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Flame- Niles Station, Fremont Ca 3/3/90 transfer from master VHS tape Hard Rock Glam Hair Metal

Alright, this one should get your Monday off to a good start. We are starting to dig into the Flame videos that Laura Martinez shot. This one comes from a club I had not heard of before- Niles Station- and it sounds really nice for a stock camcorder mic. It looks like the building is now a tea shop.

The video time stamp shows 2/28/90, but Laura’s tape is marked 3/3/90. 2/28 was a Wednesday, 3/3 was a Saturday so I am figuring that 3/3 is probably the accurate date.

Recorded by: Laura Martinez
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

Live Concert Video
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Yeastie Girlz- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 3/2/90 xfer f/1st gen soundboard tape Lookout records

Can you believe that the Mentors played Gilman? The self proclaimed pioneers of “R*pe Rock” played the No Sexism venue. Who the heck booked this? If anyone has any insight into the membership meetings around this one, I would love to hear that story. Full disclosure- I am a former board member of Gilman and I love the place. Just taking a jab.

At least they booked the perfect opening act- The Yeastie Girlz! Here is about 6 minutes of their opening set, courtesy of Robert Eggplant’s collection. Thanks Robert!

Thanks to Wayne Vanderkuil for helping find a flyer for this one.

Recorded by: ? Tall Tim Maybe
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

Audio Live Concert
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Fifteen- Gilman Demo March 1990 xfer f/master audio cassette Jeff Ott Crimpshrine

Well here is something pretty cool for you. This one is from Arica Pelino’s collection and it seems that she came into possession of the master Gilman demo from Fifteen. Amazing!

Even though it is off the master, it is still demo quality so don’t get too excited. I tried shazam’ing a couple tracks and nothing is ID’d so I am assuming this was not released anywhere. Let me know if it was.

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

Audio Demo