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Phantasm- Oakland Ensemble Theater 3/7/87 xfer f/1st gen VHS tape Enhanced Thrash Metal Katon Hirax

Another request- Nathan Williams played guitar in Phantasm and he saw the photo of Chris Eng’s VHS tape (taped by Ron Quintana), ask and you shall receive… as long as it is already being prepped.. and you were in the band.
Phantasm videos from the 80s seem to pretty rare. Daniel Hague posted 1 about 5 years ago, and Ron McGovney(!) posted some songs from a backyard party in 1987. This one looks to be incomplete.
For the uninitiated, Phantasm were (discogs) “Short lived American thrash metal band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1986 by Katon W. De Pena.”.

Recorded by: Ron Quintana
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (denoise)

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Phantasm- Fender’s, Long Beach Ca 11/8/86 transfer from mid gen VHS tape Katon De Pena Hirax

Ah man, I missed my daily posts for yesterday. Busy day grant writing and then off to Sudwerk to barely catch the start of the amazing sets there. Whew. Nice seeing everyone in real life! That means you get FIVE awesome things today- yesterday and today’s 2 scheduled posts and today’s “this date in history”.

This one is from Chris Eng’s collection. There were about a million bands playing at this show and the filmer seemed to have caught them all. Even though this is only 15 minutes long, it is the 2nd longest video that I can find out there by the band.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

Live Concert Video