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Condemned Attitude- Spanky’s, Sacramento Ca 4/15/87 master soundboard cassette rebalanced Adjustment

Here is one that I have been wanting to digitize for a LONG time. I promoted this show and assembled the lineup… but I didn’t have the master soundboard tape. I taped the other bands (the corrupted morals set was officially released!), but Wayne Vanderkuil was there and had a much nicer tape, so he taped it. I have to admit, I was bummed at the time (taper jealousy) but I am so happy that he did it- this transfer was super clean and allowed me to push the rebalance more than usual. Thanks Wayne!

I also have super crappy video of this show. I will attempt to synch it up, but I don’t think pluraleyes will be able to hack it. It was filmed with one of those videocameras where everything was earth toned, and the people turn translucent when they run in the pit. If any of my old manual synch friends (king bean and Derek) want to take a swing at it, let me know!

Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer(and show promotion) by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocal -2, Bass +8.5, Drums +1, Guitar +4.
Flyer CONCEPT and art by Brian Suponch (so don’t yell at me about it :-))

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I.G.D.- Spanky’s, Sacramento Ca. 4/15/87 master VHS enhanced w/Sbd audio Infectious Garage Disease

Today is the day of Jimmie Couch’s celebration of life. If you were a friend of Jimmie, his wife Karen has arranged a get together at 7504 Greenburn Dr in Roseville. It starts soon, at 1pm.
Here is a pretty terrible quality video of IGD from the show I put on at Spanky’s in 1987. I am very thankful to Damon & Mick Brindle for bringing the family video camera so we had a document of the show.
When I transferred the show, the audio was complete static. I did not have time to troubleshoot it and the audio track is total distortion anyway. On top of that, the video has many cuts in between so doing a proper audio synch would be a nightmare. So, I just laid the un-synchronized soundboard audio track over the top of the video. I tried to crank up the guitar and bass via Izotope but it just isn’t in the mix. Maybe one day someone will have the patience to give this the proper treatment. R.I.P. Jimmie Couch and Mike Kingsbury.

Recorded by: Mick Brindle
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9900U — Datavideo TBC-1000 — Tevion USB capture — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Soundboard transfer with Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotop RX8: Guitar and Bass +8

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Anal Babies- Pre-show party and Live at Spanky’s, Sacramento Ca. 4/15/87 xfer from 1st gen VHS

This one is for Gus Buss (Jeff). I can’t find the demo (one of my rare tape losses), so here is stupidity + a live show.
An old friend of the band asked me to post this one. It was done with that same crappy setup that we used to tape the Redrum from El Dorado Saloon. Extremely distorted, out of focus frequently, and hardly any color contrast.

Recorded by: Mick Brindle
Equipment used: Old school detached camera cabled into a portable VHS recorder in EP mode
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9800U/Canopus ADVC300

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Slambodians- Sproul Plaza, Berkeley Ca 4/11/87 xfer from master VHS tape East Bay Punk

It’s Friday! Happy Friday you all. Let’s start the weekend off with a video from Chris Eng’s collection. This is the last set from the legendary show there. SEVEN bands set up, guerilla style and pulled off a day of punk rock without getting shut down by campus or berkeley pd. Amazing! Also amazing is the fact that Chris was able to film all 7 bands. Video equipment was bulky and heavy and battery packs cost a small fortune in the 80s. Kudos to Chris for filming these.
With my “1 a day” posting approach, it took me SEVEN WEEKS to get through this one tape of Chris’. He has hundreds of tapes to do. There are at least 6 or 7 people’s collections here to do, along with my own. Something’s gotta give. Would you all like to see multiple posts per day, if I can pull it off time-wise? It’s the only way to get through all of these.

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

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Vagrants- Sproul Plaza, Berkeley Ca 4/11/87 xfer from master VHS tape Lookout Records Punk

it’s a rare 2 day in a row lookout records post. Unlike yesterday, all band members stay fully clothed during this one, so no age verification required. Btw, if you want a chuckle, you should check out the comment section on that Blatz post from yesterday on the Lookout Records fb group. I will never look at a mic cable the same way again… or touch one.
People were pretty stoked when I posted a dark and grainy Vagrants video from Dave Mello’s garage a few month back. Well, here is one with better picture and audio for you. I think this is the Vagrants- I compared the 2 videos and the members look the same. As always, don’t be shy if I am wrong. You usually speak up- haha.

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

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Stikky- Sproul Plaza, Berkeley Ca 4/11/87 xfer from master VHS Tape Punk

It’s a late post today. This one is for Wayne Vanderkuil, who has been under the weather. Listen to Arica and call the nurse, dude! We all love you.
Thanks for the nice birthday wishes. Unfortunately, my son (who had pneumonia) gave me his crud and it seems I am on the same path as him. Lots of relaxing going on around here.
Here is Chris Eng’s video of Stikky from that absolutely legendary day at Sproul- the lineup is nuts. This one is pre-Chris Dodge with James Porter on bass.

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

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Head- Sproul Plaza, Berkeley Ca 4/11/87 xfer from master VHS tape w/ Dave Mello Schlong Op Ivy Punk

There is not much info about this band online- this is not the pop-punk Head from Seattle who played Sacramento a few years back. This Head had Dave Mello on drums, but you can’t see him much in the video as an amplifier is blocking the view of the drums.

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

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Electric Spaghetti- Sproul Plaza, Berkeley Ca 4/11/87 xfer from master VHS tape East Bay Punk

What a busy weekend. I drove 740 miles from friday afternoon-10pm tonight for 3 different events this weekend… and then I rush out to the studio tonight to screen record the Anvil DNA show/Live Stream and they just kept playing. I was wondering if they were going to play until Tuesday and they just wrapped it up.
Here is one from Chris Eng’s collection. Except for a couple of flyers from Aaron Cometbus’ flyer collection at Cornell U, I can find no info at ll about this band. I do not know who was in the band, they seem to have no recorded output. They seem to be active in early 87. Any info is appreciated.

Recorded by: Chris Eng
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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Boneless Ones- Sproul Plaza, Berkeley Ca 4/11/87 xfer from master VHS tape Enhanced Skate Rock Punk

Hm. I could have sworn that I had seen this one on YT before, but I can’t find it. I know that Max from the band posted some songs from this on facebook to promote their release of the 1987 Lost Cassette (available on Bandcamp), but nothing here on youtube.
This one is a pretty rare performance of the 80’s band lineup- not many videos of these guys out there. They have since reformed with new members and are currently active.

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

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M.D.C.- Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley 4/11/87 Xfer from master VHS tape Enhanced Millions of Dead Cops

I don’t have much to say about yesterday that hasn’t already been said. Violence solves nothing.
Keeping with that theme, here is the “peace and love”-ingest dead cops band out there. Just like Jello and many of the early punk voices, Dave Dictor was right all along about so many things- Corporate evil, factory farming/food, police brutality and a lot more. But he really does preach peace and love at MDC shows now- it’s a great thing to see. Full circle for many of us.
Anyway, enough of the incoherent blithering- here is another Chris Eng masterpiece- MDC on the steps of Sproul Plaza at UC berkeley.

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

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