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This CD release show for Self Untitled was recorded in 1994 at The Fine Music Cafe in Minneapolis. It's a rare item for several reasons. There are very few high quality recordings of my band shows, and I'd say this is the best one. It was lost for years, the original DAT master disappeared (I'm 99% sure it was lost when Rev 105 went off the air, an alternative rock station in Minneapolis that used to play some tracks from this show sometimes, I stupidly gave them the master, and then one day they were off the air, and the recording was missing in action) and then after a while, Chris Macmillan came up with a cassette recording of it. Chris remastered the cassette, sent me CDs of the remastering, I sent those to Matt Westgate, Matt re-engineered it again, and voila', ten years after the band was assembled, this show is now available to us. Bizarre. As bootlegs go, I'd say this is definately in the top collectors pieces. The introduction on this recording is my older brother Scott Davis, and the musicians include Joel Sayles (who produced Nomen Est Numen, played bass on Self Untitled, sang back up on Surfaces, Faultlines, and on and on, Joel's played with every one in the world and also is front man of Hindu Rodeo, they have a new CD coming out by the way, and Jesus why don't i get back to the subject at hand...), Jimi Englund (drums on Bright Apocalypse, the silver self-titled CD, Self Untitled, also drummer in Hindu Rodeo), Peter Mayer (one of Minnesota's great songwriters), Billy Steiner (mankato's own), Karen Paurus (Holiday Ranch, many other projects), and Dave Hussman (geez you will freak out to hear it, but Dave, who produced Self Untitled, was also lead guitarist in Slave Raider. yep.). So, anyway, this show is really a trip down memory lane, although Memory Lane is not a place I visit, so you'll just have to say hi to everyone for me. High points to check out on this show include Joel Sayles' impromptu electric distorted bass solo on Gonna Be Christ (some perverted permutation of Silent Night he threw in, totally sweet), Peter Mayer and Karen Paurus' backing vocals on several tunes. AND I believe Peter played the fucking Melodica on Someone Else's Ears, of all things. A melodica is this weird key board instrument you blow into, invented when some deviant stuck a flute in his crossbow and shot it into a harpsichord. This is certainly the only place we're going to hear Billboard, House Of Light, and many other songs again.