Bam Bam- The Farm, San Francisco 4/3/86 xfer master soundboard tape Tina Bell Pre Seattle Grunge

In the last box of goodies that James R Edmonds sent over, he sent me an MDC soundboard master tape to digitize… and this happened to be on the end of the tape. I couldn’t believe it, but it does appear to be an uncirculated Bam Bam recording. Bam Bam were the forebearers of grunge by some accounts, forming in 1983 with Matt Cameron (Pearl Jam) on drums. They put out some material on cassette and released a highly sought after 7″ in 1984. They finally got at least some recognition with a posthumous vinyl release in 2022 along with some press. Check them out, it’s pretty interesting.
So I raved to James about having this tape, and how much the PNW archive folks will appreciate it, so don’t let me down!

Recorded by: James R Edmonds
Transfer by Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8 (Vocal and guitar +3)

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Venom- City Gardens, Trenton NJ. 4/2/86 Audio Only xfer from 2nd gen from Rollins’ tape Black Metal

The biggest Venom fan I have ever met(virtually or otherwise), Joseph Reinsbach, messaged me and introduced himself in late February. He let me know that this Venom show was uncirculated, which was surprising. So he waited for 3 months, through my shoulder surgery and other projects, and I was finally able to lift and pull the trays off the shelf and digitize the tapes for him. It was split over 3 tapes and I am not sure if this is the complete show of what was circulating at the time.
Here is the background on this recording:
On April 2nd 1986 Venom played a gig together with Black Flag at City Gardens in Trenton, New Jersey. Legend has it that Black Flag roadie Joe Cole recorded the entire show and cut all the songs out of Venom’s set except for a few seconds of intros and outros, leaving behind the between-song stage banter of Venom’s frontman Cronos. In 1991 Ecstatic Peace released the result on a 7”.
This is 45min of that show.
Joe and Henry were best friends. So if the above is true, this is probably a 2nd gen from master tape or 3rd if Rollins had a copy of Joe’s tape.

PS: $6.66 at the door. HAHA! I hope Randy Now had 34 cents times about 500 ready.

Recorded by: Joe Cole?
Digitized by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon Cassette Deck, M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Enhanced in Izotope Rx7 (boost vocal, guitar, bass, drop the drums)

Audio Live Concert