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Excel- Balboa Theater, Los Angeles Ca 6/25/88 xfer from 3rd gen VHS tape uncirculated balcony angle!

After video cameras became affordable (below $1k) in the late 1980s, I bought my camera and started filming as many shows as I could. I would make friends with people who did the same in other cities and trade copies of videos. Every once in a while, requests for trades would come from unusual places. This is one of those odd ones- I never traded with the guy who we got tapes from, but my good friend Anonymous knew him well. He was the intermediary, even though he didn’t really trade videos.
Another thing that just kills me about this video is that I threw out my 2nd gen copy of the show in the great divorce purge of 2005, thinking that is was common. Well, it wasn’t common- that happened more than once. Thankfully, Gary Shurtleff got a copy from me, so this is still watchable. This is a different angle than Louis Elovitz’ stage angle. In fact, his angle and this one would probably edit together nicely, if we could locate the master tape of this angle.

Recorded by: David?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9900U and Canopus ADVC300

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NOFX- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca. 6/25/88 xfer from master soundboard cassette

Here’s another one from Gary Shurtleff’s collection. Gary was one of the guys who would tape off the board occasionally at Gilman. He was very active in 1988. This may be one of the first soundboard recordings of the band- I don’t see any others on YT.

Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff
Sound Engineer: Radley Hirsch
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon- Audiophile 2496 card- sony soundforge

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Accused- Downtown Rehearsal Studio, Sacramento Ca. 6/25/88 Enhanced xfer from 8mm master tape

Big thanks go out to Jim McLain for showing me how to brighten and remove noise/snow from my old videos. Sure, this one looks like crappy security camera footage now, but you should have seen it before! And after brightening and before noise reduction, it looked like the band was playing in a blizzard. So, this is the best that this one will get.

My most salient memory of the night was that I blew up my nice car on the way to the show and missed IGD’s set. Blew a head gasket. Then, someone took me in the back of their truck to get gas, because I was an idiot and did not know what was wrong with the car. We were in the back of the truck and this guy was going WAY too fast on a freeway cloverleaf. He had rolled the truck before, so I asked him to slow down. “I know exactly how much the truck can take before it rolls”. Happy to live through that one.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Aiwa CV-80 with stock mic
Enhanced by Shayne Stacy using Adobe Premiere elements/Neat Video

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Bo- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 6/24/88 Multicam w/ Soundboard Audioxfer from 1st gen VHS Tape

For today’s On This Date in History, I discovered that at least 1 band’s set from this legendary Rock Against racism show wasn’t on youtube yet. The MDC and Operation Ivy sets are widely circulated, but nobody seems to care about poor old Bo.
Bo had an amazing bay area punk/new wave pedigree. Marc Gunther and Gary Mollica from the early punk/new wave band The Jars formed Bo with Marc Monosonic and Snoopy. They were kinda noise blues/punk. Quite the acquired taste! Btw, the Jars LP was reissued and is really great- check it out.
This is one of the only videos that exist of Bo, I believe.

Recorded by: Flipside? (I think that’s what Radley told me)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9911 and Canopus ADVC300

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Surrogate Brains- Downtown Rehearsal Studios, Sacramento 6/24/88 Brightened version

The first video camera I bought was an Aiwa VP-88 back in 1988. I bought it on clearance at Montgomery Ward, and since I was clueless, I thought that all cameras operated basically the same way. The VP-88 had TERRIBLE low light sensitivity, which is why so many of my videos are very dark. This show only had 1 light bulb for lighting, so it was impossible to see. Jim McLain worked some magic (seriously MAGIC- HOW does he do this??) and you can now actually watch this video, rather than a black blob! Thank you Jim!!

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Aiwa VP-88

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Additional help by: Jim McLain

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Dead Jacksons- Gilman St. Project, Berkeley Ca. 6/24/88 Multicam unreleased flipside video!

This one is for Mike Meals, he was in the band. Huge thanks to Radley Hirsch (gilman’s original soundman) for loaning me this tape recently. This was a flipside multicamera shoot for a gilman “rock against racism” benefit which featured MDC, Operation Ivy, and many more. They never released it- I don’t know why.

Recorded by: Radley Hirsch

 

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Beatnigs- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 6/24/88 xfer f/1st gen VHS tape Michael Franti 2 cam Proshot w/sbd

It’s time for a bonus post! Today’s Patreon Voter’s Choice was a runaway vote winner this week. The theme was “Pick a 924 Gilman video”, since I ran a pivot table on my video list for the most-filmed venue in the collection, and it was Gilman by more than 2x! Expect a couple more “Pick a Gilman video” polls in the future. This week’s vote will be “Pick a leap year show” so I can complete the On This Date project for every possible date on the calendar.

Recorded by: Either Flipside or some film students. From Radl;ey Hirsch’s collection
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S (9800, 9911U) VCR and Canopus ADVC300 firewire into Dell workstation

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MDC- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca. 6/24/88 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape w/ enhanced audio Live M.D.C. Punk

I’m late today- very busy. Here is the last full show from the Gilman benefit streaming event. There are tons more Gilman videos that I need to clean up and improve audio. It’ll take months or maybe years. Stay tuned.
Like the Op Ivy, this one was also taken from the cleanest VHS copy available- the tape comes from legendary soundman Radley Hirsch’s VHS tape, transferred with a high end VHS setup.
If you have heard/seen other versions of this show on youtube, the straight board mix on the video is not great. It is basically all bass and vocals. We extracted the audio and we were able to improve it a little. You can now hear guitar and there is some snare in there as well.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer equipment: JVC HRS9800 & Canopus ADVC300
Audio rebalance in Izotope rx7

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