Taking it back to the 90's with this complete soundboard recording of the SLIGHT SLAPPERS set in 1997 at Fiesta Grande #5 at 924 Gilman Street. Growing up on the east coast, I never got to see any of the Fiesta Grande shows, so it's a real treat to get to listen to these recordings in full, as I was a big fan of the Fiesta Comes Alive compilation. I did get to see Slight Slappers a couple times when they came out here last, what a fun live band. I don't know if the tape conveys it accurately but I have a joint burning and it is sitting just fine with me. What a great band. Hopefully you dig 'em too, crank this one! - DH
SLIGHT SLAPPERS - January 10th, 1997 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
Today's offering is from SUBVERT, a punk band from the Pacific Northwest. I know nothing about them, though I feel like I've seen their name on fliers and seen them get mentioned favorably on the ol social medias. Here's a noisy raw audience recording of them opening for Neurosis and Final Conflict at 924 Gilman St in January of 1988. Glad someone recorded this, as I hadn't come across any other Subvert live recordings yet. It's an audience recording too, which is a nice change from Gilman soundboards I often post, which have mixes that clearly were not made for the tapes and can be a challenging listen. Though this recording does have moment early one when it's interrupted by a young Steve Von Till yelling into the recorder. It's a bit funny that this is before Steve was in Neurosis too, just him chillin at a Subvert / Neurosis show as a fan. Anyhoo, hope ya dig this as much as I do! - DH
SUBVERT - January 2nd, 1988 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
VICTIM'S FAMILY! I don't have a lot of VF to post, but I have some, and this is one of those. I've listened to this a few times and have been excited to share it. Today feels like a good day to share the VF so here ya go. I don't know anything about this show, but it's a decent audience recording, a nice change from the Gilman soundboards that had super uneven mixes. I didn't do any EQ'ing of this show either, it's just a straight rip from the tape. Shows like this make me wish I grew up in the bay and was perhaps a few years older. I liked listening to bands like them, or NoMeansNo. At least I've seen Victim's Family a couple times since living out here, better late than never! Anyhoo, enjoy the tape! Shayne over at 3 Cameras And A Microphone probably has a better copy he'll upload eventually, but until then, this is it. Cheers! - DH
VICTIM'S FAMILY - February 28th, 1988 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
Here's a gem for you powerviolence and hardcore enthusiasts! CAPITALIST CASUALTIES live at 924 Gilman St, in 1990! This predates them going to SoCal and meeting up with bands like MITB and Crossed Out, before powerviolence was a scene or even a word. Now, I don't know much about the show specifically, none of the other bands are on here. And looking through the Gilman show guide, I see no mention of them playing a show in January 1990. Perhaps they were added to a show after a flyer was made, perhaps it's a mistake from the taper, who knows. I'm just gonna go by what's on the tape for now. Regardless, it's an imperfect audience recording of a very early CC show, it is what it is. I think it's god damned awesome, hopefully you do as well. RIP Shawn and Spider Mike. - DH
CAPITALIST CASUALTIES - January 1990, @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
CAVITY is a Florida sludge band that I imagine anyone my age would remember, they were super prolific with releasing albums and 7"s. It has been a great long while since I've listened to anything by them, so I really looked forward to re-acquainting myself with their songs. Burned a joint, got my coffee, and got comfortable. And it did not disappoint. I never did get to see them live however, sure wish I grew up where I live now, as I would have been at this show for sure. Thankfully Chris Dodge had it recorded through the soundboard and it actually sounds pretty damn sick. So perhaps you should also be firing up that coffee or weed or both and cranking this one up. - DH
CAVITY - January 10th, 1997 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
If you know me, you know I love Noothgrush. Loooove 'em. Love their music, love them as people, they rule. So I'm quite stoked to be sharing this here, the soundboard recording of their set at the 5th Fiesta Grande, at 924 Gilman St in 1997. I think I did a little quick EQ'ing on this, and it helped boost the badass-ness of this recording. This is of course legally and morally required to be played at the highest possible volume, and listened to by the highest possible people. Get to it. - DH
NOOTHGRUSH - January 10th, 1997 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
Dang, NO FOR AN ANSWER is suuuuuuper straightedge. Or were. Maybe they still are. I dunno, but they really were going hard for it back in the 80's. I've never seen them live but I have a few live video and audio recordings and these guys were always sxe to the point of it being silly. I know they are striving to be really true and earnest and sincere and all that, and maybe I'm just a dumb pothead, but in every live clip I've seen they had the goofiest straight edge stage banter. This set has a couple great examples that just makes my skeleton want to jump out of my skin and run away. Their 'anti casual sex, anti abortion, etc" song, and their weird and fawning monologue before their Agnostic Front cover finale (spoiler alert). It's just too much. And yet I can't help but smoke weed and play this stuff loud. I'm a complicated person I suppose. If you are too, crank this, smoke up, and have a laugh along with me. - DH
NO FOR AN ANSWER - March 27th, 1988 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
From the Chris Dodge collection of tapes is this bad boy, HELLNATION live at the Fiesta Grande #5, at 924 Gilman St in Berkeley, CA. It's fast, it's noisy, the riffs are a blur, and it brings back a lot of 90's nostalgia hearing them again. So burn a joint and crank this one up - DH
HELLNATION - January 10th, 1997 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
SONS OF ISHMAEL hail from the mean streets of Toronto, Canada, and in 1987 came out to the equally mean streets of Berkeley, California and played a show at 924 Gilman St, opening for Youth Of Today. I'm not sure if they were on tour together, or if they just used the power of Canadian intimidation to bully their way onto the show.
So what we get here though is an uneven all over the place board mix that is typical for Gilman board recordings of the time. I tried to balance things out via Izotope, but while I can find a general level where most of the recording will sound ok-ish, I can't do anything about the mix not settling. So this may not be for everyone except those die hard SOI fans. There are times when it sounds ok though, so it's good enough for an upload. - DH
SONS OF ISHMAEL - August 7th, 1987 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
Dang! I uploaded this soundboard from SCREW 32 about two weeks ago, and then got busy and forgot to post the upload here! Well, kiddo-s back in school so now I can do more uploading and whatnot, for those paying attention. Here's one I got from my buddy Jake Kelly, a pretty decent soundboard from Screw 32, playing with Spitboy. I like this, though I'm still not overly familiar with Screw 32, I think I've only heard one album and I don't own any of their stuff. Had I grown up out here in the east bay, maybe I'd have been way more into them. If this is your cup of tea, I think you'll really like this! Enjoy! - DH
SCREW 32 - January 6th, 1995 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
As I listen to this upload I wonder why, WHY did I upload this!?! The band in question, DIDDLY SQUAT is, or were, great. They were a tri-cities Washington band that would later on have members in other great WA bands like Christ On A Crutch, Aspirin Feast, and Brotherhood, and of course is a band with Nate Mandell on bass who would later be known for Sunny Day Real Estate and Foo Fighters, and then would later on become a total kook who was into some weird AIDs denialism stuff. What a goon. Anyhoo, the band was killer. This tape however, maybe not so much. Not for any fault of the band, but it's a Gilman soundboard from 1987, notorious for bad board recording mixes because they had a small board in the beginning and they were obviously more concerned with having a good mix in the room, not a tape recording. So yeah, 1987 Gilman board tapes are more often misses than hits. I did what I could to help it but there's not much that could be done when the mix fluctuates so wildly. So why did I upload this? Because have you ever seen another Diddly Squat live tape? No? That's right, this band was shortlived and so there's just no other stuff that I've come across yet. So this is it, and if you are curious, here ya go. If you've never heard the band, follow the tags below to hear their 1987 demo. - DH
DIDDLY SQUAT - August 8th, 1987 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
Here's a fun set from the mighty MDC, live at 924 Gilman St in July of 1987. For this show they ripped up the setlist and put the songs in something and had the audience draw them and they would play it. The mix on this is all over the place though, if you've checked out other Gilman soundboards on my site from 87 or 88 you should be familiar with this. It is what it is, nothing I could do to fix this fully. I did boost some things, but I cant do anything about the wildly fluctuating mix. Still, might be neat if you were there, or just want a random MDC show to listen to. - DH
MDC - July 25th, 1987 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
Here's a killer one that I got not from someone around here in the bay area, but off an east coaster in a lot of old live tapes and demos that I won on eBay. I was particularly stoked to hear this one, hoping for a tape copy of the soundboard, which I have heard but it's on a DVD, edited into the footage from that night. I'd love a lossless copy but honestly, it didn't sound good. The guitars were far too low, as normal for some of those kinds of tapes. So instead of a soundboard, to my surprise this is an audience recording. Given the problems with Gilman soundboards that I just mentioned, I always appreciate any recordings anyone had the foresight to make from out in the crowd, hell yeah. Sadly it's just the Op Ivy set and not the others. And I have no gen or taper info so I'm not sure if this taper recorded the other bands or not. Still I'm happy that this exists and that I can share it with ya'll, enjoy! Killer and fun performance, check that setlist! - DH
OPERATION IVY - December 31st, 1987 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
Did you grow up gong to punk shows at 924 Gilman St in the later half of the 90's? If so I suspect you may have seen this band at least a few times. Or perhaps you just dig that scene, this might be for you. It's a soundboard I got from my buddy Jake and if it's his then odds are it's something decent. Personally, I'm not familiar with them, but I certainly have seen their name on older flyers and such. Listening now, it's not bad at all, though it's a Gilman soundboard and that can be hit or miss. But the music is cool. I was onto heavier stuff by this point but I think that if I had come across this just a couple years prior I might have dug this. - DH
SUBINCISION - September 2nd, 1995 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
Life has been quite busy making regular postings difficult, but hopefully I can get things back on track. Kicking this month off with a SPAZZ soundboard from 1999 recorded at 924 Gilman St. It's not awesome sounding at all, it's pretty much just drums and vocals, I boosted the bass and guitar as much as I could but listening to it now it wouldn't sound like I did anything at all to it. Some recordings there just can't be much done to it, without creating weird audio artifacting and such. Not sure why I'm even posting this to be honest, but just in case a Spazz completist wants to hear it, here it is. - DH
SPAZZ - May 15th, 1999 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
Here's a not-so-great audience recording of FILTH live at 924 Gilman St in 1990. There's a really good soundboard recording of Neurosis from this night, I wonder if Filth was recorded as well? For now, enjoy this, it might not be the best sounding but how often do you find live Filth tapes these days? Gotta enjoy it for the rarity of it. Thanks to Jake Kelly for loaning me the tape to digitize and share. Enjoy! - DH
FILTH - April 28th, 1990 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
Yet another band that I'm not familiar with, SCREW 32 live at 924 Gilman St in 1994. If I had come across these guys earlier in life I would have dug them a whole lot, especially if I had grown up out here in the bay area and had seen them play a bunch. As an adult, it's not generally in my wheelhouse but I can still appreciate and enjoy them, especially live because they certainly seem to be a fun live band. If you liked them, you'll like this as well, as it's a pretty decent soundboard tape. - DH
SCREW 32 - October 15th, 1994 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
Fuck yeah, Stormy! I love STORMCROW, they are local and I saw them too many times to count from about 2004 until the end. This was a birthday show for a bunch of buddies that had birthdays in December, so it was an all local show and I have a vague memory of it being a good time. A show like this would have had a whole lot of smokin going on outdoors, and I'm sure I was right up in that action. So yeah, Stormcrow ruled. This is a rare soundboard recording from the set, slightly rebalanced in Izotope. I hope ya dig it! - DH
STORMCROW - December 12th, 2009 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
Hell yeah, today's post is a soundboard recording from THE BODY at 924 Gilman Street in 2012. I've seen this band a whole lot, starting in Ohio in 2000 and then all over the Bay Area. Sometimes they've been incredible. Occasionally they've been a little "meh". That happens when you've seen a band a lot, not all nights are winners. But I always appreciate the fact that just about every single night was different, this was a band that took chances and every time they came through I'd want to see them to see what they did next. This was a night that to me as an audience member felt like a banger. This was an incredible show from start to finish, and all were recorded, but the only ones that came out listenable was this set and the one from Brainoil, which I've already uploaded. Swamp Witch, Negative Standards, and Thou also played, it's a shame the recordings came out completely unlistenable. Grateful this one came out though, as for as many times as I saw The Body, I never really recorded much live audio from them. I did videotape them a handful of times, but this is a blog dedicated to audio recordings, so I'm glad to have at least one thing to contribute from these guys to this site. Hopefully you folks dig it as well, enjoy! - DH
THE BODY - January 14th, 2012 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA
