A very short collections post from Dal Basi today. Moist consisted of Wendy Powell, Sunita Bhardwaj and Karen Simmons- all of whom formed the Skirts after this band ran its course. I am a huge fan of all things Moist/Skirts, so even a 3 minute rehearsal clip warrants a post!
Recorded by: The band probably
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I love it when one of my archival projects collides with a Sacramento-based band… even better when they are one of my favorites from here! The band had a few members while they were active- the only constants were (I think) Sunita Bhardwaj (Guitar & vocals), and Eric Torres (Guitar). They have Tony Muth on drums for this session, but Karen Simmons and Wendy Powell from the great Sacramento band The Skirts also did time in the band.
They only released 2 7″ EPs and a split EP with Screw 32 (fun fact- that split was one of Side One Dummy’s very first releases). So, lots of great Sacramento and general punk rock history involved.
Stick with the show- the vocals come up in the mix a bit.
Recorded by: Rick Sylvain
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Late post today- I hope to get a little more info about this tape such as who taped it, generation info, etc.. I THINK it is a 1st gen audio cassette but I’ll wait until I hear back from Dal.
Here is a Moist set, opening for D.I. back in 94. I also have the D.I. set so that will post soon.
There were no flyer images from the show and surprisingly few photos of the actual club, so I used the Berkeley Square facebook group’s cover photo as the image- hope that’s ok!
From Dal Basi’s collection
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
OK, everyone who responded to my facebook post wants more local bands. I encourage you to check out Jim Mclain’s youtube channel- he has been documenting MORE local stuff than I have since about 2000. This video comes courtesy of Mark Murray- thanks Mark for digging this out of the garage and transferring it for everyone to see! Here’s Moist at Cattle in 1993!
Recorded by: Mark Murray
Thanks to a kind benefactor, we now have transfers of about 30 “Sacto Active Rock” episodes straight from the VHS masters that were taped off of cable. I will post these as time allows. Here’s a band that I wish I had seen, but was never able to. Moist was Sunita, Karen and Wendy’s band prior to The Skirts. In fact, you can hear some early Skirts songs/riffs in some of their catalog! SO Awesome to be able to see them.
Gigantic thanks to Dal Basi for giving the OK to post this one. If anyone has been paying attention to the sac music archive, you’ll know that The Skirts are one of my all time favorite Sacramento bands. Moist was the band who preceded The Skirts- 3 members of Moist went on to be Skirts: Wendy Powell, Karen Simmons, and Sunita Bharwaj were Skirts, while Tony Muth and Eric Torres went off to do other cool things. The last song on this demo is an instrumental version of a song that became “Blue” on The Skirts’ “Look Up” debut CD. Awesome!
There has been some buzz about Moist playing a show sometime, but I can’t get details. I hope the rumors are true, I would love to see them! I was in L.A. when they were active in the early to mid 90s so I have never seen them.
If you like this, there is more stuff on the archive- just search up Moist and it should pop up for you.
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here’s another one from Dal Basi’s cassette collection. I already gushed about the band (and members’ follow-on bands) last Thursday, so I’ll paste that here in case you missed it:
Moist was the band who preceded The Skirts- 3 members of Moist went on to be Skirts: Wendy Powell, Karen Simmons, and Sunita Bharwaj were Skirts, while Tony Muth and Eric Torres went off to do other cool things. The last song on this demo is an instrumental version of a song that became “Blue” on The Skirts’ “Look Up” debut CD. Awesome!
There has been some buzz about Moist playing a show sometime, but I can’t get details. I hope the rumors are true, I would love to see them! I was in L.A. when they were active in the early to mid 90s so I have never seen them.
If you like this, there is more stuff on the archive- just search up Moist and it should pop up for you.
This tape could be 4 of the songs from the same recording session in a different sequence. I listened to them and they sound pretty much the same to me.
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
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