MTX NO 99 NO 4 More (deliberate) tape labelling snafus. This is reel 2 (of three) of the Alcatraz mix in sequence though it is actually labelled "reel 3." As with the other two reels, it's pretty confusing that there's a track list written in sharpie on the reel case, and a different track list on the John Golden label taped to it. I suspected the taped-on label was the accurate one, though there was no way to tell without trying to play the tape. The tape played, and that turned out to be the case. I think someone should have crossed out the sharpie list, but that's just me maybe. I wish all the Alcatraz tape confusion was as easy to sort out as this, but the anomalies of this tape do reflect some of the greater problems. The spine of this tape case is labelled "no 3" even though, as I say, in the sequence of the released album this is actually the second part of the program. On the actual reel is written "MTX NO EQ Reel 3". My first assumption was that this was a reel with "no EQ", but in fact it is an "EQ reel" and ... ... well, remember how I said that we'd often use ridiculous "code names" as working titles that caused confusion later on when trying to divine the contents of the tapes so labelled? (e.g. HH = Henrietta Hippo = Big Black Bugs, Julie Andrews = Our Bodies Our Selves.) This isn't a case of trying to be ridiculous, but it's the same sort of situation because the original working title of the album that came to be called Alcatraz was: NO! This was most unfortunate because not only am I pretty much the only person in a position to know that, but also, "no." is a common abbreviation for "number." So you have label notations like "MTX no 99 no 4" -- in that case, the "99" is the date and the reel # is 4. But you also have labels like "MTX no 2" in which the "no" could be the title NO! or simply "no. 2" of an unspecified session. And worst of all, there's at least one of the two-inch tapes that simply says "no" on its spine, with no othe...