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Jello Biafra- KABC-AM Talk Radio int w/Michael Jackson, Los Angeles Ca 4/2/87 PMRC Obscenity Trial

Here is a MUST LISTEN for today’s On This Date in History. This is an interview with a remarkably well-prepared talk radio host shortly after the PMRC Senate hearings. One of the right wing/religious people trying to take action against the music calls in, and Jello is remarkable in his off-the-cuff debate with this person. Unfortunately, when you hear Jello talk about the state of politics and the country, it seems that not much has changed in the 38 years since this took place.
This is AM radio, so adjust quality expectations accordingly.

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

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Jello Biafra- Guest DJ Discussion KXLU-FM 88.9 Los Angeles Ca 2/11/87 xfer f/ unknown gen audio tape

For today’s On The Day in History, Jello Biafra was a guest DJ on KXLU back in 1987. Unfortunately most songs have been edited out, but Jello does a great job back announcing, so you can search them out and play along at home if you’d like.
Jello was in L.A. for his spoken word performance at the Variety Arts center that week.

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

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Raven Slaughter- Demo and Live 4 track 1987 xfer f/ low gen audio cassette Cleveland Los Angeles

We received a new collection recently from Anonymous 3. He is an old friend- in fact, he crashed the very first concert I held. I had a kegger party in the back yard of my Dad’s house off Mariposa Ave in 1983 or 84. Bodily Harm and Legion played. These older dudes(by a couple years)- one with some pretty cool hair came in after the bands stopped. That’s how I met Anonymous 3. We have been in contact on and off for the past 40 years.
Here is the first tape I picked out. Raven Slaughter(person) was from Cleveland, then moved to Florida, back to Cleveland, to Los Angeles (which is when this demo was produced), back to Cleveland, then to Montreal. I can’t find any info on him after 2016, when he was supposed to play a show in Cleveland but was too weak from MS to make the trip. I’ll shamelessly tag Ken Dixon/Cleveland Live Music since his friends would probably appreciate this, and maybe fill us in on him post-2016.
Tape seems to be a copy off the master, but quality is a bit lacking. Includes a few live songs recorded to 4 track.

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

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House of Freaks- The Cooperage, UCLA, Los Angeles Ca. 1987? Live Bryan Harvey First show?

I had a bunch of boxes of CD’s fall down in the studio, so I had to do some repacking and stacking last weekend. My old VHS tapes were right next to my work area and I just happened to find a few things that were sitting up front that I thought people might like. Here’s a House of Freaks vid- man, I loved this band. Their Tantilla album still sounds great to me, 30 years later- you should check it out. They were one of the original 2 man bands. I wonder if this could be one of their first shows- it has all early songs, and Bryan mentions something about this being the first time they played for money…

I checked YT for House of Freaks videos and I was surprised to find that there are hardly any out there. I got a few in trade from this mystery guy named Josh- just Josh, no last name or anything. I can’t even remember how I met him, but he had a bunch of stuff from L.A./Santa Monica that has (and still is) uncirculated.

Video overexposes when panned back, adjusts to look good when zoomed in. Go figure.

It’s really a shame that Bryan passed the way he did- it seems that over time that news/crime has overshadowed his musical accomplishments unfortunately.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS8900U and Canopus ADVC300

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Weirdos- Stardust Ballroom, Los Angeles 2/22/86 Best of Flipside Video No. 6 xfer from VHS master

Here’s another one that was not on YT in any decent quality, so I digitized it with one of the JVC VCRs with time base correction, then ran it through the enhancement process with neat video. Happy to get decent 1080p versions of these out these, vs. the 240p crap that was up there before.
BIG props to the flipside guys for doing these multicamera videos live. That isn’t easy, and it is great that they captured them.

Recorded by: The flipside crew
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9800 and Canopus ADVC300
Noise reduction via Neat Video/Adobe Premiere

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Thin White Rope- Music Machine, Los Angeles Ca 2/1/86 Lossless xfer from band VHS tape Enhanced

Merry Christmas to all you Christians. Here’s some nice Christmas music from Thin White Rope.
I had uploaded the raw version of this a couple weeks back when I got it back from the tape restore company, but Adobe Premiere would not read the file. I asked the company what codec they used for transfer and they were all “it has no codec, it is lossless”. I gave up on it for a bit… then I was able to figure out how to make it work, thanks to avidemux. (sorry, extreme nerd talk today). So if anyone ever needs to know what codec a file is using, avidemux baby.
Anyway, here is the brightened and degrained version of the show. Enjoy.

Transfer by: Pacific Video Repair
Codec Conversion by Shayne in Handbrake
and Enhanced with Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat video (denoise/brightness/etc)

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Thin White Rope- Studio Z, KPFK Los Angeles Ca. 12/21/85 xfer f/1st gen audio cassette Soundboard-FM

I got this one from the guy who taped it off the radio in L.A… He told me that it included 20 minutes of material that did not make the Spin Radio Broadcast, but after checking the transcription LP track list and length(which I also own), that doesn’t seem to be the case. This is 34 minutes long, the Spin LP is 28-29min. So there will be a bit extra here, but not significant.

I definitely need to digitize the LPs with my setup as well.

Recorded by: ? (I can’t remember. Josh maybe)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Minutemen- Studio Z, KPFK Live in Studio, Los Angeles Ca 7/10/85 xfer f/unknown gen cassette D Boon

This one is perplexing. I pulled a handful of cassettes out of Tony Philputt/Phil Go’s collection to digitize and saw that the Minutemen set on the tape after this one was not online so I was planning to post it today. I figured that this one was definitely out there… but no, after some research, it doesn’t seem so.

I think this is the same source as the Spin “Radio Undergroud” live concert, but Spin only takes a portion of the set (in this case about 21min- one side of an LP), while KPFK broadcasts the entire set. They did the same with the Thin White Rope one I posted a while back. I searched online in a bunch of different ways because I couldn’t believe that it’s that rare, but I couldn’t find it. Let me know if you see it anywhere.

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

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Code of Honor- Starlight Club, Los Angeles Ca 2/19/84 xfer from audio cassette Verbal Abuse Punk

It’s mediocre Monday! Here is a perfect candidate for mediocre Monday- this recording is pretty rare- I had never come across it when I traded in the 80s. The quality is not that bad for an old punk rock audience tape… but someone (possibly the taper) was shutting the deck on and off in between tracks and these old cheap decks would sometimes misalign and give you extreme “wow and flutter”, and that is exactly what happened with this tape. So, you get the majority sounding decent, then 10-15min of awful quality, then back to decent. Truly mediocre! I have tons of stuff like this!!
From Jason Ross’ archive.

Recorded by: Unknown
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi 670ZX and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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