I realize that this site leans heavily toward punk, alternative/indie, and thrash/speed/death metal… and we are lacking material from the other end of the Metal spectrum. Here’s one for all of the hair metal fans out there- a well-produced demo from the great local band Panther. I never really gave them a chance since I was already in thrash/punk land when this was released, but it’s really good!
This is a direct xfer from the tape pictured. Any song fragments are that way on the tape.
As an aside… yes. I really put a tape that dirty into the nak dragon. (shudder). And I wonder why I need to send it in for repair once a year.
Recorded by: ? Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon & M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
It’s shaping up to be Slayer week over here. It’s like shark week but faster and more evil. This is another one from Tour Manager Doug’s collection of amazing cassettes. He thinks that this came from the band. I did not do an A/B comparison with the official release, but these sound like multiple mixes of the same session. Also, there seems to be a few dropouts between 2-3 minutes. Let me listen to the source transfer and the cassette again- I might need to repost this when I get time.
Recorded by: The band in the studio Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakaimichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Alright, who wants to be offended today? This demo’s cover was so offensive that I decided against using it as the image. I think it would draw a facebook ban and nobody’s got time for that. Track list also offensive- go check discogs for all that if you are curious. But don’t say I didn’t warn you. This one was already on youtube, but I think this version sounds way better.
From Tony Philputt’s collection, generously gifted by Phil Go. There are mostly videos in this collection and the audio tapes have a ton of widely circulated, unknown gen stuff… but every once in a while you come across something like this. Or the KGSR performances at the bottom of the pic…
Recorded by: The band Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here’s a fun one. This is the first demo I ever bought, I think. All members of this band plus the recording engineer went to Roseville High School at the same time as me. Shane Maes (drummer) went on to play in Emerald City in the late 80s/90s. Cover artist Chris Devine continued as an artist and won awards recently for either video game design or movies. I can’t recall. Anyway, a fun one for anyone who was at RHS at the time. Yes, I really do hold on to everything.
Recorded by: Pat Short Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here is the last of the 14 AUDIO collections that I had not posted for a while. It looks like the last thing that I posted from Barry’s collection took place in early 2023. From here on out, you can expect an audio post from every one of the 14 collections in rotation. This tape blew my mind. The first 25min has Barry and the band talking. It’s part interview and part them screwing around. At the 25 minute mark, the rehearsal demo starts. Never heard the first song before, and most of the rest are played at radically different tempos than their album versions. Wildly entertaining listen for fans of the band.
From Barry:
That’s crazy. I don’t think I’ve heard that tape since it was recorded. That was in my garage bedroom at my parents house in Houston. So young and green. With Kurt and Eric Brecht. Was it on reel to reel or cassette? Had a stereo reel to reel at the time. Two mics. We were goofing off and making noises when slowing down or speeding up the reel.
Recorded by: Barry Ward (int) and ?(demo) Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
This one is somewhat of a mystery. It was on the end of Wayne’s master recordings of New Method 8/2/86. He is not sure where it came from, but he offers this context: “I can’t even remember what that was from. Chris Dodge and myself used to go to the Maximum RocknRoll house all the time. Tim had numerous tapes lining the top of his record shelves. Once or twice we brought our tape decks and spent all day recording our favorites from Tim’s collection. I think I even ran out of room and started adding stuff to pre existing tapes that had room at the end.”
Since this was at the end of a master tape and it hastily cuts in, I am running with it. This is likely to be from Tim’s MRR archive.
Teenage warning were Barrie Evans and Todd Kramer (later to be in Christ on Parade amongst others), Kevin Reed (later Attitude Adjustment), and Jim Lyon.
More context from Barrie Evans: “This was recorded on a 4 track in Todd’s mom’s dining room which we used to practice in. I gave this tape to Tim Yohannan and he played ” My Life ” on MRR. Eric asked me what Song 1) was and song 9) Song 1 is Depression and since we played War twice, 9 is either “Skate” or “My Life”. We passed this tape around to friends and clubs. Wes Robinson being the one who really liked it and had us play a million times. This recording was in March of ’83. Barrie – Jim – Kevin – Todd. The original line up.”
Recorded by: ? Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Collections post time, this time from Dal Basi’s bunch of tapes. I digitized this months ago (for some kind of project), but Jackson Griffith recently reached out and let me know that it was OK to post. Thanks to both of you!
DUH had a rotating cast of members but this incarnation had Gary Young on drums, Brian Thalken (Authorities, Fall of Christianity) on guitar, Kelly Foley (Torn Boys, Toadstool Theatre, Broken Toys) on bass, Sam Harvey on synth, and Jackson on vocals. I had no idea this was from legendary sacramento venue club minimal until Jackson told me.
Tons of Pavement/Authorities/Stockton punk connections. cool.
Recorded by: ? Transfer by: Shayne Stacy equipment used: nakamichi dragon and m-audio audiophile 2496 card
Here’s a real treat, courtesy of Tim Soriano! He lent me a CDR with this demo, which has 2 more tracks than the version posted by the GREAT sacramentopunkshows youtube channel. Forced Tradition’s members were: Tim (chim-chim) Soriano: Vocals Charlie (cheese) Stratford: Drums Mike Tyack: Guitar James Butler: Guitar Jay Hyde: Bass
PS: If you check the photo of this upload, there’s a sneak peek into tomorrow’s post! 🙂
Here’s an OLD demo from Dan Pettit’s collection. Here’s what he has to say about it: “Really cool Westchester/Putnam county NY band, this tape is super rare, near and dear to me as I went to high school with the drummer. Barbie wants a real man and Surfing Commandos are stand out tracks…This tape is awesome and really deserves to be properly archived.” You now have all the info I have. The demo contains the pictured J-“card”(actually paper) and a Maxell XLII tape.
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Man, this one is obscure. The only document that exists of Defy anywhere is their inclusion on the comp “Cometbus Fanzine Presents: Lest We Forget”. They have 1 track on there- a song called Prejudice.
This is the entire 8 song demo, which includes the following:
Parent Ownership
Prejudice
Living Die
Charlie Manson
Religion
Political Suck Machine
South Pacific
Confused & Refused
Taken from Eric Mcintire’s low gen audio tape Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon & M-Audio audiophile 2496 card
