A tempo and pitch-corrected version of the 1987 recording Sonic Youth are continuing to dig through the archives, sharing an updated version of their 1991 bootleg ‘Hold That Tiger’ to their Bandcamp.
As the band’s Steve Shelley explains in the album’s description, ‘Hold That Tiger’ was recorded back in 1987. It was released as a semi-official bootleg LP in 1991. “The recording was nearly 60-minutes in length, so to prevent manufacturing a cost-prohibitive double LP, the master was slightly sped-up to fit the entire concert… on one single LP,” Shelley wrote.
The bootleg was remastered for CD reissue in 1998. However, while the audio quality was improved, the tempo and pitch were not corrected – until now.
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