Should Have Stayed home is the title of a song…Anyone know of this?
What is that?
Acetate? reel to reel?Vinyl? Just a box with that info?
Are you sure it’s the title of a song? It says 24 tracks; it could be a live show.
I’m definitely following this thread.
To start . . . no, I don’t know anything specific about THIS.
I’m guessing this is a pile of works in progress that they were fuckin’ around with (some of which may have turned into album tracks), but that’s just speculation. And I’m also guessing that “Should’ve Stayed Home” has no bearing on actual song or album names but was probably just one of the guys being funny and throwing a snarky name on it in the interim.
But yeah, I’m interested in any light that may get shined on this…
Killer. Where are these pictures from revco? What the heck are we looking at?
After a second look it seems to be two different reels. One is 15 inches per second, the other is 30 ips.
The logo looks like the Hypo Luxa + Hermès pan stick logo. Correction same reel. two different speed markings
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Looks like a studio grade reel to reel box, with 24 tracks being the total number of individual tracks that make up the overall stereo mix of the song.
I’ve never heard of this track. I do know that Ministry used several “dummy” (or placeholder) titles on tape boxes, not sure if that was the case for the side projects or not.
Where did this turn up? The source might be able to give more details.
You’re kinda right, the logo at the top is Luxa Pan. I didn’t even notice that.
Yeah, it reads ‘Luxa Pan’ in the circle around it.
Someone posted this on facebook yesterday.
Cool!
words…
Very cool indeed. Love it when stuff like this pops up.
I wonder if “Should Have Stayed Home” is any relation to the early Ministry song “Overkill”? In 1988 it was totally unreleased, maybe they were going to re-record it as a Lard song. Just some wild speculation.
I thought that too but under Lard…nah.
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killer. thanks revco. here’s some info on the engineer.
He was really important to the industrial scene. Wonder that happened to him regarding his death…
from the discogs link that slack posted…
Died in March 2006 from kidney cancer.
oh, ok…thx…
It is clearly the two inch multitrack master reel of that song, hence the included Chicago Trax track sheet indicating which instruments are assigned to which channels and the SMPTE timecode list of cue points for each section of the song. The blurry photo seems to be a patch list of outboard effects… I can make out the AMS (reverb or delay) and the Lexicon 300. The rest is illegible. Someone needs to learn how to operate the focus. 
What was the context of the Facebook post from which this came?
Context…it was:
Hey look what I bought a year ago…
Interesting. Last fall, I was told by someone who would know that Al’s ex-wife Angie sold a number of masters and that he was not really aware of this at the time. Do you know anything about the buyer who posted these photos? You might ask him who sold him the tape. I would be curious.
Regardless, whoever has this would need a working/calibrated 24-inch machine to play it. Preferably an Otari MPX-80 or MTR-90 as those were the models in Chicago Trax Studio A around 1988. Given the age of the tape, it is possible it suffers from sticky-shed syndrome and would need to be baked by a professional lab before playing it. Hopefully the person who purchased this is not storing it somewhere humid.
This is the multitrack of the song, not the half inch mixdown, so whatever this is won’t have final effects printed (the aforementioned AMS, Lexicon, etc.) because those were run on the fly during the mix.