https://www.atmyheels.com/2010/02/best-coast-w-bananas-vivian-girls-2010.html
Recorded by: thehappyone
Equipment used: Sonic Studios DSM-6L mics > Edirol R-09HR
Tracklist
A few of the tracks were videoed by sagnox420.
Filmed by Christian Stoboy
It looks like there’s a bunch of offerings from these guys here on SMA, so I’m please to have discovered this trawling through my playlists of all live recordings from the Hemlock Tavern in mid-October 2005. Seems to only be these two tracks.
Filmed by Caroline Keddy, as credited in the YouTube post by anyanythingthing1.
Setlist
0:00 Valentine 2:11 I Live Alone 4:00 Just Like William Tell 5:20 Keith Levine 8:04 Estrogen 10:15 Can’t Afford You Now 12:47 Secret Of My Success 14:44 1988 17:20 Two Swords
FM Knives were quasi-legendary Sacramento guitarist and producer Chris Woodhouse’s old garage punk rock band, and seem to not have been featured on SMA before. Active only from about 2001-04…they did reunite to play a final show in 2016 at The Hemlock, which as of October 2018 is no more, gentrification claims yet another SF live landmark.
Audio on here is a bit overdriven (no surprise with that) but it is still plenty listenable.
Uploaded by: James Grimes.
No lineage or taping info provided. Perhaps this is known, but it wasn’t included in the YouTube footage. As I do some digging, I will add the information here.
Pavement has been featured before on SMA, but not thoroughly. As they formed in Stockton, they of course qualify for inclusion here. A thorough examination of their available output will probably require many, many hours, but as I encountered a tape of the audio (inferior quality to what was online already, sometimes that’s how it goes) for this show while working on other things, I figured including it here would be helpful.
Setlist
In The Mouth A Desert
Elevate Me
Grave Architecture
Kennel District
Rattled By The Rush
Unfair
Heaven Is A Truck
Brix Job
Serpentine Pad
Best Friend’s Arm
Half A Canyon
Black Out
Grounded
Conduit
Motion Suggests (Itself)
Pueblo
Cut Your Hair
Encore, Encore!
Shoot The Singer
Here
Recorded by: James Johnston
Copied from master VHS to DVD in 2007
Patricia Rowland Howard of Vomit Launch and Empty Gate’s mid-90s band, whom really to me sound a bit like 28th Day, Barbara Manning’s old group, at least in parts.
You can see I was in a huge hurry to share these (sarcasm, if it wasn’t obvious). This is a shame, as life is short, and these shouldn’t be sequestered away on some shelf to decompose.
There are four live videos total of this outfit, of which this is the last one chronologically, the first three filmed at Lava Lounge and the last one (this) at Blue Room, ranging from late 1994 to early 1995. This is the easiest watch of these because it’s the best-lit, relatively speaking, though the audio on all these are all very listenable! Setlist, keeping in mind this is *all* unreleased material.
I do know the guitarist / occasional vocalist is named Sean Gowan, who had previously played in The Vertels but don’t know much else beyond that.
Setlist
There’s a Vertels video recording here, along with a Vomit Launch live performance of “Dog Sauce” from September 1989, recorded by JE: https://www.youtube.com/@chasmonchichi/search?query=Vertels
Charm Fueled
17 Feb 1995
Lava Lounge
Chico CA
Playing with Larry Crane’s band “Flaming Box Of Ants”.
Filmed by James Johnston. Master VHS transferred to DVD in 2007, and sent to me in 2013.
Patricia Rowland Howard of Vomit Launch and Empty Gate’s mid-90s band, whom really to me sound a bit like 28th Day, Barbara Manning’s old group, at least in parts. There are four live videos total of them, of which this is the third chronologically, the first three filmed at Lava Lounge and the last one at Blue Room, from late 1994 to early 1995.
You can see I was in a huge hurry to share these. Setlist, keeping in mind this is *all* unreleased material. I do know the guitarist / occasional vocalist is Sean Gowan, but don’t know much else than that, or if he’s still playing music.
There are four live videos total of CF, of which this is the second chronologically, the first three filmed at Lava Lounge and the last one at Blue Room, ranging from late 1994 to early 1995.
Filmed by James Johnston.
Master VHS transferred to DVD in 2007, and sent to me in 2013. You can see I was in a huge hurry to share these (/s), but not due to a lack of quality of what was on offer, at least in my humble opinion.
This one doesn’t say whom they played with. This is the show where Trish was holding a guitar but never actually appears to play it, also a stunt she pulled in her prior group, cue to the three minute thirty second mark to see that inaction here.
It appears that the Lava Lounge room was pretty dark, so for me, it’s more important as a means to preserve the audio, which luckily is clear as a bell, no processing or tinkering has been done at all for either.
Visually, this one is the worst of the lot.
Setlist, keeping in mind this is *all* unreleased material. The guitarist / occasional vocalist is Sean Gowan of The Vertels, but don’t know much else about this project, or the names of the other players.
Filmed by James Johnston. Master VHS transferred to DVD in 2007, and sent to me in 2013.
Patricia Rowland Howard of Vomit Launch and Empty Gate’s mid-90s band, whom really to me sound a bit like 28th Day, Barbara Manning’s old group…before going into full-frenzy guitar freakout mode.
Playing with Glycerin and Snowmen. CF played second.
There are four live videos total of them, of which this is the first chronologically, the first three filmed at Lava Lounge and the last one at Blue Room, from late 1994 to early 1995.
You can see I was in a huge hurry to share these. I haven’t tried to gamma adjust this one, the Lava Lounge room was pretty dark, so for me, it’s more important as a means to preserve the audio, which luckily is clear as a bell, no processing or tinkering has been done at all for either.
Setlist
Keep in mind this is *all* unreleased material. I do know the guitarist / occasional vocalist is Sean Gowan of The Vertels, but don’t know much else about this project, or who the bassist / drummer were.
Recorded (videotaped) by: Jody Urbati-Moore
Shared by: the Billy Ruane live archive preservation
Note: camera gets knocked badly, taping is aborted after about the 12m mark, it continues on for a couple more minutes, but is too distorted to be watchable.
Recorded by: Tomzero, using Sonic Studios DSM-6 mics into a Sony WM-D6.
Transferred by: Tomzero, using his Nakamichi 682ZX, I’ve merely tracksplit and sharing as lossless 24 bit/48kHz FLACs.
Setlist
For Sure
(same as 3:59 on Middle East Cambridge upstairs vid)
Don’t Ask
Hiding
(same as 31:12 on the Middle East Cambridge downstairs vid)
Sour Grass
Puzzle Pieces
unknown ‘one of our newest songs’
Words & Smiles
Alien Space Song
Treasure
You’re Sleeping
‘Take Me Away’
I Hate You
(same as song 15 on 1993-08-10 Slim’s)
Their penultimate SF show, they would only go on for a month or two more before calling it quits. Rose Melberg went onto play in Go! Sailor, The Softies, and her own acoustic projects. Heather continued on in music, but the other two seemed to have bee less active.
Several tracks remain unreleased, and others only have id’s based on Matt Hartman’s efforts in annotating the video performances.
This is a group that my friends loved back in the day and have passed this onto me, so hoping others also derive pleasure from hearing. Unfortunately, neither could make their final SF show in December 1993.
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