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Rich Kids on LSD- 4 song demo xfer f/ Band Master Cassette 1994 RKL R.K.L. Oxnard Hardcore Nardcore

I am late on today’s “On This Day in History” post, so you get the collections post first. On the bright side, I had a meeting run long so I had to change my OTD plans and it is way better. So there’s that.
Anyway, in anticipation of the RKL shows this week, I figured it would be a good time to post this from Barry’s tape collection. This seems to be an early demo for Riches to Rags. One of the tracks (in My Mind) was renamed. I love hearing new (to me) versions of songs with Jason on vocals. So great.

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

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Rich Kids on LSD- Complete Live Show DAT from Barry Ward’s Archive 1994? RKL R.K.L.

It’s audience participation time- this one comes from Barry Ward’s collection, and what you see is all I know about it. It doesn’t sound like the live in Berlin or Live in a Dive releases, and the between song banter gives no clues except the introduction of a new song that (I think) Riches to Rags. Anyone know where this is from?

It sounds great. I am not sure if it is a DAT source, as it cuts at about the 31 minute mark. It might be a master tape or reel to DAT.

Jason sounds a little ragged, but otherwise perfect.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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RKL- Secret Studios Music Annex Demos, San Francisco Ca 12/14/93 f/Band Archive DAT R.K.L. Rich Kids

Post from Barry Ward’s amazing collection today. It looks like Secret Studios was primarily a rehearsal spot, but RKL apparently did some demos there back in the 90s.

I had guessed 1994 for the date on this session, but the actual tape had 12/14/93. They kicked all of this out in a day! Wow.

I could probably rebalance this, but I like keeping this one as recorded. It’s clearly a rehearsal demo.

Recorded by: The band?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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RKL- Slovenia 1993 xfer from band archive DAT Soundboard w/Bomer on vocals. R.K.L. Rich Kids on LSD

Here’s one from Barry Ward’s collection. I had posted the other show from this DAT a few months ago and labeled it as “Slovenia/barcelona”, but this one is definitely the Slovenia show.

The bass was pretty overwhelming in the mix, so I rebalanced everything else upward to make it sounds a little better. Bomer’s vocals were really loud in the mix and soft seconds later. It sounded like he wasn’t singing into the mic consistently. I did my best to make it sound decent.

Recorded by: Soundman?
Transfer by: Shayne
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocals +1, Drums +3, Guitar +7

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RKL- Garatge Club, Barcelona Spain July 1993 xfer f/ band archive Soundboard DAT

Alright, the audience participation worked! Thanks for your feedback! That last post was the “Live at a Dive” with a very different mix. I’ll hide that one since it is commercially available and share this one next.

The odd thing about this one is that the tape lists “Slovenia + Barcelona 93”. This is the 2nd show on the tape, so you would assume that it is Barcelona.. but is doesn’t match the video I posted a while back at all. So, probably Slovenia? I guess we’ll find out when I post the other part of this tape next month.

Anyway, it sounds fantastic and starts with Jason baggin on Bomer, so be prepared!

From Barry Ward’s Collection

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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R.K.L.- Practice/Rehearsal for Riches to Rags 1993/94 xfer from band archive cassette Rich Kids LSD

Here’s another really cool one that I found when moving Barry Ward’s tapes- an instrumental rehearsal session from the Riches to Rags era. These sound different than the versions that Barry posted on his channel a few years ago (BK Ward- you should all subscribe)

Recorded by: ? (Barry Ward Collection)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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RKL- Hard Copy Raw Interview, Live in Torrance, Bogus(Bonus) Interviews xfer f/Band Archive VHS Tape

Today’s video collections post comes from Barry Ward’s pile of VHS tapes. I was thinking of separating these but it was kinda fun just watching the entire thing.

The first part appears to be raw interviews from their appearance on Hard Copy. One of those “how the sausage is made” raw TV videos- it’s a fun watch. I think the live in Torrance is part of Hard Copy’s raw footage as well. The Bogus interviews is the guys screwing around at home. There was more, but there was some X rated magazine being filmed that I had to cut. The audio is distorted on the Bogus Ints source tape.

Recorded by: Hard Copy, Barry, etc
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Rich Kids on LSD- World Beat Center, San Diego 1993? xfer f/band archive VHS tape RKL R.K.L.

In anticipation of tomorrow night’s show in SF, here is another one from Barry Ward’s collection. ABOUT YESTERDAY’S RKL POST– the band asked me to take it down. They might have something exciting planned with it, so stay tuned. If you happened to rip the audio before is disappeared, please keep it to yourself. Don’t be a dick and repost it. The band is totally cool and they need it offline. OK?
This 2 camera, soundboard audio video was recorded around the time that Reactivate was released. It’s funny because I thought that Bomer sounded like Bon Scott here, and then they do an AC/DC cover at 24:00. Cool.
This might be from the World Beat Center in San Diego. I lived in L.A. around the same time and that graffiti artwork backdrop looks familiar. I am running with that assumption unless someone tells me I am wrong.
PS: Look at Chris Rest’s glorious curly long hair on this one. Barry’s too, but I don’t think I have seen Chris’ hair like this before.

Recorded by: ? (Guerin, is this yours?)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced (denoise) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Slang- Unknown location (Santa Cruz?) 1990 or 1991 Transfer from Hi8 master tape R.K.L. Rich Kids on

This one is from Guerin Myall’s collection and it is pure gold. Look at Joe Raposo absolutely rip the funky bass jams! Chris Rest’s awesome mop of curls!! Guerin’s fisheye front row perspective is pretty cool as well. Bomer was a really good “rock and roll” vocalist too.

If you need a refresher on Slang (from Wikipedia): “Bomer formed a new band called Slang after the dissolution of RKL. Slang eventually included his old RKL bandmates with the notable exception of Jason Sears. Their sound was much different than the previous incarnation, dropping the fast hardcore style for a distinct rock/funk fusion.[29] Slang had Bomer on lead vocals[16] while newcomer Dave Raun played drums, Joe Raposo played bass, with Chris Rest and Joel Monte Mahan on guitars. Though Fat Mike had stated during an interview in Maximumrocknroll that he was going to put out a Slang record on his then new record label Fat Wreck Chords,[30] Slang ended up signing with Epitaph Records[31] in 1992 and an album was recorded soon after. At some point during this time Ward replaced Mahan. Just prior to its release in 1993, it was decided by Bomer and Epitaph owner/operator Brett Gurewitz it would be released as an RKL album under the title Reactivate”

It doesn’t seem that the band looks back on this era too kindly, but I like it.

Recorded by: Guerin Myall
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV460 firewire into Dell workstation

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RKL- Austria 1989? Xfer from band archive soundboard cassette Rich Kids on LSD R.K.L.

I pulled this tape out of Barry’s stacks of tapes a while back and finally got to it today. The mix was not great, but Izotope was able to improve it a lot- sounds great now! This is obviously not complete and the 30 min of the show was split over sides A and B, with Fishbone (the band) recorded before and after it. Bizarre!
This could be from the Spielboden venue, in Dornbirn Audtria 5/6/89. Did not have time to match up the between song dialog with the videos on youtube.
From Barry Ward’s collection.

Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8 (bass +3, guitar +6)

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