Recorded by: unknown
Month: December 1990
Blatz- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 12/31/90 East Bay Punk xfer from 1st gen soundboard cassette rebalance
Back to work today after a week’s vacation and I managed to pick up Covid. So, today has been a swirl of prepping for a big presentation (must go on, covid or not) and trying to catch up on a week’s worth of backlog. That’s why this is later than usual today.
Let’s do another Eggplant tape today. This Blatz tape was almost ALL bass and drums with buried vocals, but Izotope worked pretty well fixing it up. Speaking of Eggplant, I have 2 shows of his that I need to repost- Bomb (remix) and Beatnigs (complete). Maybe I will do those as bonus posts this week.
Recorded by: Tall Tim
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocal +4, Guitar +8
Red Hot Chili Peppers- San Francisco Civic Center 12/31/90 Transfer from low gen VHS tape
Here’s one that was in the drafts that should be fun. This is on youtube, but not even close to this quality. No lineage was marked on the tape but it is pretty close to master.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
After Dark Club- Guild Theater, Sacramento Ca. 12/28/90 xfer from master tape!
This is one of the only videos (if not the only video) I shot at Guild. I moved to L.A. when the good shows were happening. After Dark Club had Greg Johnson on bass, I think that might be Shane on vocals, and I think Guy played with them too. Hell, I can’t remember. Can anyone help out? Filmed with the Aiwa CV-80 and Sony ECM-909 mic
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Aiwa CV-80, Sony ECM 909
100 Men- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 12/28/90 xfer from 1st gen soundboard cassette UK Skinhead Reggae
Another tape from Eggplant’s collection today. Here is a snippet from a band called 100 Men- a skinhead reggae band from the UK- at Gilman. I don’t think there was a date on the tape so I used Steve List’s handy online search to see when they played there. Thanks to Ken Doose for the heads up that this search existed.
Pretty nice recording and the band seems to have a small following, even today. They put out 3 cassettes and 2 7″ that are still sought after, despite no new releases since 1994.
Recorded by: Tall Tim
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Flyer: It’s Not What You Think, Horny Mormons, Deftones, Head Pilots, Icky Jazz at the Guild Theater, Sacramento, CA 12/27/90
It’s Not What You Think, Horny Mormons, Deftones, Head Pilots, Icky Jazz
Guild Theater
Sacramento, CA
12/27/90
Flyer scan by Ken Doose
The Posies- KROQ Acoustic Xmas, Universal Amp, Universal City Ca 12/21/90 ? Cassette gen-DAT
BONUS post! That’s right, this isn’t even the last post of the day. Huge thanks to Adam Dristle for telling me what to do. This was another case of not remembering what I had in the collection. This was KROQ’s first year doing this and it was all acoustic. No “almost” yet.
The tape sounds pretty nice for an audience recording… except for that low end rumble. Pretty bold of Jon and Ken to start the set with an unreleased track, but I am glad they did. Great version. It sounds like the band was already getting some KROQ airplay (Golden Blunders) even though the Dear 23 album was just released at the time. Cool.
from Ken Stringfellow: “This was a great show… the cap to our first full US tour. Just a few days before we’d gone off the road in Iowa in black ice, front first into a snow bank. Twisted the bumper of the van and totaled the UHaul. Got back on the road, and finished the full band tour in Denver. Jon & I flew to LA and spent the next week in the sun, going to the beach, doing promo… the rest of the band unfortunately got as far as Wyoming, where -40F temps froze the oil in the van and the band and crew found themselves stuck in a crummy motel for 3-4 days til temps warmed up. Oops. Thus the great singers vs band gap widened… often a problem”
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
It’s Not What You Think- Sacto Active Rock Community Cable Episode #1 12/18/90
Here’s the first Sacto Active Rock episode with It’s not what you think. I remember seeing them once or twice @ cattle club. I am not fb friends with any of the members, so please let Peter Keyes, John Taylor and Chris Woodhouse know that this is up, if you think they’ll like it. Please subscribe to my channel if you want updates of new video postings.
The Pixies- The Warfield, San Francisco Ca 12/17/90 xfer from master audio cassette complete show
Let’s go back to the first time that I saw (and taped) the Pixies. Man, I used to love that band. Then I thought they were alright until they did Kim Shattuck dirty and then they were dead to me. Haha.
I could never sneak gear into the Warfield. I hated that goddamn place. I was so paranoid that I borrowed Anonymous’ smaller Aiwa rather than take the Sony D6 pro walkman that I had. Or maybe the D6 was in the shop, where it resided for about half its life…
Anyway, got the show recorded and as with most Aiwa tapes, it was clear but a bit thin. It EQ’d pretty well though. Not bad at all.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Aiwa consumer recorder with stock mic?
Transfer equipment: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge 10
Love/Hate- Arco Arena, Sacramento Ca 12/12/90 xfer from 8mm master Hard Rock Metal
For today’s collection post, I pulled one from @bootlegcowboys collection to share. This is the opener for that AC/DC show I shared last month. I guess they decided to go with a “slash in band names” themed tour. Haha.
Recorded by: @bootlegcowboys
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony EV-S2000- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Denoise in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video