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Borman 6- Spanky’s, Sacramento 7/17/87 xfer band archive master Soundboard rebalanced Rebel Truth

I had a video planned to post today, but the youtube copyright bots had other plans. Here is another Borman 6 post- this time it is a board tape from Spanky’s in sacramento. I am surprised as to the quality of the mix- whenever I tried to tape at Spankys, the board mix was terrible. In fact, I have 1 tape that is all vocals. That’s all they mic’d.
You are probably wondering why the photo for this post is a batteries & bulbs store. This store is the building that used to by Spankys. I tried to find a picture of the club from back in the 80s. No luck.

Recorded by:? (Greg Dean?)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx7: Vocal -1, Bass and Guitar +5

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Corrupted Morals- Spanky’s, Sacramento Ca 4/15/87 xfer f/VHS Master Tape Punk Lookout Records

It’s time for the Patreon voter’s choice post for the week before last. I was out of town in Las Vegas for a bit so thanks to my Patreon supporters for waiting until I got back. Another poll just ended a few minutes ago and you will be getting some Teenage Fanclub soon!

This is the very first show I ever videotaped or had videotaped for me. I booked/promoted this show but I was a year away from owning my first camera, so we begged Mick Brindle (Damon from Anal Babies’ dad) to come on out and video. The quality isn’t great but this is an awesome piece of history:

  • from what I can tell, this is the earliest Corrupted Morals video ever filmed. Chris Eng came in a close 2nd place with his 6/14/87 video from Gilman.
  • You can see a bunch of local legends in the crowd. I see Ground Chuck right before the show starts and in the pit along with Ken Doose.

There is soundboard audio for this show, but the cuts between some songs and the distortion of the camera audio track make this a manual job. Ugh.

Recorded by: Mick Brindle/Shayne Stacy
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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I.G.D.- Spanky’s, Sacramento Ca. 4/15/87 master VHS enhanced w/Sbd audio Infectious Garage Disease

Today is the day of Jimmie Couch’s celebration of life. If you were a friend of Jimmie, his wife Karen has arranged a get together at 7504 Greenburn Dr in Roseville. It starts soon, at 1pm.
Here is a pretty terrible quality video of IGD from the show I put on at Spanky’s in 1987. I am very thankful to Damon & Mick Brindle for bringing the family video camera so we had a document of the show.
When I transferred the show, the audio was complete static. I did not have time to troubleshoot it and the audio track is total distortion anyway. On top of that, the video has many cuts in between so doing a proper audio synch would be a nightmare. So, I just laid the un-synchronized soundboard audio track over the top of the video. I tried to crank up the guitar and bass via Izotope but it just isn’t in the mix. Maybe one day someone will have the patience to give this the proper treatment. R.I.P. Jimmie Couch and Mike Kingsbury.

Recorded by: Mick Brindle
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9900U — Datavideo TBC-1000 — Tevion USB capture — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Soundboard transfer with Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotop RX8: Guitar and Bass +8

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Condemned Attitude- Spanky’s, Sacramento Ca 4/15/87 master soundboard cassette rebalanced Adjustment

Here is one that I have been wanting to digitize for a LONG time. I promoted this show and assembled the lineup… but I didn’t have the master soundboard tape. I taped the other bands (the corrupted morals set was officially released!), but Wayne Vanderkuil was there and had a much nicer tape, so he taped it. I have to admit, I was bummed at the time (taper jealousy) but I am so happy that he did it- this transfer was super clean and allowed me to push the rebalance more than usual. Thanks Wayne!

I also have super crappy video of this show. I will attempt to synch it up, but I don’t think pluraleyes will be able to hack it. It was filmed with one of those videocameras where everything was earth toned, and the people turn translucent when they run in the pit. If any of my old manual synch friends (king bean and Derek) want to take a swing at it, let me know!

Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer(and show promotion) by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocal -2, Bass +8.5, Drums +1, Guitar +4.
Flyer CONCEPT and art by Brian Suponch (so don’t yell at me about it :-))

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Anal Babies- Pre-show party and Live at Spanky’s, Sacramento Ca. 4/15/87 xfer from 1st gen VHS

This one is for Gus Buss (Jeff). I can’t find the demo (one of my rare tape losses), so here is stupidity + a live show.
An old friend of the band asked me to post this one. It was done with that same crappy setup that we used to tape the Redrum from El Dorado Saloon. Extremely distorted, out of focus frequently, and hardly any color contrast.

Recorded by: Mick Brindle
Equipment used: Old school detached camera cabled into a portable VHS recorder in EP mode
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9800U/Canopus ADVC300

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Condemned Attitude- Spanky’s, Sacramento Ca 2/1/87 xfer from master audio cassette Adjustment C2D

On this day 38 years ago, I promoted my first show in Sacramento. I was a huge fan of attitude adjustment and became friends with Andy Andersen, the vocalist in the band. Attitude Adjustment had just broken up, but they started a new band with Rick and Chris from the band along with Keith from Condemned to Death. It was great- they did AA songs, C2D songs, and brand new songs they just wrote.
I asked them to play Sacramento and went to Spanky’s to submit their demo and to get it all arranged. My good friend John Conley drew up the flyer and we were off and running. The venue supplied the opening bands, and I lucked out with Dissident Aggressor being on the bill.
I actually have a soundboard tape that is so bad that pluraleyes won’t ID it to synch the sources together. it is almost all vocals and the vocals distort at times. I attempted to fix it in izotope and it just made it worse. Oh well.
Instead, this is the audience recording that we made. I think Mark Martin taped it for me. It doesn’t sound great, but it is a pretty cool memory for me. Plus there aren’t a ton of Spanky’s tapes out there.

Recorded by: Me(Shayne) or Mark Martin
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound forge 10

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Infectious Garage Disease- Spanky’s, Sacramento Ca 2/1/87 xfer from soundboard mastercassette I.G.D.

This recording is terrible. It also contains offensive content. The mix was almost all vocals and the vocals distorted. I did what I can with the mix to bring the vocal and distortion down in the mix…But that’s not why I am posting it. This was the first show I ever “promoted”.
I made some calls and brought Condemned Attitude to town back in early 1987. I was a huge Attitude Adjustment fan, so bringing these guys to Sac was a huge treat. I was managing I.G.D. at the time, so I pushed the club booking agent to get them on the bill. Day of show comes and Jimmy calls me to tell me that Matt (vocalist) quit and they are not playing. I FREAK OUT and start yelling that this is my first show ever promoting and to get their asses down to the club.
So, Jimmy, Don, Mike and fill in vocalist Stan show up late to the club. One of them is on hallucinogens, and Stan also doesn’t know the songs. He does his best and quits about 10 minutes into the set. It was an unmitigated disaster.
The cool thing about the set is that Mike Kingsbury actually sang a song- he never did that! Vonni Groccia sings a song at the end as well.
Amazingly, I was allowed to promote another show with Condemned Attitude there in April of 87. IGD did not play that one.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope RX8: Vocal -7.
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10- the insane band settings are in comments.
Original flyer art by John Conley

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