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M.D.C.- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 3/29/87 xfer f/ Master VHS Tape Enhanced Hardcore Millions of Dead

It’s Friday! What a week- in Miami on Monday, back at 3am my body’s time, then back-to-back RKL shows in SF (and the 4.5 hours sleep that come with that)… and now a family member has contracted the dreaded COVID. Most chaotic week in years, for sure.
I just finished processing this one- I have been holding back on posting some of Chris Eng’s Gilman masters because I need to work on prepping and synching the soundboard audio for them. I don’t think that this MDC show was recorded through the board. This might be the earliest Gilman show that Chris filmed. It was good enough quality that I didn’t need to denoise/degrain- doing so just made it look weird and cloudy.
I think this was during Gilman’s early days when they did not announce the bands- Tim just expected people to show up.

Recorded by: Chris Eng
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Processed to MP4 in Adobe Premiere Elements

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Flyer: Dag Nasty, Die Kreuzen, Doggy Style, more at Club Can’t Tell, Sacramento, CA 03/29/87

Dag Nasty, Die Kreuzen, Doggy Style, more
Club Can’t Tell
Sacramento, CA
03/29/87

Note: Doggy Style. The “Doggy Rock” version of the band played this show. They put out once record called “The Last Laugh”. Featured Brian Baker (Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Bad Religion) and Doug Carrion (Dag Nasty, Descendents).

Flyer scan by Ken Doose

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Dag Nasty- Club Can’t Tell, Sacramento Ca 3/29/87 xfer from master or 1st gen audiotape

I usually post Video on weekends but I had a busy day, so you get this. The audio quality isn’t great, but I think I was at this show and I know that a lot of my friends were there too. The quality gets really awful about 15min in, but then it improves for the rest of the show.
Flyer image courtesy of Ken Doose

Recorded by: Mark Martin, I think
Equipment used: Panasonic cosumer recorder
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Anal Babies- Rehearsal, Sacramento Ca. 3/28/87 xfer from master tape R.I.P. Damon Brindle

My friend Robbie Aki broke the news yesterday that our old friend Damon Brindle passed away. Damon was in the bands Poison(the Sacramento based 1980s metal band) and Anal Babies. He was a good friend in the late 80s and then we all went our separate ways and lost touch. He actually commented on an Anal Babies post I made a couple years back, I was so happy to hear from him.
I remember Damon’s family’s big, nice house in Fair Oaks that always seemed to be a bit chaotic. His dad Mick was super cool and let us borrow his video camera to take to punk and metal shows in the early days. He even came to the show I promoted(Spankys 4/15/87) and helped videotape the show. Damon played drums with the Anal Babies at that show. Damon was always a nice, laid back guy. You can find that AB video(and their demo) on the website/channel.
Anyway, this is the only thing that I have not posted yet, that has Damon on drums. This rehearsal has Vonni Groccia on vocals, Greg (Decay) Johnson on guitar, and Damon on drums.

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

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Descendents- Mississippi Nights, St. Louis Mo 3/24/87 Pro Shot Xfer from 1st gen VHS tape Punk

Taking a break from the weekday audio posts to ask the question– what in the hell is going on over at KDHX in St. Louis?
I became aware of KDHX back in the 1980s, when my good friend Jim Utz would send me videos like this one (copied on VHS tape) in the mail. NOBODY was documenting bands like this back then, and I have always had a soft spot for KDHX- a community radio/TV station run by volunteers making a huge global impact.
Well, it seems that KDHX may have been bitten by the “corporate public radio” bug. They have fired many of the DJ’s that made the station great- people who have been there for over 20 years and made KDHX what it is today. First the Board of Directors stated that those DJ’s were encouraging listeners to not donate, then retracted that statement and said the firings were due to “combat things like racist and gender discrimination, and patriarchy and all of those things”… but did not back those statements up with any facts.
This is pretty disheartening for a person like me, who lived far away but was emotionally invested in the station. I’m still trying to understand why- are they trying to become another KEXP or KCRW? No need, we already have one of each of those.
Anyway, sorry for the rambling, and sorry to the VOLUNTEER DJ’s who gave a good chunk of their lives to the station, who were just dumped for (apparently) no good reason.
Thanks for the memories, and for documenting all the great St. Louis bands, along with touring band bands like these guys. R.I.P.

Recorded by: ?. Taken from Jim Utz’ first gen VHS tape
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9911 – Canopus ADVC300 – firewire into dell workstation
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Wehrmacht- River Thtr, Guerneville 3/22/87 xfer from band VHS with soundboard audio enhanced Metal

Here is a super short but rare clip of Wehrmacht from 1987. This comes from a 1st gen copy off Condemned Attitude’s VHS tape of the show. This 3min is all that exists, as far as I know.

recorded by: Ron Quintana?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS-9800 and Canopus ADVC-30]
Video enhanced in Adobe premier elements/neat video (brighten/contrast/denoise)

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Condemned Attitude- River Thtr, Guerneville 3/22/87 xfer from band VHS with soundboard audio enhance

Here is an EARLY but cool post today. I was good friends with the guys in condemned attitude so they lent me their copy of the vhs tape of the show. I also got a soundboard tape either from them, or in trade from Ron Quintana.
Now that we have good hardware (vhs decks and cassette decks) and software(Adobe premiere and neat video, isotope rx), we can make this one somewhat better than before.

recorded by: Ron Quintana?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS-9800 and Canopus ADVC-30]
Video enhanced in Adobe premier elements/neat video (brighten/contrast/denoise)
Audio enhanced in Izotope rx7 (boost guitar and bass)

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Andy Andersen backstage River Thtr Guerneville 3/22/87 w/Cryptic Slaughter MITFR Attitude Werhmacht

Here’s something fun- MANY years back (about 34 years), Andy lent me a few of his VHS tapes. This clip of pure insanity was on one of the tapes. This is Andy’s footage from before the River Thtr show with Cryptic Slaughter, Condemned Attitude, Attitude Adjustment and Wehrmacht. There is also footage from after the show- the drive back and the return that night to KUSF studios where Keith Chatham is talking about the Condemned LP and Ron and Harald are DJ’ing.
SO MANY people to mention on here- Ron, Harald, Andy, Keith, Toby Rage?, Tony the due?, Sherwood, Jeff Becerra, Sacrilege. All being completely nuts, making fun of skinheads, and many stream of consciousness interviews. Just classic.

Recorded by: Andy Andersen and Ron Quintana
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9800U and Canopus ADVC300
Enhanced (Brightness/contrast/exposure) in Adobe Premiere and noise reduction via Neat Video

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Condemned Attitude- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 3/20/87 xfer from low gen soundboard cassette rebalanced

The clearout of the hard drive continues. I think this was during the early days of Gilman where they would not announce the bands- people were expected to just show up and see who played that night. If this is the right show (I digitized this months ago), you can hear Andy joking about it.
This board mix was super thin and tinny, and it sounded sped up to me. I slowed it down by 7% and it STILL sounds fast, but it is hard to tell with Andy’s vocal delivery. I boosted bass(+5), Drums (+1) and guitar(+5) in Izotope RX8. I also dropped about 3db off the highs because it was so bright.

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

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Wendy O Williams- Record Vault in-store, San Francisco Ca 3/15/87 xfer from low gen VHS Enhanced

..and here is the 2nd short one for today. This comes from Chris Eng’s collection and it is on a VHS tape of his master tapes.. but you can see this video pause and fast forward, so it must be a copy from a master or low gen VHS tape. Still looks to be good quality, and the enhancements worked well.
I see all kinds of folks hanging out with Wendy, including a young Ron Quintana at about the 3:30 mark.

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

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