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Attitude- El Dorado Saloon, Sacramento Ca 9/2/87 xfer from master cassette tape Attitude Adjustment

I am running late today- I almost didn’t have time to put one up. Here is another Anonymous master tape that he did with the little handled Aiwa recorder. That deck/mic combo had no low end at all, but they are pretty crisp and they EQ well. It’s listenable.
I remember hanging out with Andy and the band before a show, but I can’t remember if it was this one. I know that I didn’t stay for the actual concert. Great lineup- C.O.C., D.I., Attitude as a late sub for Reagan Youth.

Recorded by: Anonymous
Equipment used: Aiwa handheld recorder
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10 (drop highs and midrange, boost bass)

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Andy Andersen backstage River Thtr Guerneville 3/22/87 w/Cryptic Slaughter MITFR Attitude Werhmacht

Here’s something fun- MANY years back (about 34 years), Andy lent me a few of his VHS tapes. This clip of pure insanity was on one of the tapes. This is Andy’s footage from before the River Thtr show with Cryptic Slaughter, Condemned Attitude, Attitude Adjustment and Wehrmacht. There is also footage from after the show- the drive back and the return that night to KUSF studios where Keith Chatham is talking about the Condemned LP and Ron and Harald are DJ’ing.
SO MANY people to mention on here- Ron, Harald, Andy, Keith, Toby Rage?, Tony the due?, Sherwood, Jeff Becerra, Sacrilege. All being completely nuts, making fun of skinheads, and many stream of consciousness interviews. Just classic.

Recorded by: Andy Andersen and Ron Quintana
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9800U and Canopus ADVC300
Enhanced (Brightness/contrast/exposure) in Adobe Premiere and noise reduction via Neat Video

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Condemned Attitude- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 3/20/87 xfer from low gen soundboard cassette rebalanced

The clearout of the hard drive continues. I think this was during the early days of Gilman where they would not announce the bands- people were expected to just show up and see who played that night. If this is the right show (I digitized this months ago), you can hear Andy joking about it.
This board mix was super thin and tinny, and it sounded sped up to me. I slowed it down by 7% and it STILL sounds fast, but it is hard to tell with Andy’s vocal delivery. I boosted bass(+5), Drums (+1) and guitar(+5) in Izotope RX8. I also dropped about 3db off the highs because it was so bright.

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

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Attitude Adjustment- The Farm, San Francisco Ca. 1/31/87 xfer from low gen soundboard cassette

OK, get ready for an onslaught of Shurtleff cassettes today.

Here is an attitude adjustment soundboard- this had to be one of the first shows they played after the Pusmort LP lineup broke up- they played their last shows in September of 2006, and a new version of the band was already playing shows 3 months later!
I think this tape was from the band. It is on an official Metallica- Master of Puppets cassette that they taped over!

From the collection of Gary Shurtleff
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon- Audiophile 2496 card- sony soundforge

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Attitude Adjustment- The Farm, San Francisco Ca 10/25/86 xfer from master soundboard cassette rebal

James R Edmonds sent this tape to me a couple of months back and the tape was pretty messed up. A good part of the tape was eaten and I think some tape was also unspooled. I tried repairing it myself and realized I was over my head and sent it to our resident tape repair expert. He was able to resurrect the tape, and most of it still sounds great! There are a few seconds of “loss of fidelity” here and there, but overall stellar work. Thank you!!
The mix was excellent except it lacked bass. I rebalanced in Izotope Rx8 and I am happy with it now. And, how often do we get to share an uncirculated master soundboard tape from almost 40 years ago?

Recorded by: James R Edmonds
Transfer and repair by: Bill R.
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8 (Vocals +3, Bass +5)

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Attitude Adjustment- The Farm, San Francisco Ca. 9/7/86 1st gen from band’s VHS tape hardcore punk

I know it is pretty early for a post but I can’t wait to send this one out, because we all got an amazing surprise yesterday- you just may not know it yet. Rick Strahl (bass player for Attitude Adjustment/Condemned Attitude/Attitude etc) released his project called Anti-Trust for sale yesterday (go to https://anti-trust.rocks/ to stream and/or buy the album). This is his music project with songs he has written over the years (he is a software programmer nowadays). It is KILLER, and it features Chris Kontos on drums and Andy Andersen from Attitude Adjustment/etc on vocals for a couple songs. Check the link in comments for where to buy.

As I mentioned the other day, I started to look through my older videos because I noticed that there were a few that I had not posted yet. I am halfway through numbers and “A” on one of my lists, there are a ton to do. To celebrate Rick’s project seeing the light of day, here is a really great old video of Attitude Adjustment, opening for the shitty metal version of Discharge at the Farm. House camera, soundboard audio. Hmmm… I wonder if video exists of Discharge getting garbage cans thrown at them. Who has all of these Farm tapes anyway?
From Andy Andersen’s collection

Recorded by: ? (contact me- Shayne Stacy- if you know)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: It has been years, but probably the JVC HRS9911U and Canopus ADVC300

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Attitude Adjustment- Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach Ca. 9/6/86 2nd gen VHS with Soundboard audio punk

Here’s another synch job that I have been hoping to get done for years. We had the video (not great quality, but this is a 1st gen from Andy Andersen) with HORRIBLE audio plus a separate soundboard audio tape that starts off kinda weird but improves after about 5min. Thanks to King Bean, we now have at least a listenable video. It was all distortion before.

Recorded by: ?
Video Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9900U and Canopus ADVC300
Enhanced in Adobe premiere/neat video (degrain)
Audio transfer by Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope RX7 (I boosted vocals and bass and maybe drums, can’t remember)
Synch by King bean

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Attitude Adjustment- Ruthie’s Inn, Berkeley Ca. 6/6/86 Soundboard Audio Hardcore

I tried to post this yesterday since it was 30 years to the day… So this is one of those tapes that got me totally hooked on taping and tape trading. It sounds kinda awful at the beginning, but it is more listenable about midway through. AA only had their demo out and they played a headlining set at Ruthie’s. They ended up playing the longest set I am aware of, for this era of AA. Crazy between song banter with Andy and the crowd. It sounds like the band has a fight around “Streetwise”, 2/3 of the way through. I listened to this tape so much, I broke it and had to ask for another copy from Mark. I think Wayne Vanderkuil might have taped this one. Man, I wish he would loan me his stuff so I could transfer it.

Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil

 

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Attitude Adjustment- New Method Warehouse, Emeryville Ca 5/25/86 xfer from master audio cassette

Another Wayne Vanderkuil master tape of Attitude Adjustment. Probably my favorite bay area band from the 1980s. Thanks to Jim Pitts and others who helped me narrow down the location of the old warehouse on Google Maps- look at that building! This is during the era where the band was playing hour-long sets with just about every song they had. Love it.
Rick’s chunky bass tone is up front in the mix. Sounds good.

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

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