Mommy was Skid Jones & Paul Niklewicz’ band after Go Dog Go, and before Skid started Magnolia Thunderfinger. You MUST watch the interview after the performance. Skid is sitting on a throne with the guys surrounding him. When Lizz asks a question, he sits there and someone offstage (PAUL) answers for him! It is bizarre. Mommy was: G.B.- Guitar, Vocals; Jones- Guitar, volcals; Timm Freeman- Drums; Pawelek Stansilaw Niklewicz- Bass.
Here’s Thornucopia- a Davis band that played in the late ’80s/early ’90s around the area. If my memory serves me correctly, I think they opened the Nirvana Cattle Club show. Johanna later married Guy Kyser from Thin White Rope. They had a band called The Mummydogs together. Thornucopia were: Jed Brewer- Guitar. Nick Frederick- Bass. Johanna Galos- Vocals. Brian Gattridge-Drums. Justin Zimmerman- Guitar. Please tag them if you think they are interested in seeing this. Please subscribe to my youtube channel if you’d like notifications of new posts.
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.
Hi Everyone- Here is the Decibels’ appearance on Sac Active Rock. Members are Joseph Pach- Bass and Vocals. Dean Seavers- Guitar, Vocals. Kevin WIlliams- Drums. Enjoy! I am putting up over 30 Acto Active Rock episodes, so please subscribe to my youtube channel if you want to see more.
Here’s Little Guilt Shrine’s appearance on the show. Great stuff. Members: Britton Holland: Drums; Dana Gumbiner: Vocals/Bass; Matthew Holland: Vocals/Guitar. I think. We’re a little less than halfway through posting all of these! Hang in there.
Man, I really don’t know much about these guys. They are labeled as an “avant-gard troupe” on some websites. Feel free to chime in with more info about them if you’d like, or let the band members know that this has been posted: Jack Hastings- Bass; James Stewart- Drums; Bob Jolly- Guitar; Gary Sears- Keyboard, Bass; William Fuller- Vocals, Keyboards; Linda Melvin- Vocals; Jane Hastings- Vocals. Enjoy.
Here’s the LAWN episode you have all been waiting for! lawn was not comprised of members of other bands, LAWN is an entity. LAWN is: Tod Sod(Ric Ivanisevich)-Lead Guitar; Clovis McDivot(Chris McCann)- Rhythm Guitar, Vocals; Pete Moss (Paul Stanley Niklewicz)- Bass, vocals; The Hedge (Steve Marshall)- Drums.
We all knew Gun (with an umlaut “U”, pronounced “goon”) as Dennis Yudt’s band. He gained errr.. fame? Hatred?…. Let’s call it notoriety as the Cattle Club’s DJ, The Master Bastard. Pete Husing was on Guitar, Dennis on vocals, Tony Cle on drums and Scott Maurer on bass. This is probably the best quality, most complete performance of the band. I taped them doing KZAP- themed covers at Cattle in 1991, and they had a song on Very Small Records’ “Qwertyuiop!” comp. Huge thanks to Lizz Fisher for making these shows happen and for letting me transfer the Umatic masters!
Recorded by: Lizz Fisher and crew
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony BVU-800, Datavideo TBC-1000, Tevion USB adapter into virtualdub
Light Denoise in Adobe premiere elements
Another late one for you today, and we still have an audio post coming!
I had intended to post this one about a week ago and realized that I prepped it at a super low resolution. This was one of the first things I did after walking in the door from Las Vegas yesterday. Man, these umatic transfers look so nice and there are a lot more to go.
Recorded by: Lizz Fisher and crew
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony BVU-800, Datavideo TBC-1000, Tevion USB adapter into virtualdub
Light Denoise in Adobe premiere elements/neat video
Here is the 2nd of THREE posts today. There will be a 3rd “voter’s choice” post every Sunday from here on out. For everyone in the Patreon voter’s tier, get yer votes in by 3pm. Low turnout this time, which I kinda expected due to the holiday.
This one comes from Lizz Fisher’s collection. These upcoming Lizz Fisher collection posts are HUGE Upgrades from previously posted shows, right off the U-matic TV master tape. this is what they used to play the episode back on cable
Brutal Groove was Debbie Gunn’s band post- Sentinel Beast’s (ver 1 and 2) breakup… but it’s not just Debbie’s band. A young blond Joe Fraulob (Danzig, Deconsttruct, many more) played guitar in the band. Randy Valdez on bass and Joe Pregno on drums. I have a demo here that also needs to be digitized.
Recorded by: Lizz Fisher and Crew / Sacramento Cable
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony BVU-100, Datavideo TBC-1000, Tevion USB adapter into virtualdub
Light Denoise in Adobe premiere elements
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