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Dayglo Abortions- The Farm, San Francisco Ca 10/25/86 xfer from master soundboard cassette rebalance

This set was on the flip side of Attitude Adjustment, from James R Edmonds’ cassette. As I mentioned yesterday, this cassette arrived damaged- the outer shell was warped and tape was eaten and partially unspooled. I re-shelled it and tried to fix it, but I had to mail it to my friend Bill for repair. Thanks Bill!
This board mix was wacky. It was almost all guitar. I did my best to rebalance, boosting bass about +5, and drums/vocals WAY up (+8 or +9). It turned out ok, still a bit muffled and noisy.

Recorded by: James R Edmonds
Tape repair and transfer by: Bill R
Rebalance by Shayne Stacy

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Attitude Adjustment- The Farm, San Francisco Ca 10/25/86 xfer from master soundboard cassette rebal

James R Edmonds sent this tape to me a couple of months back and the tape was pretty messed up. A good part of the tape was eaten and I think some tape was also unspooled. I tried repairing it myself and realized I was over my head and sent it to our resident tape repair expert. He was able to resurrect the tape, and most of it still sounds great! There are a few seconds of “loss of fidelity” here and there, but overall stellar work. Thank you!!
The mix was excellent except it lacked bass. I rebalanced in Izotope Rx8 and I am happy with it now. And, how often do we get to share an uncirculated master soundboard tape from almost 40 years ago?

Recorded by: James R Edmonds
Transfer and repair by: Bill R.
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8 (Vocals +3, Bass +5)

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B.G.K.- Club Can’t Tell, Sacramento Ca 10/25/86 xfer from master cassette BGK

Happy mediocre Monday! I bet a bunch of you are tired, sore and voiceless due to Aftershock. I hope you had a good time. I didn’t go this year, so no 2022 Aftershock videos coming from me.
Here is a live show taped by Mark Martin back in 86. BGK opening for 7 seconds. Quality isn’t great, but neither was the recorder. Or the venue’s acoustics.

Recorded by: Mark Martin
Equipment used: Consumer Panasonic Recorder
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Verbal Assault- Club Can’t Tell, Sacramento Ca 10/25/86 xfer from master cassette

Verbal Assault is coming to Sacramento for the first time since 1986! I saw that they had reunited a while back, but I didn’t think they would ever make it back here. Huge props to Scott Torguson (and Chris Lemos of course) for making it happen.
Here is a mediocre recording of their last time playing here, opening for 7 Seconds on a stacked bill. Stew could book those awesome lineups.
PS: There are 2 versions of this flyer. I have an actual poster of the other version, autographed by 7 Seconds… but I can’t find my 11×17 poster folio right now. D’oh!
Ticket link to this friday’s Verbal Assault show in comments

Recorded by: Mark Martin
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic recorder, Transfer with Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Thin White Rope- Vis Club, San Francisco Ca 10/24/86 xfer from unknown gen audiotape soundboard

I hope everyone is staying safe and well during this surreal time.

Since I am one handed now. I used my remaining good one to pull one of my cassette trays off the top of the shelves here. I found all kinds of GOOD stuff. Here is an old soundboard recording of TWR from the Vis in 1986. I just learned today that The Vis was the same building as the Kennel Club in the late 80s/90s, and is now The Independent.

This one sounds pretty damned good. I was able to use Izotope to boost the bass (as much as possible) and boost 1 guitar. I got lucky with the guitar- the program doesn’t always isolate the guitar… both guitars are not perfectly balanced, but there wasn’t much I could do about it.

Show starts with a 1 song soundcheck, then the show.

One last thing- I have around 90 TWR listings on the audio list on the sacramentomusicarchive.com website. I’ll need to get to them all someday

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon, M-Audio audiophile 2496 card
Music rebalance in Izotope.

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Tragic Mulatto- Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco Ca 10/24/86 xfer from 1st gen soundboard cassette

This one comes from Radley Hirsch- he gave a copy of his master soundboard tape to Anonymous back in the late 80s. Pretty nice mix, so I didn’t attempt a rebalance.
For the uninitiated, Tragic Mulatto were an art punk band that released a few things on Alternative Tentacles back in the 80s.

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

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