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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.

Recorded by: ?
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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Mick Martin- Prisoner of the Sky album and Demos Mick Martin Memorial Series #12

It’s time for another installment of the Mick Martin Memorial series! These happen every 2 weeks and we post 2 albums each time.

The first one is an early one. The album notes and the discogs listing do not have a year that this was recorded or released, but the label that released the album was active in the 1970s. So sometime in that decade. This also comes with some bonus demos that Dennis contributed I think.

Recorded by: The band
CD rip and prep by Shayne

Next one is from a 2005 release on Mick’s Blues Rock Records label. It’s a studio release of all original songs.

Recorded by: The band
CD rip and prep for upload by Shayne

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Joy Division: Substance- The Videos 1978-1988 transfer from “master” VHS tape

You know, I don’t think this is an official release. I tried to look up the catalog number of this VHS (FAC207) on discogs and it doesn’t exist. Some of the quality on here is kinda sketchy. I figured it is worth a post for documentation’s sake. I bet all of this is out there in better quality but I am not sure of that, so here ya go. One song was removed to prevent blockage from big brother.

From Tony Philputt/Phil Go’s collection

Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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