T.S.O.L. + Minutemen @ San Francisco, CA 1981-10-26 (FM)
Minutemen
10.26.81
Mabuhay Gardens - KUSF 90.3 FM Radio Simulcast
San Francisco, CA
Opening for T.S.O.L.
01. Static
02. If Reagan Played Disco
03. Clocks
04. Warfare
05. Joy
06. The Maze
07. Joe McCarthy's Ghost
08. Maternal Rite
09. Black Sheep
10. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
11. Search
12. Prelude
13. History Lesson
14. Straight Jacket
15. More Joy
16. The Punch Line
17. Working Men Are Pissed
18. Fanatics
19. Definitions
20. Sickles And Hammers
21. Paranoid Chant
22. Tension
T.S.O.L.
Mabuhay Gardens - KUSF FM
San Francisco, CA
1981-10-26 (Monday)
THTP Radio Release 2003
Lineage: FM > unknown generations trade cassettes > Trade CDR > Terry
Dime release processing: AIFF > FFMPEG > 16 bit FLAC 8 > tagging, cover, checksums.
Setlist:
01. intro > KUSF > tuning >
02. Dance With Me
03. Superficial Love
04. Property Is Theft
05. Die For Me// > KUSF/equipment glitches >
06. Peace Thru Power
07. The Triangle
08. Word Is
09. Abolish Government/Silent Majority > tuning
10. Sounds of Laughter
11. Silent Scream
12. Funeral March
13. Code Blue
14. World War 3 > break, noises
15. > break, noises > KUSF patter > Ramones station ID >
Encore? [apparently some confusion re the break happened, if show was over or not]:
16. Die For Me
17. I'm Tired of Life
18. Love Story
19. > KUSF outro
Length: 44:57
Band:
Jack Grisham - vocals
Ron Emory - guitar
Mike Roche - bass
Todd Barnes - drums
Notes:
* Audio Quality: Good/Strange (if it weren't for for that odd intermittent electrical thing and the frequent cable buzz/breaks, I'd say it's Very Good)
* Takes a while for the vocals on track 2 to be pulled into the mix.
* I think I got most of the track titles right, but if not, please correct. This show came without any titles.
* There's an odd electrical thing going on in this recording. It might have been in the playback device[s], or in the phone line, no way to tell. It's kind of an artificial electrical series of intermittent spikes. There's also PA/sound system buzz, and frequent mic/cable buzzes throughout the set, but the electrical spikes are different from those sound system based things. It could also be phone line buzzes (back then, these would be copper phone lines, not very high tech...)
* Note that KUSF broadcast these actually live, over I believe a dedicated phone line, whereas the Terry Hammer KALX Fab Mab shows were taped and played back from tape later. This set kind of highlights pretty much every single thing that could go wrong in a live broadcast except for the sound system blowing out or the house losing mains. The chaos that T.S.O.L. enjoyed spreading seems to have taken over the technical parts of this broadcast as well, which is kind of funny in a punk sort of way.
* It sounds like somebody jumps up on stage now and then and sings right into one of the mics. That happened a lot at shows, so no reason to believe it didn't happen this time.
* During the 'encore' break, you can hear the house playing the Sex Pistols 'Submission'. You can tell this is real live radio, low budget.
* T.S.O.L. stands for True Sounds Of Liberty.
* This tour may have been to support their first Frontier Records LP, "Dance with Me".
* T.S.O.L. was one of the more interesting bands out there at this time. When their peers were all lining up to become 'hardcore' clones, or 'purists', T.S.O.L. still managed to retain its creativity and sense of humor, which confused some 'hardcore' fans. You can read more about this strange relationship T.S.O.L. had with the hardcore 'scene', and in particular, its fans, in "Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1989", which touches on that topic fairly frequently.
* About the group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.S.O.L.
"T.S.O.L. (True Sounds of Liberty) is an American punk rock band formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California. Although most commonly associated with hardcore punk, T.S.O.L.'s music has varied on each release, including such styles as deathrock, art punk, horror punk and other varieties of punk music.
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Formed in 1978 in Long Beach, T.S.O.L. originated as a punk band, developing from earlier bands SS Cult and Johnny Koathanger and the Abortions. The original lineup consisted of vocalist Jack Grisham (who has been credited as Jack Greggors, Alex Morgon, Jack Ladoga, Jack Delauge and Jack Loyd, among pseudonyms), guitarist Ron Emory, bassist Mike Roche and drummer Todd Barnes. According to legend, the band acquired their instruments by casing a local music shop, waiting until closing, and then performing a smash-and-grab robbery.
Later in 1978, Grisham and Barnes formed Vicious Circle, and T.S.O.L. took a brief hiatus (in 2013, TKO Records released an eponymous Vicious Circle EP, composed of circa-1979 rehearsal tapes).
T.S.O.L.'s debut five-song EP, T.S.O.L., was released in spring 1981 by Posh Boy Records, featuring the reconvened original lineup. This first release was harshly political, featuring tracks such as "Superficial Love," "World War III" and "Abolish Government."
Their first full-length album, Dance with Me, was released later in 1981 on Frontier Records, and showcased a more gothic/deathrock sound. They then signed to independent label Alternative Tentacles, releasing the Weathered Statues EP early in 1982, and the melodic Beneath the Shadows album later that year; the latter featured a new member, keyboardist Greg Kuehn.
Amid personal turmoil, Grisham, Barnes and Kuehn all left the band in 1983. "
* About Posh Boy Records: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posh_Boy_Records
"Posh Boy Records was a Hollywood, California-based record label owned by the American-born, British-educated Robbie "Posh Boy" Fields, a sometime high school substitute teacher and former copy boy at the Los Angeles Times who took an interest in the emerging punk rock scene in Orange County, California during the late 1970s.
The label's releases enjoyed substantial airplay on Rodney Bingenheimer's show on KROQ-FM, and some of them, notably the Fields-produced version of "Amoeba" by the Adolescents and the Stephen Hague-produced electronic rock track "Are You Ready for the Sex Girls" by the Sparks offshoot the Gleaming Spires, made it into regular programming on the station.
Social Distortion was one of many bands whose first recordings were issued by Posh Boy. One of the label's most successful releases was Agent Orange's debut, Living in Darkness, containing "Bloodstains", an extreme sports anthem covered by many alternative rock groups (the most notable being the Offspring in 2000 on the Ready to Rumble film soundtrack)."
* Posh Boy Records were another very influential independent record label, as we've seen throughout this series, small independents were the lifeblood of the scene, that's where the DJs got the music, and the fans. They put out everyone from T.S.O.L., Agent Orange, Social Distortion, to Blackflag and the Circle Jerks.
* Posh Boy discography: https://www.discogs.com/label/92243-Posh-Boy-Records
* About the Mabuhay Gardens:
The Mabuhay Gardens (a.k.a. The Fab Mab or The Mab) was a San Francisco nightclub located at 443 Broadway (at Montgomery), on the Broadway strip of North Beach, an area best known for its striptease clubs.
...
Originally a Filipino restaurant and club owned by the late Ness Aquino, it featured many Filipino celebrities, including Amapola (a.k.a. Amapola Cabase). Aquino and Amapola also co-hosted a weekly television program, The Amapola Presents Show on KEMO TV Channel 20
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During the late 1970s, Jerry Paulsen was the first promoter of bands to appear at the Mab on a regular basis. He booked them on Mondays and Tuesdays to begin with so he could showcase the bands that he featured in Psyclone magazine to existing record executives. The scene became so popular that he was soon booking two bands a night seven days a week. Bay Area punk and New Wave bands performed there, and it was an important touring stop for bands from beyond the San Francisco Bay Area. Among the local bands that performed regularly at the Mabuhay were The Adaptors, Avengers, Dead Kennedys, The Nuns, Crime, Dils, Pearl Harbor and the Explosions, The Mortals, new wave band Judy Garland, the Tubes and Wall of Voodoo, to name a few. After he left, Dirksen (the "pope of punk") booked The Dead Boys, Nico, The Runaways, Devo, X, The Police, SVT, The Go-Go's, Motörhead, Sun Ra and his Arkestra, Patti Smith, The Jim Carroll Band, REM and others. Comedians such as Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams also made early appearances at the venue."
* San Francisco renamed that small alley next to the On Broadway/Mabuhay "Dirk Dirksen Place" to honor Dirk's contributions to the cultural heritage of San Francisco. The alley next to City Lights Books (founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, at 261 Columbus, right by Broadway, a few blocks from the Mab... and somewhere the more literate people in the scene would have spent time) was similarly renamed Kerouac Alley to honor the famous beat writer. It was originally named Rowland Ave but Kathy Peck of the band Contractions and founder of H.E.A.R. (Hearing Education & Awareness for Rockers) spearheaded a movement to get the name changed to dirk dirksen Place.
* To give you an idea of how much times have changed since then, the 433 Broadway building was recently listed at around $10,000,000!!!
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The 2000 series of releases are not Terry Hammer Mixing board/AUD recordings. They were recorded either off of FM radio (by Terry, or by other people), or, in a few cases, are sourced from pre-FM tapes.
Terry recommends these recordings very highly. The radio stations (like KSAN) recorded these with a full sound truck, and very high end gear, so the sound is usually very good quality.
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Note on sources:
FM - recorded using an FM tuner to cassette deck.
Pre-FM - source tapes were from the pre-broadcast tapes.
Note on quality:
Because these FM and PreFM shows come from a variety of sources, and have various qualities, I will list the relative qualities of each 2xxx series release. These qualities refer ONLY to the actual audio quality, not to the performances.
* Excellent - sounds/looks like a first generation master, no degradation of sound, full frequency range.
* Very good - 2nd gen or maybe lower bias cassette used to record.
* Good - audible hiss or dropouts, likely higher generation.
* Fair - sounds ok, but has audio issues, either high gen, errors in processing, whatever.
* Poor - does not sound good, for whatever reason.
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