Here is an obscure one- Los Mocos was a punk band who never played live. This practice tape is one of the only, if not THE only, document of the band. The band had Eric Torres on guitar, who later went on to play with Moist and So.
From Dal Basi’s collection
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equuipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
This one from Ken Doose’s collection is a bit confusing. The tape says “Race Train KDVS” and it sounds like Race Train Schizo… but this sounds WAY too good to be a live in studio A session. Not bagging on the sessions, I love them, but this sounds like it was a produced demo. It is not the self-titled demo released by the band in 1988. So, wow.
A couple of the guys in this band went on to do more stuff. T-Bone went on to play in Magnolia Thunderfinger. Ronnie Doss went on the play in Seizure Salad, who gained notoriety for having a 7″ illustrated by Mad Marc Rude among other things. They were popular in tape trading circles for sure.
Recorded by: Ken Doose
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
This is one of the best sounding Chatterbox videos so far. One channel was really low and that helped, I just copied left channel to right and viola, better audio!
This was likely during their pre-metal blade days when they did a 7″/cassingle with Sympathy for the Record industry.
from Alfie Kulzick’s collection
Recorded by: The Chatterbox
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
Here is a video post that was scheduled for yesterday- that’s how far behind I am with the posts. This is from Alfie Kulzick’s tapes and there is nothing online about The Snags. Nothing at all. If anyone has info, please comment!
from Alfie Kulzick’s collection
Recorded by: The Chatterbox
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
This one is from our main hard rock/glam collector, Laura Martinez. All of the previous demos that I have posted of hers have been from the original source. This one is a dubbed copy but still sounds decent, even on a dreaded Memorex dbs cassette! Haha, a little tape nerd humor for you.
It looks like at least 1 track made it onto their debut LP Blazk and 2 others made it onto their second and final LP. The rest seem to be unreleased.
Recorded by: The band
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I know I have heard about this band from friends but I can’t find anything online. Nothing. It looks like they were doing the Steel Panther type thing long before Steel Panther. Looks like the bass player was sporting the Hetfield fashion line, circa mid 80s here. Audio is a bit rough on this one. Sounds better than it did at transfer, believe it or not.
Recorded by: The Chatterbox
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
Here is a really cool one for today, and another one that I figured would be online, but no. WBCN had Volcano Suns in studio for a session and it sounds pretty good. This one is from Tony Philputt/Phil Go’s collection so I have no lineage, but this copy sounds close to the master. DJ’s were having some fun joking about the band’s stage volume. The band helped destroy my right ear’s hearing due to all of those Cattle Club videos. Ugh.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here is a verrrry special audio collections post for the day. Robert Eggplant recorded a demo many years ago and Billie Joe Armstrong made an appearance. Unfortunately, there is no tracklist or detail around what BJA actually plays on.. but you can definitely hear him at times.
From Arica Pelino’s golden collection of East Bay Punk history.
Recorded by: A studio
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
The Mimes started in Sacramento and moved to Los Angeles in the late 1980’s. This one is from Mimes(and former Redrum/Circus of Power etc) drummer Scott Capizzano’s collection of tapes. It seems that these songs never made it out anywhere.
Recorded by: the band in a studio
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Time to get deep into the archives with this next one. After John Conley and Mike Yoas ended their punk band, Concerned Children Rebel (C.C.R.) in 1987, they started up an indie pop band called The Boon. John and Mike are now in Desario. The Boon released a couple of demos including this one. Features John’s Sister Katie (of Soft Science) on vocals for some of the tracks here.
From Anonymous’ collection. I have a copy as well, but his was more accessible.
Recorded by: Bob Pagano, Golden Ear Recording Arts
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
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