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Sam Mann and thee Apes- Refused Demo 1987 xfer f/master demo tape Hollywood Glam Hard Rock Metal

Alright, I need to get psyched up for this one and NOT make fun of it. Here is a legendary glam band who never released an album. They had a couple songs on the “Rock ‘n’ Roll Rebels & The Sunset Strip Boxset – Volume 1” and that was about it. I think most of you know that I am not a big fan of this type of music, but it is well done. You’ll like it if you like that kind of thing.

From Anonymous 3’s collection
Recorded by: The band
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ’d some of the highs away using Sony Soundforge 10

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Die Bossa Nova- Demo 1987 xfer f/band’s tape San Francisco New Wave Ray Vaughn Ed Rawlings Scott Dav

Here is today’s audio post, from Scott Davey/Iguana Studios’ archive. It seems that Die Bossa Nova was well known and highly regarded in San Francisco in the 1980’s, but they don’t seem to have any official releases or any demos up on youtube. Odd.

The jewel case had a label that said “Pre-Davey”, so I assume that Scott played with the band and this demo might have been a way for him to rehearse the songs. That’s pretty cool.

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

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MaximumRocknroll- Tape 4, late 1980’s xfer f/ master audio cassette MRR Maximum Rock Roll Radio Show

Collections post from Bootleg Cowboy today. This is the 2nd to last MRR tape that I see in the box. This one is not as long as the others, which were a full 90 min tape. This one takes up most of side B, so about 40 minutes. No notes about the bands or tracks, so we can all be surprised. I love these tapes- they are still fun to discover new bands.

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

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Rock City Angels- Unreleased Demos 1980s? xfer from low gen audio cassette Hard Rock Glam

Collections post from Anonymous 3’s box of tapes today. Scott’s stuff is always an adventure. Some things are incredibly rare and possibly one of a kind, and others are commonly circulated shows. It’s up to me to sift through it and figure it out.

This tape had both released music and rarities on the same tape. Those first 10 tracks (all of side A and the first track of side B) were released by the band in 2 volumes of compilations in 2010 and 2018. The last 5 songs appear to be unreleased, except for “Hush Child” and this is a different version. Shazam can’t ID them and the rest of the song titles are not in any of the band’s releases on discogs. Whew. That took some detective work.

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

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MaximumRocknRoll- Radio Show Late 1980s xfer from master Audio Cassette MRR Punk Hardcore

Today’s collections post comes from Bootleg Cowboy’s cassette collection. Just FYI, I have been posting videos from BC’s collection for the past couple years, but we are putting a pause on that for the foreseeable future. Audio only for the time being.
These old radio shows are fun- such a cool time capsule, and pre-internet, it was one of the only ways to hear new music. BC has 4 or 5 of these tapes, so expect 1 every month or so.

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

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Groupoem- Graystone, Detroit Mi. 1/1/87 xfer from Beta master tape Russ Gibb Archive Lost Media

There is absolutely nothing about this band online- nothing on discogs, nothing through the usual internet searches. They played this show with Gore and Country Bob and the bloodfarmers, so I assume they were local. If anyone has anything on the band, please let me know!

Update: Thanks to youtube commenter “chebag”, we now know that they were called Groupoem and had 2 self releases- one CD and one 12″- both from Canada, so I assume they are from Canada as well.

Members: Bass: Darren Katamay; Drums- Christopher Flea; Guitar- Terry Robinson; Vocals- Marph “Mr. Science” Nobody

Recorded by: Russ Gibb and Tom Burtell
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony SL-2100, Datavideo TBC-1000, Tevion adapter- Virtualdub
i probably denoised this in Adobe premiere elements and Neat video

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Son of Sam- Graystone, Detroit Mi 1/1/87 xfer from master beta tape Enhanced Russ Gibb Archive Punk

It’s Friday, so you get a video. This one is from the tapes I bought from Russ Gibb’s estate. Man, there is not much on this band out there. Discogs has a number of self and independent released things by the band, but not much else. According to discogs, most members never did anything outside of this band. Here is the amazing description there: “American punk rock band from Detroit, Michigan that was active 1981-1991.”. Thanks.
Pretty standard 3 chord, screaming punk. I like how the band’s large banner is put up halfway through the set, while the band is playing.

Recorded by: Russ Gibb and crew
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony SL-2100, Datavideo TBC-1000, Tevion adapter- Virtualdub

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Gore- Greystone, Detroit Mi 1/1/87 Xfer from master Beta Videotape Russ Gibb Archive Hardcore Thrash

Thanks to Laurent Ram for pointing out this Gore video from a photo I posted. I had bought this tape from the Russ Gibb archive auction and I thought that it was the band Gore from Holland.. turns out that there is a somewhat legendary thrash/hardcore band of the same name from Detroit.
They put out a couple of demo tapes around this time- “Stem The Bloodbath” in 1986 and “The Massacre Of Humanity” in 1987. It looks like they played at least 1 recent show, in August of 2024.
This one seems to be the earliest known Gore video and the only full show that I see online, so there’s that. Sounds good as well.

Recorded by: Russ Gibb and crew
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony SL-2100 – Datavideo TBC-1000 – Virtualdub
Enhanced (denoise) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Country Bob and the Bloodfarmers- Graystone, Detroit Mi 1/1/87 xfer f/ master beta Cowpunk Russ Gibb

It seems that this band is somewhat legendary. There is a really good extensive interview/article on Dangerous Minds from about 10 years ago, which has some album tracks and a 6 minute video embedded. There are plenty of short videos of the band on youtube, but only one other complete set. So this seems pretty unique.
It looks like this is one angle of a multicamera shoot that has never seen the light of day. The 6 minute live (multicam) clip and the only other complete show seem to be from the same concert at Graystone, and it’s not this one.
I’ll link the dangerous minds article in the facebook comments, it’s a good one.

Recorded by: Russ Gibb and Tom Burtell
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony SL-2100, Datavideo TBC-1000, Tevion adapter- Virtualdub
i probably denoised this in Adobe premiere elements and Neat video

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Raven Slaughter- Demo and Live 4 track 1987 xfer f/ low gen audio cassette Cleveland Los Angeles

We received a new collection recently from Anonymous 3. He is an old friend- in fact, he crashed the very first concert I held. I had a kegger party in the back yard of my Dad’s house off Mariposa Ave in 1983 or 84. Bodily Harm and Legion played. These older dudes(by a couple years)- one with some pretty cool hair came in after the bands stopped. That’s how I met Anonymous 3. We have been in contact on and off for the past 40 years.
Here is the first tape I picked out. Raven Slaughter(person) was from Cleveland, then moved to Florida, back to Cleveland, to Los Angeles (which is when this demo was produced), back to Cleveland, then to Montreal. I can’t find any info on him after 2016, when he was supposed to play a show in Cleveland but was too weak from MS to make the trip. I’ll shamelessly tag Ken Dixon/Cleveland Live Music since his friends would probably appreciate this, and maybe fill us in on him post-2016.
Tape seems to be a copy off the master, but quality is a bit lacking. Includes a few live songs recorded to 4 track.

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

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