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Butthole Surfers- The Farm, San Francisco Ca 10/31/86 xfer from unknown gen audio cassette

I tried to find the most frightening thing to post for today’s On This Date in History.. and what’s scarier than a bunch of drug addled psych freaks doing their thing? Too bad there isn’t video of this one out there. Maybe all those Farm videos will see the light of day sometime before we all croak.

This one is not great quality but not awful either and it almost sounds like a soundboard at times, but the crowd noise at the end leads me to believe it’s an audience.

From Eric McIntire’s collection. Maybe he can give us some info about lineage.

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

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D.R.I.- The Farm, San Francisco Ca 10/25/86 xfer from master Soundboard cassette DRI Dirty Rotten

Late post today but it is a good one. This is from James R Edmonds’ master tape. The raw mix started out pretty good, but then guitar overpowered the mix- it was all you could hear. I did everything I could to bring up bass, vocals and drums in Izotope and it sounds pretty decent. This is peak D.R.I. — that 85-86 time frame was untouchable.

Recorded by: James R Edmonds
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocal +9, Bass and Drum +10, guitar -1. Yeah, it was that extreme.

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Verbal Abuse- The Farm, San Francisco Ca 10/25/86 xfer from master soundboard cassette

Our friend James R Edmonds sent over another envelope of cassettes last week, including a couple more soundboard recordings of bands from this show. Thanks James!
The mix on this one is pretty heavy on guitar, so I did my best to bring everything else up in the mix with Izotope. I’m pretty happy with it now- give it a few minutes for the mix to settle in. The other band (posting later this week) was a big challenge. More on that later.

Recorded by: James R Edmonds
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakmichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope RX8: Vocal +2, Bass +10, Drums +1.

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Attitude Adjustment- The Farm, San Francisco 10/25/86 xfer from master tape audience recording

I debated posting this one since we already posted James R Edmonds’ soundboard recording of this show, but that one had some tape damage… so here is Wayne’s audience recording for you AA completists. Hopefully one day we can check to see if combining the recordings makes sense, but ain’t got time for that now.

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

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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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