Guitars: Brian Gould
Sax/Flute: Flamp Sorvari
Bass: Steve DiGiorgio (Death/Testament/Sadus)
Drums: Jason Kenney
Tag: Chico
Charm Fueled- Blue Room, Chico 2/25/95 video
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
- If I Could [0:02]
- Don’t Count Me Out [3:23]
- Consume Me [6:37] – Trish mentions her attire, “fashion disaster night”
- Believe In Sadness [9:52]
- ? (Slow # w/Sean & Trish vocals) [12:40]
- Repeat Myself [18:10] – Trish then tosses flyers to the crowd, with a Yes tease then thrown in…
- You Are The Sugar Ring [22:26]
- ? (punk cover? f.u. 2-3-4) [26:39]
- (slide guitar intro) You Gotta Lot Of Nerve [30:05] (brief internal cut at 32m30s)
- (encore) [35:11]
- Dumb Fuck [35:32]
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- Lava Lounge, Chico 2/17/95 video
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.
- intro [0:00]
- If I Could (w/Sean & Trish vocals) [0:31]
- Painkillers Work (song about J.J) [3:29] Crowd member, maybe Jim himself, maybe not – “Is this one about Jim Johnston”? Sean – “They’re all about Jim Johnston!”
- Don’t Count Me Out [7:22]
- Consume Me [11:13]
- Rescue Me [13:31]
- ? (Slow # w/Sean & Trish vocals) [17:20]
- Believe In Sadness [21:47]
- Repeat Myself [25:28] (after complaining about allergies)
- You Are The Sugar Ring [29:36]
- ? (punk cover? “f.u. 2-3-4”) [33:44]
- Dumb Fuck [37:20] (I hear it alternatively as “dumb fuck” and “skullfuck” YMMV)
Charm Fueled- Lava Lounge, Chico 10/94 video
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
- Painkillers Work [0:50]
- Consume Me [5:00]. A cut afterwards as the camera moves in more closely.
- Rescue Me [7:15]
- Repeat Myself [11:09]
- Don’t Count Me Out (I Speak In Languages…) [15:23]
- Turn The Pages [19:13] (brand new, not played before)
- Tell Me Where Do I Go From Here [22:23]
- Dumb Fuck [28:10]
- thanks [31:56]
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.
Harm Farm- Burro Room, Chico Ca. 7/13/90 xfer from 8mm master
Here’s Harm Farm, who had the multi-talented Melanie Clarin as drummer and backup(harmony) vocals. Alt country before it had a name.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Aiwa CV-80 and Sony ECM-909 mic
Flaming Lips- Burro Room, Chico Ca. 10/21/89 Audio Only Sony WMD6C Pro Walkman Live Master Xfer
Back in the 80s, it was really hard to get information about out-of-town shows. You could get some info from the SF Chronicle’s pink sheets, but a lot of it was word of mouth or getting a flyer(or The List) from a show. Chico was a total black hole (no offense intended)- the only way we found out about these shows was usually when we would see a band in Sac and they told us that they were playing Chico the next night.
So after laying waste to the UC Davis Coffeehouse, Anonymous followed them to Chico the record the Burro Room show. This one is as good quality as UCD.
Recorded by: Anonymous
Equipment Used: Sony WMD6C & ECM909 Mic
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon & Audiophile 2496 card– Reaper — Normalize with Sony Soundforge 9.0
The Fluid- Burro Room, Chico Ca 9/19/89 xfer f/ master audio tape Sony WMD6C Sony ECM909 Mic Grunge
Doing this “posting from more collections” project took a LOT of cleanup around the studio and on the youtube channel. For example, this one- I found this in draft mode on youtube- I had digitized this 2 YEARS ago and forgot to post it. Derp.
Back in the late 80s, my best friend Anonymous 1 and I would hit a ton of shows together. He probably deserves credit for getting my ass to Gilman so much, especially in the early days. A lot of the time, he would audiotape and I would video with the Aiwa CV-80 dinosaur camera. Sometimes I would not be up for a road trip and he would cover stuff himself. This is one that he covered himself, audio only. It’s odd that The Fluid would play Chico on 9/19, then not get to Cattle until 9 days later. The Cattle Club video (shot by me) is up on the archive you want to see that one.
Recorded by: Anonymous 1
Equipment used: Sony WMD6C & Sony ECM909 Mic
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon cassette deck & Audiophile 2496 capture card
Vomit Launch- Burro Room, Chico Ca. 9/16/89 Enhanced master with Sony D6 Audio!
This was a special show- Vomit Launch doing a headlining set in their hometown, in their prime.
Not only that, but I took my 8mm master video and brightened/denoised it so you can actually see Lindsey play guitar!
and that’s not all… thanks to Sam Habash, we have “Anonymous”‘s EXCELLENT audio courtesy of a Sony D6 & ECM909 mic, synched up to the video. Where else will you find a 75 minute VL set? Nowhere. Nowhere.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Aiwa CV80
Audio: Sony WMD6C & ECM909 mic
Synch: Sam Habash (Thehappyone on youtube)
Mudhoney- Burro Room, Chico Ca. 9/4/89 xfer from 8mm master!
Wow, I forgot how good thing video is. This is the night after the Cattle Club show. We had not planned to go to Chico the next night, but the Sac show was so good that Mark Martin convinced us to go. The most vivid memory of this show was when me and Lawrence Crane (from Vomit Launch and Tape Op Magazine) were nerding out about music and bands. We got so obscure with our love for SF “early alternative” bands like Donner Party that Mark Arm (who was sitting in between us” threw up his hands and walked away! Ha ha, classic. Juanita’s (the burrito place connected to the venue) used to get kegs of special Sierra Nevada beers before the whole microbrew thing was a big deal. We had some special ale that tasted like aspirin and TRASHED us. Video sounds great and looks ok. Happy with it, 27 years later!
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Mudhoney- Burro Room, Chico Ca. 9/4/89 xfer from 8mm Master Enhanced
Wow, I forgot how good thing video is. This is the night after the Cattle Club show. We had not planned to go to Chico the next night, but the Sac show was so good that Mark Martin convinced us to go. The most vivid memory of this show was when me and Lawrence Crane (from Vomit Launch and Tape Op Magazine) were nerding out about music and bands. We got so obscure with our love for SF “early alternative” bands like Donner Party that Mark Arm (who was sitting in between us” threw up his hands and walked away! Ha ha, classic. Juanita’s (the burrito place connected to the venue) used to get kegs of special Sierra Nevada beers before the whole microbrew thing was a big deal. We had some special ale that tasted like aspirin and TRASHED us. Video sounds great and looks ok. Happy with it, 29 years later!
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Aiwa CV80 & Sony ECM909
Mic Enhancement: Adobe Premiere to increase brightness & exposure, Neat video to reduce noise