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Hirax- Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach Ca 8/29/89 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape Enhanced Thrash Metal

For our 2nd video post of the weekend, let’s keep the videos from Todd Nakamine’s collection going- here is another stage-shot Fender’s show filmed by Patrick Vergara. Sounds pretty good for a stage shot thing- the monitors must have been good that night.
Thanks to the Fender’s Ballroom FB group- Todd only knew the filmer’s first name, and we were able to find the filmer of the show- thanks Patrick Vergara!

Recorded by: Patrick Vergara
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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Excel- Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach Ca 7/18/87 Xfer f/1st gen VHS Tape Enhanced Crossover Thrash

It’s Friday! Here’s another video from Todd Nakamine’s bins o’ tapes. After checking the tape, it looks like this one was filmed by a guy named Pat. We don’t have his last name. Pat, if you are out there, please reach out so you can be recognized. Thanks for filming!
1987 Excel shows are just awesome. You have the 12 year old looking guitarist just riffing like hell, and the vocalist with the long hair thrashing around, and the crowd going ape shit. They were so impactful to us crossover kids when the demo came out- so good. This show took place at about the same time as the debut LP was released, but we all knew the songs.

Recorded by: Patrick Vergara
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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Wasted Youth- Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach Ca 4/10/87 xfer from 1st gen audio tape

For today’s on this date in history, you get to hear another sad story of tapes being thrown away.
My good friend Anonymous taped a lot of shows in southern california before moving up to the Sacramento area in 1987. This was one of the last ones before he moved here in the June/July time frame.
We had been friends for years and I was storing his cassettes in the garage of my house back in 2003. It was time to move and I called him one night and asked him what he wanted done with the tapes, and he said to go ahead and throw them away… nothing good is in there.
Well, that wasn’t true. There were many master tapes in there and while many of them sounded like this, that’s a lot of history tossed right into the trash. Sorry Anonymous. I should have kept them.
I got this from Anonymous in a trade in the 1987/88 time frame, so at least it can still me heard. Wasted Youth in their metal years!

Recorded by: Anonymous
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Photo courtesy of Todd Nakamine

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Cryptic Slaughter- Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach 9/6/86 1st gen from band VHS copy enhanced

Back in 1986, Andy Andersen let me borrow a couple of Attitude Adjustment’s VHS tapes. This show from Fender’s has 3 bands- I have video for all 3 and soundboard audio for 2. This set is the one that doesn’t have a board tape, which is too bad because the audio sounds like hot garbage. Expect the 2 other sets to be posted with soundboard audio in the upcoming weeks.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9800 and Canopus ADVC300
Enhanced (degrain) in adobe premiere elements/neat video

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Attitude Adjustment- Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach Ca. 9/6/86 2nd gen VHS with Soundboard audio punk

Here’s another synch job that I have been hoping to get done for years. We had the video (not great quality, but this is a 1st gen from Andy Andersen) with HORRIBLE audio plus a separate soundboard audio tape that starts off kinda weird but improves after about 5min. Thanks to King Bean, we now have at least a listenable video. It was all distortion before.

Recorded by: ?
Video Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9900U and Canopus ADVC300
Enhanced in Adobe premiere/neat video (degrain)
Audio transfer by Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope RX7 (I boosted vocals and bass and maybe drums, can’t remember)
Synch by King bean

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Final Conflict- Fender’s, Long Beach Ca. 9/6/86 Low gen VHS synch with Soundboard Enhanced Hardcore

This is one of the better Final Conflict sets I have heard. They were opening for “Grave New World” era discharge, and they were not only bagging on them, but also the venue and anything else came to mind. Funny, entertaining show.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Video: JVC HRS9900U and Canopus ADVC300
Audio: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
A/V synch by King Bean

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Final Conflict- Fender’s, Long Beach Ca 9/6/86 Full set soundboard audio only hardcore Motorhead

As I promised (or threatened, whichever is the case for you), here is the complete Final Conflict set. The video only has about 15min of real footage & soundboard audio, but the band played for 45min. Here is the complete set, audio only. This is worth the listen for the between song banter alone.
Cover of Motorhead’s Iron Fist at 31:00

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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The Dickies- Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach Ca 7/25/86 xfer from unknown gen soundboard cassette

I picked this one for today’s On This Date in History because I thought it would sound good.. and it does get better after the first 10 minutes. I did my best to rebalance it for the first 10, but it’s still pretty rough. Forward Tricia Toyota at 10min if you can’t take it, haha.
It seems to cut at 47min. The tape is labeled in a somewhat confusing way, but I think that’s all of it that exists.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +2, Guitar +5.

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Agnostic Front- Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach Ca 7/12/86 xfer from unknown gen soundboard tape NYHC

Back in the old punk rock tape trading days of the mid-1980’s, there were a lot of bad quality tapes. REALLY awful sounding stuff. Sometimes a trader would list a tape as a soundboard and it would be a mediocre audience. If you could actually hear the music= SOUNDBOARD! Actual soundboards would almost always be hissy and generated.
Every once in a while, you would get lucky and get a tape that sounds really nice. This one is really a soundboard and pretty damned good. Even though it is an unknown gen tape, there is little to no tape hiss. My only complaints were that it was lacking in bass (which I fixed in EQ) and vocals are a little buried (which I COULD fix if there is enough demand).
Overall, a nice sounding set during the Cause for Alarm era. Check out how low they are on this bill- holy crap what a lineup!

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10

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The Replacements- Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach Ca 12/13/85 xfer f/1st gen audio cassette

This is another one that surprised me by not being online anywhere from what I can tell. I don’t think this one came to me in a trade. It is on a DAT that I got on a trade from Alton Purvis, but it seems that someone brought the 1st gen cassette to me and I dubbed it up to the blank space at the end of the tape. This one was done with my OLD mid-90s setup.

Fans of the band know that their performances were unpredictable. They were definitely ON for this one. Even the reviewer was impressed. Cuts at 90, as does the master I believe.

I wonder how the taper snuck the huge deck into these taper hostile clubs.

Recorded by: ?
Equipment used: Sony D5 MASTER-METAL TAPE-DAT
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Consumer Aiwa home tape deck line into Sony DTC-690 DAT deck

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