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Danzig- The Stone, San Francisco Ca. 6/18/89 Master Tape xfer Sony Pro Walkman WMD6C Samhain Misfits

OK, time for an old man ramble. I had bought a ticket for this show well in advance, but then I realized that the show was on Fathers Day. A big group from my Dad’s side of the family went to the Giants game, and I went as well. After the game, I had some friends of my dad drop me off at The Stone.. at about 5 or 6pm. I hung out on Broadway street for HOURS, waiting for the doors to open.
Being there by myself was a huge risk, as I had my Sony Pro Walkman with me and security was pretty tight at the club. If I got caught at the door(or while taping), there was no place to me to take my deck. I would be stuck waiting outside. Luckily, I got everything in.
Show was PACKED so I could not get a really good taping spot, but it still sounds pretty good. It was a bit bassy, so I fixed it up a bit in Izotope.
After the show, I was supposed to get a ride with Mark Martin but I could never find him. I panicked and went with Greg Johnson instead. Mark called me the next day SO pissed off- they waited for an hour after the show, trying to find me. I’m still sorry about that.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony WMD6C & ECM-909 mic
Rebalanced in Izotope (boost vocals a lot, drums & guitar a little.
Transfer with Nakamichi Dragon & M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card.

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Danzig- The Stone, San Francisco Ca 1/5/89 xfer f/ master audio cassette Sony WMD3 Metallica Encore

OK, going out on a limb today and will give this one a shot.
If you are one of Danzig’s employees and you want this removed, please contact me at shaynestacy@hotmail.com and I will pull it down right away — no need to get the copyright cops involved. Plus, you are getting paid for the views on this anyway…
I actually have 2 master tapes of this show here in the studio. This one, taped by Gary Shurtleff, and one by Anonymous. They are both nice quality, but it’s Gary’s turn for a post today, so up his goes.
The image is the actual setlist from that night, signed by the band AND James and Kirk from Metallica, who played on the encore. Cool!
I put more work than usual in to make this one sound good. The ol’ EQ PLUS Izotope workup.

Recorded by: Bootleg Cowboys
Equipment used: Sony WM-D3 and unknown mic
Transfer by Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10- drop highs, boost bass
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocal +2.5, bass +4, drums +2.5, guitar +.5

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Death Angel- Stone, San Francisco Ca 12/28/88 xfer from master audio cassette Sony WMD3 Thrash Metal

This one comes from another collection that I have had here for quite a while but have not digitized anything in years. I think that last one was that NOFX Gilman 1988 soundboard. Thanks for the patience, Gary! His VHS videos are also being digitzed- some good stuff in there.
Doing these tapes got me talking to Gary, and unbeknownst to me, he was taping with a pro walkman in 1988. That was even before Anonymous 1 and I got ours (1989)!. He taped some really nice sounding shows that I’ll be popping up here in the coming months.
I figured I would start with this one, since DA is playing their annual Christmas shows this weekend. This one sounds really good for the time- there is some light tape damage so the first 3 minutes suffer from some wow/flutter/warble. Once the high end kicks in, it’s smooth sailing.

Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff
Equipment used: Sony WM-D3
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge 10

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Attitude- The Stone, San Francisco Ca 12/28/88 xfer master audio cassette Sony WMD3 Punk Adjustment

Let’s hit up Gary Shurtleff’s collection of audiotapes for today’s post. I posted Death Angel from this show last month and here is Attitude’s opening set. This one sounds good, but not quite as good as Death Angel’s set. I had lost track of Attitude at this point- I saw them at The Place in Davis in June of 1988, and that was the last time I ever saw any of them perform. It’s nice to hear that Rick Strahl is still active- his new project (Anti-Trust) is great. You should check it out. anti-trust.rocks is the url.
I thought that this was toward the very end of Attitude’s run before they morphed into Two Bit Thief, but setlist dot fm shows them playing Attitude shows until the end of 1989. This might be the latest documented show from the band.

Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff
Equipment used: Sony WM-D3
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge 10

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Slayer- Backstage @ The Stone, San Francisco Ca. 8/12/88

Man, this one is hard to watch. I have only lost 1 of my master tapes and it was this one. If anyone happens to see an 8mm videotape with This, Dehumanizers from Danceteria in sac, and Flower Leperds from Gilman (all in August of 1988), please let me know. REWARD OFFERED. This fair quality/generated footage exists because Jesse Davis was kind enough to dig it out of a box of old VHS tapes he traded for, years ago. Thank you!

Anyway, Matt Polish was friends with the band and we had hung out with/partied with/chauffeured the band many times so hanging backstage was common… but this was the first time I had my NEW video camera, so we were all screwing around with it backstage. I was planning on filming from the stage, but KERRY knew I was a tape trader and told his security to not let me film. GRRR

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy & Matt Polish
Equipment used: Aiwa CV-88 & Stock mic.

This was requested by Zoran. I am the guy in the white Adrenalin O.D. shirt

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Fishbone- The Stone, San Francisco Ca 6/19/86 xfer from low gen cassette

This was on the “B” side of the tape with the RKL set that I posted yesterday. It’s poor quality, but I found this setlist from the show on the fishbonelive.com website and it sounds like a recording has never surfaced. There was a setlist image on the site that I used for the photo here. Thanks fishbonelive!
Anyway, this recording is just a bunch of distortion. That’s what happens when you mix rock concert volume with consumer recording gear. Oh well, I hope someone will appreciate it.

Recorded by: ? (from Barry Ward archive)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Corrosion of Conformity- The Stone, San Francisco Ca 1/28/86 xfer from low gen audio tape COC C.O.C.

For today’s “on this day in history” post, I pulled this random C.O.C. show because it wasn’t on youtube, or anywhere online. There isn’t even a flyer or listing in newspapers.com… I hope the date/venue info is correct.
I expected it to be hot garbage but it doesn’t sound too bad. In fact, it sounds like it might be one of Mark Martin’s original master tapes- he was taping at around that time and it has that distinctive “cheap panasonic recorder” sound. Haha. Hopefully Mark can confirm or deny.
I think it’s pretty cool that the band played the punk house/venue (New Method in Emeryville) a couple days before, then crossed the bridge and played the big SF show.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
no enhancements/EQ/rebalance.

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Exodus- The Stone, San Francisco Ca. 1/5/85 xfer from 1st gen audio cassette

Happy Monday everyone. If you are an Exodus fan, you MUST listen to this. I can’t believe how good this one sounds, given the “early punk/metal days” equipment used. Tour Manager Doug clearly had the magic touch when finding a room’s sweet spot.
Not only that, but this is in that time frame where the band were playing some of my favorite sets- a lot from Bonded by Blood (fka “A Lesson in Violence” as the flyer shows) plus the best pre-album tracks- in fact, these might be the best recordings of Death Row, Hell’s Breath and Impaler out there. Baloff’s vocal performance is top notch. This one will be a show I go back to and listen repeatedly. Thanks Doug.

Recorded by: ? (Update- Doug did not tape this)
Equipment used: Sony Walkman WM-R2
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge

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Slayer- Stone, San Francisco Ca 10/16/84 xfer from master audio cassette Thrash Metal Kerry King

It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! Aaand it’s another 1st album Slayer show that he taped himself. What a time to be alive! Look at that lineup as well- 1st album Trouble with 1st album Slayer. Unfortunately, it looks like only the Slayer set was in the TMD box. Thanks Doug!

Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug
Equipment used: Sony Walkman WM-R2
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge

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