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Corrosion of Conformity- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 3/15/87 transfer from low gen VHS tape C.O.C.

This one is from Chris Eng’s collection and it continues its way through that incredible bill for the No More Censorship Fund benefit at Gilman in 1987. I have not come across many COC shows with Simon Bob on vocals. I have a cassette from Chris’ collection that has soundboard recordings of parts of the bands’ sets, but it isn’t complete and the quality is far from perfect. Those early 8 channel board tapes can be hit or miss.

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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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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Corrosion of Conformity- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 3/15/87 cassette soundboard rebalanced C.O.C.

Here’s a short one today- I transferred this one a while back because the day before, C.O.C. played Sacramento and my tape is marked as Mike Dean’s last show… but you can hear Mike on backing vocals here during “Eye for an Eye”. The old analog tape trading days were full of inaccuracies, bad dates and wrong venue names/cities. It was like a huge game of telephone, but taking place via USPS.
Anyway, this is likely low gen since the gilman soundboard trading circle was small in the late 80s. The mix is heavy on drums and vocals, so I tried to rebalance the best I could.

Recorded by: Chris Dodge or Radley H. or Wayne V. probably.
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope RX8: Vocal -2, Bass +4, Drums -3, Guitar +8

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C.O.C. Corrosion of Conformity- Club Can’t Tell, Sacramento Ca. 3/14/87 xfer from audio tape

In remembrance of Reed Mullin, I’ll be posting a few C.O.C. shows over the next few days. The first one is one that I know Jeff Arellano (Gus Buss) will be happy to see- he proclaimed this show to be the best C.O.C. show ever.
I usually have good lineage info on Sacramento recordings, but this one is a bit of a mystery. It does not appear to be one of the tapes I got from Mark Martin’s collection. It looks like I might have traded with someone outside of sacramento for it… but there is very little tape hiss. Odd.

Recorded by: Unknown
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon, Audiophile 2496 card, Reaper, Sony Sound Forge for normalization and bass boost (yes, it was even less bassy than this).

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Forethought- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 3/15/87 transfer from low gen VHS tape San Francisco Punk Band

This is the second half of Christurday- from Chris Eng’s VHS collection. Gilman had one of those unbelievably classic lineups on this night- SNFU and C.O.C. and Short Dogs Grow and Social Unrest! Plus Jello. What a show!

Forethought were an SF punk band that put out 1 demo and a 7″ in 1986 and that was it. There seems to be no videos online of the band.
Chris did not film this one but it looks like it is a 1st or 2nd gen.

Recorded by: ?
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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Dead Jacksons- The Mission, SF 3/13/87 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape enhanced

The last set on that Chris Eng/Ron Quintana VHS tape is this. There was not much info online about Dead Jacksons on this date, but I found 3 songs from this set posted on YT about 10 years ago. Those 3 songs were part of the Metal Mania #1 VHS tape, back when Ron was selling Metal Mania in VHS format. The uploader says that he thinks this might be from Kimo’s in SF and after looking at other shows from there, it looks like it. Can anyone confirm?
Best wishes to Mike Meals (vocals nearest camera)- He has had some recent legal trouble- I hope he can get his life back together.

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

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Sacrilege B.C.- Oakland Ensemble Theater 3/7/87 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape Enhanced Thrash Metal

Here’s a cool one from Chris Eng’s VHS collection… filmed by Ron Quintana. Thanks to Chris for letting me digitize his collection, and thanks to Ron for giving the OK to post.
I have shared my opinion about this band multiple times on here. If you have not heard them, do yourself a favor and buy the Party with God album. The southern lord records’ reissue vinyl is cheap on discogs. Go get ’em!
I also need to thank Wayne Vanderkuil- I had no info on this show, except for band name and date. He found the venue and city, and was even able to correct one of the bands on the tape (hint: it’s a different Katon De Pena band). Thanks Wayne!

Recorded by: Ron Quintana
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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Phantasm- Oakland Ensemble Theater 3/7/87 xfer f/1st gen VHS tape Enhanced Thrash Metal Katon Hirax

Another request- Nathan Williams played guitar in Phantasm and he saw the photo of Chris Eng’s VHS tape (taped by Ron Quintana), ask and you shall receive… as long as it is already being prepped.. and you were in the band.
Phantasm videos from the 80s seem to pretty rare. Daniel Hague posted 1 about 5 years ago, and Ron McGovney(!) posted some songs from a backyard party in 1987. This one looks to be incomplete.
For the uninitiated, Phantasm were (discogs) “Short lived American thrash metal band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1986 by Katon W. De Pena.”.

Recorded by: Ron Quintana
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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Concerned Children Rebel (C.C.R.)- Rehearsal, Pus Cavern, Sacramento Early 1987

Here’s a Sacramento punk band that played a couple shows and broke up. CCR were:
John Conley & Mike Yoas: Guitar
Travis noonecanrememberhislastname: bass
Scott Oakes- Drums
Shayne Stacy- Vocals

This was recorded at a rehearsal in early 1987. Transfer from master cassette recording

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: a Montgomery Ward boombox
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Xfer equipment: Nakamichi Dragon & Audiophile 2496 card

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