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Crumbsuckers- Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach Ca 11/22/86 transfer from low gen VHS tape NYHC Complete

I could have sworn that I saw this entire set on youtube before, but I searched a bunch of different ways and it looks like only 1 song is out there now. This was on the same T-160 tape as the rest of the Patrick Vergara-shot Fenders stuff and it is the same time frame so I am going to assume Patrick did this one too.

This angle is not elevated so there are a lot of heads in the way. Think of it as the real Fender’s experience. It sounds good though.

I still can’t believe they came all the way to the west coast to play 2 shows in Long Beach and no others. I would have been at a northern cal show.

Recorded by: Patrick Vergara
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (denoise)

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Camper van Beethoven- Club Can’t Tell, Sacramento Ca 11/22/86 transfer from master audio cassette

It’s time for another installment in “I love the band but didn’t get into them until after this concert happened so I missed this show and I wish I could hear it”, or more succinctly, Dave Carness’ collection.

Dave got almost all of the CVB set and some of the Dead Milkmen set as well. Camper were clearly having a good time with some fun ad-libbing during “Take the Skinheads Bowling” and David’s wild psychedelic spoken word intro to….an early version of “one of these days”? Always keep ’em guessing, right? Great set. Thanks Dave.

Starts out muffled but greatly improves a minute in. This is newly found and digitized, never in circulation.

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

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Soul Asylum- Texas Records, Santa Monica 11/22/86 xfer f/unknown gen audio cassette Acoustic instore

Today’s On This date in History comes from the old days of 1980s tape trading. I think I got this from Katie Dee in Buffalo, she was a big SA fan and I think she even turned me onto the band.

This one is clearly done with a cheap consumer recorder, but since it is an acoustic set it is still enjoyable. Not many acoustic sets from the band this early on. In fact, this is the earliest acoustic performance that I have out of the 177 Soul Asylum recordings I have. Maybe Mike Wilson (owner of the cool “littletooclean” youtube channel and tons of SA tapes) can chime in to confirm.

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

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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

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Badfinger- Bentley’s Indianapolis, IN 11/12/86 xfer f/1st gen VHS tape Joey Molland Live

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

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Excel- Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach Ca 11/8/86 transfer f/VHS tape Crossover thrash Hardcore metal

Another set in this 10 band bill. Excel was untouchable in this era- loved those early demos! We have also learned that Patrick Vergara filmed these sets and his masters are gone. That’s why I am not too picky about archival tapes being from the master tape, so many original tapes are now long gone… even some of mine.

Recorded by: Patrick Vergara
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

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Cryptic Slaughter- Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach Ca 11/8/86 transfer from mid gen VHS tape Crossover

More from Chris Eng’s seemingly endless stream of bands on this one Fenders tape. A million bands played that day and this tape seems to have them all.
There is a better quality version of one song from this set online but it doesn’t seem like the full set is out there.

Recorded by: ?
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

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Phantasm- Fender’s, Long Beach Ca 11/8/86 transfer from mid gen VHS tape Katon De Pena Hirax

Ah man, I missed my daily posts for yesterday. Busy day grant writing and then off to Sudwerk to barely catch the start of the amazing sets there. Whew. Nice seeing everyone in real life! That means you get FIVE awesome things today- yesterday and today’s 2 scheduled posts and today’s “this date in history”.

This one is from Chris Eng’s collection. There were about a million bands playing at this show and the filmer seemed to have caught them all. Even though this is only 15 minutes long, it is the 2nd longest video that I can find out there by the band.

Recorded by: ?
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

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