I was able to rescue a number of VHS tapes of obscure and forgotten Metal and Punk bands from Oklahoma. I spent dozens of hours transferring/ripping these old tapes to digital video files. Unfortunately I lost the original uncompressed files due to a faulty hard drive so most of these exist as is forever. Most of the original VHS tapes have been lost or stolen over the years, some were borrowed .. Some footage goes back as far as 1985/1986.
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That was way cool. Never saw that one before .. To have something as quality as Oliver Magnum, you will definitely also need quality people off the stage. people exactly like Richard Galbreath who I personally know is one of the most talented photographers and know how to get shit done professionals I’ve ever met.
his photo collection is mind boggling and awesome !!! who else would have photos of Satanic Republicans
I just noticed Dern committed on here.
Mike, is this that place in Norman? I think I saw that band Landfill play there. So nostalgic watching this seeing people in this video. We we were all so young, it was so much fun.
This is the OU Student Ballroom , there were only a few shows done there that I know of . I saw the Ramones and Trouble in 1989 or 90 then Jesus Lizard in 1992,then we put on this show which was literally the week that “Grunge” became super popular killing off cock rock ,hair metal and forced the death metal styled band back underground for better or worse. Some of the major labels were throwing millions of dollars at Napalm Death, Carcass, Cathedral etc trying to make them sell but they dropped them all and went looking for the next Pearl Jam or Nirvana.
Damnit Mike. It's so cool to see you and Dave in that angle playing your hearts out man. I've not a clue who the other guys are, but I always loved u guys man!
Here is a guy known as Marc 17 and his story about the house show. (the video says it was recorded in 1993 but I think it was actually in 1992) 😮"Flipper was originally supposed to open for Gwar at a club called Planet Earth. Planet Earth had failed to pay their bills and gotten their power shut off but rented a generator which was jury rigged into the building’s electrical system. Gwar’s tour manager refused to plug in any of their stuff into that set up till it was OK’d by the fire marshal. That would have taken too long to do even if it would have passed, and thus the show was canceled. I had been contacted by Gwar’s PR people who set up an interview due to my ‘zine I was doing at the time. Unhappy that the show was canceled, I decided to head to the venue, see if any of the bands were there still and perhaps get my interview. Robert, Wendy, and Chris(?) decided to go with me as there was nothing else going on. Upon arrival at the venue, the bands were long gone, but the promoter was still there and we knew each other and talked because I was always showing up at his shows, often early, for my ‘zine. He told us which hotel they were staying at, and we headed that way. Upon arrival, we saw a Winnebago with Flipper graffiti spray painted on it. We got out of my car as two people were getting out of the Winnebago. I was walking up to them asking if they knew were Flipper was, because although I had an interview with Gwar, I really wanted to meet Flipper, because Gwar’s OK, but Flipper is awesome and means a lot to me (those pretty much were my exact words.) The two looked at each other, and the guy turned to me and say “well, I’m in Flipper, and she’s in Gwar.” At that point Slymenstra Hymen threatened to hit me for dissing her band, but much to my dismay, did not. Anyway, things were chaotic. The bands had no plans and were running all around, mostly just trying to get something to eat on what turned out to be a night off from the tour. We ran around trying to catch up with the rest of Flipper, were mistaken for one of the bands by hotel staff, but finally managed to catch Flipper all together in the parking lot (somewhere, there is a photo) as they were going to get dinner. They agreed to a short interview right there as they were starving. The interview was chaotic and short (and no longer exists unfortunately). There were four of them and four of us, so there were four question and answer sessions going on at the same time, often crossing from one to another. At some point, Bruce Loose was speaking as to how they really wanted to play and see the local scene in OKC. Robert spoke up and said “You can play at my house.” Bruce responded back with if they had a sound system and opening band. Robert replied that they’d get Chad’s sounds system and his band would open for them. Flipper said ‘Great, give us an hour to eat dinner, you know where we are, get back to us tell us where it’s at, and we’ll play for donations.’ At that point, we split up. Wendy and I had the job of telling everybody we could find. Robert would head off to wrangle sound system and band. We went back to the venue, told some people, went to some friend’s houses and told them, and then called just about every phone number we had to spread the word. ( I unfortunately failed to call my own house and inform my roommates however, for which I shall forever feel bad.) Robert had just moved out of his house. He had also just resigned the lease and moved back in (with Wendy as his roommate IIRC). This meant the house was utterly empty except for his bedroom, some stuff in the kitchen, and a couch. The layout was adjoined living and dining room into essentially one long room with the kitchen behind it. Within two hours from talking to Flipper, there were a bunch of screaming punks getting drunk and having a party. The usual bunch was showing up along with people that nobody had seen for years from OKC, Edmond, Norman, etc. Robert’s band set up the sound system and started playing. He was good about passing the bucket and getting donations for the show. This went on for about an hour and I remember one of those people nobody had seen forever later wanting his money back because he didn’t think the show was going to happen despite Robert saying he’d been in contact with the band and everything was arranged. I think he got his money back and left. Ten minutes later a spray painted Winnebago was pulling into the driveway, with Flipper, Gwar (sans costumes, people always ask about the costumes), tour manager, and roadies ready for a house party. Upon hearing that a local band had already played, Flipper set up their gear in the dining room and played. Dave Brockie danced in front running interference between the slam pit and the band, shoving people back into the pit rather than colliding with people playing instruments. I believe he did sing vocals for a song or two also. Bruce dug through the bucket of donations and came out with $440, several cans of beer, and some hits of blotter acid (which he ate right then and there). Their tour manager would tell me later that night that it was about as much as they would get for a normal show. Everybody else just watched the band, sat around, drank beer, and it was generally a house party complete with people talking in the kitchen. Eventually, things wrapped up and people piled back on the Winnebago and it took off. Cops did show up and were walking onto the lawn when I yelled, “the bands have finished, the party is over, and everybody is going home.” They turned around, got back in their cars and left without a word. Besides the tales and video that survive, the concert also made it into Details magazine. It seems that with Flipper’s new record deal, they wanted some reporting on them and flew somebody out for the show. The article reports on how the show was canceled, he was sitting in Gwar’s hotel room when somebody came in saying “We’ve got a gig, let’s go!” and the party from his perspective." - March Schiermeier via Facebook
Mike, I have always enjoyed both mixes of this EP. I like this one probably the best. I can hear everything better. Killer EP.
Thanks for the positive comments, this alternate version of the EP survived many years of neglect and was lost for many years .It was a rough mix of the EP and we decided to go big on the pitch shift effects and double tracked vocals. Made one copy on cassette while playing the session back in the studio. The next day I did a double over on the vocals and we did any over dubs and I’m down in 3 hours and it was done
Man, miss these times Love y'all mofos
We saw them several times, the Diamond Ball Room being the most memorable. SO TIGHT live! One of the guitarists - Tim Newcomb - is an old friend of mine. Nowadays he plays locally and is still an absolutely incredible player. He was incredible when he was 14!!!! I believe Mike the singer died. I wish they would have kept going. Absolutely wicked good metal!!!!
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that was a good show. the sinister guys looked bored outside. wonderfull pit.
Remember them opening for Anthrax and Metal Church in Tulsa. Great video!
This is great stuff. So glad I found your channel!!!!
Great video. Miss this venue. Think I saw Honky there twice.
N.O.T.A. Forever!!!!!
Thanks for sharing this. ❤❤❤. I want to say that is Chad on vocals.
Yes! That is Chad Malone on(Brother Inferior) vocals/guitar. We were trying to emulate the intense sounds of European hardcore bands like Krigshot ,Doom or Capitalist Casualties. It was awesome to perform(I played bass guitar in this band) at CBGB and ABC No RIO then jump on a short run of shows with Chaos UK up the east coast.
@@subsanity667 that is amazing. Chad grew up down the street from me and I have followed all of his bands. I remember when the difficulty with their name happened and I can’t remember what happened after that but glad to see this old stuff.
Love seeing these Tulsa guys from back in the day. Thanks for this upload. ❤
I recently bought an original Subsanity Self Titled 7 inch off of ebay. good stuff man.
Great band. Thank you for sharing.
It's really cool to watch someone else playing your songs 37-years later, good job guitar brother 🎵
wow what a party !!
This EP is 31 years old today I think!
Man I miss those days. 😟 I miss Greg, Tim and the whole crew.
really good to see thank you Mikey I hope someone remembers me
This shit still cracks me up especially when he starts imitating Hairy Larry and the Intestinal Disorder guys. Ruthless tear downs!
hahaha totally!!!
house parties fucking rule !! saw Flipper during this tour in New Haven CT, they were great !! well done preserving this video, sound is exactly what it was like being all wasted at a Flipper show, this brings me back to my youth :)
New Haven CT? Ive played a gig there un 2001 at the Tune Inn while on tour with Chaos UK. I remember watching Gabba pissing in an alleyway , he pissed staight up in the air lapping away at the stream like a water fountain. It was punk as fuck. Glad you liked this old ass vhs, Flipper is playing OKC October 19 2022 I! I will be there of course.
RIP - Curt D - Drums
Im sorry to hear that he passed I knew he was in the hospital and dealing with some serious illness. Oliver Magnum were a top notch underground metal band I wish the new set of young metalheads could see this band live ,pure power metal with thrash just smoking all the other local bands.
Tim Pippins.
Killer bass player has a great blend of punk aggression with precision metal melting baselines
Perfect ! Kroezel
This is great ! From which year is this masterpiece ? Respect mr. Mike for your contribution to awesome music with Subsanity & Gestalt (& ... ?). Greetings from Belgium. Kroezel
What a band, what an EP, awesome ! Kroezel
Top ! Kroezel
Insane record indeed, top ! Kroezel
I was there I think! LOL
Hello Autumn from Ada! I figure you were most likely at this show, such a long time ago it seems like a completely different world back then. I swear this show happened the same week that grunge music really took over killing off all the hair bands etc. We continued on for years unfazed by the popular trends , staying underground and unknown lol
Hahaha I have a couple of their demos still. The good ol' days. I was at 7/8's of the shows on the flyers. 🤟💀 Anybody remember Alcatraz, or Planet Earth?
That’s great that you have the old demos I would love to get a fresh rip to digital one day of the first tape
Planet Earth and Alcatraz were awesome venues for metal bands to lay at long ago in the 1990s OKC
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I was friends with the band
Umm. wait, that's my living room. Where was I? And that horrible cackling laugh... oh sheeee-it~ ~~ Apparently I left a box of tapes behind in one of my hasty move-outs :/ What else is out there. Dear gawd...let there be nothing else.
Dude - I'm loving all this video footage from the 90s OK-Hardcore scene... Miss the Liquid Lounge...where Narrowminded played for free beer and just to antagonize Nazi boneheads. lol. Fun days that we're all lucky to have survived.
Ahhhhhh Dan Gray! I was wondering if you would resurface one day, this is Mike D from Subsanity! Haha good times bvb back in the day!
fucking ray ray... if your from the okc metal scene, you know ray ray. dude was at every fucking metal show. i love that guy. hell hes prolly dead by now.
i was at this show. this was a badass show. a kickass lineup. this was way back in the day when okc actually had a decent metal scene. which is long dead now.
its BEANS WATS UP MIKE SUBSKANITY ROKS!!!!
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Damn, opening for Leftover Crack that's cool
Ahhhh.. 72p we meet at long last! Thanks for posting. RIP Dave Brockie.
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my Wife and i were at this show, it was a really good show
My dad is Richard Sharp
This footage is in sad shape, 3rd generation dubbed VHS , the taps is warped and dragging etc. But..... this was one of those legendary days that I will never forget. This show was a free gig to announce the opening of the Asylum Club in Oklahoma City and the owner got Dirty Rotten Imbeciles to come play this event. Subsanity had another show booked that same night as one of the opening acts for SEPULTURA on the legendary but soon to be doomed Roots Bloody Roots Tour .This show was a big deal so I told the owner that he should make his DRI gig a free “After Party and we would play as well . I was really excited and showed up at the Diamond Ballroom about noon and started pounding beers and hanging out with metal heads passing out DRI stuff etc. We play to about 900 to 1000 people and had a blast then packed up our gear and did the DRI party, then there was a big after after party at my place , I was feel rough the next day. Sepultura split with Max a few weeks later.
Y e donde son?
Cayey Puerto Rico de la universidad de cayey yo también tengo mi banda Frontier de cidra p.r pero ahora estoy Springfield
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I got to know Max when I was a teenager. I went to sooooo many shows he put on in OKC. Diamond Ballroom was the one I went to the most. A lot of people hated the guy, but he did the local scene well by bringing these acts here.
He got us some killer gigs opening for Sepultura,Napalm Death, Cannibal Corpse, Saxon,DRI, Obituary, Morbid Angel, Neurosis, Nile etc...not much money paid to us but lots of bragging rights lol!