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D.R.I. Interview w/Barry Ward and early Demos early 80s? Barry’s archive tape Dirty Rotten Imbeciles

Here is the last of the 14 AUDIO collections that I had not posted for a while. It looks like the last thing that I posted from Barry’s collection took place in early 2023. From here on out, you can expect an audio post from every one of the 14 collections in rotation.
This tape blew my mind. The first 25min has Barry and the band talking. It’s part interview and part them screwing around. At the 25 minute mark, the rehearsal demo starts. Never heard the first song before, and most of the rest are played at radically different tempos than their album versions. Wildly entertaining listen for fans of the band.

From Barry:

That’s crazy. I don’t think I’ve heard that tape since it was recorded. That was in my garage bedroom at my parents house in Houston. So young and green. With Kurt and Eric Brecht. Was it on reel to reel or cassette? Had a stereo reel to reel at the time. Two mics. We were goofing off and making noises when slowing down or speeding up the reel.

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

Audio Demo
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Teenage Warning- 4 Track Rehearsal March 1983 Christ on Parade Attitude Adjustment Hardcore

This one is somewhat of a mystery. It was on the end of Wayne’s master recordings of New Method 8/2/86. He is not sure where it came from, but he offers this context:
“I can’t even remember what that was from. Chris Dodge and myself used to go to the Maximum RocknRoll house all the time. Tim had numerous tapes lining the top of his record shelves. Once or twice we brought our tape decks and spent all day recording our favorites from Tim’s collection. I think I even ran out of room and started adding stuff to pre existing tapes that had room at the end.”

Since this was at the end of a master tape and it hastily cuts in, I am running with it. This is likely to be from Tim’s MRR archive.

Teenage warning were Barrie Evans and Todd Kramer (later to be in Christ on Parade amongst others), Kevin Reed (later Attitude Adjustment), and Jim Lyon.

More context from Barrie Evans: “This was recorded on a 4 track in Todd’s mom’s dining room which we used to practice in. I gave this tape to Tim Yohannan and he played ” My Life ” on MRR. Eric asked me what Song 1) was and song 9) Song 1 is Depression and since we played War twice, 9 is either “Skate” or “My Life”. We passed this tape around to friends and clubs. Wes Robinson being the one who really liked it and had us play a million times. This recording was in March of ’83. Barrie – Jim – Kevin – Todd. The original line up.”

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

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Burnt Toast- Rehearsal late 70s/Early 80s Jonathan Segel f/ Camper Van Beethoven RIP Steve Cammack

As I was driving (well sitting/stuck in traffic) to see Jonathan perform at the Petaluma Music festival last Saturday, he posted some somber news about an old friend:
“My good friend Steve Cammack, bandmate from our high school punk band Bürnt Toäst, has left the world of the living. I saw him briefly this week, but the nurses shooed us away. We learned a lot about life and guitar playing from each other, and from our various lives since. Sad that he’s gone so soon.”
Jonathan let me borrow his collection of cassettes in the late 90s and this Burnt Toast Rehearsal was in the box. This is the only document of the band I have ever seen apart from the grainy photo that he shared last weekend.
Tracks: ?/?/Jumpin Jack Flash/Band Conversation

Recorded by: Burnt Toast
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi CR-5A into Philips CDR880 CD Recorder

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Roky Erickson and the Aliens- “Don’t Knock the Rok” Studio Rehearsals 1978 f/band archive tape Pt1

Alright, here is the Patreon Voter’s Choice (r) post for this week. The theme was “pick an off-list tape” and I was pretty surprised that Roky won out over what was available. There is another Off-list vote happening now, and then next week’s theme is Lookout Records. If you are a fan of the pop punk (or enjoy voting or want to support the archive), bop on over to Patreon and sign up! $10/mo gets you a vote each week.

A bit of background about off-list things: Back when bootlegging was rampant, I would keep some things that I taped off the public trade list. I would also be asked by some folks to keep certain things off list. Now that the environment has changed, it’s ok to start releasing SOME of these recordings.

This one was interesting. We were given a bunch of Roky Erickson stuff to digitize back in the late 90s. Some of the recordings were then officially released. This is one where portions were released as “Don’t Knock the Rok” on Norton records in 2004. There are 2 hours of rehearsals here- broken into 2 posts- and about half was released. This is a live, raw rehearsal. Pretty amazing.

Recorded by: The band
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi CR5A into Philips CDR880 CD Recorder

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Roky Erickson and the Aliens- “Don’t Knock the Rok” Studio Rehearsals 1978 f/band archive tape Pt2

(note: Same description as Pt1)
Alright, here is the Patreon Voter’s Choice (r) post for this week. The theme was “pick an off-list tape” and I was pretty surprised that Roky won out over what was available. There is another Off-list vote happening now, and then next week’s theme is Lookout Records. If you are a fan of the pop punk (or enjoy voting or want to support the archive), bop on over to Patreon and sign up! $10/mo gets you a vote each week.

A bit of background about off-list things: Back when bootlegging was rampant, I would keep some things that I taped off the public trade list. I would also be asked by some folks to keep certain things off list. Now that the environment has changed, it’s ok to start releasing SOME of these recordings.

This one was interesting. We were given a bunch of Roky Erickson stuff to digitize back in the late 90s. Some of the recordings were then officially released. This is one where portions were released as “Don’t Knock the Rok” on Norton records in 2004. There are 2 hours of rehearsals here- broken into 2 posts- and about half were released. This is a live, raw rehearsal. Pretty amazing.

Recorded by: The band
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi CR5A into Philips CDR880 CD Recorder

Audio Demo