Dead Milkmen, Camper Van Beethoven, Sea Hags
Club Can’t Tell
Sacramento, CA
11/22/86
Flyer by Ken Doose
Tag: camper van beethoven
Camper Van Beethoven- King’s Head Inn, Norfolk Va 8/11/86 xfer from 2nd gen soundboard cassette
it’s a LATE post from the collections today. I had posted a bunch of spoken word stuff from Anonymous’ collection so I decided to digitize some of the other tapes in his collection… 7 hours and 10gb later and I now have a few months worth of stuff to post.
This one isn’t great quality but it isn’t online or on archive dot org. I decided to put it up to recognize the CVB shows happening at The Fillmore this weekend. I have tickets but I am still waiting for a camera pass. Sigh.
The show starts out with some in-your-face violin from Jonathan during Abundance, then the mix settles down a bit. I tried to fix it in Izotope but I don’t know if I made it better or worse. Oh well.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +11, Drums +8, “other”(guitar/violin?) +5.
Camper Van Beethoven- Starry Plough, Berkeley Ca 7/5/86 xfer from band archive cassette
Since a lot of focus was on Black Sabbath’s day long festival, I figured that I would wait until it was over, and also post something non-metal for today’s on this date in history. This one will do.
Jonathan loaned me his tapes back in the late 90s (thank you) and I “digitized” them my lining my Nakamichi deck into a new (at the time) philips CD recorder- the high end CDR-880! That thing cost a LOT of money at the time, but it did a nice job recording CD’s. We had this trick where we would insert one of the expensive CD recorder CD’s, let it read it and then pull the disc tray out and replace the disc with a standard CDR, which was about 10 times cheaper!
This show took place a few months before I discovered the band. I would have loved to see them at Starry Plough. I did get to see them at Pappy and Harriets, so that is a close approximation.
This tape had some harsh and slightly distorted high end. I did my best to EQ it out while keeping the crispness of the highs intact. It does have an odd swirly high end sound now.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi CR5A into Philips CDR880 CD recorder
Camper Van Beethoven- CBGB, NYC 3/21/86 xfer 2nd gen tape audience recording Black Flag Sonic Youth
Happy Monday everyone. Before I post anything that I did not personally record to the sac music archive, I check around to see if it is already out there in similar or better quality. I got this tape back in the 80s from Craig Hilmer, I think. There were a few of us who were huge CVB fans back then and we traded tons of the band’s live tapes. I saw that this show was on archive.org and figured there was no need to post this… but the one on Archive is a board tape, which I never even knew existed! This is an audience recording.
Some industrious soul with more free time than I should matrix the 2 sources together.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Camper Van Beethoven- Oasis Ballroom, Sacramento CA 2/5/86
Incomplete. Opening for Bad Manners at the Oasis Ballroom, Sacramento, CA. Video by Steve Vanoni. Transferred by Shayne Stacy.
Flyer: The Toy Dolls, The Morlocks, Camper Van Beethoven, Jet Boy, Sea Hags at Oasis Ballroom, Sacramento, CA 01/23/86
The Toy Dolls, The Morlocks, Camper Van Beethoven, Jet Boy, Sea Hags
Oasis Ballroom
Sacramento, CA
01/23/86
Flyer scan by Ken Doose
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Camper van Beethoven- Cha Cha’s, Santa Cruz Ca. 2/23/85 xfer from band archive tape Lisher’s 1st
When I look for shows to post for the “On This Day” series, I tend to look for ones that are not online at all.. but sometimes I find something like this. This one is on the Live Music Archive already, but it is from an unknown lineage CDR. This one comes right off of Jonathan’s tape, played back on my old Nakamichi CR5A in the late 1990s/early 2000’s directly onto CDR with one of those Philips CDR880 decks.
This is Greg Lisher’s first show with the band. I am so glad that I kept these CDRs in good shape- I was able to extract it without any issues.
The songs are still a bit primitive sounding here, but there is a ton from the first album, and both covers that became set staples are here as well. You also get an early version of “Lincoln Shrine”, which would be reincorporated into sets toward the end of the band’s first run, in 1989/90.
Recorded by: ? (Jonathan?)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi CR5A into Philips CDR880