Oasis Live Concerts, Radio Sessions, Soundchecks, Demos, Promos and Interviews
Performance Date:
December 18, 1995
Title:
KROQ Almost Acoustic Xmas
Venue:
Universal Ampitheater, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Quality:
A
Length:
25m
Source(s):
Audio CD/CDR Sources Forever Alone (Blizzard Recordings, BLZD116) Helter Skelter Christmas (Wonder Boy Records, WB028) Step Out (Sea Monkey, SM-1904) Two Sides to Every Story (Vulgartone, VU500) Westwood One "In Concert / New Rock" #96-11 Rare Live '93-97
Digital Sources 101.7 FM WFNX Lynn/Boston Broadcast [flac] FM Broadcast (Primus420) [flac] FM Broadcast (markp) [flac]
Cassette Sources
Streaming Sources "Kevin Haynes" FM DAT Source (YouTube)
Intro DJ / Morning Glory / Supersonic / Live Forever [16:45]
Ads: Plymouth / 1800 Collect / Motorola Pagers
Intro / Wonderwall / Champagne Supernova [14:01]
Ads: Visa / 1800 Collect / Big Red Gum / US Army
Distributed by Westwood One for broadcast in the week of March 11, 1996. The promo CD also contains "Some Might Say", "Roll With It" and "Rock n Roll Star" from Glastonbury 1995 (some tapers thought that these tracks were also from the KROQ show) along with a Sarah McLachlan show.
Taper Notes:
Pre-recorded live radio broadcast on 101.7 FM WFNX Lynn/Boston
Yamaha RX-500U receiver > Naka. BX-150 cassette recorder (dolby off) > Maxell XLII 90 min cassette > tascam 112 > soundforge (16 bit/ 44.1 khz wav) > flac 8 (sb's aligned)
"Kevin Haynes" FM Source (YouTube 128kbit AAC) [26:07]
Intro by KROQ's Rodney Biggenheimer
Morning Glory
Supersonic
Live Forever
Wonderwall (Acoustic)
Champagne Supernova
Release Notes
When I post after 9pm on a weeknight, you know the workday was total garbage. Without further Ado, here is the Oasis set from the second night of Almost Acoustic Xmas 1995!
Over the next few weeks, you will be getting full sets of all bands who played the KROQ Almost Acoustic Xmas, directly off of the DAT master tape. Why? Well, audio to video synch wizard king bean asked for a couple of sets from the weekend of shows, and it just made sense to run the entire set of DATs and archive then now.... especially since they were DIC brand (a little taper humor for the nerds out there).
I moved back to Sacramento over Thanksgiving weekend of 1995, and this took place a month afterwards. HUGE thanks to Kevin Haynes for taping this for me, and then sending the DAT masters to me. What a guy.
Recorded by Kevin Haynes
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment: Sony PCMR500 into M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
online sources
comments
Noel shouts "Seeya down the Viper Room!" at the end of Champagne Supernova - this was the location of their secret gig after the show. Well - it wasn't that secret as it was announced on a local radio station that morning. (Johnny Depp - owner of the Viper Room - had said to Liam: "If we don't keep it a secret it'll be chaos". Liam replied "Well let's have Chaos then!")
The Primus420 FM source claimed to be more complete than others but actually contains tracks from Glastonbury 1995 (likely from the same Westwood One promo containing the KROQ gig, this also contained tracks from Glastonbury 1995) (and, randomly, a repeat of "Live Forever").
Two Sides to Every Story and Forever Alone are both nice loud sources but are unfortunately incomplete. Step Out contained the whole show but is a lot quieter than other sources.
To my ears the Primus420 source is a bit weaker than the other FM sources (too much high end/treble) and the sound on Helter Skelter Christmas is a bit patchy. The best source of course is the Westwood One Promo CD that the radio stations used to air their respective broadcasts :)
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