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Twitch- Chatterbox, San Francisco Ca 7/29/88 xfer f/club archive cassette

I was planning on posting something from Barry Ward’s audiotapes, but then a package from Alfie Kulzick came in the mail so I decided that this one needed immediate attention.
The tape was labeled RKL at the Chatterbox, but the majority of the recorded show was the opening band Twitch. I can’t find much on a San Francisco based band named Twitch- if anyone has info about members/official releases, let me know.

EDIT: Thanks to Jules Worsley, this is the same band as the Twitch on the Eggplant Gilman soundboard tape I did a while back. “Twitch(16) on discogs and they have the guitarist(Jules Worsley) and bass player(Eban Schletter) from early Gilman band Kwik Way. Alex Bromley and Mike Moreira round out the band. Fun fact- David Immergluck (Ophelias, Camper van Beethoven, Counting Crows) recorded and mixed their only 7″ release.”
Thanks Alfie for sending the tape!

Recorded by: The chatterbox
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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R.K.L. – Chatterbox, San Francisco Ca 7/29/88 xfer f/club archive cassette Rich Kids on LSD

Huge thanks to Alfie Kulzick for sending this tape my way. Here are the 6 minutes of RKL that was at the end of the Twitch show. This thing was ALL drums so I did my best to boost the low end in soundforge and the guitars as much as possible without making it sound weird in Izotope. I’m happy with it.

Recorded by: The chatterbox
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8

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Chatterbox Demos 1 to 11 w/ Hemi, Bacchus, Voltage, Kwik Way, Bourbon Deluxe, Sludge San Francisco

Alfie Kulzick sent me another amazing package the other day- more DVcam tapes, a Chatterbox BOOK that I didn’t know even existed, and these CD’s of demo tapes that were submitted to the club. Thanks Alfie!

These demos were all over the place, levels-wise so I did my best to normalize them.

Recorded by: The Bands
Transfer by: Kern

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Bad Boys- Chatterbox SF Ca 1987/88 Xfer 1st gen DVCam Tape Yeastie Girlz Miserable Sex Vomit Launch

This one is from Alfie Kulzick’s collection and it is a band that I have not heard of, and there is not much info online about them either. If anyone knows who is in the band, please let me know. That vocalist looks familiar.

Anyway, this one was pretty dark. I should have brightened it up a bit. If anyone really wants it done, let me know. The audio on this one is pretty rough. Believe it or not, this is the less distorted channel copied over to a 2-channel mono track. It sounded even worse!

There was no date on the tape but the only listing that I could find of Bad Boys playing at Chatterbox was on 7/18/87 when they opened for Buck Naked.

Thanks to Kirby Desha for the help with band info! “Chatterbox Bad Boys formed after Miserable Sex broke up, w me and Kate (Yeastie Girlz) breaking off and Steve Bragg (drummer w Vomit Launch) and Shock (lead singer) joining Bad Boys. Check out Alfies’ book ‘Chatterbox- History of a Bar. I was still doing occasional gigs w The Feederz and Kate started the Yeasties w Joyce and Kammie”

Recorded by: Alfie’s friend
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DSR-1800 – datavideo TBC-1000- ATI TV Wonder 600 – virtualdub
Light denoise in Adobe premiere elements/neat video

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