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Mr. T Experience- Kalx live in Studio, Berkeley Ca 12/30/94 xfer from master Pre-FM cassette MTX

I met up with Rick Arroyo last weekend and he dropped off a bunch of KALX cassettes and reels- most are in studio performances and station ID’s by musicians from the mid-90s. At first glance, it looks like there is a lot of duplication between the cassettes and reels- I think that they ran a recording on a reel along with a cassette as a backup copy… and it’s a good thing that they did a cassette for this one, because the reel fell off the machine during MTX’ set!
MTX did a full hour-long set here along with some funny banter in between songs w/the DJ. Sounds like this was one of Joel’s first performances with the band. There are also some very funny station ID’s after this on the tape but there is a LOT of annoying clicking on the cassette, so I need to Izotope that one before handing it over to KALX. There was also either a big blob of white stuff or missing oxide on side B, so I had to use the 670zx to get it to transfer.
Speaking of KALX, I’m tagging all the KALX DJ’s I know. Happy to share an upload link/photos or whatever for their archives. Let me know!
Thanks Rick.

Recorded by: KALX
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon (Side A)/Nakamichi 670zx (Side B) and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Screaming Bloody Marys- KALX Live in Studio, Berkeley Ca 12/23/94 xfer from pre-FM master tape

I’m a little late today, work isn’t stopping. Thanks for the nice birthday wishes- on my timeline, via messenger and text messages. Being an introvert, it still blows my mind that I have gotten to know so many people through the hobby and you still care about what I post. It makes it fun.

There is a really cool show happening at the Cafe Colonial this Saturday- Greg from the Rip Offs new band is playing, along with these guys- Screaming Bloody Marys. This show is from 1994, but the band has come back and is currently active and playing shows. Features Sacramento resident/Die Laughing Records dude Dave Dalton. Head on out to the show if you get a chance!

Recorded by: Rick Sylvain
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10 to drop the highs and boost the bass a bit(it was pretty tinny).

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Portashrine- KALX Live in Studio, Berkeley Ca. 12/19/94 xfer f/ pre-fm master cassette east bay punk

Here’s the last KALX post for a little while. Why, you might ask. My good friend Radley Hirsch (former Gilman soundman and STILL doing sound installs) gifted me/the archive with a NEW Otari MX-5050 reel to reel machine and a tape baking machine. Thanks Radley! This allows me to shift over to the KALX reel to reel transfers, starting in about a month.
The quality on this one seems to be good, but all voices- vocals and DJ’s- sound overdriven and slightly distorted. I hope that there is a reel for this one that is better, and this was just a cassette issue.
The band put out 2 7″ and one comp CD and that was it… and it doesn’t seem that the members went on to any other bands.

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

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Black Crowes- Whisky a Go Go, Hollywood Ca 12/10/94 xfer from hi8 master enhanced

Here’s another unique video from Steve Rogers. Like I had mentioned before, Steve moved from Stockton to the L.A. area and was an A&R rep at American Recordings. He had access to a bunch of cool industry events. This one appears to be one of them. Black Crowes at the Whisky. Unfortunately, we were trying to find better audio to synch to this, but it appears that it doesn’t exist. If anyone has any audio for this show, please let me know.

Recorded by: Steve Rogers
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 into workstation
Degrain in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Butterglory- Jabberjaw Cafe, Los Angeles Ca 12/4/94 xfer from DAT Clone Full Concert Live Indie Rock

I tried to find a picture of the exterior of Jabberjaw while it was in operation and it looks like there are zero photos. Here is how it looks now. I think I might know why there are none- that place was in a terrible part of town. So many friends/bands/etc have stories of being robbed and cars being broken into. Legendary club in a terrible part of town.
Here is Kevin Haynes’ recording of Butterglory when they played there in 1994. It’s pretty raw sounding, but that’s how the club was.

Recorded by: Kevin Haynes
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7 and Sony ECM939 mic (I think)
Transfer Equipment: Sony PCM-R500 amd M-Audio audiophile 2496 card

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Echobelly- KCRW Brave New World Live in Studio 12/3/94 xfer from DAT Clone

I was planning to post something else from this DAT and I came across this. It’s not on my list and not even labeled on the DAT. I went into sleuth mode and found out that the show they announced (Echobelly/Velocity Girl at the Roxy) took place on Wednesday 12/7/94, the Brave New World show took place on Sunday night, so I think that this is 12/3.
Being in Whittier at the time, I was just out of reception for KCRW. Huge thanks for Kevin Haynes (wherever he is) for documenting so much alternative and indie stuff in the mid 90s.

Recorded by: Kevin Haynes
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Deftones – Cactus Club 12/3/1994

Won’t do too many notes like this on descriptions on here but this is a top 5 performance from the band’s entire career for me – whoever filmed this and has the master, I’m interested!

Cactus Club
San Jose , CA
USA
December 3, 1994
Tour unknown

Recorded by: unknown (Gary Shurtleff?)

Generation: unknown (1st/2nd?) (with excerpt of master)
Equipment used: unknown

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Playground- Press Club, Sacramento Ca. December 94 xfer from band archive VHS enhanced Davis punk

Matt Mason from Playground reached out to me last week and let me know that he had some more good stuff to share. Here is the first one- a full show from December of 1994 that is believed to be from Press Club. I wasn’t around Sac in 94, but that backdrop doesn’t look familiar to me. Can someone (Jay Onyskyn maybe) confirm or deny?
This is not too bad of quality for 1994. The audio is not great but listenable. The video was clean enough to let me brighten it and noise reduce it enough to bring our finer detail. Thanks Matt!

Recorded by: the band on a tripod
Transfer by Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9900U and Canopus ADVC300
Enhanced in adobe premiere, noise reduction via neat video

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