Captain Cloud's Music Lists
and Rules of the Road
Last Revised:
1/19/23
All bands, recordings, and paper products are split into 6 general lists below.
Refer to this KEY for
a guide to the codes used here.
UPDATES - recent arrivals, not yet sorted
Space Rock
"Classic Rock"
Electronic
Videos
Books/Zines/Posters
Trading Guidelines
Random Music Stuff
The Eternal Internet Palace of the Evil Clown
Contact information:
Chuck Johnson
228 Ainsley Street SE
Palm Bay, FL 32909-8587
U.S.A.
(321) 952-6973 (but always try to email me first...)
My Email Address: capcloud AT
hawklord DOT com
Sigh.
My trading habit has dropped off to almost nothing,
and it has been replaced by my addiction to BitTorrents, bandcamp.com, and discogs.com.
The few trades I make these days are typically via online transfer (BitTorrent, FTP, HTML download).
You are welcome to email me inquiring about a possible trade with you,
however I sometimes take weeks (or longer!) to respond to trade requests.
Sorry, mea culpa. Feel free to send me a follow-up email if needed.
And I do read all emails...eventually.
Consider that the closer your interests match my own, the more likely that you'll get a quicker response. :-)
My video duplicating equipment is not up to my standards, and many of my VHS tapes are
now 20+ years old. So, to avoid upsetting any traders who end up unhappy
with any videos that I would send them, I am choosing to stop trading videos
completely at this time.
In fact, I no longer even own two working HiFi VCRs, so I could not dub analog copies anyway!
RATING CODES
Information on each recording is listed in separate columns, as follows:
* Quality Rating
* Date of Recording
* Total Time
* Media (of My source)
* Source Info (optional)(missing on older tapes)
* Identifying Information: where, what, who
QUALITY RATING (all ratings are subjective, and subject to change):
A+ Best, studio CD, excellent FM broadcast
A High quality, a good vinyl LP, excellent audience source, first generation cassette dub, quality MP3
A- Great (for a boot), vinyl LP may have some scratches, tape of vinyl LP, typical MP3
B+ Good, some uneveness, uneven mic-ing or lower sound levels or multiple generations with hiss
B Listenable audience, typical of most mid-seventies audience recordings
B- Much Hiss, loud audience, too many generations, lyrics incomprehensible
C Worst quality! Only for the True Completist
* I do not have recording yet, but expect it in soon
Where rating is missing, the recording is too new for me to have rated it yet -- caveat emptor...
DATE OF RECORDING:
The date is mostly presented as "month/day/year". When the
exact date is unknown then "xx" are used as place-holders.
Occasionally the date is presented as "year1/--/year2" which refers to a date range across multiple years.
For example, "77/--/84" might represent a recording collection containing selections from the years 1977 thru 1984.
TOTAL TIME:
The time is measured in minutes, rounded up to the next minute at around 24-seconds.
A question mark implies an approximate time where I have not yet confirmed the exact time.
All timings are generated using MediaMonkey audio player or else on my Technics RS-TR575 home tape deck.
MEDIA OF MY SOURCE:
| LL | Loss-less digital file formats: FLAC or WAV or SHN or even AIFF or APE |
| CD | Compact Disc or CDR also: some WAV/FLAC/SHN lossless files not yet marked with LL code |
| CT | Cassette Tape |
| VD | Video Tape: typically VHS, mostly NTSC and some PAL |
| DV | DVD |
| DA | DVD-A |
| MP | MP3 or other lossy file format often recorded at the highest bitrates possible (ex: 320-kbps) |
| RA | RealAudio stream, downloaded or captured to my computer |
| LP | Single LP vinyl record |
| 2L | Double LP |
| 3L | Triple LP |
| EP | 12" or 10" vinyl record |
| 45 | 7" vinyl record |
| REC | officially released material, by band or record label |
| SBD | soundboard recording (supposedly) |
| AUD | known audience recording, or noticable audience noise |
| FM | radio broadcast - may have DJ talking before (or even during) |
| PFM | Pre-FM radio broadcast - taken from original CD or LP provided to radio stations |
| MTX | matrix created by combining 2 or more separate recordings of the same event |
| ALD | recorded by remotely detecting the wireless broadcasts from the stage |
| ?date? | date may be questionable |
| 'name' | name of album or recording |
| "name" | name of song |
| w/... | includes song(s) or band(s) ... |
| wo/... | missing song(s) ... that may be present in other sources |
| (x#) | where # is number of songs on the recording |
| (inc.) | incomplete recording - other songs were played but are not present in this source |
A Typical Music Trade
The typical way these things work is that each party provides a list of the recordings that they are willing to make copies of, and the other party chooses from that list. The trade is negotiated, then both parties purchase blank media and duplicate the recordings requested by the other party. Then both parties mail the requested recording copies to the other party, usually simultaneously or within a few days of each other.
My usual trade is for 5-8 CDRs or tapes. These days I trade digitally whenever possible, meaning audio CDR, or SHN, or MP3 formats. I've also become very active on several BitTorrent sites, which allow downloading of digital recordings (usually in SHN or FLAC formats).
I can burn DVDs, but I am not typically trading them at the moment. I am not currently trading copies of any of my VHS recordings due to my less-than-satisfactory duplicating equipment.
Sorry, No B&P
Some traders will make copies for others without a return trade. These trades are often known as B&P trades - which stands for Blanks & Postage - where the requester sends a list of his requests plus enough blank media, plus return postage, and the trader records onto that same media and sends it back. The trade may include some extra blank tapes as "payment" to the trader for helping out the person who had nothing to trade.
Unfortunately, I do not perform trades for Blanks & Postage. All my trades are for equal return music.
If you have any recordings that I might be interested in, then please send me your list and I'll look through it. You might be able to judge my musical interests from my own lists on this web site. There are many groups for which I will probably request a trade for any recording that I don't already have in my collection. Also, I have a list of Wanted items that I would like to purchase or trade for (or possibly trade for a copy of); this is on my Updates web page (see link at top).
I'm Extremely Slow on Tape-to-CDR Trades
One more thing... These days most trade requests are for CDR media, not
cassette tapes. However, half of my kollection is still analogue and has not been
digitized yet. This means that if you request a CDR copy of an item which
I have listed as from a tape (the code "CT") or vinyl source, then there is
likely to be a delay in my turn-around of your requests due to the extra effort
involved. Be aware that I frequently turn down trades which require me to
convert tapes to CDRs.
NOTE: MY CASSETTE DECK IS CURRENTLY BROKEN, SO NO TAPE TRADES AT THIS TIME!
On the other hand, I am also slowly working my way through my collection, converting my favorite tapes and rarest vinyl into music CDRs, and/or into SHN/FLAC format or perhaps high-quality MP3s (320kbps). I have not yet marked my list with which items are easily available from me in digital form, but I hope to do so soon. Until then, request what you want, and we can talk about it.
Tools of the Trade
There are several tools that I expect anyone and everyone to use when duplicating CDRs. The first and most important tool is named Exact Audio Copy, or EAC for short. This program is the ONLY way to produce identical copies of an audio CD when using a Windows computer. If you do not use EAC, then you will not be creating a true duplicate copy of the original disc. And, I do Not care if you always make "good" copies when you use <fill in the blank> application to copy your audio CDs.
EAC is used to read the audio tracks off of the original CD and on to your hard drive. EAC must be properly configured for its offset, which is a specific number associated with each and every CD reader and DVD reader. There is much information about this subject at https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ and https://www.etree.org/
If you don't use EAC when extracting from music CDs, then please do not ask
to trade with me.
(The only exception is MacOS users, who have different hardware requirements. Note also that iTunes is a terribly unreliable application for RIPPING a music CD!)
Another requirement for trading is that you do not leave 2-second gaps between the audio tracks on your music CDRs. The important watchword here is Disc At Once, or DAO as it is called. There are several excellent programs available for burning audio CDRs, such as Nero and Feurio, which support DAO or allow you to control the gaps between music tracks.