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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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M.D.C.- The Farm, San Francisco Ca 8/17/86 xfer from 1st gen soundboard cassette

Yet another one from the Vanderkuil treasure trove today. Thanks to Radley Hirsch for mixing, recording, and sharing with Wayne (and us).
This one starts out with a LONG, entertaining monologue from Dave. Music starts at 6 minutes in, and the mix gets good at about 10min. Short set- 25min including the 6min of no music.

Recorded by: Radley Hirsch
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: +5 on guitars

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MDC- New Varsity Theatre, Palo Alto Ca 5/24/86 xfer from master tape M.D.C. Millions of Dead Cops

Another day, another MDC post. It seems like I have been posting at least 1 MDC thing each week for months now. Here is a long set, possibly the longest set I have seen, from the Smoke Signals era. Sounds decent for a 1980’s punk recording.

Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I think I EQ’d this one in Sony Sound Forge 10 to bump up the bass

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M.D.C.- The Farm, San Francisco Ca 4/3/86 xfer from master soundboard tape rebalanced Millions Dead

Since yesterday’s Bam Bam tape was pulled down, here is a bonus post to make up for it. This is M.D.C.’s set from the same night. Man, this sounds great as well. Probably one of the best MDC mixes I have heard. This AND the Bam Bam was on one side of the tape- wow!

Recorded by: James R Edmonds
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rabalance in Izotope Rx8.

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M.D.C.- Zeleste, Barcelona Spain February 1984 xfer from Soundboard cassette MDC Multi Death Corpora

This show is already up on youtube, but this tape seems to be a lot better quality. It makes sense that it would be as it comes from Barry Ward’s collection. Barry was in Texas in the early 80s and then became a member of MDC in recent years.
I think this might be both nights’ shows – as you can see from the Flyer, they played 2 nights at this venue. Decent quality board tape.

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

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