Resist - European Tour '92 video

I broke out this Resist - European Tour '92 video that I got at Locals Only around '94/'95, and ripped the VHS to digital for youtube.  Plenty of great footage from all over the map.

90 Proof - Demo 1990

In honor of Fig (Craig Pallay), who passed away on Monday, here's the 90 Proof demo tape from 1990.  Fig was a Portland punk rock legend that I would see around town quite often, and he played bass for 90 Proof.  Aside from this demo, a split 7" with Wreck Creation and a track on a GG Allin tribute compilation, I'm not sure if they released anything else.

90 Proof - Demo 1990

https://www.mediafire.com/?7aotaq1uktrqx4n

RIP - Fig

Northwest Hardcore compilation

As indicated by the name, this compilation encompasses the entire Northwest, as opposed to just Portland, but there are plenty of Portland bands on here, and it was released via the Portland based label, Media Blitz.  Ranging from well known bands to the obscure, there are a total of 28 music tracks from:

Diddly Squat, A.M.Q.A., Wehrmacht, Dehumanizers, Mr. Bungle, Blah, Melvins, Inverted Morals, Brain Dead, Final Warning, God, False Liberty, Obituaries, Skate Death, Stonecrow, Spazztic Blurr, Da Junk, Anathema, N.R.A., Sickboy, The Accused, Death Midget, Beer On Tap, Protest and The S.L.A.

Various Artists - Northwest Hardcore

[Media Blitz - 1987]

https://www.mediafire.com/?4bz4rx0vt9dquue

Cruella - Power Metal [demo 1986]

Cruella was born out of the ashes of Xinr in the mid-80s, and they didn't waste much time chugging out some great power/speed metal.  The interesting thing is that the first three Cruella recordings feature the same songs, and the same sequencing, but different recordings.  There's a demo from March of 1986 that I'm still looking for, this demo from September of 1986, and the Vengeance Is Mine LP from 1988.

I contacted guitarist, Roger Decarlo, to get some clarification as to the differences between this recording, and the future full length.  He said that this version of the songs was recorded in a cheesy 8 track studio in September of 1986 for a mere $300.  Everything was then recorded again at a professional studio for $3,000 in August of 1987 for the Vengeance Is Mine LP that came out of US Metal Records in February of 1988.

Here is the full Power Metal recording from 1986.  I gave it a slight remaster.

Cruella - Power Metal [1986]

https://www.mediafire.com/?q3f4nnilyt7j150

Alternative Arts Association - 1980 Catalog

The Alternative Arts Association was a collective of people and bands active in the Portland punk scene.   Founded in 1979, Mark Sten of the Oblivion Seekers was the backbone of the collective, and presented below are scans from the AAA 1980 catalog.

Bile & Demise - Vancouver, WA 1991

A friend gave me a VHS that contained sets from Bile and Demise at a show in Vancouver, WA in early 1991.  The show took place at Vagabonds, which was a record store on 13th St in downtown Vancouver.  There was no date listed on the video, but it's definitely from early 1991.

Fantasmagoria - My Hunger

Fantasmagoria was a short lived thrash/death band that only ever recorded one song, which was released as the My Hunger demo tape in 1988.

Mike Teal handled bass on this demo, but otherwise played guitar for Fantasmagoria.  Here's a brief synopsis of the band from his point of view:

So, Fantasmagoria was a band that was started by James Smith, Kendall Seeman, Jon Englehart, and myself a few months before I started playing drums in Machine, we were introduced by Mark Murphy (AKA Frankie Delmane)  of Dead Conspiracy back in 1987.  They all were jamming together in a band out in Lake Oswego called Osiris, and were looking for a 2nd guitarist.  I showed up with a bunch of thrash riffs and hyperactive ideas and they loved me immediately, I insisted we change the name to something more death metal sounding, and we started playing Slayer, Metallica, Exodus, Motorhead, AC/DC covers, along with a bunch of original stuff.  After a few months we got together a pretty long set of originals, all thrash metal inspired stuff with a bit of melodic progressive metal sounding songs, we played a single live show with Dead Conspiracy and Savior out at the Uhaul place they practiced in out in Gresham, then I quit in the recording studio while we were recording the follow up demo to My Hunger.  James ended up as the vocalist for Savior later on, and I think Kendall and Jon had a band going together after Fantasmagoria.  It was my first REAL band that played live AND recorded, I was 17.

 

Fantasmagoria - My Hunger

[demo 1988]

http://www.mediafire.com/?cdqzbf8um8qqz67

The link above contains a 320k mp3, and full scans of the entire layout.  However, I've also uploaded just the song to youtube.