Here's one for all the NYHC heads out there, AGNOSTIC FRONT live at CBGB's, on June 9th, 1985. This was with Absence Of Malice, Seizure, and Half Life. This was their first hometown show back after being on tour a month prior, so I imagine the band and audience are all stoked. Seems like it from the energy of the performance, it's a good one. Decent enough mix from the soundboard as well, so that's cool. If you dig AF, have at it! - DH
AGNOSTIC FRONT - June 9th, 1985 @ CBGB's, New York City, NY
Gonna keep this one short as I ain't got much time, but this recording speaks for itself anyway. CRICIFIX isn't a band that needs any introduction. So what we have here is a soundboard recording of them performing at the legendary CBGB's in early 1984. How kickass is that? Now, there are some technical difficulties in the early portion of the set, like the vocal mic seems to be cutting out during the first song, but it's punk so deal with it. Things get sorted and the set rages on. Play this one loud! And if anyone has a flyer, photos, or knows the setlist, chime in below! - DH
CRUCIFIX - January 7th, 1984 @ CBGB's, New York City, NY
This is a killer set from REAGAN YOUTH out of New York City at the legendary CBGB's. It's a soundboard recording with a decent mix as well, hell yeah. This sounds worse than the copy that was uploaded by Fullmetal Archivist on Youtube HERE, but this is more complete, with a couple more songs, including the Led Zeppelin medley. There is some confusion over the date though, hopefully I can get it cleared up. My tape's J card lists this show as happening on December 19th, 1982. I have another tape with this set on it also listed on this date. Fullmetal Archivist lists it as December 17th, 1982. There are a couple copyright notices that list the songs that were officially released as recorded on December 17th, 1983. Who's right? No idea at the moment, but I'll default to the band and the label here for now until I find out otherwise. Anyone could be wrong. Bands forget or are inattentive to these details, labels screw up, and tapers and traders certainly have typos all the time. Perhaps when I come across the other sources I have of this show I'll have the mystery sorted, and I look forward to seeing how it compares audio quality wise with this tape and the others that are online already. Oh, a clue about the proper year is that they mention playing an upcoming New Years Eve anarchist festival with Crucifix. If anyone knows about this show, and can verify the year, speak up please! - DH
REAGAN YOUTH - December 17th, 1983 @ CBGB's, New York City, NY
Ok, did a new transfer of this 7 SECONDS live soundboard tape recorded at the legendary CBGB's in New York City, 1985. This time I ran it through Izotope which gives me the ability to wiggle some of the levels. Vocals were turned down, guitars were turned up. This should sound better this way, the guitars were pretty buried in the mix as they often are with soundboard recordings.
So this is a killer set, and the recording sounds pretty decent, but when the band has to stop for a bit and let people fill the space with "jokes" then it's an ugly reminder of the time period this was. Someone starts cracking jokes about punks, and that's cool, but then some starts with "jokes" about Ethiopians and it just just racist as all hell for a minute. Back then most younger folks would know of Ethiopia because of all the television ads asking for donations, so it just seems a lot meaner in the context that these were people in need of help. Big oof. I debated omitting it but I'm not down with editing shit like that, even as ugly as it is. Feel free to skip it or delete it. I couldn't fault ya for that. It's easy to hear these old recordings and think of how badass the scene likely was (for those of us not there at that time), but these bits are a reminder that it certainly had it's downside. - DH
7 SECONDS - September 21st, 1985 @ CBGB’s, New York City, NY Setlist: 01. [ line check ] 02. Young Til I Die 03. Here’s Your Warning 04. In Your Face 05. Out Of Touch 06. Put These Words To Music 07. How Do You Think You’d Feel? 08. Compro 09. Regress No Way 10. Colorblind 11. Spread 12. Not Just Boy’s Fun 13. This Is The Angry (Part 2) 14. [ "jokes" ] 15. Still Believe 16. Committed For Life 17. Grown Apart 18. New Wind 19. [encore break] 20.. Walk Together, Rock Together 21. 99 Red Balloons [Nena cover] —————————— AUD > ANA(x) > WAV > FLAC Equipment and Programs used : Nakamichi CR7A > Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 > Izotope rx8 . Audio HiJack > FCPX > MediaHuman —————————— DOWNLOADS
