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Armored Saint- Keystone, Berkeley Ca 11/25/83 xfer from master audio cassette opening for Metallica

Here’s another one from Doug’s box of tapes and .. surprise, it isn’t Exodus. I think this is the first week without an exodus post this year.
This tape EQ’d really well and sounds pretty nice. Nice and clear with no/minimal distortion. I really like that first Armored Saint EP, but I kinda lost track of them after that. This set is right in that EP era, so it was a fun listen.

Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug
Equipment used: Sony Walkman WM-R2
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge (EQ settings in fb comments)

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Discharge- Paycheck’s Lounge, Hamtramck Mi 11/20/83 f/1st gen audio cassette (and an announcement)

Where do I even start with this. Years ago, once I started to get serious about audio and video transfers, I realized that I needed to have some extra gear/redundancy here in case something went down and needed repair. So I have 2 nakamichi tape decks, (more than) 2 VCRs, etc. The thing that was the hardest to get were the datavideo TBC-1000’s, which is the key component to clean video transfers. I finally got 2 of them and had one completely re-done by an expert.

So, fast forward to now. One of the TBC-1000’s (the non-refurbished one) was having a lot of problems- seizing up and becoming pretty much unusable. I grab the 2nd one and start it up… and it’s acting strange. I got it to do 1 video (posting tomorrow) and it croaked. No output.

So despite my best efforts for redundancy, I am now totally dead in the water for video transfers. My apologies to Joshua, Gary, Mike and all the rest of you waiting on video transfers. First the fractured wrist, now this. Ugh,. I was able to contact my TBC repair guy and he is going to prioritize one of them to get me going ASAP.. which is probably a month or so from now.

Anyway, this is today’s on this date in history. It came from a guy named Foxtrotter and digitized by a guy named Creatured (these screen names, I tell ya). It sounds pretty damned good for the era- a boom box recording or similar.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Creatured

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Motley Crue- Record Factory, Citrus Heights Ca. 11/20/83 xfer from 1st gen VHS

So, back in 1983, Motley Crue blessed our humble little Record Factory (the one by Sunrise Mall, now a Nation’s Hamburgers) with their presence. My cousin Tony Schwartz & I worked with the guys at Record Factory to bring in my uncle’s video camera (one of the ones that had the camera & the VCR to record as separate components, and made people see-thru when they moved) to film the signing. This is the lowest gen available- the master was lost.
Highlights:
– Seeing the inside of record factory. I bought so many metal records there in the early 80s.
– Seeing the crowd. it looks like heavy metal parking lot in here.
– seeing the first guy in line (with his crue gloves) being impossibly stoked at meeting the band
and… getting shut down by the band’s management. Oh well, it would have been boring to watch them sign autographs for an hour.

Recorded by: Bill Schwartz, Tony Schwartz, Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Ancient video camera.

PS: I tried posting this the other day and it was blocked because it had Motley Crue’s music on the video. I jumped through Youtube’s “music removal tool” hoops, waited, and it was still blocked. So I thought I’d do something fun. Instead of listen to The Crue wank away, I curated an audio track of some of my favorite underground metal that was released in 1983.
The audio soundtrack is:
1. Loudness- In the Mirror
2. Exciter- Heavy Metal Maniac
3. Jag Panzer- Battle Zones
4. Savatage- Sirens (cut).
Enjoy.

 

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