The Cronos wake continues. This is a set from a fest in France. I remember seeing this flyer back then and considering making the trek so I could see Venom. Look at that price- 65 euros for all that entertainment!
Really nice sounding audience recording.
Recorded by: Laurent Thibauldier
Equipment used: Zoom Q2
CD rip and prep for upload by Shayne
R.I.P. Conrad Lant, better known as Cronos.
Scheduled video programming is pushed to tomorrow.
Man, I cannot believe I am writing this. The official Venom facebook page has announced Cronos’ passing. I had not even heard that he was ill or anything. I was hoping to catch them at a fest sometime in the near future.
Venom (along with Slayer) was the gateway to punk rock for me. I bought the Welcome to hell LP back in 1982/83 time frame and was… confused. The band sounded like they were each playing a different song on the first track, but holy shit was it heavy. It didn’t help that Neat records’ original pressing of the album skipped into the first track. I didn’t hear the real start of the song for years! They really grew on me and the Black Metal album is an all-time classic.
I only got to see them once- at the Crest Theater in 1985, but I was excited to be backstage and partying with Slayer and Exodus that I only watched a couple songs.
Years later, I received a Venom interview on Sky tv in a videotape trade and it was hilarious! These guys aren’t serious, they were a bunch of goofs! That made me love the band even more.
It seems that this video is not on youtube. It is from the year before the well-circulated 1997 set, and this one is a 2 camera shot. I suspected that someone just mislabeled the date, but no. It is really a different show.
Recorded by: ?
DVD rip and prep for upload by Shayne
The biggest Venom fan I have ever met(virtually or otherwise), Joseph Reinsbach, messaged me and introduced himself in late February. He let me know that this Venom show was uncirculated, which was surprising. So he waited for 3 months, through my shoulder surgery and other projects, and I was finally able to lift and pull the trays off the shelf and digitize the tapes for him. It was split over 3 tapes and I am not sure if this is the complete show of what was circulating at the time.
Here is the background on this recording:
On April 2nd 1986 Venom played a gig together with Black Flag at City Gardens in Trenton, New Jersey. Legend has it that Black Flag roadie Joe Cole recorded the entire show and cut all the songs out of Venom’s set except for a few seconds of intros and outros, leaving behind the between-song stage banter of Venom’s frontman Cronos. In 1991 Ecstatic Peace released the result on a 7”.
This is 45min of that show.
Joe and Henry were best friends. So if the above is true, this is probably a 2nd gen from master tape or 3rd if Rollins had a copy of Joe’s tape.
PS: $6.66 at the door. HAHA! I hope Randy Now had 34 cents times about 500 ready.
Recorded by: Joe Cole?
Digitized by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon Cassette Deck, M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Enhanced in Izotope Rx7 (boost vocal, guitar, bass, drop the drums)
Here’s one that is not from Doug, Eggplant, or KALX. I can’t remember the last time I posted something outside of those sources.
This one comes from Venom’s #1 fan, Joseph Reinsbach. He asked that I post this one, as it is a rare one. I did my best to fix this one up, but the levels were totally brickwalled. One day, I will get the source cassettes and it will sound slightly better. Slightly, haha. 2 venom posts in 1 week! Last time that will happen in a while.
Recorded by: ?
EQ/channel splits with Sony Sound Forge 10
If you have been paying attention, you knew this was coming today. Uncirculated Venom from 1985, thanks to Tour Manager Doug! This one sounds pretty good(no volume distortion) for most of the set, until they turn it up too loud for human consumption. Classic venom.
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
Here’s one from Chris Eng’s collection that he did not tape, but he got it from Cliff Cunningham, the guy who filmed it. Best quality I have seen of this one- thanks Cliff and Chris! I think that this is the only video footage of Venom on the Ultimate Revenge Tour- the official release had Venom footage from the UK.
Video recorded by: Cliff Cunningham
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (denoise)
Venom, Slayer, Exodus
Crest Theater
Sacramento, CA
04/13/85
Flyer scan by Ken Doose
It’s Tour Manager Doug Tuesday! I am pretty sure Doug taped this one- I think I hear him heckling the band at times. Pretty much all Venom recordings from this tour sound terrible due to the stage volume that they were pushing along with 1980s sound systems trying to keep up… but this one sounds better than most.
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
I wasn’t planning on posting this one, but I gave this another listen while prepping the disc for Eric and it sounds pretty good for a 1985 Venom tape!
This is yet another gen from Eric Mcintire’s collection.
Recorded by: Verne “inhel”
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon & M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
The last Venom related post for today is a bonus one. This was recorded by the interviewer (Adam), transferred by him and uploaded to a torrent site. Thanks Adam. I searched and I did not see this one online.
Recorded by: Adam Bomb
Transfer by: Adam Bomb
CD rip and prep for upload by Shayne
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