tricks was actually the first song of the encore, following Left Handshake. The song they played after Dirty Tricks, Testure, for some reason fades out right in the middle of it in the original recording, so I wasn’t able to use that one, either.
Luckily, I was able to save Dirty Tricks by making it the show intro into The Choke.
All love and respect to cEvin, Nivek, and everybody else involved with the band.
Skinny Puppy
Live at The Warfield
San Francisco, California
8 July 1992
0:00 Dirty Tricks
3:34 The Choke
8:44 brap
10:13 Harsh Stone White
14:31 brap
17:35 Tin Omen
22:07 Worlock
27:31 Knowhere?
32:09 Anger
37:08 brap
40:48 VX Gas Attack
46:25 Second Tooth
50:37 Killing Game
54:46 Circustance
59:24 Left Handshake
