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Uncle Tupelo- Corner Tavern, Edwardsville Il. 6/30/87 xfer from 2nd gen VHS tape FULL SHOW

I think most of you know that I have a mountain of stuff to post and not enough time to post often enough. I had a pile of Groovie Ghoulies stuff to do, but then I decided to check my alt country videos against youtube.. and I was shocked that a lot of the OLD uncle tupelo stuff that Jim Utz helped get from the source had not been posted to YT. Odd. There is only 1 song posted in YT from this show, here is the full show. This is the first show billed as Uncle Tupelo, opening for Das Damen. It’s super dark and the sound is not the best, but it is the lowest gen available… unless Jim can track down that 1st gen VHS again, that we dubbed back in the 90s. 🙂

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

 

Additional help by: Jim Utz

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Complete Disorder- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 6/27/87 xfer from master VHS Tape Punk Band

Here’s another lesser-known band from Chris Eng’s VHS collection.
Complete Disorder was a Hardcore punk band from San Rafael, California. Members included Mike Levin, who also did some time in Boo! Hiss! Pfftlb!; Steve Korbay, who also played in jack Killed Jill; and Steve Merritt, who moved to Austin, Tx and played in a rockabilly/country band with his wife. I’m not sure if all those guys are in this video, fyi.
It’s fun to me to see how all of the early Bay Area Punk band members went on to form new, diverse music.

Recorded by: Chris Eng
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub

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Slambodians-924 Gilman 6/27/87 xfer from Master VHS Tape w/unknown band start Crossover Thrash Metal

I fired up the VHS digitizing setup and started back up on Chris Eng’s tapes this week. There is about 2min of an unknown band to start this tape (forgot to trim)- if anyone knows who it is, let me know.
Then, the legendary Slambodians. I think this is the first demo lineup of Eric Johnson/Wayne Park/James Pittman/Aaron Crozier/Chris Giese, but not 100% sure. East bay crossover/thrash metal- the band played quite a few shows in the late 80s.

Recorded by: Chris Eng
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub

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Accused- Interview with Blaine at Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco 6/25/87 xfer f/low gen audio tape

This tape is from Chris Eng’s collection, and it took some detective work to figure out. The tape had no date but it had a show from July 1987 on it along with this. I listened to the interview and sure enough, it’s the 87 show at the mab. I was able to narrow down SF because they talk about playing Salt Lake right before this (thanks Metallipromo for info) and got gear stolen. I happened to be at this show and I taped it with Mark’s consumer deck. I was wondering why they didn’t sound like they normally did- now I know, 39 years later- they were playing on borrowed gear!

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

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Social Distortion- Goodie’s, Fullerton Ca. 6/21/87 Audio Only xfer from master audio tape Live Ness

I had planned to post this one yesterday- under the running joke that for father’s day, here is the ultimate dad punk band. But the kids kept me busy and I missed out on that joke. Damn. And I just realized that yesterday was the 33 year anniversary of the show. D’oh.
Anyway, this was recorded by a friend of Anonymous. Anonymous lived in the L.A. area up until 1987, and he had the older brother of a friend take his recorder and tape this show, as Anonymous wasn’t yet 18. This older brother was a typical 1980’s L.A. punk, and would get drunk/thrown out of shows often. He even passed out drunk while taping a different show- you were able to listen to the staff wake him up and get him out of there.
This is a rare recording, as it was during Social D’s dark period, when they were dealing with some personal issues and did not tour. Really cool, unique setlist.

Recorded by: Friend of anonymous
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Recorded with a consumer grade handheld recorder. Transfer with Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ’s and rebalanced in Sony Soundforge and Izotope RX7 to reduce midrange distortion and boost bass.

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Dave Dictor (M.D.C.)- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca. 6/20/87 xfer from 1st gen Soundboard Tape Acoustic

We have some short audio posts for you this week. This one is interesting because it looks like Dave just showed up at Gilman and hopped on stage and played some acoustic songs. He is not on the bill for the June 20 show and he mentions just stopping by. That’s pretty cool. I don’t recall Dave doing many acoustic shows back then.
Tracklist: Soup Kitchen Celebrity/My Family’s a Little Weird/S.K.I.N.H.E.A.D./ Chickensquawk

Recorded and mixed by: Radley Hirsch
From Wayne Vanderkuil’s archive
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Dead Silence- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 6/20/87 xfer from 1st gen audio cassette soundboard

I have hundreds of Wayne Vanderkuil’s tapes still to transfer, but I did a bunch of them in one group and I am at the end of that bunch.. cleaning up some smaller things. That’s why you get a 2 minute post today. I’ll post another short thing so you’ll have about 5min of things to check out today. Haha.
I had to look these guys up as I never heard of them before. Discogs says “Punk band from Boulder, CO, USA, formed in 1984” and they had a bunch of releases from the mid-80s to the mid-90s. Just missed them, I guess.
I wonder what the vocalist thinks of mall punk nowadays? I bet he LOVES it.

Recorded by: Radley Hirsch, copied for Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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