Here’s another installment from the DVD posting project. I am working through my DVDs and posting anything that is Sacramento-related, alphabetically. We are about 1% done so far.
Anyway, here is a nicely shot 7 seconds show from Cambridge ma in 1987. It’s too bad the video is so generated, a clean transfer off the master would probably look great. Anyway, great show from a great era of the band.
Recorded by:?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS8911U and Canopus ADVC300
Yet another M.D.C. board tape- this one comes from Wayne Vanderkuil via Radley Hirsch. Radley always hooked us up. Dave is a comedian at the start of this set.
The mix slides around a bit, but I did boost guitars +6 and drums +2. Sounds better now. This appears to be the complete set.
Also, I am using a new program (vegas pro) to create these audio posts. Is the thumbnail all blurry for you? It looks like crap from my side, but after I post on YT it seems to resolve itself.
Recorded and mixed by: Radley Hirsch
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
More early Gilman soundboards, courtesy of Wayne Vanderkuil and Radley Hirsch. It looks like Radley sent this one to Wayne back in the 80s.
The guitars were SUPER low in the mix, so I pushed Izotope as much as I could so you could at least hear some guitar in there.
Warning- guitars do spike up in the mix during leads.
Recorded by: Radley Hirsch
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Guitar and bass +9db!
NOTE- This tape had issues for 1st 5min. Forward to 5min if you can’t take the quality at beginning*
As I was digging out the old C.O.C. tapes from Sacramento to post, I remembered this one. This was recorded (with the band’s permission) with Mark Denizczuk’s 4 track recorder. Lineage= Master tape-Jim Utz copy-my copy
KILLER recording and a great set. It sounds like the crowd was crazy and the power blew out at least once.
Recorded by: Luther (soundman) & Mark Deniszczuk
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon, Audiophile 2496 card, Reaper, Sony Sound Forge for normalization
Here is one from Chris Eng’s collection that I had always thought that he taped. It looks exactly like the videos his camera would produce, from the same angle. Years ago, I digitized a copy of the AOD set from this show for Bruce Wingate and it was pretty clear that a guy named Peter Conheim filmed it. I asked Chris Eng and he confirmed. He even went to junior high with the guy. Small world.
Anyway, this is a really nice quality EARLY MTX set. The board mix is not great and if people make enough noise, I might try to rebalance it. I love the era with Jon Von and this might be the best document of it.
Recorded by: Peter Conheim, Smilin’ Banana Productions
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
The Exploited, D.R.I., Dr. Know, Dag Nasty, Outcasts Of Society
El Dorado Saloon
Sacramento, CA
07/1987
Flyer scan by Ken Doose
Both posts today are from bands back east.. so let’s do the band that is 3 hours ahead of us first, then the one 2 hours ahead in a bit.
This one is from Chris Eng’s collection, same tape as the MTX we posted a couple weeks back. I got this same show from Bruce Wingate’s archive o’ stuff, but I have better VHS transfer equipment and audio transfer capabilities, so Chris’ tape wins.
This is from the infamous show where The Feederz threw a dead dog out into the crowd in their opening set. That is what AOD was talking about at the beginning of the show. The board mix is really odd. When there are no vocals, the music peaks and maxes out. When Paul sings, the instruments go waay in the background. I might pull my cassette of this show and take another swing at transferring the audio. Maybe that won’t have the odd instrument volume drop.
As it is, I pulled the audio track off of this and rebalanced it. It sounds slightly better than the original imho.
Recorded by: Peter Conheim, Smilin’ Banana Productions
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
This was probably one of the most memorable punk shows that Stewart Katz put on. It was PACKED and skinheads were beating the hell out of each other. Dag Nasty stops one song due to fighting, and Peter Cortner changes lyrics to another. They also took a stab at Stewart during the show.
I also met my best friend, “Anonymous”, at this show. 30+ years later and we are still good friends. He taped this show witn an Aiwa hanheld recorder- excellent results.
Recorded by: Anonymous
Equipment Used: Aiwa Handheld Recorder
Enhancement: Bass boost/midrange drop/normalize in Sony Sound Forge.
This lineup was ridiculously stacked- when Dag Nasty opens the show, you know it’s good. Dr. Know was up second and Kyle Toucher was doing a little guitar butt-play behind Stewart Sacramento Katz while Stew was trying to introduce them.. that’s why you hear so much cheering there.
And, Dr. Know has always kicked ass. Man, what a great band. Kyle, when is that new album going to be ready??
This one is from Alfie Kulzick’s collection and it is a band that I have not heard of, and there is not much info online about them either. If anyone knows who is in the band, please let me know. That vocalist looks familiar.
Anyway, this one was pretty dark. I should have brightened it up a bit. If anyone really wants it done, let me know. The audio on this one is pretty rough. Believe it or not, this is the less distorted channel copied over to a 2-channel mono track. It sounded even worse!
There was no date on the tape but the only listing that I could find of Bad Boys playing at Chatterbox was on 7/18/87 when they opened for Buck Naked.
Thanks to Kirby Desha for the help with band info! “Chatterbox Bad Boys formed after Miserable Sex broke up, w me and Kate (Yeastie Girlz) breaking off and Steve Bragg (drummer w Vomit Launch) and Shock (lead singer) joining Bad Boys. Check out Alfies’ book ‘Chatterbox- History of a Bar. I was still doing occasional gigs w The Feederz and Kate started the Yeasties w Joyce and Kammie”
Recorded by: Alfie’s friend
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DSR-1800 – datavideo TBC-1000- ATI TV Wonder 600 – virtualdub
Light denoise in Adobe premiere elements/neat video
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