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Various- Chatterbox bands comp, San Francisco Compiled in 2014 Jackson Saints R.K.L. NOFX Dwarves

It’s a late audio post today, from Alfie Kulzick’s collection. This one is a compilation that was put together in 2014, 24 years after the club closed. It looks like 7 of these tracks were previously released, but some of them do not sound like the album versions to my ears.

Huge thanks to Alfie for this one- this was the only thing that I had to listen to in the car after I had my phone stolen at a Blood for Blood show in Berkeley back in April. I was stressing and this was like a life preserver.

Recorded by: The bands
extract and prep for upload by Shayne

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Short Dogs Grow- The Chatterbox, San Francisco Ca. 7/7/89 xfer from master!

I became facebook friends with a guy named Tom Pitts today. He is an author, but back in the 80s, he was the singer and guitarist in one of the best bands in the bay area- Short Dogs Grow. I loved SDG through their progression from punk band to more of a rock n roll band. This is from the later era of the band- they open with a Boston cover(!) and finish it up with a Poison cover. Classic! This was the only time I ever went to the Chatterbox. I wish I went more often, but it was hard to know when shows were happening back in the 80s./

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

 

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NOFX- Chatterbox, San Francisco 3/11/89 xfer f/1st gen DVCAM tape Fat Mike Wreck Chords full show

HUGE thanks to Alfie Kulzick for sending this DVCAM tape to me. Even though the DVCAM tape appears to be transferred from the master tape in super slow speed, the quality is still pretty decent. The audio does suffer from dropouts, so I plan on playing around with the audio channel settings to see if I can make it any better.. but first priority was to get it transferred ASAP.

Some of the other bands on the tape suffer from tape damage- it seems that the damage was on the source tape and not the DVCAM. If you see any major glitches or dropouts on this transfer, please let me know. I did the ol’ ffwd/rew thing to try to ensure the tape was as good as it can be. The picture was super clean for a tape this old.

Alright, back over to VHS.

Recorded by: The Chatterbox
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DSR-1800 – datavideo TBC-1000- ATI TV Wonder 600 – virtualdub
Light denoise in Adobe premiere elements/neat video

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Stuntcock- Chatterbox, San Francisco Late 1980s Transfer from 1st gen DVCAM Tape

I know I have heard about this band from friends but I can’t find anything online. Nothing. It looks like they were doing the Steel Panther type thing long before Steel Panther. Looks like the bass player was sporting the Hetfield fashion line, circa mid 80s here. Audio is a bit rough on this one. Sounds better than it did at transfer, believe it or not.

Recorded by: The Chatterbox
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DSR-1800 – datavideo TBC-1000- ATI TV Wonder 600 – virtualdub
Light denoise in Adobe premiere elements/neat video

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The Snags- The Chatterbox, San Francisco Ca Late 80s transfer from 1st gen DVCAM Tape

Here is a video post that was scheduled for yesterday- that’s how far behind I am with the posts. This is from Alfie Kulzick’s tapes and there is nothing online about The Snags. Nothing at all. If anyone has info, please comment!

from Alfie Kulzick’s collection
Recorded by: The Chatterbox
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DSR-1800 – datavideo TBC-1000- ATI TV Wonder 600 – virtualdub
Light denoise in Adobe premiere elements/neat video

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Haunted Garage- The Chatterbox, San Francisco Ca Late 80s Transfer f/1st gen DVCam tape Metal Blade

This is one of the best sounding Chatterbox videos so far. One channel was really low and that helped, I just copied left channel to right and viola, better audio!
This was likely during their pre-metal blade days when they did a 7″/cassingle with Sympathy for the Record industry.

from Alfie Kulzick’s collection
Recorded by: The Chatterbox
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DSR-1800 – datavideo TBC-1000- ATI TV Wonder 600 – virtualdub
Light denoise in Adobe premiere elements/neat video

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Papa Wheelie- Chatterbox, San Francisco 1988ish xfer f/1st gen DVCam Tape

It’s time for another archival Chatterbox video from Alfie Kulzick! It seems that this Short Dogs Grow/Papa Wheelie show had the audio mastered way too high. I will try to fix the SDG audio when I get a chance, but I did everything I could to keep this from distorting, and this is where it landed.

By the way, this is not the Jason Newsted band. This is a bay area band that existed 10 years before the discogs/newsted band/version did. They played all the time back in the late 80s.

Recorded by: Alfie’s friend
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DSR-1800 – datavideo TBC-1000- ATI TV Wonder 600 – virtualdub
Light denoise in Adobe premiere elements/neat video

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Stevie Stiletto- Chatterbox, San Francisco Ca 1988 xfer f/1st gen DVCam tape

Here’s the last video that I have for now from Alfie Kulzick. I hope there are more tapes to come- restoring these old Chatterbox tapes has been a lot of fun!
This one had the lowest lighting of them all, but it sounded better than most of the others. It was SUPER red so I had to play around with the color which affects the lighting. After playing with color, brightness, exposure, etc.. I think this is as good as it’s gonna get.

Recorded by: The Chatterbox
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DSR-1800 – datavideo TBC-1000- ATI TV Wonder 600 – virtualdub
Color and lighting adjustments w/ denoise – Adobe premiere elements/neat video

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Short Dogs Grow- The Chatterbox, San Francisco Ca. 1988 xfer f/1st gen DVCam Tape

Along with those demo CD’s (one of which I posted last week), Alfie also sent over some more Chatterbox DVCam tapes. The first 2 on this tape were really dark, but I was able to fix it at the source since virtualdub allows for brightness/contrast etc adjustments. The audio is a bit rough but it doesn’t really matter. This was clearly a PARTY. I let it run after the end of the set because George was goofing around on the drums (R.I.P.). The lead vocalist of Papa Wheelie also hops on stage after the set and seems to try to kick someone. Wild party.

And Tom, I had better see some of those dance moves (1:26) at the next SDG show!

Recorded by: The Chatterbox
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DSR-1800 – datavideo TBC-1000- ATI TV Wonder 600 – virtualdub (brightness/contrast adjusted)
denoise – Adobe premiere elements/neat video

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The Chatterbox- Demo CD 2 San francisco 1980s Drunk Injuns No Alternative Phantom Creeps Stevie Stil

It’s time for another gift from Alfie Kulzick. Here is the 2nd CD of demos of bay area bands who played The Chatterbox in San Francisco. Alfie also sent me a better tracklist of bands from the first one, so I will be adding that to the website post along with youtube tracklists. Thanks Alfie!

Recorded by: The bands
Extract from disc and normalized in Sony Soundforge 10 by Shayne

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