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The Dickies- El’N Gee Club, New London Ct 10/16/95 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape

This is yet another video from Jason Ross’ collection for today’s On This Date in History. This one is pretty cool- the quality is good for a 90s video and the camera man is right up front. The downside is that you only see one side of the stage- the poor guitar player on the right finally makes an appearance on screen about halfway through! Also, the audio suffers a bit from the filmer’s position. They were getting mainly stage volume so not much vocal.

From the newspaper article I found, it looks like they played with D Generation. I hope that tape is in Jason’s collection as well!

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: One of the JVCs (HR-S9911/9800)- Canopus ADVC300 firewire into Dell workstation

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Uncle Tupelo- Toad’s Place, New Haven CT 3/2/92 Audio Soundboard xfer band archive Teenage Fanclub

Here’s a special one. Uncle Tupelo toured with Teenage fanclub for a string of dates in early 1992. These shows are pretty well documented. For example, there is video of this set available on youtube. I still need to compare the copy I have against what has been posted.
Anyway, this was the last show of the tour and TFC come up on stage to play “I wanna be your dog” with UT. Cool stuff.

Setlist:
Factory Belt (beginning cut)/ Nothing/ Fall Down Easy/ Watch Me Fall/ Looking For A Way Out/ True To Life/ D.Boon/ Punch Drunk/ Postcard/ Gun/ Graveyard Shift/ I Found That Essence Rare/ I Wanna Be Your Dog

Recorded by: Tony Margherita(?)
Transferred by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: 1994 DAT transfer- Playback with consumer Aiwa belt drive deck (big regret)- Sony DTC690 using monster audio cables.
Equipment used: 2019 DAT to WAV transfer: Sony PCM-R500 — Audiophile 2496 card — WAV
Transfer Lineage: Band Archive Tape – My DAT (90 meter DAT in 32khz- big regret) – You

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Mr. T Experience- The Anthrax, Norwalk Ct 7/8/88 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape MTX Punk

Here’s a little MTX for today’s On This Date in History. It comes from Jim Utz’ collection that I digitized years ago. It’s only 9 minutes, I am not sure if there is more out there somewhere.
There were not many people documenting these smaller punk bands in the late 80s. There was Jim Utz in St. Louis, me in Sac/Bay Area, this guy who filmed the Anthrax shows, and a few others. Video Louis was in L.A. starting in the early 80s, thank goodness he captured that scene so thoroughly. Grateful to all of you guys for documenting it all.
I love this era of MTX. Jon Von was great in the band.

Recorded by: ? (Jim will probably know)
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Probably the JVC HR-S9911 into Canopus ADVC300

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Adrenalin OD- The Anthrax, Norwalk Ct 6/3/88 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape AOD A.O.D. NYHC Hardcore

Even though this is off a 1st gen VHS tape from the band’s archives, the quality is not great. Very shaky camerawork and the video is pretty dark. Good enough for an On This Date in History post. It could use a full deshake and brightening/denoise. Maybe some day.

Speaking of AOD, it looks like they are finally going to get over to England to play some shows in a couple months. I had grand plans to see them a bunch of times over there in 2020, but we all know what happened in 2020. The “legion of boom” fest at Boom Leeds never refunded my money despite multiple emails. Gotta love punk rock. On the other hand, Rebellion fest were more than accommodating- they were really great dealing with the cancellation. I hope to get over there someday.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Probably the JVC HR-S9800 and Canopus ADVC300

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Dinosaur Jr.- Night Shift Cafe, Naugatuck Ct 12/12/87 xfer f/1st gen VHS tape (I think)

Thanks for Mann Medic for telling me what to do! He is finding some real gems that I forgot I even had in the collection. I am pretty sure that this is a 1st gen VHS that I digitized on my old gear. Still nice quality, even raw and at 720p.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9800/9911 and Canopus ADVC300 (I think)

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Adrenalin O.D.- Anthrax Club, Norwalk Ct 8/22/87 xfer from 1st gen VHS Band Archive Tape AOD Covers!

For today’s On This Date in History, let’s celebrate AOD’s recent tour to Europe for the first time ever! They were supposed to go in 2020 and do a much more extensive tour, but we all know how 2020 turned out… The promoter for their 2020 show at Boom Leeds never refunded my money. Boo to unscrupulous punk promoters!

Anyway, this came from Bruce, the guitarist in the band. Bruce is totally cool and I wish he was still playing with the band.

This was not a show that AOD was scheduled to perform, they were summoned to come up by the band on stage. They do all covers and get off the stage “before they make it any worse”. Haha! Soundboard audio is pretty garbled but still listenable for hardcore fans (get it?).

Recorded by: The Anthrax Club?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (denoise)

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7 Seconds- Anthrax, Norwalk Ct. 11/30/86 xfer from low gen VHS Kevin Hardcore Punk

I probably have too many projects going at once- today’s post comes from a project where I go through the list of already-created DVDs for any Sacramento-related content. I am working alphabetically, and am on Numbers and A’s so far. Still have the rest of the alphabet to go. Tons more 7 Seconds to be posted.
I am also digitizing some of my and other stuff for friends. I am almost done with most of those (except Brian McKenna’s and Dal Basi’s big boxes o’demos). I need to get tapes back to you all, and get the rest of those posted.
Plus, I am working on my master tapes and getting those posted, sometimes with the help of King Bean for audio synchs.
So we are not running out of things to do over here. If you’d like to help add posts to the archive, there are hundreds of existing posts on youtube that could be mapped, so please let me know if you’d like to help.

Today’s post comes from the 1980s tape trading underground. There were certain venues where you knew people taped a lot- City Gardens, Houston Venues, Washington DC, and this one. There was one guy who filmed a bunch of the stuff at The Anthrax club.

I didn’t film or digitize this one, so no credits this time.

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