D.O.A. + Dead Kennedys @ San Francisco, CA 1984-06-02

both at https://pixeldrain.com/l/172ZQk3t

DOA
On Broadway
San Francisco, CA
1984-06-02

MYTP 8

Source: SBD > Sony D5M > Cassette Master > CD
Extraction: CD > rubyripper 0.8 (cdparanoia secure rip, cdrdoa TOC) > FLAC
Processing: Audacity (soft limit -0.1db to remove light clipping, phase correct, splits) > FLAC 8 > acxi (tagging, checksums, FLAC data)

Recorded, preserved, shared by micgram
Release processing by teetering

FLAC: 16/44.1 (2 channels)
Quality: 4/4 (17khz, very good)
Time: 40:41.06
Size: 252.0 MiB
Average kb/s: 866
Tracks: 21

Setlist:
01. intro >
02. Fucked Up Ronnie >
03. The Enemy > (Wimpy's mics are not on)
04. A Season In Hell
05. applause, banter >
06. I Hate // You >
07. Burn It Down
08. (thanks to Dave, MDC)
09. Singin' In The Rain (1929, cover)
10. (just show a little consideration), tuning >
11. Our World
12. intro, banter >
13. Lumberjack City
14. audience, tuning >
15. D.O.A. >
16. War (Edwin Starr) >
17. I'm Right You're Wrong >
18. America The Beautiful
19. Fuck You >
20. The Prisoner
21. Dirk outro, On Broadway closing announcements

Band:
Joey Shithead (Joe Keithley ) - vocals, guitar
DAve Greg - guitar
Wimpy Roy (Brian Roy Goble) - bass, vocals
Dimwit (Ken Montgomery) - drums (?)
Ned Peckerwood (Gregg James) - drums (?)

Processing notes:
* Many gaps were removed/edges reconnected. I believe most, but not all, of these gaps were created when the CDR was created/written.
* There is a fadein/out where the tape flip happened (in I Hate You). Side 1 of the tape had the DKs (MTYP007) and the start of DOA, ran out at 46 minutes. Side 2 has the rest of the DOA. About 4 seconds was lost, a good tape flip!
* There are a few fadein/outs, but I don't think too much is missing, one of them is during Dirk's closing comments. See below 'Fadein/out notes:' for previous night's setlist. Start of DOA, track 13, has a short fade in/out, but it's just audience noise. Tuning break 14 has a fadein/out. Dirk's outro fades in/out, but only a few words are lost I think.

Notes:
* There's a bittersweet element to this show, Dirk's closing comments and announcements of the coming shows have a certain somber tone, in a sense, this was the ending of an era, though shows would go on at the Mabuhay.
* Dirk: "We'd appreciate it if you put away the beers and the empties and.. get out..."
* MDC was going to play, but couldn't, but Dave MDC brought a slideshow. Dead Kennedys (MYTP007) filled in for MDC last minute.

* DOA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DOAPUNK
* DOA merch store: https://rockabilia.com/collections/d-o-a
* Bandsintown: https://www.bandsintown.com/a/53767-d.o.a.
* Songkick: https://www.songkick.com/artists/325990-doa

* DOA is touring constantly!!! Check them out if they show up in your town!

* DOA wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.O.A._(band)
"D.O.A. is a Canadian punk rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They are often referred to as the "founders" of hardcore punk along with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Angry Samoans, The Bags, Germs, Negative Trend, and Middle Class. Their second album Hardcore '81 was thought by many[2] to have been the first actual reference to the second wave of the American punk sound as hardcore.
...
Founder Joe Keithley is also the founder of Sudden Death Records which has released music by D.O.A. and several other bands including Pointed Sticks [THTP 66, 96] and Young Canadians."

* DOA Alternative Tentacles: https://alternativetentacles.com/artists/doa/
"Canada’s legendary Punk Kings,who helped spread punk rock counterculture around the world, approach a momentous milestone. For more than 25 years D.O.A. has been happily slashing away at all manner of philosophical enemies. They’ve travelled the globe almost continuously since they formed in 1978; they released their first snarling piece of vinyl, the “Disco Sucks” EP in June of that year. That slab of plastic opened the door to international prominence, riots, and three generations of fans.
In 1981, D.O.A. made the term “hardcore” their own and pushed it into the common vernacular with their legendary album “Hardcore 81″ and subsequent tours. Consequently, D.O.A. has been cited as a major influence for tons of bands ranging from The Red Hot Chili Peppers to Green Day to Rancid to The Offspring. They followed that up with their ground breaking 12” on Alternative Tentacles “War on 45”- which is still in print and just as hard-hitting and timely as when it was released in 1982!
D.O.A. has always worn their politics on their sleeves. They’ve done a lot shit disturbing along the way. They’ve been harassed and busted and survived all that crap. D.O.A.’s straight-forward slogan, TALK-ACTION=0 sums it all up.
The band has played benefits for Rape Relief, anti-racism, rock-for brains, anti-globalization, OXFAM, first nations rights, anti censorship and environmental causes, among many others, putting their art where their ethics are.
D.O.A.’s sound and philosophy has been held together by Canada’s Godfather of punk Joey “Shithead” Keithley’s songwriting, singing and guitar playing. D.O.A.’s sound, although always rooted in punk rock, has managed to create a fair bit of consternation for those who would like to choose musical boxes. It’s punk,but it incorporates rock n’ roll, reggae, metal,and ska. Whatever the hell their sound is, it’s pulled out a “Yeah, that’s the shit!” from the likes of Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sonic Youth, John Doe, Randy Bachman, Dave Grohl, Pete Seeger, and many many more!
DOA has continued in the tradition that they pioneered almost twenty years ago, when they opened the doors for smaller, lesser known hardcore bands to tour in North America, as well as Europe and the rest of the world.  Vancouver’s finest hardcore punk rockers are still going strong, and still turning heads.
D.O.A. has travelled a long, tough road that has taken them around the world and the raw energy continues. In the late 1990s Joey resurrected Sudden Death Records, the band’s label which released their first 7″ in 1978. The label has been releasing new records by DOA, Joey Shithead, and many new and veteran bands since then. Recently Mayor Larry Campbell of Vancouver declared December 21st to be “D.O.A. Day” in Vancouver. The band has also been featured in punk and political books published around the world."

* About Joe Keithly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Keithley
"Joseph Edward "Joey Shithead" Keithley (né Keighley; June 3, 1956) is a Canadian punk musician who is best known as the lead guitarist and vocalist of the punk band DOA. He was elected a city councillor in Burnaby, BC in the 2018 municipal elections as a member of the Burnaby Green Party.
...
In 1977, Keithley, along with Chuck Biscuits' older brother, started a band called the Skulls.[6] After the breakup of the Skulls, Keithley formed D.O.A. with Biscuits. In 1990 D.O.A. briefly disbanded, and in that time Keithley started a band called Joey Keithley's Instinct.[7] However, Keithley quickly turned back to D.O.A, re-constructing the line-up and releasing a new album. "
* Unlike many 'radical' punk singers, Joe never stopped and never gave up his principles, and lives them to this day.
* Brian Roy Goble was the singer of Subhumans (US version) before joining DOA. RIP 1994.
* Ken Montgomery (Dimwit) was Skulls drummer, and initially joined DOA on bass, but then switched to drums . He was not in the band for a few months in 1984.
* It's not clear who was drumming on this gig, both Dimwit and Ned are listed as being drummer in the band in 1984, but not at the same time.

* Sudden Death Records: https://www.suddendeath.com/
"In 2003, Shithead’s first book "I Shithead,a life in punk" came out on Arsenal Pulp Press. It is a definitive and raunchy look at punk and the spread of counter culture throughout western society. Sudden Death has also released "Let’s Start The Action," an electronic tribute to D.O.A. performed by 20 different artists from around the world and inspired by the anti-globalization movement. As well, Sudden Death has recently re-released D.O.A.’s 1st two albums"Something Better Change" and "Hardcore 81", recently picked as two of the top 5 Canadian punk rock albums of all time. A full length documentary on D.O.A. "Talk-Action=0" is being developed by filmmaker Marcus Rogers [The Widower]."
* Discogs Sudden Death Records: https://www.discogs.com/label/42274-Sudden-Death-Records

* About the On Broadway (435 Broadway, at Montgomery St., San Francisco, CA):
The On Broadway was basically the 2nd floor of the Mabuhay Gardens. It was not quite as grungy as the Fab Mab in its heyday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabuhay_Gardens
"The Mabuhay was in the lower level of the 435 Broadway building, which also housed the On Broadway Theater, known in 1984-1985 as "Rock on Broadway."
Dirksen had a unique style as emcee, deliberately baiting and trading insults with audience and band members, which had the effect of raising the energy of audience and performers alike. Dirksen’s abrasive performance was a central part of the atmosphere of the Mabuhay.
Dirksen and Aquino dissolved their agreement in the early 1980s over disputes concerning Dirksen booking all his higher profile shows at the venue directly upstairs from the Mabuhay, The On Broadway Theater."
* More on the On Broadway/Mab: https://oldpunkflyers.tumblr.com/mabuhaygardens
"After booking both venues for a period of time Dirksen moved his entire operation upstairs. Aquino brought in two young booking agents, Michael Reidy and David Kaplan who started "Punk Nights" on Monday's with free spaghetti featuring bands like Urban Assault, Fuck Ups, MDC, Code Of Honor and Sick Pleasure. In their 4 year tenure post Dirksen, Reidy and Kaplan soon started doing weekends as well with bands like Social Distortion, Agent Orange, Wipers, Richard Hell, Johnny Thunders as well as goth bands like 45 Grave and Specimen. The two venues engaged in booking wars, Reidy and Kaplan finally left in 1986.
The Mabuhay Gardens closed in 1988, at the very end Aquino attempted to move his operation upstairs to the On Broadway (by then vacated by Dirksen) under the moniker of “The Mab On Broadway."
* Even more about the On Broadway: https://acidheroes.wordpress.com/2013/12/11/the-on-broadway-theater/
"People still talk about the legendary Mabuhay Gardens and the Elite Club. But you rarely hear about the On Broadway Theater these days. Which is odd, because it was the primo venue for San Francisco punk bands back in the 1980s.
The On Broadway Theater was run by the legendary Dirk Dirksen.
...
The On Broadway Theater itself was a beautifully laid-out piece of architecture. It had the vibe of a decadent and decaying haunted mansion right out of the Addam’s Family. You walked up a narrow staircase to get into the place. The seating and the balcony was akin to the most cozy and comfortable, beat-up old movie theatre. Then there was a bar in the next room. And an outdoor patio where you could sit and drink around tables and clear your head with some fresh air. And if the bands sucked, you could always go downstairs and check out the more intimate setting of the Fab Mab. Outside there was the narrow alleyway where the roadies loaded and unloaded the bands, and where drugs were scored and beefs were settled (usually over cracked heads and bloody noses)."
* 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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Fadein/out notes:
It doesn't look like much was missed on the fade in/outs, as you can see from the setlist from the day before DOA played roughly the same number of songs in their set.

Setlist:
Grand Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1984-06-01:

Fucked Up Ronnie
I Hate You
Burn It Down
Singin' in the Rain (Nacio Herb Brown cover)
Our World
D.O.A.
Tits on the Beach
Slumlord
:001 Loser's Club
I'm Right, You're Wrong
America the Beautiful
Fuck You (The Subhumans cover)
The Prisoner
Takin' Care of Business

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No distribution in lossy formats!!
No selling!!
No bootlegging!!
Yes sharing. Definitely share.

Support the artists when or if they play, and buy their records/merchandise.

Please correct any errors or oversights in this information in the comments section so the information can be as accurate as possible.

If you can find related materials like flyers, posters, ticket stubs, even photos, etc, please add them in a comment and I will add them to the main release folder, so that can be included on the next re-seeding. Every bit is welcome, and as I am time constrained on this project due to the amount of material, I cannot spend as much time on each release doing research as I would like, so if we can add to and improve the information and release contents during this series, that would be great.

Please make an effort to pick at least one of these MYTP releases and keep it seeded for as long as you can, particularly the lesser known groups. That will really help out long term.

--------------------------------------------------------
About Michael Young and the MYTP:

Michael: "I lived in the bay area 1980-92. Being a Deadhead I had a lot of friends who recorded shows, so when I got a nice Sony D5M (in 83, I think it was) I would bring it with me to the Mabuhay Gardens and On Broadway and other places as well. I would ask the sound man if I could plug in and they usually said yes. I did this mostly in 1984 a few in 85. My first punk show was in my hometown of Philadelphia at a place called the Hot Club in 1978. I was hooked on the high energy and the fun of slamming around... I think my first SF hardcore punk show was Flipper at Kezar Pavilion in May of '81. I might have seen some other bands around town before that but that one sticks out for sure."
[teetering: I was also at that Kezar TG/Flipper show. Flipper was great that night.]

TECH:
Michael used a Sony D5M portable cassette recorder, plugged into the soundboard outs, to record most of these shows. This was for the time a very expensive unit, with some advanced features, which probably accounts for why these recordings are so good in general.

* D5M manual: https://transom.org/wp-content/uploads/2005/02/om.tcd5m.pdf
* About D5M: https://transom.org/2005/sony-tc-d5m/
All metal, reliable, simple, and fixable, it runs on two D-cells

* More on the D5M: https://www.cassettedeck.org/sony/tc-d5m
This Sony TC-D5M is a stereo cassette deck with Dolby B noise reduction, it was first sold by Sony in 1979 with a recommended retail price of USD $680 [about $2500 in today's dollars] and discontinued a year later.
The main features of the Sony TC-D5M are: 2 heads, mechanical 3 digit tape counter, manual tape type selection and capable of handling normal, chrome, ferro-chrome and metal tapes, belt driven single-capstan transport.
Typical of this deck is the 70's top loading layout with the cassette compartiment located on the left side of the deck. Tape eject is operated mechanically and the cassette needs to be placed with the side to be played facing forward in the cassette well.
Level meters used on the TC-D5M are analog needle VU reading meters. Mechanical transport controls for reliable TC-D5M transport function selection.
The Dolby-B system reduces tape hiss on tapes recorded on the TC-D5M by as much as 10 dB at the highest frequencies. The 19kHz multiplex pilot slgnal present in FM stereo broadcasts can cause false triggering of the noise reduction system. The switchable MPX filter of the TC-D5M filters out the pilot signal, and assuring proper Dolby processing of FM stereo programs.
To make live recordings this deck has 2 microphone inputs to connect microphones with a jack connector.

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About Dirk Dirksen and the Mabuhay Gardens/On Broadway:

Dirk Dirksen (RIP 2006), aka 'The Pope of Punk', was the music promotor and MC (but really more accurately, the impresario) of the Mabuhay Gardens/On Broadway punk clubs. Dirk was an incredibly interesting, sharp-witted, biting, cutting element of the original San Francisco punk scene. His legendary introductions and post set commentaries are preserved in many of these recordings. Dirk was a nephew of United States Senator Everett Dirksen.

Shows at the Mabuhay started probably in 1977. The On Broadway was an upstairs night club right next to the Mabuhay that opened in summer 1981 and closed 1984. When the On Broadway opened in 1981, they initially only did Friday/Saturday night shows.

The Mabuhay Gardens was originally a Filipino night club/restaurant run by Ness Aquino (RIP). One fateful day he was approached by Jerry Paulsen, who offered to try to fill the club on slow nights (Monday/Tuesday) with punk shows. Dirk took the booking and MC duties over from Jerry, and the rest, as they say, is history.

"...deliberately baiting and trading insults with audience and band members, which had the effect of raising the energy of audience and performers alike. In order to maintain the show's fast pace, he would move past an encore to get to the next band and tell the audience, "Eat it." Dirksen's abrasive persona (which was largely a performance) was a central part of the atmosphere of the Mabuhay.
...
Dirksen was the sole person responsible for connecting the English punk rockers with those in the United States. By creating an exchange program, punk bands for England and NY came to the Mabuhay and vice versa, staying in each city performing a few nights at a time."

Terry Hammer: "[Dirk] believed in theatre and group participation that's why he was sarcastic. He wanted to get a rise in people and get them to participate. He was a really nice person if you got to know him."

Dirk was also active with the organization H.E.A.R. (Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers), the organization started by Kathy Peck of the Contractions (also part of this THTP series).

It was hard to really know how diverse his interests were until I went to his memorial service in San Francisco, where his punk friends and connections were only a fraction of the people who spoke in his memory. He was involved in various charities, the Mission Recreation Center, the list was quite large.

A book on Dirk was released 2021-01-15:
Shut Up You Animals!!! The Pope is Dead. A Remembrance of Dirk Dirksen: A History of the Mabuhay Gardens

Wikepedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabuhay_Gardens
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Dirksen
SF Gate obituary: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Dirk-Dirksen-pope-of-punk-amused-insulted-2466523.php

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 - teetering





Dead Kennedys
On Broadway
San Francisco, CA
1984-06-02

MYTP 7

Source: SBD > Sony D5M > Cassette Master > CD
Extraction: CD > rubyripper 0.8 (cdparanoia secure rip, cdrdoa TOC) > FLAC
Processing: Audacity (soft limit -0.1db to remove light clipping, phase correct, splits) > FLAC 8 > acxi (tagging, checksums, FLAC data)

Recorded, preserved, shared by micgram
Release processing by teetering

FLAC: 16/44.1 (2 channels)
Quality: 4/4 (17kzh, very good)
Time: 37:19.73
Size: 220.2 MiB
Average kb/s: 825
Tracks: 16

Setlist:
01. intro >
02. Bleed For Me >
03. Hop With The Jet Set
04. Well Paid Scientist
05. banter >
06. Dear Abby >
07. MTV - Get Off The Air
08. banter >
09. Life Sentence
10. banter >
11. Nazi Punks Fuck Off
12. banter >
13. Jock-O-Rama (Invasion of the Beef Patrol))
14. Goons Of Hazzard >
15. Holiday In Cambodia
16. outro, DOA is coming up!

Recording notes:
* On Nazi Punks Fuck Off, Jello duets with 'Jay', from the audience.

Band:
Jello Biafra - vocals
East Bay Ray (Raymond Pepperell) - guitar
Klaus Flouride (Geoffrey Lyall) - bass
Darren Peligro (Darren Henley) - drums

Processing notes:
* Removed about 10-15 gaps. Those appear to have been created after the recording because the gaps rejoin fairly seamlessly.
* Unlike some other MYTP releases, this one is almost not stereo, but there are small differences in the channels so it is not mono sourced.
* There's a slight hiccup at the start of Well Paid Scientist.
* A mic/cord click/pop was quieted at end of 13 so your speakers don't get messed up.

Notes:
* "Dead Kennedys will be back for closing show of the [On] Broadway, the 16 of June"...
* As Jello explained to a heckler, this short DKs set was 'just a cameo' for headliners DOA.

* Band website: http://www.deadkennedys.com/
* Bandsintown: https://www.bandsintown.com/a/50631-dead-kennedys
* Songkick: https://www.songkick.com/artists/520381-dead-kennedys
* Note: the current touring version of the DKs is the Jello-less one.

* Band wikipedia:
"Dead Kennedys are an American punk rock band that formed in San Francisco, California, in 1978. The band was one of the defining punk bands during its initial eight-year run.
Dead Kennedys' lyrics were usually political in nature, satirizing political figures and authority in general, as well as popular culture and even the punk movement itself. During their initial incarnation between 1978 and 1986, they attracted considerable controversy for their provocative lyrics and artwork. Several stores refused to stock their recordings, provoking debate about censorship in rock music; in the mid-1980s, vocalist and primary lyricist Jello Biafra became an active campaigner against the Parents Music Resource Center. This culminated in an obscenity trial between 1985 and 1986, which resulted in a hung jury.
The group released a total of four studio albums and one EP before disbanding in 1986.
...
In 2000 (upheld on appeal in 2003), Biafra lost an acrimonious legal case initiated by his former Dead Kennedys bandmates over songwriting credits and unpaid royalties. In 2001, the band reformed without Biafra; various singers have since been recruited for vocal duties.
...
Dead Kennedys formed in June 1978 in San Francisco, California, when East Bay Ray (Raymond Pepperell) advertised for bandmates in the newspaper The Recycler, after seeing a ska-punk show at Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco. The original band lineup consisted of Jello Biafra (Eric Reed Boucher) on vocals, East Bay Ray on guitar, Klaus Flouride (Geoffrey Lyall) on bass, 6025 (Carlos Cadona) on rhythm guitar and Ted (Bruce Slesinger) on drums and percussion. This lineup recorded their first demos. Their first live show was on July 19, 1978 at Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco, California. They were the opening act on a bill that included DV8 and Negative Trend with The Offs headlining.
...
While they continued to play live shows during 1983 and 1984, they took a break from releasing new records to concentrate on the Alternative Tentacles record label, which would become synonymous with DIY alternative culture. The band continued to write and perform new material during this time, which would appear on their next album..."
* This show is from in that 1983-84 period, which is why Jello notes they haven't played in a while, and are kind of rusty. Most bands would kill to be this 'rusty', lol.

* About the On Broadway (435 Broadway, at Montgomery St., San Francisco, CA):
The On Broadway was basically the 2nd floor of the Mabuhay Gardens. It was not quite as grungy as the Fab Mab in its heyday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabuhay_Gardens
"The Mabuhay was in the lower level of the 435 Broadway building, which also housed the On Broadway Theater, known in 1984-1985 as "Rock on Broadway."
Dirksen had a unique style as emcee, deliberately baiting and trading insults with audience and band members, which had the effect of raising the energy of audience and performers alike. Dirksen’s abrasive performance was a central part of the atmosphere of the Mabuhay.
Dirksen and Aquino dissolved their agreement in the early 1980s over disputes concerning Dirksen booking all his higher profile shows at the venue directly upstairs from the Mabuhay, The On Broadway Theater."
* More on the On Broadway/Mab: https://oldpunkflyers.tumblr.com/mabuhaygardens
"After booking both venues for a period of time Dirksen moved his entire operation upstairs. Aquino brought in two young booking agents, Michael Reidy and David Kaplan who started "Punk Nights" on Monday's with free spaghetti featuring bands like Urban Assault, Fuck Ups, MDC, Code Of Honor and Sick Pleasure. In their 4 year tenure post Dirksen, Reidy and Kaplan soon started doing weekends as well with bands like Social Distortion, Agent Orange, Wipers, Richard Hell, Johnny Thunders as well as goth bands like 45 Grave and Specimen. The two venues engaged in booking wars, Reidy and Kaplan finally left in 1986.
The Mabuhay Gardens closed in 1988, at the very end Aquino attempted to move his operation upstairs to the On Broadway (by then vacated by Dirksen) under the moniker of “The Mab On Broadway."
* Even more about the On Broadway: https://acidheroes.wordpress.com/2013/12/11/the-on-broadway-theater/
"People still talk about the legendary Mabuhay Gardens and the Elite Club. But you rarely hear about the On Broadway Theater these days. Which is odd, because it was the primo venue for San Francisco punk bands back in the 1980s.
The On Broadway Theater was run by the legendary Dirk Dirksen.
...
The On Broadway Theater itself was a beautifully laid-out piece of architecture. It had the vibe of a decadent and decaying haunted mansion right out of the Addam’s Family. You walked up a narrow staircase to get into the place. The seating and the balcony was akin to the most cozy and comfortable, beat-up old movie theatre. Then there was a bar in the next room. And an outdoor patio where you could sit and drink around tables and clear your head with some fresh air. And if the bands sucked, you could always go downstairs and check out the more intimate setting of the Fab Mab. Outside there was the narrow alleyway where the roadies loaded and unloaded the bands, and where drugs were scored and beefs were settled (usually over cracked heads and bloody noses)."
* 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!!!

--------------------------------------------------------

No distribution in lossy formats!!
No selling!!
No bootlegging!!
Yes sharing. Definitely share.

Support the artists when or if they play, and buy their records/merchandise.

Please correct any errors or oversights in this information in the comments section so the information can be as accurate as possible.

If you can find related materials like flyers, posters, ticket stubs, even photos, etc, please add them in a comment and I will add them to the main release folder, so that can be included on the next re-seeding. Every bit is welcome, and as I am time constrained on this project due to the amount of material, I cannot spend as much time on each release doing research as I would like, so if we can add to and improve the information and release contents during this series, that would be great.

Please make an effort to pick at least one of these MYTP releases and keep it seeded for as long as you can, particularly the lesser known groups. That will really help out long term.

--------------------------------------------------------
About Michael Young and the MYTP:

Michael: "I lived in the bay area 1980-92. Being a Deadhead I had a lot of friends who recorded shows, so when I got a nice Sony D5M (in 83, I think it was) I would bring it with me to the Mabuhay Gardens and On Broadway and other places as well. I would ask the sound man if I could plug in and they usually said yes. I did this mostly in 1984 a few in 85. My first punk show was in my hometown of Philadelphia at a place called the Hot Club in 1978. I was hooked on the high energy and the fun of slamming around... I think my first SF hardcore punk show was Flipper at Kezar Pavilion in May of '81. I might have seen some other bands around town before that but that one sticks out for sure."
[teetering: I was also at that Kezar TG/Flipper show. Flipper was great that night.]

TECH:
Michael used a Sony D5M portable cassette recorder, plugged into the soundboard outs, to record most of these shows. This was for the time a very expensive unit, with some advanced features, which probably accounts for why these recordings are so good in general.

* D5M manual: https://transom.org/wp-content/uploads/2005/02/om.tcd5m.pdf
* About D5M: https://transom.org/2005/sony-tc-d5m/
All metal, reliable, simple, and fixable, it runs on two D-cells

* More on the D5M: https://www.cassettedeck.org/sony/tc-d5m
This Sony TC-D5M is a stereo cassette deck with Dolby B noise reduction, it was first sold by Sony in 1979 with a recommended retail price of USD $680 [about $2500 in today's dollars] and discontinued a year later.
The main features of the Sony TC-D5M are: 2 heads, mechanical 3 digit tape counter, manual tape type selection and capable of handling normal, chrome, ferro-chrome and metal tapes, belt driven single-capstan transport.
Typical of this deck is the 70's top loading layout with the cassette compartiment located on the left side of the deck. Tape eject is operated mechanically and the cassette needs to be placed with the side to be played facing forward in the cassette well.
Level meters used on the TC-D5M are analog needle VU reading meters. Mechanical transport controls for reliable TC-D5M transport function selection.
The Dolby-B system reduces tape hiss on tapes recorded on the TC-D5M by as much as 10 dB at the highest frequencies. The 19kHz multiplex pilot slgnal present in FM stereo broadcasts can cause false triggering of the noise reduction system. The switchable MPX filter of the TC-D5M filters out the pilot signal, and assuring proper Dolby processing of FM stereo programs.
To make live recordings this deck has 2 microphone inputs to connect microphones with a jack connector.

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About Dirk Dirksen and the Mabuhay Gardens/On Broadway:

Dirk Dirksen (RIP 2006), aka 'The Pope of Punk', was the music promotor and MC (but really more accurately, the impresario) of the Mabuhay Gardens/On Broadway punk clubs. Dirk was an incredibly interesting, sharp-witted, biting, cutting element of the original San Francisco punk scene. His legendary introductions and post set commentaries are preserved in many of these recordings. Dirk was a nephew of United States Senator Everett Dirksen.

Shows at the Mabuhay started probably in 1977. The On Broadway was an upstairs night club right next to the Mabuhay that opened in summer 1981 and closed 1984. When the On Broadway opened in 1981, they initially only did Friday/Saturday night shows.

The Mabuhay Gardens was originally a Filipino night club/restaurant run by Ness Aquino (RIP). One fateful day he was approached by Jerry Paulsen, who offered to try to fill the club on slow nights (Monday/Tuesday) with punk shows. Dirk took the booking and MC duties over from Jerry, and the rest, as they say, is history.

"...deliberately baiting and trading insults with audience and band members, which had the effect of raising the energy of audience and performers alike. In order to maintain the show's fast pace, he would move past an encore to get to the next band and tell the audience, "Eat it." Dirksen's abrasive persona (which was largely a performance) was a central part of the atmosphere of the Mabuhay.
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Dirksen was the sole person responsible for connecting the English punk rockers with those in the United States. By creating an exchange program, punk bands for England and NY came to the Mabuhay and vice versa, staying in each city performing a few nights at a time."

Terry Hammer: "[Dirk] believed in theatre and group participation that's why he was sarcastic. He wanted to get a rise in people and get them to participate. He was a really nice person if you got to know him."

Dirk was also active with the organization H.E.A.R. (Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers), the organization started by Kathy Peck of the Contractions (also part of this THTP series).

It was hard to really know how diverse his interests were until I went to his memorial service in San Francisco, where his punk friends and connections were only a fraction of the people who spoke in his memory. He was involved in various charities, the Mission Recreation Center, the list was quite large.

A book on Dirk was released 2021-01-15:
Shut Up You Animals!!! The Pope is Dead. A Remembrance of Dirk Dirksen: A History of the Mabuhay Gardens

Wikepedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabuhay_Gardens
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Dirksen
SF Gate obituary: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Dirk-Dirksen-pope-of-punk-amused-insulted-2466523.php

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