Since I have not been giving any Sacramento bands much love recently, let’s do a 2fer today. The first one comes from Anonymous 2’s big collection of demo tapes. This was The Brody’s first demo- first release. It’s pretty cool that they are still playing shows, 30 years later.
Recorded by: Enharmonik Studios
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Oh wow, I have been heads-down trying to recover my facebook account and almost forgot to post today. I even drove to beautiful Menlo Park today to META headquarters to try to get help from an actual human to help me get this recovered. Well, I talked to 2 humans who told me that there was no support there, and they handed me a flyer that gave me a bunch of links to try so I can get my account back… which don’t really work… and then they would not let me use the bathroom. I mean, it was RIGHT THERE. I could see the fucking bathroom and the security guard was all “sorry sir, you can’t use that”. I would usually feel bad about pissing in a parking lot, but not this time.
Anyway, here is one from Rodney Parker’s collection. I spent a lot of time fixing up a Green Day video, but that will have to wait until I get my GD DMN*D FB ACCOUNT BACK.
Here is what Rodney says about City Four: “None of us really went on to other bands but 3 of us were in the ska band Blue Beat Stompers at the same time as City Four. That was me on drums, Josh Figueroa on Guitar and Ryan Hendrix on Bass. For City Four Brian Daigle played second guitar and Steve Robison on Vocals.
Recorded by: Erika Schmid
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
I had a different video planned for today, and about 20 minutes before the 35gb file finished uploading to youtube, I deleted it from the RAID. It had already been a huge ordeal to get this one together, so it’s no surprise that yet another obstacle (albeit self-inflicted this time) is in the way of getting it out.
So, let’s pull one from Rodney Parker’s collection. Rodney has filmed a bunch of shows (the excellent bay area punk shows channel has most of them), but he was also in a band. City Four were a band in 1994-1995 and played some local shows, along with a west coast tour. The band was Rodney on drums, Josh Figueroa on Guitar and Ryan Hendrix on Bass, Brian Daigle played second guitar and Steve Robison on Vocals.
Recorded by: Erika Schmid
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (brightness/exposure/denoise)
Here’s something a bit different for today. This tape is from Eggplant’s collection and it doesn’t appear to be out on the internet anywhere.
The background noise on this one made the interview pretty much inaudible. I was able to use the good channel and take out a bunch of the background noise with Izotope Rx8 to make this listenable. Levels start off a little low and build after a bit, so I decided normalize it up to 0db and leave it as is. Turn it up! Then turn it down later. Haha.
Great insight into the origins of 924 Gilman and other stuff.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Channel fixing/normalizing in Sony Sound Forge 10
Spectral Denoise in Izotope Rx8
It’s been a while since I have posted this late, but the “1 post a day” streak lives on! Here’s a tape from Robert Eggplant’s collection.
I can’t claim to know anything about this artist. I think this is the guy (from Discogs):
Activist, Artist, Composer, Designer, Engineer. Better known as Jadis Mercado. Born and raised in Coney Island, Brooklyn NYC. Publicly active since 1995. Currently contracting as an Audio & Visual Producer, Creative Consultant, and Touring VJ / Live Video & Motion Graphics Projectionist. Residing in Sequoia National Forest, California [USA]. Two-time (2x) World Noise Champion, recognized by the Internationale Électronique Grand Prix governing body. Creator and performer of the Experimental Noise Cast podcast series….
but I could be wrong. He mentions a split EP with Assuck that does not exist anywhere that I can find. Might be a different Adjective Noun.
Warning: Contains offensive language and themes. More than usual.
side note- oh wow, it is so bad that youtube made it 18+. Sorry, gotta log in and prove your age for this one.
Recorded by: Tall Tim
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
The second one for today is a very short 3 minute clip of a Samiam song off the board at Gilman. I would not typically post something so small, but the mix is pretty good. No date listed on the tape, but most of these Eggplant tapes were from the mid-90s.
Recorded by: Tall Tim
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Man, the things you find in the boxes of old dead stock from The Beat. This band has a young(er) Brian Guido on guitar (sporting an awesome Iron Maiden shirt), who is from Sacramento and has been in a number of bands here. I can’t tell if this band was based here- I checked a couple of members on FB and they don’t live here. The inner booklet has a photo of Frankfurt American High School, so maybe this was a band with Brian and some expats. Maybe Brian can give more context.
Anyway, the band was categorized as Metal on CDDB but that 2nd song sounds like it belongs on a later era Adolescents album.
Track List: American Man/Bipolar/Bitter End/Self Defense/Baghdad Bop/Ghostrider/Plagued Innocence
Here is some additional context from Brian Guido: “We were teenagers that formed during high school in Frankfurt Germany in 1987. Since then all of us moved back to the States and after years decided that we should get together to hang out, rehearse and record some material. Sacramento was picked because I lived here and was that only member of the band still playing fairly regularly. The recording were made at Matt Erich’s studio. Since two of us have created another project called the Ralph Schlemmer Orchestral.”
Recorded by: Matt Erich (Erich Musical Enterprise)
Transfer off CD by Shayne, Using good ol’ Windows Media Player (lossless rip), Sony Sound Forge 10 to put the tracks together, Vegas Pro 15 to make the mp4.
It’s Monday again. I don’t have anything prepared that fits the bill for Mediocre Monday, so you get this one. A portion of an undated Galaxy Trio show from La Luna. This one is nice- lighting is good. Galaxy Trio are usually playing the small dark bars.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer Equipment: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into workstation
Enhanced (degrain) in adobe premiere elements/neat video
It’s mediocre Monday, on a holiday week!
This one is mediocre due to its length. Only 2 and a half minutes. The venue was super dark- I cranked the brightness and contrast for this enhancement so you can at least see it. Glad that Craig captured these guys so much- love the surf space rock.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into workstation
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Here’s another one from Steve Rogers’ collection of tapes. He can’t recall the venue, it might be the Dragonfly. I thought the stage was higher at that club though…
This one was super dark so I had to really push the brightness/contrast and denoise in order to see anything. That’s another thing- I recall Dragonfly having better lighting as well.
Recorded by: Steve Rogers
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into workstation
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video
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