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M.D.C.- Bad, Hamburg Germany 11/26/87 xfer f/low/mid gen source Millions of Dead Hardcore Punk Cops

Another video of unknown origin for today’s On This Date in History. This one came from Bong, a friend of my pal punksnotdeadgr. I don’t know if Bong is still archiving- he did a ton of great work getting the best possible copies of old punk video digitized and cleaned up 10-15 years ago but I have not heard from him lately.

This one is an epic 80 minute set from MDC’s euro tour in 1987. I can’t believe that a band that played such ferocious music did an 80 minute set. Al must have been in top shape, drumming like that every night. Haha.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Bong I think

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M.D.C.- The Farm, San Francisco Ca 10/10/87 xfer from master soundboard cassette MDC Millions Dead C

James Edmonds also sent me this MDC set- it was on the flipside of the Feederz show. Funny story about this one from James- “The MDC set is only half, as someone else wanted to record that set & our sound guy split recording time, so somewhere out there is the other half.”. I can’t say I have ever heard of that being done before.
Sweet Hendrix cover!

Recorded by: James Edmonds
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I think I rebalanced this in Izotope Rx8. Sounds great regardless

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M.D.C.- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 9/20/87 xfer from 1st gen soundboard cassette MDC Millions of Dead C

Another late post today. If it seems like I post a lot of MDC, it’s because I do. MDC were so active in the bay area in the late 80s, you could catch them just about every week if you wanted. Amazingly, they are still active now- so happy that Dave and co are still going.
This one is their headlining set, after Dag Nasty’s “don’t tape this” set that I posted a week or 2 ago. I did not attempt to rebalance since the mix changes a bit throughout.
From Wayne Vanderkuil’s collection

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

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MDC- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 7/25/87 xfer from 1st gen soundboard cassette rebalanced M.D.C.

Yet another M.D.C. board tape- this one comes from Wayne Vanderkuil via Radley Hirsch. Radley always hooked us up. Dave is a comedian at the start of this set.
The mix slides around a bit, but I did boost guitars +6 and drums +2. Sounds better now. This appears to be the complete set.
Also, I am using a new program (vegas pro) to create these audio posts. Is the thumbnail all blurry for you? It looks like crap from my side, but after I post on YT it seems to resolve itself.

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

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Dave Dictor (M.D.C.)- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca. 6/20/87 xfer from 1st gen Soundboard Tape Acoustic

We have some short audio posts for you this week. This one is interesting because it looks like Dave just showed up at Gilman and hopped on stage and played some acoustic songs. He is not on the bill for the June 20 show and he mentions just stopping by. That’s pretty cool. I don’t recall Dave doing many acoustic shows back then.
Tracklist: Soup Kitchen Celebrity/My Family’s a Little Weird/S.K.I.N.H.E.A.D./ Chickensquawk

Recorded and mixed by: Radley Hirsch
From Wayne Vanderkuil’s archive
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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M.D.C.- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 5/17/87 xfer from master VHS tape Enhanced Hardcore Millions of Dead

I was planning to post a video by a new contributor to the archive today, but I got busy and did not get it uploaded in time. Expect some really cool uncirculated early 1990s videos of bigger artists from Los Angeles arenas… next weekend. Stay tuned.

Instead, let’s head back over to Chris Eng’s endless collection of shows he taped with his VHS camera in the late 80s. We were so lucky back then, with great bands like D.R.I., Verbal Abuse, Attitude/Adjustment and so many more playing every weekend seemingly. I am pretty sure that Chris has soundboard tapes to pair with a lot of these Gilman shows, so don’t be surprised if this gets reposted with better audio someday. I need to dig into his audiotapes and get them all prepared.
Another great set by MDC during the “Smoke Signals/Blood’s for you” era with Gordon on guitar.

Recorded by: Chris Eng
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub

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M.D.C. – On Broadway, San Francisco Ca. 4/17/87 xfer f/1st gen soundboard tape Incomplete Millions

Today’s audio collections post comes from Wayne Vanderkuil’s collection. This tape had a bunch of short soundboard clips of punk bands in the late 80s, which means it’s gotta be a Radley tape. This one is only 2 songs/5 minutes, but there is a guest flute player. How often do you hear MDC with a flute?

Recorded by: Radley Hirsch
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +2, Guitar +10

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M.D.C.- Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley 4/11/87 Xfer from master VHS tape Enhanced Millions of Dead Cops

I don’t have much to say about yesterday that hasn’t already been said. Violence solves nothing.
Keeping with that theme, here is the “peace and love”-ingest dead cops band out there. Just like Jello and many of the early punk voices, Dave Dictor was right all along about so many things- Corporate evil, factory farming/food, police brutality and a lot more. But he really does preach peace and love at MDC shows now- it’s a great thing to see. Full circle for many of us.
Anyway, enough of the incoherent blithering- here is another Chris Eng masterpiece- MDC on the steps of Sproul Plaza at UC berkeley.

Recorded by: Chris Eng
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub

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M.D.C.- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 3/29/87 xfer f/ Master VHS Tape Enhanced Hardcore Millions of Dead

It’s Friday! What a week- in Miami on Monday, back at 3am my body’s time, then back-to-back RKL shows in SF (and the 4.5 hours sleep that come with that)… and now a family member has contracted the dreaded COVID. Most chaotic week in years, for sure.
I just finished processing this one- I have been holding back on posting some of Chris Eng’s Gilman masters because I need to work on prepping and synching the soundboard audio for them. I don’t think that this MDC show was recorded through the board. This might be the earliest Gilman show that Chris filmed. It was good enough quality that I didn’t need to denoise/degrain- doing so just made it look weird and cloudy.
I think this was during Gilman’s early days when they did not announce the bands- Tim just expected people to show up.

Recorded by: Chris Eng
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Processed to MP4 in Adobe Premiere Elements

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M.D.C.- Live Unknown Location 1986/87 xfer from low gen soundboard cassette rebalanced Millions Dead

This is the 4th and last set on Wayne’s CoP 4/25/87 tape. This one was immediately after the Christ on Parade Farm 1986 set, but MDC did not play the farm that day. This one has less hiss and was easier to rebalance. There is no banter in between songs that tells us where it is from. If anyone has any ideas of a venue/date, let me know. It’s definitely not the farm, since he refers to a packed stage and bouncers in between songs.
From Wayne Vanderkuil’s collection

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +5, Drums +3, Guitar +6

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