Dead Pledge from Auburn, CA. 1983 demo.
Month: January 1983
Forced Tradition – demo
Forced Tradtion. Sacramento punk, 1983.
Songs: Skate or Die, Relgious Guilt, Creep, Monster, Death, Dave Mahler’s Dead
Tim (chim-chim) Soriano: Vocals
Charlie (cheese) Stratford: Drums
Mike Tyack: Guitar
James Butler: Guitar
Jay Hyde: Bass
Mr. B- KPFT, Houston Tx Early 1983 part 1 Community Freeform Radio Rotters D.O.A. Punk Hardcore
This one is from Barry Ward’s audio cassette collection. Since most people will be watching that big game and associated pre games, I decided to post something for people who hate that stuff. This is one of the craziest, most confrontational radio shows I have heard. It’s all over the place and seemingly programmed for listener discomfort. I love it!
It’s a must listen for people who enjoy early punk rock radio shows.
Recorded by: Barry Ward?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Hot Spit Dancers- Studio Session Stockton Hardcore Punk xfer from audio cassette
Alright everyone, I need your help here. This one is from Dal Basi’s collection and it seems to be the longest demo/studio session of the band. All I know is what you see in the picture. Does anyone have any details around what session this could be? Craig at Sac Punk Shows has an 11 minute demo and bonnie franklin has 1 short song up, and that was all I could find. Also, is this even all HSD? The 2nd song (surf instrumental) is shazaming as “byte sized lo-fi”.
Btw, I love tapes that look like they survived some hardship, like this one. Cramming beat to hell tapes into the dragon is always an adventure.
Hot Spit Dancers were Tharon Knight(Bass, Vocals), Nick Kappos (guitar), Vince Voodoo (vocals), Ronnie Burns (drums)
Recorded by: The band, possibly at Gary Young’s Louder than you think studio.
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Death’s Ugly Head (DUH)-Club Minimal, Sacramento and Cocktail Christmas studio track xfer f/low gen
Collections post time, this time from Dal Basi’s bunch of tapes. I digitized this months ago (for some kind of project), but Jackson Griffith recently reached out and let me know that it was OK to post. Thanks to both of you!
DUH had a rotating cast of members but this incarnation had Gary Young on drums, Brian Thalken (Authorities, Fall of Christianity) on guitar, Kelly Foley (Torn Boys, Toadstool Theatre, Broken Toys) on bass, Sam Harvey on synth, and Jackson on vocals. I had no idea this was from legendary sacramento venue club minimal until Jackson told me.
Tons of Pavement/Authorities/Stockton punk connections. cool.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
equipment used: nakamichi dragon and m-audio audiophile 2496 card
The Authorities- “Bootleg” Demo? Stockton Punk
This one is from Dal Basi’s collection. This must have come from a number of different sources, as the recording levels were all over the place and there was some tape damage on some of the tracks. I tried Shazam’ing a few of the songs and at least one of them showed up on the Puppy Love compilation released in 1995, but others are not ID’d at all. Not sure if any of these are unreleased but since Shazam couldn’t ID them I figured it was worth a post. If this is just meh recordings of previously released material, let me know.
Recorded by: The band
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
D.R.I. Interview w/Barry Ward and early Demos early 80s? Barry’s archive tape Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
Here is the last of the 14 AUDIO collections that I had not posted for a while. It looks like the last thing that I posted from Barry’s collection took place in early 2023. From here on out, you can expect an audio post from every one of the 14 collections in rotation.
This tape blew my mind. The first 25min has Barry and the band talking. It’s part interview and part them screwing around. At the 25 minute mark, the rehearsal demo starts. Never heard the first song before, and most of the rest are played at radically different tempos than their album versions. Wildly entertaining listen for fans of the band.
From Barry:
That’s crazy. I don’t think I’ve heard that tape since it was recorded. That was in my garage bedroom at my parents house in Houston. So young and green. With Kurt and Eric Brecht. Was it on reel to reel or cassette? Had a stereo reel to reel at the time. Two mics. We were goofing off and making noises when slowing down or speeding up the reel.
Recorded by: Barry Ward (int) and ?(demo)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Big Boys- Fitzgerald’s, Houston Tx 1983 Multi cam semi pro shot punk
It’s mediocre Monday! Here’s a request from Brian McKenna- he wanted to see a Big Boys video. Back in the 1980s, we would dub and trade VHS tapes back and forth with others across the country. Trading overseas was difficult due to different formats. So, after a tape would get copied and traded 3,4,5 times, it would look like THIS. Brian wanted a video where he could watch the Big Boys on a big screen TV. This is more like the Big Grainy Blobs, but I hope he (and others) like it. Posting on mediocre Monday due to mediocre quality.
I got this from a guy in Houston, so it might be relatively close to the source. The guy’s name is/was Mike Elias(sp?) and he was a character. Any time he would get shut down while videotaping (without permission), that would make that band an “esshole”. Classic dude and I wish I could find him so I could get a cleaner copy of me hanging out backstage with Slayer- my master is gone.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS-9900U- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video
Teenage Warning- 4 Track Rehearsal March 1983 Christ on Parade Attitude Adjustment Hardcore
This one is somewhat of a mystery. It was on the end of Wayne’s master recordings of New Method 8/2/86. He is not sure where it came from, but he offers this context:
“I can’t even remember what that was from. Chris Dodge and myself used to go to the Maximum RocknRoll house all the time. Tim had numerous tapes lining the top of his record shelves. Once or twice we brought our tape decks and spent all day recording our favorites from Tim’s collection. I think I even ran out of room and started adding stuff to pre existing tapes that had room at the end.”
Since this was at the end of a master tape and it hastily cuts in, I am running with it. This is likely to be from Tim’s MRR archive.
Teenage warning were Barrie Evans and Todd Kramer (later to be in Christ on Parade amongst others), Kevin Reed (later Attitude Adjustment), and Jim Lyon.
More context from Barrie Evans: “This was recorded on a 4 track in Todd’s mom’s dining room which we used to practice in. I gave this tape to Tim Yohannan and he played ” My Life ” on MRR. Eric asked me what Song 1) was and song 9) Song 1 is Depression and since we played War twice, 9 is either “Skate” or “My Life”. We passed this tape around to friends and clubs. Wes Robinson being the one who really liked it and had us play a million times. This recording was in March of ’83. Barrie – Jim – Kevin – Todd. The original line up.”
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Dead Pledge- Placer High School, Auburn Ca. 1983
Since I am awaiting yet another video to finish processing to 4k, here is an amazing early document from the sac punk scene. In fact, is this the earliest video document from a Sacramento area punk band, I think. The youtube post says “Place High”, but I bet this is Placer High School since they were from the area. It looks like a school auditorium and that is an obvious school chair side stage.
Thanks to Ken Doose for telling me this existed.