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Stoned Jehovah- Sacramento Cable 1990 xfer band archive VHS w/Hidden Bridge, Psychoactiv, Bells Toll

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

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Helios Creed- Portland, Or. Mid-1990’s? xfer from 8mm master tape enhanced

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

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GWAR- Oderus Urungus on KUSF Rampage Radio, San Francisco Late 80s/Early 90s xfer from band archive

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

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After Dark- Demo Late 80s/Early 90s xfer from master audio cassette Sacramento

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

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4 Non Blondes- Demo Tape 1990 xfer from master cassette Audio Only Four Non Blondes

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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Apple D (Dale Mitchell)- Number/Cool 2 Be U, Studio C Demo, Stockton Ca master tape lost media

Audience participation time! This is from Dal Basi’s tape collection and there is no info besides what you see. Dal is a Stockton OG, so this is probably a stockton band from anywhere between 80s-2010s. Let me know if you have any ideas. Shazam AND the all-seeing youtube copyright algorithm both have no idea what the hell it is.

Tracks are number and cool 2 be u.

Recorded by: The band at Studio C
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Life of Crime- Demo 1990 New York Speed Metal xfer from low gen cassette

Here is another audio tape from Dan Pettit’s collection. I am pretty sure that these guys were from upstate New York, as the drummer went on to play in a band called “The Kill” from Mahopac.. which is where Dan lived in the 80s. None of the other members seemed to go on to other bands… at least, none that I could find.

Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Grinch- Headcheese Demo East Bay w/Chris Kontos and Murray Bowles! Master demo tape xfer 1990

Well, here’s a cool gift from Eric McIntire to all of you this Tuesday (but feels like Monday). A demo of the band Grinch from 1990.
Grinch was a group made up of east bay punk/thrash stalwarts-
Idon Bryant was in Crimpshrine, Ron Nichols was in Christ on Parade, Sean Smithson was in Sacrilege BC, and Kontos has been in a ton of great bands (Attitude Adjustment to Machine Head and many in between).
All 4 of these tracks are on the first Grinch LP. The cool thing about this demo is that these feature the legendary MURRAY BOWLES on cello for Snakes & Ladders.

Recorded by: Randy Rood
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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