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dRAW PiNKY- Sacto Active Rock, Sacramento Community Cable 3/17/93 xfer f/Umatic Master Ozzie

Another awesome video from Lizz Fisher’s Sacto Active Rock Umatic master collection. dRAW PiNKY is from Sacramento, California. Several members were in local legends, Ozzie.
The band came back from a long period of dormancy to release an EP in mid-2024 and a couple of christmas singles- 1 each at the end of 2024 and 2025. I enjoyed the Krampus cover on the ’24 ep.
Anyway, here they are in better quality than previously posted. The high end has slight distortion, which is present on the source tape.

Recorded by: Sacto active rock crew
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony BVU-800, Datavideo TBC-1000, Tevion USB adapter into virtualdub
Light Denoise in Adobe premiere elements

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Horny Mormons- Sacto Active Rock Community Cable Show Episode #3 3/4/91

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 the pure insanity of The Horny Mormons. I noticed that Ken Doose has this posted to his YT channel. I was not sure if this was better quality or not, so here you go.

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Moist- Sacto Active Rock, Sacramento Community Cable 1/16/93 transfer from mater Umatic tape

Let’s do this one first today. Man, I love this band and the band they became (The Skirts). This continues the project of posting better versions of all of these Sacto Active Rock performances. The ones on youtube previously now were digitized from VHS tapes, these are from the TV station Umatic master tapes. Better audio and video quality. Thanks to Lizz for sending her tapes over to the archive here.

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

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Mommy- Sacto Active Rock, Sacramento Cable 1993 Go Dog Go Magnolia Thunderfinger

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.

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Thornucopia- Sacto Active Rock Community Cable Episode #28 1993

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.

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Moist- Sacto Active Rock Community Cable Show- Episode #26 1993 The Skirts

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.

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Draw Pinky- Sacto Active Rock Community Cable Show Episode #27 1993

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.

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