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Son of Sam- Graystone, Detroit Mi 1/1/87 xfer from master beta tape Enhanced Russ Gibb Archive Punk

It’s Friday, so you get a video. This one is from the tapes I bought from Russ Gibb’s estate. Man, there is not much on this band out there. Discogs has a number of self and independent released things by the band, but not much else. According to discogs, most members never did anything outside of this band. Here is the amazing description there: “American punk rock band from Detroit, Michigan that was active 1981-1991.”. Thanks.
Pretty standard 3 chord, screaming punk. I like how the band’s large banner is put up halfway through the set, while the band is playing.

Recorded by: Russ Gibb and crew
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony SL-2100, Datavideo TBC-1000, Tevion adapter- Virtualdub

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Groupoem- Graystone, Detroit Mi. 1/1/87 xfer from Beta master tape Russ Gibb Archive Lost Media

There is absolutely nothing about this band online- nothing on discogs, nothing through the usual internet searches. They played this show with Gore and Country Bob and the bloodfarmers, so I assume they were local. If anyone has anything on the band, please let me know!

Update: Thanks to youtube commenter “chebag”, we now know that they were called Groupoem and had 2 self releases- one CD and one 12″- both from Canada, so I assume they are from Canada as well.

Members: Bass: Darren Katamay; Drums- Christopher Flea; Guitar- Terry Robinson; Vocals- Marph “Mr. Science” Nobody

Recorded by: Russ Gibb and Tom Burtell
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony SL-2100, Datavideo TBC-1000, Tevion adapter- Virtualdub
i probably denoised this in Adobe premiere elements and Neat video

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Country Bob and the Bloodfarmers- Graystone, Detroit Mi 1/1/87 xfer f/ master beta Cowpunk Russ Gibb

It seems that this band is somewhat legendary. There is a really good extensive interview/article on Dangerous Minds from about 10 years ago, which has some album tracks and a 6 minute video embedded. There are plenty of short videos of the band on youtube, but only one other complete set. So this seems pretty unique.
It looks like this is one angle of a multicamera shoot that has never seen the light of day. The 6 minute live (multicam) clip and the only other complete show seem to be from the same concert at Graystone, and it’s not this one.
I’ll link the dangerous minds article in the facebook comments, it’s a good one.

Recorded by: Russ Gibb and Tom Burtell
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony SL-2100, Datavideo TBC-1000, Tevion adapter- Virtualdub
i probably denoised this in Adobe premiere elements and Neat video

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Gore- Greystone, Detroit Mi 1/1/87 Xfer from master Beta Videotape Russ Gibb Archive Hardcore Thrash

Thanks to Laurent Ram for pointing out this Gore video from a photo I posted. I had bought this tape from the Russ Gibb archive auction and I thought that it was the band Gore from Holland.. turns out that there is a somewhat legendary thrash/hardcore band of the same name from Detroit.
They put out a couple of demo tapes around this time- “Stem The Bloodbath” in 1986 and “The Massacre Of Humanity” in 1987. It looks like they played at least 1 recent show, in August of 2024.
This one seems to be the earliest known Gore video and the only full show that I see online, so there’s that. Sounds good as well.

Recorded by: Russ Gibb and crew
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony SL-2100 – Datavideo TBC-1000 – Virtualdub
Enhanced (denoise) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Just Born- Graystone Hall, Detroit Mi. 10/10/86 xfer f/Russ Gibb beta master Punk R.I.P. Tony Romeo

News came out today of Tony Romeo’s passing. Tony was in a bunch of bands including Easy Action, Trash Bats and this band. Just Born released a 7″ in 1986 and a cassette EP in 1995.

Unfortunately, the audio is not too good on this one. There is a low hum through most of the show, but not all of it. I tried to de-hum the audio in Izotope and it killed all the low end. I just kept the audio as-is. Sorry about that. Not much bass either way.

It looks like I might have 2 different angles of this show. If anyone has skill with video time/frame alignment, please reach out. We might be able to edit together a multicamera video.

Recorded by: Russ Gibb and crew
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Sony SL-2100, Datavideo TBC-1000, Tevion adapter- Virtualdub
Lighting adjustments and degrain in adobe premiere elements/neat video

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Government Issue- Graystone, Detroit Mi. 9/13/86 lossless xfer from master beta tape enhanced

Here is another one from the Russ Gibb archive. I bought a hi-band super beta machine from Japan to play these (and other tapes) back. I start with this tape and the machine dies after playing the tape. The tape is stuck in the unit and this is all I have to show for it. Shout out to the Ebay seller for taking care of the problem. I just received the same model (US version) yesterday, so the beta transfer party will continue.
Anyway, this is just amazing footage of GI. The only downside is that they played so loud, you can’t hear Stabb’s vocals from the stage. The cameraman moves to the back of the room at the end of the set and it sounds much better. They keep losing power to the stage as well. Typical punk show.

Recorded by: Russ Gibb and crew
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used- one time only!: SONY SL-HF900 – Datavideo TBC-100 – Tevion capture unit – Virtualdub
Enhanced (denoise) in adobe premiere/neat video

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Inside Out- Graystone, Detroit Mi 9/13/86 xfer from master beta tape Enhanced Russ Gibb Archive

This was also on the Government Issue tape. I was hoping that this was Zack De La Rocha from Rage Against the Machine’s early hardcore band. I was wondering if they made it out to Detroit… alas, this is not that Inside Out. Here’s what Discogs has to say about this Inside Out band:
“Inside Out (Detroit USA) are an all-female power trio who formed in 1985, and specialised in a brand of hardcore punk / grunge / psychedelia in the vein of female grunge bands such as Babes in Toyland and L7. They released a number of singles in the period 1990 – 93, along with 2 LPs. The singles were on Meantime Records, Icon Records and Anti-Music Records. The LPs were both released by Meantime Records. The band also recorded a Peel Session for Radio 1 DJ John Peel.”

Recorded by: Russ Gibb and crew
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used- one time only!: SONY SL-HF900 – Datavideo TBC-100 – Tevion capture unit – Virtualdub
Enhanced (denoise) in adobe premiere/neat video

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Inside Out- Graystone, Detroit Mi 9/13/86 re-xfer from master beta tape Enhanced Russ Gibb Archive

Sorry for all the posts today- kind of a long story. That last one (Beatles) from Todd Nakamine’s collection was blocked worldwide, so I deleted it and will try another one of Todd’s later this evening.

This is one of Russ Gibb’s beta tapes that I transferred back in 2022, but since then I was able to use some better equipment to re-transfer so here you go. No more horizontal white lines across the screen! This is not the Zack Delarocha fronted hardcore band. Here is more info, courtesy of discogs:

“Inside Out (Detroit USA) are an all-female power trio who formed in 1985, and specialised in a brand of hardcore punk / grunge / psychedelia in the vein of female grunge bands such as Babes in Toyland and L7. They released a number of singles in the period 1990 – 93, along with 2 LPs. The singles were on Meantime Records, Icon Records and Anti-Music Records. The LPs were both released by Meantime Records. The band also recorded a Peel Session for Radio 1 DJ John Peel.”

It would be cool to hear that peel session.

Recorded by: Russ Gibb and crew
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony SL-2100, Datavideo TBC-1000, Tevion adapter- Virtualdub

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Anthrax- Harpo’s, Detroit Mi 4/3/86 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape Thrash Metal

I figured that I would post this one first and give you some time to join the Patreon voting tier (only $10/mo) before I send out the vote this afternoon/evening. Next vote- “no list” audio- usually soundboards/etc that I taped and were sensitive at the time. Sign up- it’s fun!

One of my first VHS tape traders in the 80s was a guy based in Detroit who had a ton of great/unique stuff. He had a lot of shows filmed at Harpo’s in high quality. Most of those tapes are now gone from the great VHS purge of 2002, but I was able to get an upgraded copy of this one. I wonder who taped this- I don’t know if (legendary filmer) Otto did smaller venues such as these…

Anyway, this is an EARLY Joey Belladonna show. So cool.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9800 or 9911 into Canopus ADVC300

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Corrosion of Conformity- Greystone, Detroit Michigan 10/11/85 xfer f/high gen VHS tape Complete w/Soundboard Audio C.O.C.

Here is an unexpected one for today’s On This Date in History. I usually take pride in bringing the highest quality audio and video possible. Many of you know the story- I bought the best gear possible to do this once. But every once in a while, you’ve gotta slum it I guess.

This has a date of 9/8/85 on my tape list, but C.O.C. played CBGB on that date. So either the date is wrong on Jim Utz’ tape or this is actually from CBGB. The band asks if anyone is actually from Flint, so I assume that the (vague) location is correct and the date is wrong.

But the quality is total trash. It’s a slightly better listen than it is a watch.

The only reason I posted it is because it seems to not be available anywhere online. If anyone can point me to a better version of this out there, I have another OTD that I can put up in its place.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9800 and Canopus ADVC300

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