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WTG- VFW Hall, St Louis Mo 11/28/87 Xfer f/1st gen VHS tape W.T.G. Whoppers Taste Good Punk Metal

Today’s On This Date in History comes from Jim Utz’ collection. It’s a transfer of a 1st gen VHS tape, right off the VHS-C master but you can see some significant generation loss. The band members are mostly in the dark and the background is lit well. Jim has a bunch of WTG videos and many of them are better quality than this, but this is the only one that takes place on 11/28.

If we could get a hold of the VHS-C master tape and do the lossless transfer, we could make this look a lot better.

Recorded by: Jim Utz or Mark Deniszczuk
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9911U or HR-S9800 into Canopus ADVC300

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M.D.C.- Bad, Hamburg Germany 11/26/87 xfer f/low/mid gen source Millions of Dead Hardcore Punk Cops

Another video of unknown origin for today’s On This Date in History. This one came from Bong, a friend of my pal punksnotdeadgr. I don’t know if Bong is still archiving- he did a ton of great work getting the best possible copies of old punk video digitized and cleaned up 10-15 years ago but I have not heard from him lately.

This one is an epic 80 minute set from MDC’s euro tour in 1987. I can’t believe that a band that played such ferocious music did an 80 minute set. Al must have been in top shape, drumming like that every night. Haha.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Bong I think

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Camper Van Beethoven- Mississippi Nights, St. Louis Mo. 11/5/87 xfer f/master off Studio 1/4″

The other concert on that Fishbone tape was this classic show by Camper Van Beethoven. Camper(along with R.E.M.) was my favorite band in the world at the time. All of us CVB fans/traders were thrilled to get such a nice quality video… and a killer performance as well. I love Jonathan’s violin sound on this one.

This came from KDHX directly- this is a VHS tape right off of their 1/4″ master tape. Huge thanks to Jim Utz & Dede Schofield for giving these to me 20ish(30?) years ago.

Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9911 w/TBD– Canopus ADVC300– Sony Vegas Pro 10.

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