Man, I have not been this excited about a post in a LOONG time. When I first discovered punk rock in 1985, I used to look at all of the amazing flyers of shows that Clear and Distinct had and regret not knowing a couple years earlier so I could have been there. All of our known Sacramento Punk tapers started in 1985ish (Mark Martin was one of the first), so all the documentation we had of these shows were these flyers…

Then a couple years back, Terry Hammer started to share a few Club Minimal videos he shot with a black and white video camera, which was awesome, and Tim Soriano had a couple of audio tapes.. but there was still a gap with the venues outside of minimal.

Here comes Dave Carness’ audio tape collection to fill that gap. You might know Dave as the bass player of the Earwigs or other bands in Sac; maybe you know him as a guitar maker. Well, Dave also taped some shows in the early 80s! Not only that, he did it with a portable Aiwa deck that was the among the best consumer recorders available at the time. I am absolutely floored at the number of legendary shows that are in here. Thanks Dave!

Let’s start with this one. All of the documentation that we have from Galactica 2000 are the 11 flyers from Craig Usher and Ken Doose’s collection. Well, here is an uncirculated and remarkably decent sounding tape of BF during one of my favorite eras of the band.

This is EXACTLY why we started the archive. Keep bringing the tapes out! Thanks again Dave!!

UPDATE: Rusi Gustafson adds: “this is the line-up featuring Dez on second guitar and Chuck Biscuits on drums.” WOW!!

Recorded by: Dave Carness
Equipment used: Aiwa Handheld recorder with plug in mic
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10