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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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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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Crimpshrine- Dave’s Garage, Albany Ca 2/7/87 xfer from VHS Master Tape Enhanced East Bay Punk

If you were following along on the Chris Eng video posts, you probably figured out that this one was next….Oh man, it’s really great. Great camera location and it sounds pretty good for a 1987 stock camcorder microphone thing. Massive thanks to Chris Eng for filming this and making these available now.

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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Vomitorium- Dave’s Garage, Albany Ca 2/7/87 xfer f/master VHS tape enhanced Mother Hips Benjamin Kit

Chris Eng filmed a bunch of east bay bands, some of which became very popular… while others played a few shows, maybe released a demo, and that was it. Vomitorium is a band that falls in that latter category- but a couple of their members went on to do some other things. Vocalist Rumpkin Bignose Scaribreakfast(real name Christof Certik) and guitarist Zanzibar Buck Buck McFate(real name Gideon Zaretsky) went on to play in the psych-pop band Benjamin Kitestring. The duo also played with/engineered a diverse number of bands such as Mother Hips, Buck-o-Nine, and Vicious Rumours. Who woulda thought.

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 (denoise)

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Basic Radio- Dave’s Garage, Albany Ca 2/7/87 f/master VHS tape enhanced Tim Armstrong Operation Ivy

When I take in a new collection to digitize, I like to post something that is somewhat of a “big splash” to announce what’s up… well, I got so excited that I just started digitizing stuff that was important to me and not the most popular. So, with that in mind:
Last Monday I braved the big storm and drove to Maraga to meet up with Chris Eng and go through his collection of tapes. Chris was the guy who filmed a LOT of the early east bay punk stuff at Gilman in 1986-87 time frame- he had a nice camera for the time that picked up low light way better than most cameras of the era. I left with 5 boxes of tapes- 2 boxes of video and 3 of audio, so expect those to dominate short-term weekend video posts. Thanks to Chris for having the foresight to film the bands, and for trusting me with the collection.
So, here is the first one. Tim Armstrong (Lint)’s band before Operation Ivy/Rancid was called Basic Radio. Actually, the discogs description is really good:
“Basic Radio was Ska band, formed in 1985 in Berkeley, CA mainly from members of Urban Noise, and played shows in the San Francisco Bay Area with other East Bay bands such as The Uptones, Freaky Executives and Primus.
Members of Basic Radio went on to form Operation Ivy, Rancid, Critical Mass , Elephant Men and Tilt.

Members Include;
Michael Valladares – vocals, saxophone, accordion
Tim Armstrong “Lint” – guitar
Jeff Kamalian – guitar
Matt Freeman – bass
Vincent Camacho – drums
John Healy – percussion, b/u vocals
Cliff Smith – keyboards”

I posted a version of this from a VHS copy a few years back, but this one looks MUCH better- this is straight off of Chris’ master tape, captured with the lossless setup here. Nice!

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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Basic Radio- Albany, Ca. 2/7/87 xfer from 1st/2nd gen VHS tape Operation Ivy Tim Armstrong Live

Here’s one that I was surprised to see uncirculated. I was told that this is a 1st gen VHS copy, but it has a slight screen bend which makes me suspect it is was copied a couple times. Looks like the location was Dave’s garage.

Recorded by: Chris Eng(?)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9811U and Canopus ADVC300

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