At Rest

 

Half Blind/Beef Church - Klub Kommotion, San Francisco 4-30-88

Both of these bands were from the the San Francisco bay area. There;s no info on the internet about these bands but Half Blind did have two songs released on comp. tapes in 1986. I can't find any releases for Beef Church so this live tape might be all there is. Does anyone have any info on either of these bands? Both sets were recorded from the audience and are from the master tape.

Half Blind discography here: https://www.discogs.com/artist/3781358-Half-Blind

 

Half Blind setlist:
01. Waste Of Time
02. Fifty Thousand To One
03. title unknown
04. title unknown
05. title unknown
06. title unknown
07. title unknown
08. title unknown
09. title unknown
10. title unknown
11. What Goes On

 

 

Beef Church setlist:
01. Cop
02. title unknown
03. title unknown
04. title unknown
05. title unknown

Gramma Hash Brown/Wankers - D.A. Ward Studios, Los Angeles 10-25-86

Here's a third show from Gramma Hash playing all his favorites. I posted this Wankers show before about 5 years ago but here it is again. The Wankers were a Los Angeles band that sound like a Post-Punk Velvet Underground. There seems to be no info on them on the internet so don't know if they ever released any records.Both shows are recorded from the audience and are from the master tape.

 

Gramma Hash Brown setlist:
01. Blind To Reality
02. Does Anyone Listen
03. Idiot Set
04. Suburban Living
05. Rambomania
06. Justice For The Rich
07. title unknown
08. Lynchmobs From Lynchbug
09. L.A.P.D.
10. Earth Cycle Of Life

 

 

Wankers setlist:
01. title unknown

Gramma Hash Brown/Creeps - Unitarian Church, Anaheim CA 8-30-86

The standout track here is the Gramma Hash Brown song L.A.P.D. Everyone sings along and makes it a fun listen. There are a few bands out there named The Creeps but I don't know anything about this Creeps. The music is guitar/bass/drums/keyboards Garage Punk and all songs are instrumental. It doesn't seem they released any records. Anyone got any info? Audience recordings. Both sets are from the master tape.

Gramma Hash Brown setlist:
01. Justice For The Rich
02. Idiot Set
03. Suburban Living
04. Rambomania
05. The Earth Will Survive
06. Earth Cycle Of Life
07. Lynchmobs Fom Lynchbug
08. L.A.P.D.
09. Does Anyone Listen
10. We All Choose To Stay Blind 

Creeps setlist:
01. title unknown
02. title unknown
03. title unknown
04. title unknown
05. title unknown

Gramma Hash Brown/SP.61 - Stardust Studios, Los Angeles 4-27-86

Gramma Hash Brown was a political Punk Folkie who played around Los Angeles in the mid-1980s. I don't think he ever released any records. SP.61 play minimal experimental soundscapes. some of their members were apparently also member of Postwar who I posted a live show of on this blog before. They don't seem to have released anything and I have no other info on them Both sets were recorded from the audience and are from the master tape.
 

Gramma Hash Brown setlist:
01. Rambomania
02. Blind To Reality
03. title unknown
04. Suburban Living
05. title unknown
06. Lynchmobs Fom Lynchbug
07. Does Anyone Listen
08. Earth Cycle Of Life
09. title unknown
10. title unknown

SP.61 setlist:
01. title unknown
02. title unknown
03. title unknown
04. title unknown
05. title unknown

My Youtube Channel

For anyone that is interested I have a Youtube channel for many years. For the last few posts I have made some very nice Youtube videos for the shows I have posted on my blog. Seems soon as I make a post here someone takes it and makes it into a Youtube video with no link back to my blog or any credit so I thought I might as well make videos if that's what people want. Most of my videos feature a photo of the band or artist along with the song titles as the video plays. Have a look and spread the word. I might feature stuff there that I don't put on the blog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBx6tPfCLBg

Avengers - Masque, Los Angeles 11-25-77

This might be the earliest live recording of The Avengers. It's recorded from the audience and sound qulity is good. [from cassette tape]

setlist:
01. The American In Me
02. We Are The One
03. Car Crash
04. Desperation
05. Summer Of Hate
06. Teenage Rebel
07. Open Your Eyes
08. No Martyr
09. I Believe In Me
10. Paint It Black

Dead Kennedys/Germs/Bags - Masque, Los Angeles 12-31-78

This is the third time I've posted this Bags set and the second time I've posted this Dead Kennedys set. Nothing new on the Bags set but this tape for Dead Kennedys has the encore which the other tape did not, although Rawhide cuts off and is only a small fraction of the song. I've never seen this set of The Germs around before. It has all the songs we know and love with the addition of a live version of Round And Round. I think I used to have a photocopy of the flyer for this show in the 1980s but lost it long ago. Does anyone have it? All sets were recorded from the audience and sound quality is good.

Dead Kennedys setlist:
01. Forward To Death
02. Kill The Poor
03. Kepone Kids
04. Dreadlocks Of The Suburbs
05. Your Emotions
06. Straight A's
07. Police Truck
08. Gaslight
09. Short Songs
10. The Man With The Dogs
11. Ill In The Head
12. I Kill Children
13. Holiday In Cambodia
14. California Uber Alles
15. Rawhide (cut)

Germs setlist:
01. What We Do Is Secret
02. Strange Notes
03. Forming
04. Dragon Lady
05. No God
06. Manimal
07. Lexicon Devil
08. The Slave
09. Our Way
10. Richie Dagger's Crime
11. Shut Down (Annihilation Man)
12. Circle One
13. Round And Round

Bags setlist:
01. title unknown
02. Violent Girl
03. Myths
04. Suffering
05. Looking For You
06. title unknown
07. Babylonian Gorgon
08. We Don't Need The English
09. title unknown
10. title unknown
11. title unknown
12. Chainsaw
13. Sanyo Theme
14. TV Dinner
15. Survive
16. We Will Bury You
17. title unknown

Bags - Masque, Los Angeles 1978

Here's a Bags show I don't think has been in circulation before. The tape cover says it was recorded 10-77 but since most of these songs were written by Craig Lee and he only joined the band in January 1978, this show is probably from early 1978. Also, before the first song someone (probably Craig Lee) says, "ready Terry?" which could mean Terry Graham was the drummer and he only joined the band in March 1978. The setlist is also the same early songs they played on the Live At The Masque comp. CD and the live at the Troubadour video in February 1978 with the addition of the new great song Poseur. This was recorded from the audience and sound quality is good. Alive introduces track 7 but I cannot understand what she says for the song title.

info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bags_(Los_Angeles_band)

setlist:
01. Violent Girl
02. TV Dinner
03. Poseur
04. Survive
05. We Will Bury You
06. Chainsaw
07. title unknown
08. Animal Call

U.X.A./391/Vidiots - Blackies, Los Angeles 12-29-79

The Vidiots are most well known for having one song on the V.A. Rodney On The ROQ volume 1 LP which happened to be the only song they were able to release during their existence. The band started in 1978 as the Audio Vidiots and only played their first show during the summer of 1979. The line up was never stable but the Vidiots did enter the studio and recorded several demos in 1979 and 1980. By the end of 1980 the band was done. Since 2006 there is a cd-r in circulation of some of their recordings. 391 consisted of Jeff Olener, former singer for The Nuns, plus three members of the band Seizure who released one single in 1978. The band formed during the summer 1979 and played regularly around Los Angeles. In 1981 their only release, a 4-song 12inch ep, was released on Posh Boy Records. U.X.A. formed in 1977 in San Francisco and were together on and off until the late 1990s with singer De De Troit being the only constant member. In 1979 the band had three songs on the Tooth And Nail comp. LP followed by a full LP in 1980 that was released on Posh Boy Records in Los Angeles. It seems this night at Blackies was a Posh Boy Records night with all three bands being on that label. I don't think the Vidiots or 391 shows are complete as the first songs on their tapes cut in. All sets are recorded from the audience and sound quality is good. (Even though the 391 tape says Nuns it's actually 391.)

Vidiots info: https://www.discogs.com/artist/383672-The-Vidiots
391 info: https://www.discogs.com/artist/413521-391-2
Seizure info: https://www.discogs.com/artist/383671-Seizure-3
U.X.A. info: https://www.discogs.com/artist/255059-UXA

Vidiots setlist:
01. title unknown
02. title unknown
03. title unknown
04. title unknown
05. title unknown
06. title unknown

391 setlist:
01. Searching For A Thrill
02. Walking The Beat
03. The Kids Gonna Do It
04. title unknown
05. Suicide Child

U.X.A setlist:
01. Death From Above
02. Tragedies
03. I Don't Lose Sleep
04. You Saw Me
05. Sister Godfrieda
06. Hand In Glove
07. No Time
08. U.X.A.
09. Paranoia Is Freedom
10. 1995
11. Innocent Bystander

Gotta Keep Movin'

       I hope everyone is surviving the covid-19 pandemic okay. The summer heat isn't doing me any kindnesses and even though I have all kinds of time on my hands I haven't felt like doing much because of the temperatures. And, while I haven't posted anything here in a little while I haven't given up but I have been digitizing some stuff for a friends blog. His blog is Freedom Has No Bounds and is dedicated to posting video and audio of bands from Philadelphia and Southeastern Pennsylvania, as well as, national and international bands that have played in the Philadelphia area over the years. So go over there and grab some stuff.

http://freedomhasnobounds.com/ 

       On a similar note, I became a tape trader in 1982/3 and traded all the way up to the late 1990s when everything went digital with CD-Rs. That's when the tapes went into boxes and stacked in the closet. I started digitizing some tapes about 20 years ago but it was an overwhelming task because I had so many. Plus, I was also busy with other things. When it came time to move to a new residence in 2014 I decided I didn't want the tapes anymore and no one I knew was really interested in them, either. But I heard that a tape trader friend I had in the 1980s had donated her tapes to the Maximum Rock 'n' Roll tape archive. I thought that was a good idea so I also contacted MRR and asked if they wanted my tapes. They did and they said they would digitize them, which I thought was also great. In 2014/2015 I sent them most of the hardcore part of my collection. Over the years I surfed the net looking to see if any of those tapes had been digitized and posted on websites or blogs. But, I never found anything until about 1.5 years ago. Some things started showing up on two blogs run by the same guy. Escape Is Terminal and Terminal Escape are those two blogs. 

http://escapeisterminal.blogspot.com/2019/04/
https://terminalescape.blogspot.com/

       Most of the posts on Escape Is Terminal from April 2019 to the present are from tapes that were apart of my collection. And, on Terminal Escape, which is only for demo tapes, the War Of Destruction, Abeyance, Syphilitics, Just A Product, Johnny Rotten, Sham 69/Jimmy Pursey, v.a. This Tape Sucks, Youth Brigade (DC), Murder Burger, Self Abuse, and a few others are from my old tapes. So you can see what my tape collection looked like in the 1980s. Of course both blogs have a lot of great stuff posted so you should go over there and fill your harddrive with lots of great stuff. 
       All my posts for Australia and New Zealand are finished and I had been planning to post stuff from Europe next followed by a lot of stuff from England. However, almost a year ago I got in a small collection of tapes of mostly Punk stuff from California covering the years 1976 to about 1980 and a few things from the early 1980s including some uncirculated live recordings and a few demos by known and unknown bands. So, the next posts are gonna be all that California stuff. I also have California stuff from two other tape collections plus Cali stuff from another collection. I think the rest of the year is gonna be all California. 

       And finally, on September 13th it will be 10 years since I started blogging. I really started this blog because at the time I had a class where I had to learn how to make a blog and use html. The content I had to post on my class blog was all class related and boring so I thought I could learn blogging better if I made a blog posting stuff that interested me. Ten years on and it has worked out very well and digitizing tapes has become a little time consuming hobby. Some days I wonder if I should keep going for another ten years or move on to other things. I have access to thousands of tapes and could easily keep going for a long long time. 

Let's see where things go.

 

Toy Love - Captain Cook Tavern, Dunedin NZ 8-23-80

Toy Love were from Dunedin New Zealand and seem the be the biggest and most successful of the New Zealand Punk bands. Three members were previously in the Punk band The Enemy which started in 1977 and played their last show at the end of 1978. The Enemy went into recording studios several time but split up without releasing anything. The three members of The Enemy were joined by two former members of the band The Basketcases to form Toy Love. Toy Love released one album and three single, all of which made it into the New Zealand charts. This live recording was recorded at about the time the album was released and it features many Enemy songs besides newer compositions. This is a soundboard recording and the quality is excellent.

Discography: https://www.discogs.com/artist/309459-Toy-Love
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3x6OBdsMaU
Info:  https://www.audioculture.co.nz/people/jane-walker

set 1:
01. Amputee Song
02. Swimming Pool
03. Fifteen
04. Rebel
05. I Don't Mind
06. title unknown
07. Toy Love Song
08. Don't Catch Fire
09. Bedroom
10. Unscrewed Up
11. Cold Meat
12. I'm In Love
13. Photographs Of Naked Ladies
14. I Wanna Die With You
15. Sheep

set 2:
01. The Crunch
02. Squeeze
03. Don't Ask Me
04. I Thought I Needed You
05. Good Old Joe
06. Fingernail On Blackboard Grin
07. Lust
08. Greenwalls
09. Yummy Yummy Yummy
10. Positively Fourth St.
11. Siamese Twin
12. Death Rehearsal
13. Bride of Frankenstein
14. Ain't It Nice
15. Pull Down The Shades
16. Frogs (cut)

Bailter Space - Powerstation, Auckland NZ 3-04-90

Bailter Space were from Christchurch New Zealand and had their start in 1980 under the name The Gordons. Over several line up changes The Gordons released two albums. One original member started a new band in 1986 that became Bailter Space and by 1989 the two other original members of The Gordons had joined. Between 1988 and 2013 Bailter Space released nine albums. On this show the band are mostly playing songs from their 2nd album. It's an audience recording and has good sound quality. [from cassette tape]

Discography:  https://www.discogs.com/artist/198668-Bailter-Space
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8xNlolfxFo&list=PL2198FD0D0C290B69

setlist:
01. Skin
02. The Aim
03. The State
04. Hard Wired
05. Fused (cut)
06. Fish Eye
07. Grader Spader (cut)

Birthday Party - 9:30 Club, Washington D.C. 4-10-83

This show was recorded during their last ever US tour and this was their last ever U.S. show. It's an audience recording and sound quality is good. [from cassette tape]

info: http://www.fromthearchives.com/bp/chronology.html

setlist: [from cassette tape]
01. Swampland
02. Sonny's Burning
03. 6" Gold Blade
04. Deep In The Woods
05. Dead Joe
06. Six Strings That Drew Blood
07. Wild World
08. Fears Of Gun
09. Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)
10. She's Hit

Birthday Party - Aladin-Kino, Bremen 7-01-82 + Warehouse, Liverpool 7-23-82

Here's two more from July 1982. The Bremen show was recorded and broadcast by Radio Bremen in Germany. Lydia Lunch sings Funhouse with the band at this show. Sound quality is very good. The Liverpool show is an audience recording. Sound quality is good. [from cassette tape]

info: http://www.fromthearchives.com/bp/chronology.html

@ Aladin-Kino, Bremen 7-01-82: 
01. Big Jesus Trash Can
02. Dead Joe
03. The Friend Catcher
04. A Dead Song
05. 6" Gold Blade
06. Junkyard
07. Hamlet (Pow!Pow!Pow!)
08. She's Hit
09. (Sometimes) Pleasure Heads Must Burn
10. Funhouse (with Lydia Lunch)

@ Warehouse, Liverpool 7-23-82:
01. Big Jesus Trashcan
02. Nick The Stripper
03. Hamlet (Pow!Pow!Pow!)
04. 6" Gold Blade
06. A Dead Song
07. Junkyard (cut)
08. Dead Joe
09. (Sometimes) Pleasure Heads Must Burn
10. The Friend Catcher

Birthday Party - Posthoornkerk, Amsterdam 11-08-81

The Boys Next Door moved to London in February 1980 and on arrival changed the name of the band to The Birthday Party. The first year in London was a slow and difficult one but in 1981 they started touring again, around the UK, fist trip to the USA and at the end of the year they toured around Europe. This show was one show on that tour. It was recorded by VPRO and broadcast on the radio. Soundquality is very good. Unfortunatley, my tape seems to be missing the first three songs, "Nick The Stripper" + "The Dead Songs" + "She's Hit". Those first two songs from this show can be found on the Cremation bootleg LP. [from cassette tape]

info: http://www.fromthearchives.com/bp/chronology.html
discography: https://www.discogs.com/Birthday-Party-Cremation/release/1599310

setlist:
01. Bully Bones
02. Big Jesus Trash Can
03. Junkyard
04. Blast Off
05. King Ink
06. Pleasure Heads
07. Release The Bats
08. radio DJ speaks

Boys Next Door - Swinburne College, Melbourne 8-19-77

Boys Next Door were from Melbourne Australia and started off in 1976. Initially the band started as a four piece and were playing mostly cover songs with just a few originals in the classic 1977 style. In 1978 they released their first single with a cover of Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Were Made For Walking" on the a-side and an original on the b-side with an additional song being released on the Lethal Weapon comp. LP. In late 1978 the band added an additional guitarist and the sound change. They released two LPs and a few more singles before changing their name the The Birthday Party. This recording is one of their earliest shows and it was recorded by 3SW student radio. Sound quality is very good. [from cassette tape]

info: http://www.fromthearchives.com/bnd/chronology.html
info: http://www.innercitysound.com.au/BoysNextDoor.html
Discography: https://www.discogs.com/artist/78466-The-Boys-Next-Door

setlist:
01. Blitzkrieg Bop
02. Ain't It Funny
03. I'm 18
04. Gloria
05. Masturbation Generation
06. Who Needs You?
07. I Put A Spell On You
08. Commando
09. My Generation
10. Big Future
11. These Boots Are Made or Walking
12. World Panic
13. Louie Louie

Kim Salmon & The Surrealists - Prince of Wales, Melbourne 10-14-88

Kim Salmon was the singer in the Scientists. When that band split up he started this band. They released their first album in 1988. This show is an audience recording with good sound quality. Can anyone fill in the song titles?

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Salmon_and_the_Surrealists
discography: https://www.discogs.com/artist/416860-Kim-Salmon-And-The-Surrealists
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opWPpiqnZvI
 

setlist:
01. title unknown
02. Sundown, Sundown
03. Intense
04. title unknown
05. title unknown
06. Blue Velvet
07. title unknown
08. Bad Birth
09. title unknown
10. You Look Like An Angel
11. title unknown
12. Measure Of Love
13. title unknown
14. Swampland
15. title unknown
16. Feel
17. title unknown

Church - Los Angeles 1984 + Leeds 1990

Church were a Post Punk band formed in Canberra Australia in 1980. They released their first single in that year and have since release many album and singles, the last being in 2017. The Los Angeles show is an audience recording with good sound quality and the Leeds show is from a BBC In concert radio broadcast and sound quality is excellent.

Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/258153-The-Church
info: http://www.innercitysound.com.au/Church.html

@ USC, Los Angeles 10-24-84: [from cassette tape]
01. One Day
02. Electric Lash
03. Tear It All Away
04. Constant In Opal
05. Volumes
06. You Took
07. Just For You
08. Almost With You
09. Shadow Cabinet
10. Unguarded Moment

@ Leeds Polytechnic, Leeds England 5-18-90:
01. North South East And West
02. Terra Nova Cain
03. Destination
04. Fading Away
05. Under The Milky Way
06. You've Got To Go

Scientists - Tivoli, Adelaide 8-07-83

The Scientists started out by releasing the now classic single Frantic Romantic in 1979 which was perhaps on the Powerpop/Buzzcocks side Punk, but still great. By the time of this recording they had released two LPs and several singles and the sound had moved a bit more towards a Post Punk sound. Still great of course. This recording is a soundboard recording and the sound quality is excellent.

Discography: http://www.fromthearchives.com/ks/discography.htm
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G091gZcwmAg

setlist: [from cassette]
01. Swampland
02. Raver
03. The Spin
04. Wall
05. Crazy Heart
06. She Cracked
07. This Is My Happy Hour
08. Clear Spot
09. When Fate Deals Its Mortal Blow
10. Rev Head
11. Set It On Fire
12. Burn Out
13. This Life Of Yours
14. Solid Gold Hell