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Twisted- Day at the Farm Interview, San Francisco Ca 7/11/87 xfer f/low gen audio cassette Riverside

OK, I can finally come up for air. I have been working on video reels for the Sonoma County Punk exhibit which opens tomorrow. I had to do a bunch of wacky stuff to get these clips to play together on a USB drive. Finally done.

This one is from Chris Eng’s collection. I think they were in a van, driving down the road and the background noise was comical. I ran it through spectral denoise and it is somewhat listenable now. There is 1 more interview from this day and it is hard to tell who it is.

This is how interviews were conducted for fanzines back then. Just a kid with a handheld tape recorder asking questions in the band’s van.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Denoise with Izotope Rx7’s spectral denoise

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Accused- Interview with Blaine at Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco 6/25/87 xfer f/low gen audio tape

This tape is from Chris Eng’s collection, and it took some detective work to figure out. The tape had no date but it had a show from July 1987 on it along with this. I listened to the interview and sure enough, it’s the 87 show at the mab. I was able to narrow down SF because they talk about playing Salt Lake right before this (thanks Metallipromo for info) and got gear stolen. I happened to be at this show and I taped it with Mark’s consumer deck. I was wondering why they didn’t sound like they normally did- now I know, 39 years later- they were playing on borrowed gear!

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

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Exodus- Gary Holt Interview, WVOX, New Rochelle NY 12/30/84 transfer from Audio cassette

Aw crap. After a truly chaotic night which included a madcap scramble to pick up my son from soccer while my wallet(and a bunch of other stuff) was locked inside of my car with a non-functioning key fob. Ah, driving with no license is always exhilarating.

I think I have a date for this one and I forgot to put it in my draft post. I will update the info I have more. Quality is not great but I did what I could with EQ and Izotope spectral denoise.

From Chris Eng’s collection
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiphile 2496 card

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Slayer- CKLN Interview, Toronto Canada 10/23/84 xfer from 1st/low gen audio cassette thrash metal

It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! And I just realized that I don’t have much from Doug prepared to post today. I need to get back on the prep work.
Here is one that is from Doug’s collection, but I don’t think he taped it. He probably got it from the taper. This one is longer than the version that is out there on Youtube today. It includes some post-interview music from the DJ, and just wow- what a playlist. I sure wish we had something like this in Sacramento back then. I would have become a DIscharge fan much sooner if I heard this!
Interview is incoherent and littered with F-bombs. Beautiful.

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

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D.R.I. Interview w/Barry Ward and early Demos early 80s? Barry’s archive tape Dirty Rotten Imbeciles

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

Audio Demo