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Spastik Children- House Party, Pinole Ca. 12/31/86 xfer from master cassette tape Metallica Side Pro

Here’s 22 minutes of pure chaos from Wayne VanderKuil’s collection. This show is a totally different level of chaos compared to the other Spastik Children shows in early 1986. This is the first without Cliff(Jim Dammit on Bass), it was a house party, and people are clearly having a good time. I heard that potato guns were involved as well. Thanks for getting this one documented, Wayne!
Since I rarely publicize the website, it might be a good time to remind people that there are over 4,000 posts of Audio/Video/Photo media at http://www.sacramentomusicarchive.com, including this and many other Metallica shows right off the master tape.

Stock Photo by Jay Blakesburg
Recorded by: Wayne Vanderkuil
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Spastik Children- Ruthie’s Inn, Berkeley Ca 2/7/86 xfer from master audio cassette Metallica

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

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