Since everyone seemed to either be watching the Back the the Beginning live stream or talking about the concert, I decided to hold off posting until it was over. Then I fell asleep. It was a rough night with my 9 month old pup- I got maybe 5 hours sleep.
I bought this off Ebay from the guys who are selling items from Russ Gibb’s estate. There were a ton of really cool beta master tapes. I saw The Bats on this tape and figured that this was probably the New Zealand band since they released their first album around this time… turns out it wasn’t them. Detroit had a punk band called Bats who put out a 4 song demo in 1986.. and the logo on the bass drum matches the logo on the demo.. No band member info anywhere.
This was also on the tape. I tried to look up CBBF and there is nothing on discogs or google or newspapers dot com. If you have any info on this band, please let me know.
The worst part about all of this is the tape has no audio. I even tried to normalize it to see if there is a tiny signal I could work with.. nope. Enjoy the silent footage.

Recorded by: Russ Gibb and crew
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony SL-2100, Datavideo TBC-1000, Tevion adapter- Virtualdub