SOCIETY OF FRIENDS AKA QUAKERS

artist: SOCIETY OF FRIENDS AKA QUAKERS (Austin, Texas, USA)

venue: Mission Records

location: San Francisco, California, USA

date: 19 August 2001

length: 16 minutes

HERE

"Now I'm in control....Microphone Control."

99¢

artist: 99¢ (California, Pennsylvania, USA)

venue: ??

location: ??

date: 24 February 1985

length: 32 minutes

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All I know comes from the scrawl on the front of the tape and a listing for a band with the same name on the Infernal Noise comp tape, also from 1985. If you ever wanted to draw a bridge between FEAR and VOID....here you go.

SIXTEENS

artist: SIXTEENS (San Francisco, California USA)

venue: Mission Records

location: San Francisco, California, USA

date: 20 October 2001

length: 41 minutes

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Twenty years too late for the primitive industrial/synth their sound was rooted in, and more than a decade ahead of the current synth-punk explosion (see also contemporaries like VANISHING, MUTILATED MANNEQUINS, SUBTONIX), this band was genuinely weird, a total trip to see live, and would remain active in SF and Berlin for most of the '00s.

SCREAMING TREES

artist: SCREAMING TREES (Seattle, Washington, USA)

venue: Kennel Club

location: San Francisco, California, USA

date: ??, 1988

length: 61 minutes

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Middle of the road recording quality, but the overwhelming and relentless wall of guitars is still noteworthy. Tracks mostly from "Even If And Especially When" and "Invisible Lantern," for those interested in such things.