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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)
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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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Jackson Saints- Chatterbox, San Francisco Show #2 late 80s transfer f/1st gen DVCAM Tape

Yaaay! More archival awesomeness from Alfie Kulzick. This was one of 2 Jackson Saints sets at the end of that Papa Wheelie/Short Dogs Grow tape. The first set seemed fine until I played it back- everything is going along fine and then the audio tracks skips over to something from the same show, but comically out of sync, and then back in alignment again after a while. I don’t know if that is how it is on the source tape. I will need to run it again to see.

So we get this one instead. I think Erik mentions a missing band member at the start of the set, and they have always seemed to be a 4 piece. So this is a rarity.

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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Jackson Saints- The Chatterbox San Francisco Late 1980s transfer 1st gen DVcam tape Soundboard Audio

This Jackson Saints set may not be the best quality, but it is an absolute scorcher of a set. Does anyone know why they came on stage, proceeded to rip it up for about 10 minutes, get off stage, then some of the band comes back for a cover of Neil Young’s “Birds”… and that’s it? Talk about leaving the audience wanting more. Damn.

From Alfue Kulzick’s collection

All tape flaws/audio hum etc is on the source tape, but it doesn’t matter.

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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Witnesses?- The Chatterbox, San Francisco Ca late 1980s Transfer from 1st Gen DVCam tape Garage Rock

This one might be from the same night as that Jackson Saints video (w/ soundboard audio) that I posted a couple weeks back. It is right next to it on the tape. Once again, it seems to be a partial set or the encore only.

I am not sure if this is The Witnesses. The tape is marked as if The Witnesses are the first band on here, but according to their discogs page, the guitarist Dave Dick also took care of vocal duties. If this is the wrong band, please correct me. Thanks

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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Osgood Slaughter- Chatterbox, San Francisco Ca late 1980s transfer from 1st gen DVCam tape Eugene Or

Finally, here is one from Alfie’s collection. I am a few days late on this because I kept forgetting cables and little crap that I needed to do DVcam transfers. Having stuff spread across 2 houses is no fun. What is fun is a working capture PC that doesn’t throw everything out of sync!

Anyway, Osgood Slaughter is a band from Eugene Or who put out a couple self-released things in the late 80s/early 90s. They were clearly popular with the Chatterbox crowd

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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