Here’s a show that many people still talk about, even now. We don’t know who recorded this, but it was obviously done with a pro walkman. Sounds pretty decent for a 1986 punk audience recording.
Photo courtesy of James Edmonds
Recorded by: Eric McIntire
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Month: November 1986
Flyer: Tupelo Chain Sex, Race Train Schizo at Spanky’s, Sacramento, CA 11/23/86
Tupelo Chain Sex, Race Train Schizo
Spanky’s
Sacramento, CA
11/23/86
Flyer scan by Ken Doose
Flyer: Dead Milkmen, Camper Van Beethoven, Sea Hags, Cactus Liqours at Club Can’t Tell, Sacramento, CA 11/22/86
Dead Milkmen, Camper Van Beethoven, Sea Hags
Club Can’t Tell
Sacramento, CA
11/22/86
Flyer by Ken Doose
Thin White Rope- Olive Pit, Davis Ca. 11/22/86 xfer from band BETA tape Live Enhanced
Thanks once again to Jozef Becker for allowing me to borrow and digitize his TWR videos. This one was so dark that you could hardly see anything at all. I was able to brighten & increase exposure in adobe premiere, then de-noise with Neat video. Now you can see something, and it sounds pretty damned good.
Soup- Live in KALX Studio, Berkeley Ca. 11/16/86 xfer from low gen audio cassette East Bay Punk
Here’s another one that Todd Pritchard pulled from Jason Ross’ collection when he was here a while back. This one starts with low levels, then too high, and then it gets good about 2 minutes in. Awesome early, pre-Gilman east bay punk artifact!
Last Will, how did you feel about all of the profanity on your show? Did you get any follow up calls from the FCC? It was hilariously shocking to hear all of that happen.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
fIREHOSE- Mississippi Nights, St. Louis Mo. 11/8/86 Proshot KDHX Cable Xfer f/Master
Here’s another one from the “how the hell is this not on YT yet” file. From Jim Utz’ collection. Off of a master VHS tape, taped off of cable. There is no studio master of this one as far as I know, so this is as good as it gets.
Sonic Youth- Mississippi Nights, St. Louis Mo. 11/8/86 xfer from master VHS Proshot KDHX Cable
Man, some of these early KDHX videos are DARK. This one is super dark and a little pixelated, but still far superior than the other version on YT now. From Jim Utz’ collection
Mike Watt and Thurston Moore- Interview, Mississippi Nights, St. Louis Mo. 11/8/86 Xfer Master
This is an awesome interview- Mike and Thurston get onstage to interview each other and heckle the audience. They appear to be feeling no pain. That tour must have been fun.
From Jim Utz’ collection
VHS master (taped off cable)- DVD (consumer DVD recorder)
Slayer- El Dorado Saloon, Sacramento Ca. 11/5/86 xfer from 1st gen audio tape Remixed Main Set
Thanks to Ken Doose for posting this flyer yesterday and starting some conversation around this show.
As I have talked about before, my friend Matt Polish was friends with the band. He toured with them in 1985 and by this time, he had gone to L.A. to hang with Jeff multiple times. So we got there early and went right back onto the NEW tour bus supplied by Def American. We step in there, and here are the guys in Slayer partying hard, and listening to… rap music? We were totally dumbfounded- what the fuck is this? It turned out that they had an advance tape of Beastie Boys’ License to Ill and they were BLASTING it as they partied on the bus. They were reciting every lyric. This was months before the Beasties were well known, and before Anthrax’ rap collaborations. Rap and metal at the time did NOT mix. It was one of the most hilariously jarring moments I have ever experienced. After an hour or so of goofing off, they got dressed and played this show. So funny.
No encores were recorded. I don’t know why.
Recorded by: Ricky (RIP)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio audiophile 2496 card
Remix by Shayne Stacy in Sony Sound Forge (EQ settings in FB comments- the original tape sounds like hot garbage)
Fishbone- Mississippi Nights, St. Louis Mo. 11/5/86 xfer from master VHS off studio Umatic
There are still a LOT of VHS tapes to be digitized (over 1,000) over here. I have done some as people have asked for things, but I have not started to do them all yet. Someone posted a link of the well-circulated Fishbone show from St. Louis 1986 and I noticed that the quality of the show on youtube is not very good, and the show is incomplete. So, I guess I’ll need to get to posting some of these.
This is the 1 hour version of the show that includes interview clips with the band. This came from KDHX directly- this is a VHS tape right off of their 1/4″ master tape. Huge thanks to Jim Utz & Dede Schofield for giving these to me 20ish(30?) years ago.
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9911 w/TBD– Canopus ADVC300– Sony Vegas Pro 10.
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