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Excel- Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach Ca 7/18/87 Xfer f/1st gen VHS Tape Enhanced Crossover Thrash

It’s Friday! Here’s another video from Todd Nakamine’s bins o’ tapes. After checking the tape, it looks like this one was filmed by a guy named Pat. We don’t have his last name. Pat, if you are out there, please reach out so you can be recognized. Thanks for filming!
1987 Excel shows are just awesome. You have the 12 year old looking guitarist just riffing like hell, and the vocalist with the long hair thrashing around, and the crowd going ape shit. They were so impactful to us crossover kids when the demo came out- so good. This show took place at about the same time as the debut LP was released, but we all knew the songs.

Recorded by: Patrick Vergara
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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Borman 6- Spanky’s, Sacramento 7/17/87 xfer band archive master Soundboard rebalanced Rebel Truth

I had a video planned to post today, but the youtube copyright bots had other plans. Here is another Borman 6 post- this time it is a board tape from Spanky’s in sacramento. I am surprised as to the quality of the mix- whenever I tried to tape at Spankys, the board mix was terrible. In fact, I have 1 tape that is all vocals. That’s all they mic’d.
You are probably wondering why the photo for this post is a batteries & bulbs store. This store is the building that used to by Spankys. I tried to find a picture of the club from back in the 80s. No luck.

Recorded by:? (Greg Dean?)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx7: Vocal -1, Bass and Guitar +5

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Opinion Zero- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca. 7/12/87 xfer from low gen soundboard tape rebalanced

It’s mediocre Monday! FB friend Dean Miles posted a flyer for this show, so I figured I would pull this tape out and post it today. This was the first show I ever saw at Gilman.
Classic Gilman, by the way. First, the band (and location) is introduced incorrectly. The band had to correct the announcement.
Guitars and snare were a bit distant, so I rebalanced it in Izotope Rx8: Bass +8, Guitar +5, Snare +2

Recorded by: Radley Hirsch most likely
Transfer by Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +8, Guitar +5, Snare +2

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Twisted- Day at the Farm Interview, San Francisco Ca 7/11/87 xfer f/low gen audio cassette Riverside

OK, I can finally come up for air. I have been working on video reels for the Sonoma County Punk exhibit which opens tomorrow. I had to do a bunch of wacky stuff to get these clips to play together on a USB drive. Finally done.

This one is from Chris Eng’s collection. I think they were in a van, driving down the road and the background noise was comical. I ran it through spectral denoise and it is somewhat listenable now. There is 1 more interview from this day and it is hard to tell who it is.

This is how interviews were conducted for fanzines back then. Just a kid with a handheld tape recorder asking questions in the band’s van.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Denoise with Izotope Rx7’s spectral denoise

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Twisted- Day at the Farm, San Francisco Ca 7/11/87 Riverside Ca Punk/Hardcore band

This one is from Chris Eng’s cassette collection and is a mystery tape. It just says “Twisted 7/11/87” with no venue info. I thought it was a gilman recording and it sounds like a gilman recording, but the calendar shows nothing happening on that day but painting. If anyone knows where Twisted played on 7/11/87, let me know.

UPDATE: Thanks to Hugo Higgins, we now know that this show is from a Day at the Farm show.

The correct flyer is posted below.

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

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Green River- Bremerton, Wa 7/10/87 xfer from unknown gen cassette live nakamichi dragon

The Skull post was supposed to be yesterday’s post, but youtube has been horrible in rendering videos into HD and 4k. I have had a 4k video in “processing HD version” status since Saturday night! This is today’s post.
Anyway, Eric McIntire gave me a box of stuff that had a bunch of Seattle stuff that seems uncirculated. Here’s the first- you’ll be getting these audio posts over the next week or so. Not the greatest quality, but you can still hear what’s going on.

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

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Headface- Club Can’t Tell, Sacramento Ca. 7/9/87

Headface opening for The Red Hot Chili Peppers on July 9, 1987 at Club Can’t Tell in Sacramento, CA

Jamie White – Bass, Vocals

Curtis Stone – Guitars and Such

Russell Partanen – Sax and sounds not of this earth

Jon Bryant – Vocals and whatnot

Doug Cuffman – Drums and bootybeats

1. Don’t Cry For Today

2. Future Restitution

3. Headface

4. Green Eggs & Ham

5. George

6. Suicide

7. You Can Be Free

8. Love Thy Neighbor

9. Super Bad

10. Drop In The City

11. Monkey Woman

12. I Feel Good

13. Purple Haze

14. Play That Funky Music

15. Funk Out

16. Sin City

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Anthrax- The Omni, Oakland Ca 7/2/87 xfer from 1st gen audio cassette Thrash Metal

This one comes from Gary Shurtleff’s collection of audio tapes. He did not tape it, but is confident that this is a 1st gen. It’s an average audience recording for the time. I was able to EQ to sound a bit better.
It’s a typical setlist from the 1987 tour. Unfortunately, the “Livin’ After Midnight” cover cuts off right before the lead break.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10

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