Todays’ On This Date in History is later than usual because I had my first MRI ever. What an ordeal- 3 hours at that place, laying on my stomach in a tube for 40min with my wrist out in front of me. Blah.
Anyway, this one comes from Jim Utz’ collection. He met a person (name forgotten) who videotaped a bunch of Sonic Youth’s 1995 shows. am not sure if a complete version exists- even Sonic Youth’s website shows the documentation as incomplete.
Recorded by: ? transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: JVC HR-S series VCR (9911, 9800) into canopus ADVC300
It’s time for a Patreon Voter’s Choice bonus post! The theme was “Pick a No List Digital Soundboard”. I used a random number generator to pick 5 things.. and then after I started the poll, I realized that these were ON the main list, not off list ones! Derp. So this coming week is the no list vote. Should be fun- I will add the link to Patreon in case anyone wants to see it.
After this show won the vote, I realized that a) it was a cassette master-digital(DAT then CDR) and b) it was already on youtube, but not nearly at this quality. So let’s proceed. I promise I’ll stop making mistakes someday.
Recorded by: ? Extract from CDR and prep by Shayne
We received a new collection recently from Scott Capizzano. Scotty is an old friend- in fact, he crashed the very first concert I held. I had a kegger party in the back yard of my Dad’s house off Mariposa Ave in 1983 or 84. Bodily Harm and Legion played. These older dudes(by a couple years)- one with some pretty cool hair came in after the bands stopped. That’s how I met Scotty. We have been in contact on and off for the past 40 years. He has played drums in a bunch of bands from the 80s on and has most recently been in Circus of Power and The Stoning. His collection has many of his own bands along with others. Lots of metal in his collection with a bias to the glam side. Here is the first tape I picked out. Raven Slaughter(person) was from Cleveland, then moved to Florida, back to Cleveland, to Los Angeles (which is when this demo was produced), back to Cleveland, then to Montreal. I can’t find any info on him after 2016, when he was supposed to play a show in Cleveland but was too weak from MS to make the trip. I’ll shamelessly tag Ken Dixon/Cleveland Live Music since his friends would probably appreciate this, and maybe fill us in on him post-2016. Tape seems to be a copy off the master, but quality is a bit lacking. Includes a few live songs recorded to 4 track.
Recorded by: The band Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
