A little over 3 years ago, I posted a live set from this band at Ruthie’s inn. We didn’t know much about the band at the time, and we still don’t. Here is a 30 minute rehearsal tape which is the most comprehensive we have found to date.
Thanks to Dave Cotter for the lineup! Dave Cotter/Scott Hill on guitar/vocals, Scott Taylor – bass & Rob Blasini – drums.
From Wayne Vanderkuil’s collection
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I’m late today- too much happening at work. No week would be complete without a tape from Wayne Vanderkuil’s collection. Here is 7 Seconds opening for Dead Kennedys at Keystone Palo Alto. Wayne also found this sweet photo of a Keystone match box, back when clubs and bars did that kind of thing.
I EQ’d this one and was able to pull bass out and boost it up. The guitar is mixed in with all that midrange, so no such luck there. Sounds pretty good for the equipment, venue and era.
Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
It’s Mediocre Monday again! Keeping with the theme of “incredibly rare stuff that may not sound perfect”, here is an apparently uncirculated Dead Kennedys tape from their end times. The last show (w/Jello) was at Freeborn Hall on 2/21/86. Concert archives shows their show at The Stone in SF on 2/16 being the 2nd to last… so this 2/17 show may actually be the 2nd to last show. Wow!
If you are wondering about the picture I chose for this show, this is apparently the former location of Keystone Palo Alto… which later became The Edge in the alternative heyday of the 90s.
It appears to cut off before the end- if I find a part 2 of this set, I will repost the whole thing.
Fun fact- the non-Jello version of the DKs have apparently played about 75% of all shows billed as “Dead Kennedys” according to concert archives. I guess that proves that quantity doesn’t trump quality. Haha, sorry.
Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here is one from Wayne Vanderkuil’s collection today. Back in the 80s, Wayne was one of the best people to trade with. He taped early Gilman soundboards and he made decent quality audience tapes like this one. The is one of my all-time favorite tapes I ever traded for.
Spastik Children were Jaymz Hetfield on Drums, Cliff Burton on bass, fred cotton on vocals, and either Jim Martin or James McDaniel on guitar (it was a rotating cast of characters).
This was recorded right around the time Master of Puppets was released. Hearing James and Cliff clowning around was a lot of fun to hear back then. Favorite parts of this show are when James is trying to talk in between songs and Cliff keeps noodling on bass.. so James lets him know how he feels about that. This is clearly just a drunken party with musical instruments involved.
Wayne and crew do some clowning of their own at the beginning of the tape.
Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ is Sony Soundforge 10
I am still digitizing today’s On This Date in history, so let’s do the collections post first.
I was digitizing one of Wayne’s master recordings from Ruthie’s 2/7/86 (that’s a spoiler alert btw- legendary show), and it looks like he recorded 5 minutes of The Boneless Ones’ set. Found media! Thanks Wayne.
UPDATE: 1 song from Hellhound, 1 from Boneless Ones!
There aren’t many recordings of the 1980s lineup, so this is somewhat rare and special.
Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge 10
Today’s planned video post is cancelled. While I was at the Oakland A’s game yesterday, I heard the awful news that Chris Scaparro passed away. He had posted about tongue cancer just 4 weeks ago- I can’t believe cancer took him so quickly. Such a shock.
I got to know Chris while promoting 2 Condemned Attitude shows in Sacramento in early 1987. From there, I became the Sacramento support “hub” of the band, copying and stocking demo tapes to sell at Dimple, and sending the band money and supplies. Chris was pretty soft spoken, I knew Andy and Rick the best, but Chris was always super cool to me.
It was fun interacting with him online- I have been posting a lot of AA stuff from Wayne Vanderkuil’s (and my) collection and he would comment from time to time… you could tell he was proud of what AA/CA/Attitude accomplished.
R.I.P. my friend
Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Incomplete. Opening for Bad Manners at the Oasis Ballroom, Sacramento, CA. Video by Steve Vanoni. Transferred by Shayne Stacy.
Live at the Oasis Ballroom, Sacramento, CA. Audio quality is poor. Video by Steve Vanoni. Transferred by Shayne Stacy.
This is from Chris Eng’s collection, and nobody seems to know who recorded it. It’s not Chris Eng, not Wayne Vanderkuil, Chris Dodge did punk so not him, and not Verne quality. Who knows?
The quality is not great- a typical distorted metal audience tape. I EQ’d as much of the harshness out of it as I could.
I also have the opener’s set – Manslaughter. If anyone knows anything about Manslaughter, please let me know so I can include it in that upcoming post.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10
Here’s one that hardcore fans of this band will probably enjoy, and there seems to be quite a few fans out there.
This one comes from Chris Eng’s collection and it was on the same VHS tape as that Annihilation from Rock on Broadway that I posted last month. No idea where it came from.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
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