7 Seconds- Anthrax, Norwalk Ct. 11/30/86 xfer from low gen VHS Kevin Hardcore Punk

I probably have too many projects going at once- today’s post comes from a project where I go through the list of already-created DVDs for any Sacramento-related content. I am working alphabetically, and am on Numbers and A’s so far. Still have the rest of the alphabet to go. Tons more 7 Seconds to be posted.
I am also digitizing some of my and other stuff for friends. I am almost done with most of those (except Brian McKenna’s and Dal Basi’s big boxes o’demos). I need to get tapes back to you all, and get the rest of those posted.
Plus, I am working on my master tapes and getting those posted, sometimes with the help of King Bean for audio synchs.
So we are not running out of things to do over here. If you’d like to help add posts to the archive, there are hundreds of existing posts on youtube that could be mapped, so please let me know if you’d like to help.

Today’s post comes from the 1980s tape trading underground. There were certain venues where you knew people taped a lot- City Gardens, Houston Venues, Washington DC, and this one. There was one guy who filmed a bunch of the stuff at The Anthrax club.

I didn’t film or digitize this one, so no credits this time.

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Fang- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 2/13/87 xfer from 1st gen soundboard cassette Rebalanced Sammytown

Here is a very short Fang audio soundboard clip- this was on the same tape as the Dave MDC board from yesterday. C’mon, you have 4 minutes to spend listening to this. Sounds like there is a conflict toward the end of the tape.
From Wayne Vanderkuil’s collection

Recorded and mixed by Radley Hirsch
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalanced in Izotope Rx8 (boost guitars)

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Jello Biafra- Guest DJ Discussion KXLU-FM 88.9 Los Angeles Ca 2/11/87 xfer f/ unknown gen audio tape

For today’s On The Day in History, Jello Biafra was a guest DJ on KXLU back in 1987. Unfortunately most songs have been edited out, but Jello does a great job back announcing, so you can search them out and play along at home if you’d like.
Jello was in L.A. for his spoken word performance at the Variety Arts center that week.

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

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Country Bob and the Blood Farmers- Graystone, Detroit Mi 2/8/87 xfer from master beta tape NO AUDIO Russ Gibb Archive Punk SILENT

Since everyone seemed to either be watching the Back the the Beginning live stream or talking about the concert, I decided to hold off posting until it was over. Then I fell asleep. It was a rough night with my 9 month old pup- I got maybe 5 hours sleep.
I bought this off Ebay from the guys who are selling items from Russ Gibb’s estate. There were a ton of really cool beta master tapes. I saw The Bats on this tape and figured that this was probably the New Zealand band since they released their first album around this time… turns out it wasn’t them. Detroit had a punk band called Bats who put out a 4 song demo in 1986.. and the logo on the bass drum matches the logo on the demo.. No band member info anywhere.
This was also on the tape. I tried to look up CBBF and there is nothing on discogs or google or newspapers dot com. If you have any info on this band, please let me know.
The worst part about all of this is the tape has no audio. I even tried to normalize it to see if there is a tiny signal I could work with.. nope. Enjoy the silent footage.

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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Bats- Graystone, Detroit Mi 2/8/87 xfer from master beta tape NO AUDIO Russ Gibb Archive Punk SILENT

Here is one that may not get much interest. I will add a bonus post after this of something people will actually want to see and hear!
I bought this off Ebay from the guys who are selling items from Russ Gibb’s estate. There were a ton of really cool beta master tapes. I saw The Bats and figured that this was probably the New Zealand band since they released their first album around this time… turns out it wasn’t them. Detroit had a punk band called Bats who put out a 4 song demo in 1986.. and the logo on the bass drum matches the logo on the demo.. No band member info anywhere.
The worst part about all of this is the tape has no audio. I even tried to normalize it to see if there is a tiny signal I could work with.. nope. Enjoy the silent footage.

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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Distorted Truth- Dave’s Garage, Albany Ca 2/7/87 master VHS Tape xfer Enhanced Pat Dave Mello Op Ivy

Distorted Truth were an East Bay punk band consisting of Pat Mello, Dave Mello, Paul Bae, and an unknown (to me) 4th member. They released 1 song on Aaron Cometbus’ “Lest We Forget” comp and that was about it. It’s pretty cool that Chris Eng was able to capture a full set of theirs from Dave (Mello)’s garage. We get some good crowd shots from Chris’ vantage point as well- they are playing a 1-car garage! It’s amazing they can fit anyone in there beyond the band and the equipment.

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

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Soup- Dave’s Garage, Albany Ca 2/7/87 Xfer from Master VHS tape Enhanced East Bay Punk

If you are following along with the VHS tape image on the facebook posts, you can probably figure out what is coming for today. Soup is probably best known as being the first band to ever play 924 Gilman- they opened the first show ever on 12/31/87. I actually have an audio tape of that one. Richie Bucher played bass in the band. He designed the 924 Gilman logo and the Dookie album cover.
The band consisted of Chris Giese, Richie Bucher, Sergie Loobkoff, and Tom Hamma. Lots of east bay punk lineage there- Samiam, Slambodians and more.
This looks to be the only Soup video on the internets.

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

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Soup- Dave’s Garage, Albany Ca 2/7/87 xfer from low gen audio cassette East Bay Punk

Collections post from Chris Eng today. Chris doesn’t know where this one came from. He thought it might be a cassette dub of the show’s audio, but it is too good quality for that.
Like the Crimpshrine I posted last month, this one required an EQ and a rebalance job. Sounds pretty decent now.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496
EQ in sony sound forge 10
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8 (vocal +2)

Audio Live Concert