I need to re-do that Robyn Hitchcock video, so let’s put up another video. This one is from my collection and I taped it back in 1991.
There are 2 separate back stories to this one:

• I was a big fan of the band. I filmed them twice in 1988 and wanted to see them again. The Kennel was pretty risky to do by yourself- there was an unlit park that was super sketchy at night that you had to walk by after parking. So I made a deal with my friend John Conley- I will go to Buffalo Tom on 2/13 (I had never heard of them at the time) and he would go to MCM and the monster on 2/20. He wasn’t a fan of MCM and the band played for TWO HOURS! Haha, sorry John.
• The second piece of this was due to me being comically unaware. I have been a fan of the Zeros for a long time and was super stoked to video them at the Cafe recently. I became friends with Hector Penalosa through that, and we have been in touch on and off since then. Hector recently shared a pic of MCM and the Monster from the 90s online and he is in the pic. I am thinking “hm. I wonder why Hector is hanging with MCM”. I then check the band members and HE WAS IN THE BAND. DERP. I never connected the dots. I knew Gary and Miles but the rest of the guys were kind of a mystery.

Anyway, this one is for Hector and the band. Cool to see that there is still interest after all these years. Darla Records (yes, the indie pop label) released a CD of MCM’s a couple years ago… and John Conley’s band Holiday Flyer was on Darla. And that’s how you connect the dots, 35 years later.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Aiwa CV-80 and Sony ECM909 mic
Transfer Equipment: Equipment used: Sony EV-S2000- Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 — Virtualdub
Enhance (brightness/contrast and noise reduction) in Adobe Premiere / Neat Video