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
I can finally get this one posted. After many tries in digitizing the VHS tape (I think the tape was dirty in spots) and 3 times trying to process, here it is. It’s pretty good for an unauthorized audience shot video. The sound is really good. From Phil Go/Tony Philputt’s collection.
Recorded by: Tony Philputt Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
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.
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
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)
Here’s a long one for you, so it’s good to get it posted early so you have plenty of time to listen today. One of the most fun things about digging through Wayne’s box of tapes is stumbling upon stuff like this, which was clearly taped by him (he lived in the south bay) and never circulated. The quality on this is decent, there is a bit of noise in the room I could not mix out… but it is listenable. It’s Jello in a laundromat nightclub- how can you beat that?
Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
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)
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.
