I am late on everything today. We are grabbing another one from Josh Parten’s master tapes for today’s on this date in history. This time, it’s DRI from Anaheim in 2010.
I checked online and it looks like there are 2 other angles of this show, including one from my old pal Ryan from Vulture Video. It might make sense to do a multicamera someday.
Recorded by: Josh Parten (R.I.P.)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Consumer JVC Camcorder firewire in to Dell workstation
I am pretty sure that this is from Josh Parten’s collection (R.I.P.). I had it on my list as a Vulture Video master, but 1. Ryan didn’t post it on his channel, and he usually posts his masters and 2. The audio is distorted in the same way that many of Josh’s videos are, and 3. it is in 480p. Hopefully someone can help confirm that.
Recorded by: Josh Parten
Transfer Equipment: Consumer DV camcorder firewire into Dell workstation
I have mentioned Mike Elias(sp?) before- he is/was a character who we traded videos with- he used to blatantly film bands without permission- and if he got caught/shut down, he would write me “those guys are essholes”(he would send me letters with these grievances). He definitely had a unique approach. If anyone knows where he is now, please let me know.
I have found 3 different references regarding the venue for this show- Mike’s info and newspapers dot com show it as a venue called numbers. metallipromo has a hand written flyer that shows Axiom. I am going with Numbers.
Jim Utz and I both traded tapes with Mike, and this one comes from Jim’s collection. Clearly audience shot with a bunch of heads in the way. At least it sounds good.
Recorded by: Mike Elias(sp?)
Equipment used: One of the JVC’s (HR-s9800 or 9911U) – Canopus ADVC300
Late post today but it is a good one. This is from James R Edmonds’ master tape. The raw mix started out pretty good, but then guitar overpowered the mix- it was all you could hear. I did everything I could to bring up bass, vocals and drums in Izotope and it sounds pretty decent. This is peak D.R.I. — that 85-86 time frame was untouchable.
Recorded by: James R Edmonds
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocal +9, Bass and Drum +10, guitar -1. Yeah, it was that extreme.
Since I posted the Slayer set yesterday, I figured that I would post DRI’s opening set today. I was so pumped for the D.R.I. set as they had quickly become my favorite band at the time. The crowd did not appreciate them- you can hear Kurt mention that they were getting harassed a bit. They were great and the set is a great mix of Dirty Rotten and Dealing with it. Ricky always did a nice job recording shows, he was a good guy.
Recorded by: Ricky Miramontes
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audi Audiophile 2496 card
Happy New Year! I hope 2026 is amazing for you all.
Man, did Wayne Vanderkuil bail my ass out for an On This Date post today. There aren’t many shows that happen on New Years Day, and my tape list is riddled with hundreds of “jan 1 yyyy” entries since that was the default for something that happened on an unknown date within a particular year… I couldn’t find anything.
But Wayne labeled this tape “DRI Ruthie’s 1/1/86” since the bands played after midnight, so I am running with it. Here is Wayne’s master from after midnight on a new years eve show. It sounds great, especially after an EQ job. Thanks Wayne!
2 more weeks of this On This Date nonsense and we can move on to something else.
Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10
Here is a really cool show from Eric Mcintire’s archive. I went over to his house and borrowed about 30 tapes, then the Nak Dragon died right when I got them home. Sounds pretty good for a 1985 punk tape. I wonder if this is one of Verne Inhel’s pro walkman recordings… anyway, huge thanks to Eric for letting me borrow these tapes.
This is my favorite era of DRI, and within a month of when I saw them for the first time. That was a life changing show.
Recorded by ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon/M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card.
Let’s start today with the Patreon Voter’s Choice! There is a backstory on this one. My friend Matt Polish used to be good friends with Slayer in the 1980s- he was so close to the band that he would fly to southern cal and stay at Jeff’s house for a week at a time. Kerry would fly up to Sacramento to see someone he was dating and I would pick him up at the airport and drive him around. Sometimes he would give or loan me tapes such as this one when he came up.
This one was a loan and I only had a day or so to get it copied. I begged our next door neighbor to do it at the time and after he heard Tom’s intro to Necrophiliac, he let me know that there would be no more copies on his equipment. LOL. Unfortunately I could only get the entire tape copied once, in 4 hour mode (the obscure VHS “LP” mode).
So since we were voting on patreon for a “D” video, my super-awesome voting patrons once again had great taste and picked this one. It’s DRI’s opening set on the 7th. It’s pretty cool and at shows the band at their absolute peak. I saw them a couple weeks before this and it was life changing.
I have a board tape of this show as well (not from Kerry) that I could synch, but the audio isn’t bad here.
Recorded by: Metal blade maybe?
2026 Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Here is something that I posted to youtube in 2016 but it somehow didn’t get posted to the sac music archive. Ugh, I hate that. Who knows how much more from my YT channel is missing from the website. I even re-digitized it today. Annoying.
Anyway, I don’t usually do the “on this day” type of thing, but this one was a life changer. I was a total metalhead at the time and went to see Slayer, but D.R.I. was opening the show. I had never seen a band play this fast- I was hooked immediately. I bought “Dealing with It” right after the show and it was my soundtrack for the rest of the year. Then came the obligatory purchases of Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Adrenalin O.D, Crucifix, and so many more. So thank D.R.I. for the crash course (or is it thrash course) into punk.
I told the A.O.D. guys that they were on of my gateway bands because they were mentioned on one of Anthrax’ liner notes. They joked that that was a great trade- Anthrax plays arenas and they got Shayne in return.
Oh, it seems like the Slayer show from this date is not in the pile of 4,000 tapes I have here in my collection… but I think I saw Ron Quintana post a pic of a stack of cassettes recently with that show in there. Maybe we can convince him to stop teasing us and post it! 🙂
Recorded by: Mark Martin
Equipment used: Panasonic consumer handheld recorder
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