Groovie Ghoulies, Tommyknockers
Raji’s
Hollywood, CA
07/16/88
Flyer scan by Ken Doose
Flyer: Groovie Ghoulies, The Tommyknockers at Raji’s, Hollywood, CA 07/16/88
Tag: Hollywood
Camper van Beethoven- Roxy, Hollywood Ca 5/23/88 xfer from VHS tape Enhanced
I hope everyone is enjoying the super bowl. I missed the first qtr to watch the Kings lose.
Here is another one from that stack of VHS tapes. I try to keep away from posting unknown lineage tapes that are clearly suffering from generation loss.. but this one has never surfaced online (that I am aware of), this is my favorite era of CVB, and this is a pretty unique show. Keith Morris comes onstage to sing Wasted with the band. That could not have been easy for Keith, CVB does the song at about half speed compared to the Circle Jerks version.
Also, how did this guy get the OK to video at The Roxy? I tried ONCE in the 3 years I lived in L.A., and was told no video and they don’t care who gave permission.
I hope a better copy surfaces of this one someday.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (denoise)
The Dickies- Ford Amphitheater, Hollywood Ca 5/7/88 xfer from master cassette complete show punk
For today’s on this date in history, I picked this totally wild Dickies show from 1988. I think I grabbed it off dimeadozen many years ago. It’s not on there anymore, and it isn’t on youtube.
I picked it for a few reasons. This show takes place the day before I saw (and video’d) them for the first time at The Omni in Oakland. The performance is excellent. “hitwithstuff” (the person posting on dime) had the greatest recap of the show. I liked it so much that I took the printed copy of the info sheet I had and scanned it to .pdf, then converted to text to include here… and it didn’t work. I will post the scans of the docs as comments on the facebook posts, because it was clearly a classic show!
Oh, and if “hitwithstuff” or “MC Ferret” wants this pulled down, let me know. Posting it out of love and respect, but happy to comply with whatever they wish.
An MC Ferret AUD Recordlng / Hitwitstuff2 mastering and upload
Extract from CD and prep for upload: Shayne Stacy
The Dickies- Hollywood Palladium 1/17/86 xfer from 2nd gen soundboard cassette Punk
I put way too much work into today’s “on this day in history” post. The mix on this was pretty terrible, it lacked high end, and the volume goes from 5 to 10 for the last couple tracks.
Here’s what I did:
- EQ in sony sound forge 10 to bring up the high end.. which also brings up the tape hiss, and normalize to 0.
- Rebalance in Izotope to get some guitar and bass in the mix… but not too much as this is one of those tapes where the soundman pushed the guitar up during the leads.
- discover that the first rebalance job blew the levels to peak at +4db for those last 2 songs, overblowing them.
- tear down and start steps over again with lower levels
- Normalize/vol boost everything except for last couple songs to make it even throughout.
Was it worth it? Probably not, but I love the Dickies and I didn’t see this one out there on youtube. Before anyone asks, I have not seen the Toy Dolls set around from this night.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +4, Guitar +7.5
Exodus- Palladium, Hollywood Ca 4/19/85 xfer from master tape Ultimate Revenge Thrash Metal
Back to Tour Manager Doug’s treasure trove of tapes. I still need to send pics to confirm that he did tape this one (it sounds slightly different), but this one is pretty awesome- an uncirculated Ultimate Revenge show!
Let’s start with Exodus’ opening set. They only had 30min and made good use of it. Ripping set of mostly BBB tracks. More to come tomorrow. (Hint hint)
Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug
Equipment used: Sony Walkman WM-R2
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Slayer- Palladium, Hollywood Ca 4/19/85 xfer from master tape Ultimate Revenge Thrash Metal
Onward with the next set from the Ultimate Revenge show that Doug taped. This appears to be the only one that ever circulated in audio form- I got it in a trade back in the 80s, but it sure didn’t sound this good.
It’s a return home for the band and the crowd is clearly going ape shit.
Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug
Equipment used: Sony Walkman WM-R2
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Venom- Palladium, Hollywood Ca 4/19/85 xfer from master tape Ultimate Revenge Tour Black Metal
If you have been paying attention, you knew this was coming today. Uncirculated Venom from 1985, thanks to Tour Manager Doug! This one sounds pretty good(no volume distortion) for most of the set, until they turn it up too loud for human consumption. Classic venom.
Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug
Equipment used: Sony Walkman WM-R2
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Metallica- Palladium, Hollywood Ca 3/10/85 xfer from master audio cassette Audience Recording
It’s election day AND Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! Get out and vote, and try not to OD on the endless political talking head news programs going on today. We won’t know results until tonight at best, so I suggest you spend your time doing something positive rather than worrying about the outcome.
This tape would have been super exciting if we digitized it 10 years ago, as it was a true rarity back then. Since then, Metallica released a soundboard of this show on the Ride the Lightning box set… anyway, here it is for the completists.
Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug
Equipment used: Sony Walkman WM-R2
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge
Christian Death- Whisky a Go Go, Hollywood Ca 8/18/81 xfer from unknown get cassette
Happy Mediocre Monday! When James R Edmonds asked me about that Damned show that I posted last week, it got me looking at all of the tapes he sent to see if some of these well-circulated tapes have been posted. Here’s another one that somehow has not made it to youtube, and his version is WAY better than my 35 year old tape that I got in a trade way back.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card