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Venom- Maison Des Sports, Clemont Ferrand, France 10/31/85 xfer f/ unknown gen cassette Black Metal

Here’s one that is not from Doug, Eggplant, or KALX. I can’t remember the last time I posted something outside of those sources.
This one comes from Venom’s #1 fan, Joseph Reinsbach. He asked that I post this one, as it is a rare one. I did my best to fix this one up, but the levels were totally brickwalled. One day, I will get the source cassettes and it will sound slightly better. Slightly, haha. 2 venom posts in 1 week! Last time that will happen in a while.

Recorded by: ?
EQ/channel splits with Sony Sound Forge 10

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Attitude Adjustment- Ruthie’s Inn, Berkeley Ca 10/26/85 xfer from master cassette

One more Wayne Vanderkuil creation this week- then KALX audio tomorrow and 4 videos for the long weekend.
This one has been confirmed to really be a master recording – he knew about them from pretty much day 1 and he was there for so many of their shows. Thanks so much Wayne.
I have not found the CJ/NM sets in the box yet. I’ll keep digging….

Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Violent Coercion- Ruthie’s Inn, Berkeley Ca 10/26/85 xfer from master cassette Neurosis

As promised, more goodness from Wayne Vanderkuil’s collection. Here is what Aaron Cometbus said about VC: “Three members of Violent Coercion went on to form Neurosis, the fourth drew the cover of the first Neurosis LP, and the fifth ended up in Samiam. Talk about an all-star cast.”
With that said, this recording does sound very much like an early punk show, recorded with non-professional equipment. Still will be of interest to a few friends here… including the guys in the current iteration of Violent Coercion. They are back and playing out, so go see them while you can!

Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ (+Bass, -Highs) in Sony Sound Forge 10

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Exodus- Hemmerleinhalle, Nuremberg Germany 10/19/85 xfer from audio cassette East Bay Thrash Metal

Another LATE collections post. Sorry. My daughter is playing high school soccer so I have been roped in (actually I volunteered) to video’ing their games.. outside.. in the goddamn 40 degree fog. So that activity has thrown my schedule into chaos. So cold. I don’t know how you people in the cold weather states do it.
Anyway, this one is from Chris Eng’s collection and it seems to not be too well circulated. It does not sound good, but any Baloff-era Exodus is pure gold in my opinion. Plus, they opened for Venom. Hot damn.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ’d the best I could in Sony Sound Forge 10. Yes, it sounded even worse before!

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Violent Coercion- New Method, Emeryville Ca 10/19/85 xfer from master audio cassette

It’s Mediocre Monday again, and holy crap is this day mediocre at best. Take care of your back, kids. It affects your sleep when you get older. I would like to kick the guy who stagedove on me at the slayer show in 1985 in the privates right now.
Here is one that people will appreciate, but it is pretty rough sounding. That’s the thing with those consumer recorders in the 80’s- if a band played at a reasonable volume, you’d get a decent recording… but if they were loud, you get one like this.
Regardless, it is an important document- Violent Coercion were part of a scene that was the nexus of east bay punk. Aaron Cometbus says it well:
“Three members of Violent Coercion went on to form Neurosis, the fourth drew the cover of the first Neurosis LP, and the fifth ended up in Samiam. Talk about an all-star cast.” -Aaron Cometbus, 2018

Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card.

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Attitude Adjustment- New Method Warehouse, Emeryville Ca 10/19/85 xfer from master cassette

Mediocre Monday, y’all. Here is a super early Attitude Adjustment show from the archive of Wayne VanDerKuil. I could not find a flyer for this one, so I put a google maps image of where I think the New Method was. Ah, look at that gentrification today!
I am pretty sure that this is with an early vocalist of AA- maybe Nick Koljian or Kevin Reed. I know that it isn’t Andy because the vocalist keeps quiet between songs. Haha, just kidding you Andy.
Anyway, recording is a bit rough but listenable for hardcore fans. Another thanks to Wayne for loaning me the tapes, just getting started.

Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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J.C. Burris- Born with Blues Umatic “Tape 1” Live in his San Francisco Apartment 10/17/80s f/Master

Last month, I announced that we had a new collection from Scott Davey from Iguana Studios- he had recently passed and I picked up a bunch of tapes from his estate sale. It was time to post another one of his videos and all of his tapes are here in the studio, in boxes. I can’t lift anything so I grabbed a random video tape and it was this. If this is what his collection is going to be like, we are in for a huge treat!

From what I can tell, Scott and a cameraman friend took a TV camera into J.C. Burris’ San Francisco apartment sometime in the 80s and filmed this. It is a “live” performance while sitting on his bed, and then a showcase with his folk art marionettes.

With the “tape 1” label, there might be more. Hot damn! Thanks Scott!!

Recorded by: Scott Davey and Friend(s)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony BVU-100, Datavideo TBC-1000, Tevion USB adapter into virtualdub
Light Denoise and a LOT of audio level adjustments in Adobe premiere elements

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Suicidal Tendencies- Oasis Ballroom, Sacramento Ca 10/13/85 xfer f/ 1st gen audio cassette complete

This one comes from Wayne Vanderkuil’s collection. Wayne deserves a big thanks for keeping all of his tapes throughout the years.

I have mentioned this before, but I’ll say it again. I got started in the tape trading hobby back in 1986 or 1987 and I got a big boost when Mark Martin let me buy his live tape collection at that time, for the price of the blank tapes. He did keep some of his master recordings, which is why some legendary Sacramento shows have not made their way onto the archive yet. This was one of those shows- I did not have a copy and Mark didn’t have it anymore either. In comes Wayne (hero music plays).

All that being said, this tape doesn’t sound great. A lot of tapes recorded with that Panasonic consumer deck had this blurry sounding rumbling low end. I did learn today that most of that bad stuff is at the 56hz band of the EQ, so I can start pulling that out completely (like I did here) to make them listenable. Cool.

Recorded by: Mark Martin
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10

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