TLDR version- it gets watchable at about 3min.

MAN OH MAN do I have a cool one today. About a week ago, I let my friend Brian McKenna know about a cool estate sale where they had Kozik posters. They had a bunch of other unique stuff, but the photos on the website did not show anything archive-worthy. He gets there and texts me- “there are a lot of tapes here”. He starts sending pictures of a ton of live recordings from the 70s and 80s. I scrambled out the door and found a TON of amazing stuff for the archive.

The sale was from Scott Davey’s estate and he ran Iguana Studios. He was also in a bunch of bands, probably the best known one being Red Asphalt. Stay tuned for a bunch of cool stuff from Sacramento and SF.

So I was digging through the tapes and I come across these odd video reel boxes. Sony Helical Scan. Some boxes were labeled with vacation video, etc. But this one unmarked box had a reel that said “Zeros Roosevelt 4/12/80. I message Hector Penalosa and asked him if this could be his band. Yes, it was! They played Roosevelkt Hotel in SF in 1980. Unbelievable find!

The next challenge was getting the tape digitized. I don’t have a helical scan player and knowing the challenges of owning vintage gear, I didn’t want one. Thankfully, Hector and Zeros documentary producer Anthony Ladesich had a friend named Dino who works at USC HMH Moving Pictures Archive and he had a playback deck!

Huge thanks to Hector, Dino and Scott. Too cool. The quality is 1980 camcorder, so don’t expect much. But what a historical artifact.

Recorded by: Scott Davey
Transfer by: Dino Everett
Denoise (Adobe premiere/neat video) by Shayne Stacy