It’s mediocre Monday! I thought this one qualified because the quality is not great at the start of the set, but it improves dramatically. I wonder if this comes from 2 different sources- the 1st part of the set sounds like a rough audience tape, and the 2nd part is clearly a board tape. Great set.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi 670ZX and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
From Barry Ward’s collection
I am still digitizing today’s On This Date in history, so let’s do the collections post first.
I was digitizing one of Wayne’s master recordings from Ruthie’s 2/7/86 (that’s a spoiler alert btw- legendary show), and it looks like he recorded 5 minutes of The Boneless Ones’ set. Found media! Thanks Wayne.
UPDATE: 1 song from Hellhound, 1 from Boneless Ones!
There aren’t many recordings of the 1980s lineup, so this is somewhat rare and special.
Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge 10
Today’s planned video post is cancelled. While I was at the Oakland A’s game yesterday, I heard the awful news that Chris Scaparro passed away. He had posted about tongue cancer just 4 weeks ago- I can’t believe cancer took him so quickly. Such a shock.
I got to know Chris while promoting 2 Condemned Attitude shows in Sacramento in early 1987. From there, I became the Sacramento support “hub” of the band, copying and stocking demo tapes to sell at Dimple, and sending the band money and supplies. Chris was pretty soft spoken, I knew Andy and Rick the best, but Chris was always super cool to me.
It was fun interacting with him online- I have been posting a lot of AA stuff from Wayne Vanderkuil’s (and my) collection and he would comment from time to time… you could tell he was proud of what AA/CA/Attitude accomplished.
R.I.P. my friend
Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here is one from Wayne Vanderkuil’s collection today. Back in the 80s, Wayne was one of the best people to trade with. He taped early Gilman soundboards and he made decent quality audience tapes like this one. The is one of my all-time favorite tapes I ever traded for.
Spastik Children were Jaymz Hetfield on Drums, Cliff Burton on bass, fred cotton on vocals, and either Jim Martin or James McDaniel on guitar (it was a rotating cast of characters).
This was recorded right around the time Master of Puppets was released. Hearing James and Cliff clowning around was a lot of fun to hear back then. Favorite parts of this show are when James is trying to talk in between songs and Cliff keeps noodling on bass.. so James lets him know how he feels about that. This is clearly just a drunken party with musical instruments involved.
Wayne and crew do some clowning of their own at the beginning of the tape.
Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ is Sony Soundforge 10
Happy New Year! I hope 2026 is amazing for you all.
Man, did Wayne Vanderkuil bail my ass out for an On This Date post today. There aren’t many shows that happen on New Years Day, and my tape list is riddled with hundreds of “jan 1 yyyy” entries since that was the default for something that happened on an unknown date within a particular year… I couldn’t find anything.
But Wayne labeled this tape “DRI Ruthie’s 1/1/86” since the bands played after midnight, so I am running with it. Here is Wayne’s master from after midnight on a new years eve show. It sounds great, especially after an EQ job. Thanks Wayne!
2 more weeks of this On This Date nonsense and we can move on to something else.
Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10
I posted this set from a 1st gen cassette last year, before taking on Wayne Vanderkuil’s collection to digitize. I came across the master so since it sounds pretty good for a recording from that era, it was worth a re-do and EQ. I will never understand why these guys didn’t enjoy the popularity of their peers such as Possessed, Forbidden, Death Angel, etc. I have always liked them just as much if not more. Was it because they were not on Combat/Metal Blade? No idea, and Alchemy was a better label anyway. Yep, I said it out loud.
Anyway, enjoy. This is what happens when I drink energy drinks due to lack of sleep.
Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge 10 (increase bass, drop mids and highs slightly)
This one sounds pretty damned good, given that it is a 1985 recording with consumer equipment. I’ll give this a good remix once Wayne digs his tapes out of storage 🙂
Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Redrum were slated to appear on the Eastern Front double LP, but they waited too long to approve the 2 songs and were left off. Here are the 2 songs that were supposed to be on the LP.
Lineage: Band master cassette- my cassette- you.
I was asked to digitize a Violent Coercion demo (which kicks ass btw), and there were a couple of Sacrilege Ruthies shows on the tape as well. These were received in trade in 1986- I don’t have a record of who recorded the show, but this is likely a copy right off the master. Non-professional recording equipment was used, so the quality isn’t great.
I don’t have a flyer image for this show, so you get a pic of the Ruthie’s location as it looks today. Hey, maybe someone can rent out the hall and recreate one of these classic bills!
Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 24965 card
I have been having some trouble with the On This Day in History content this week, so it is coming later today.
Here is one that I was planning on posting yesterday, but Wayne got Metallingus for his birthday instead (what a sentence!).
Stone Vengeance was one of those really great bands that were in that early east bay thrash scene, but never enjoyed the success of some of their peers. Formed in 1978, they were one of the first (possibly THE first) African American trash metal bands. They came back and played a few shows and released a 2x-CD retrospective about 15 years ago and it looks like they just played a show a couple months ago. Nice to see.
It looks like some of the recordings here might have been released later on- either through the Double CD thing I mentioned, or on early demos… but I don’t see the last 2 versions released on anything else. You should listen regardless- the band absolutely rips and huge thanks to Chris Eng for preserving these tapes for us to hear.
Recorded by: The Band
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
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