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Avengers- Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco Ca 1/29/78 xfer from master cassette Punk Penelope Houston

For today’s “On This Day in History”, I figured that I would post something that I didn’t transfer, but it is a transfer right off of the master tape. I am super thankful to Terry Hammer and the rest of the bay area tapers who recorded this stuff during the first wave of punk in SF. I just wish we had more early Sacramento stuff- more shows from Club Minimal and ANYTHING from China Wagon. I was 11 years old when all that started.
I am pretty sure that Jimmy Wilsey played bass for the band at this show. I am in the middle of reading his biography- “wicked game” and it is really well written and has a bunch of new info about the early SF punk scene. Highly Recommended. It ain’t a cheap book, but totally worth it. It’s not a happy story.

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Transfer by: also ?
Extract from CD and normalize by Shayne

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KZAP- Gordo’s Radio Show 1/11/78, Sacramento includes Commercials xfer f/Studio Tape

We have a new collection to share today. I want to thank Dennis Newhall for bringing a box of tapes over for digitizing.
A little background: I started taping shows in the mid-80’s and the era before that (60’s-1980) has always been a black hole for the archive- I knew of no one who had tapes from then. Dennis’ tapes will shed some light into that era and I can’t thank him enough for dropping these by.
The first one is a 90-minute segment of Gordon C. Styler’s (Gordo)’s show on KZAP on 1/11/78. I try not to get too giddy about this stuff, but this is an incredible blast of nostalgia- back when DJ’s clearly made their own programming decisions. Live show announcements at around the 21:00 mark is a great way to understand where live music was happening here in 1978. Black Angus had music? Wow.
The original commercials are a blast as well. Midnight movies ad at around 30:00 made me smile.
I hope my Sacramento friends enjoy this as much as I did.

Recorded by: KZAP/Dennis Newhall Collection
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Photo by Christine Price

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