I need to leave in like 10min, so here is a quick one for you. Love and best wishes to Chuck who is facing some pretty serious health issues right now. Hopefully a tape of his old band will cheer him up.
From Ken Doose’s audio collection.
Recorded by: The band I think
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
It’s a late for the collections post today. Sorry Arica!
When I posted the Sweet Children demo last month, people chimed in and wanted to hear the entire tape that Billie Joe gave to Arica, so here you go. Check out “Words I Might Have Ate” from the 1,000 hours session. There is awesome stuff throughout this tape. Enjoy!
Recorded by: The Band
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Daniel Hague (curator of the cool but inactive distort blog) asked about this one last week, so I figured I would work it up. This one comes from Radley’s collection and appears to be from the 1st 7″ session, with multiple versions of the 2 songs that appeared on that release.
Thse are tracks 3-9 from this CD. Track 1 and 2 are clearly released already.. but if any of the remaining other stuff has not been surfaced, let me know and I’ll get it posted.
For those of you who would like a primer, here it is courtesy of Discogs:
Early 90s band which included future members of Sleep, High On Fire, Noothgrush and OM. They released two 7-inch records in 1990 – “Dejection” and “Unclean”, both of which were reissued as “Dejection/Unclean” CD/10″ by Southern Lord in 2007.
After the second 7″, Thomas Choi left to form Noothgrush and band changed its name to Sleep.
Recorded by: Radley Hirsch
Transfer by: Radley on one of those professional Denon cassette/CD recorder units
I am not real big on celebrating Thanksgiving, but if you do “give thanks”, then we should all thank the contributors to Sac Music Archive for all of this amazing crap they send my way. Wayne Vanderkuil, Rick Sylvain, Doug Goodman, and so many more… including this guy Radley Hirsch.
I went over to Radley’s house a while back and he handed me one of those CD binders full of his favorite live sets. I ripped them to my laptop hard drive and this folder was labeled “Neurosis Asbestos Death see pic”. So I had to dig through old cellphone pics on my hard drive to find this image.
This is the “track 11/12” part of this CD. Track 1 and 2 are clearly released already.. but if any of thise other stuff has not been surfaced, let me know and I’ll get it posted.
For those of you who would like a primer, here it is courtesy of Discogs:
Early 90s band which included future members of Sleep, High On Fire, Noothgrush and OM. They released two 7-inch records in 1990 – “Dejection” and “Unclean”, both of which were reissued as “Dejection/Unclean” CD/10″ by Southern Lord in 2007.
After the second 7″, Thomas Choi left to form Noothgrush and band changed its name to Sleep.
Recorded by: Radley Hirsch
Transfer by: Radley on one of those professional Denon cassette/CD recorder units
Here’s a bonus post for today that is only somewhat related to music. This was at the end of Ed Carroll’s VHS of Stoned Jehovah and others live in studio. This starts with some skateboarding footage (w/ some sweet Satriani audio, so there’s the music for you). Oh, speaking of skateboarding, tickets for the N-Men documentary screening are going fast- be sure to pick one up at crest sacramento dot com ASAP if you want to go. It’s gonna sell out. After skateboarding, you get a PSA of some most wanted crime breakers, then finally you get a Tim Busfield promo. What’s not to love?
Speaking of bonus posts, I WILL finally get going on Brook Shattuck’s excellent photo archive tomorrow- they will accompany my audio/video posts daily until I run out.
Recorded by: Ed Carroll?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9900U – Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video
I hope everyone is having a happy holiday- we had a blast! Fun, busy weekend. This one comes from Ed Carroll and it is pure gold- not only is Stoned Jehovah footage super rare, but the other bands appear to have very little documentation.
Here’s what Dave Smitty’s excellent nokilli Sacramento Band website has to say about them:
members:
Ed Carroll, drums
Dave Anders, guitar
Jerry, bass-2nd
Jason Dezember, guitar
Loha, bass-1st
Chris C., guitar
Chris H., vocals (or something like that)
releases:
like a dog – cassette
It looks like Psychoactiv played a few shows locally, including one with After Dark Club. If anyone knows the band or the members, please tag them. So great.
I was going to post each band separately, but they have songs all mixed together, so enjoy the entire thing. Stoned Jehovah starts at about 20:30 and then appears later.
PS: Everyone must watch Hidden Bridge after Stoned Jehovah. Deep, man. Deep.
Recorded by: Ed Carroll?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9900U – Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video
I am working on transferring a bunch of Gilman DATs, so expect not much audio and a bunch of northwest video from Craig Babb’s collection coming up!
Here’s the first one. This thing was so dark- I cranked up the brightness, contrast and exposure and it is still dark. Not much Helios stuff out there though.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell workstation
It’s mediocre Monday everybody! And it has truly been a mediocre day- everything is breaking, or not working as expected over here. Pure frustration.
This one is pretty cool- the only reason it qualified for mediocre monday is due to it being PURE CHAOS in the studio. Brockie can’t figure out how to turn on the mic, so they just keep playing random album tracks and his station ID over and over. Also a few minutes of dead air. It’s a good snapshot into the late night insanity that was rampage radio. Ron, any ideas of the date? Late 80s/early 90s is a pure wild ass guess on my part.
I tagged this as being from the band archive- Barry Ward was in the band for a bit and this cassette comes from his collection of tapes. I think he recorded this one.
Recorded by: Barry Ward?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Sometimes I get tapes that are not in the greatest condition, which is to be expected since a lot of them are 30 years old. But man, this tape was BEAT. Check out the pad on the bottom. I was not able to get the Nak dragon to play the entire thing. I had to fwd it a little to get it to play at all as the spools were seizing, and it stopped at about the 5min mark…. and then I cleaned my heads.
After Dark were a local band with Greg Johnson, Guy Jones (I think), and other guys whose name I forget.
I might try to do this one again with a cheaper tape deck- they usually play through anything.
PS: This one is DEFINITELY After Dark. I totally blew it yesterday and posted a glam-era Pantera demo as Panther. Haha, I am kinda proud to not know Pantera’s glam era. Sorry Jeff Gus Buss. I ended up deleting the post, as the demo was already on youtube. Duh.
From the collection of Mike Parisi
Transfer by Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon, M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I checked YT and I did not see this one on there- what a rarity! With that said, the quality on this one is not that great. I don’t know if it sounded like this new or if it degraded over time, but it’s not so pleasant.
From Eddie Jorgensen’s collection
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Namakichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
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