Rubber City Rebels
July 21, 1977
CBGB
315 Bowery
New York, NY

Tenth Floor Clown Tapes Volume 20

Setlist:

01 Child Eaters
02 Crazy
03 She's My Girl

Runtime: 15:44

Known faults: None, however this may be an incomplete recording as it is only 3 songs.

Source: master audience recording
Taper: Hans de Vente
Lineage: unknown portable cassette recorder > Sony C-90HF tape > Technics M225 > Tascam DR-05 (16 bit) > Audition 3.0 (tracks, normalize levels) > TLH (FLAC 6)

Notes:
On July 21, a press conference was held for the inauguration of a new sound system at CBGB. Later that night The Shirts, Dead Boys and Rubber City Rebels debuted that new sound system. Hans de Vente recorded all 3 bands, and The Shirts and Dead Boys setlists appear to be complete. I don't think Hans captured the entire set by Rubber City Rebels, as they were at the end of the tape, and only 3 songs were recorded.
Knowing that Hans made several recordings at CBGBs back in the 70's, I set out on a quest to find out if he had ever recorded The Shirts. With some difficulty I was finally able to track down Hans via Facebook. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Hans had recorded The Shirts in both the USA and The Netherlands. What's more, he was happy to send me his six master recordings of those shows. However, he wasn't willing to mail the tapes overseas, so I had a Dutch friend act as an intermediary to receive the tapes for me. When I visited Amsterdam in late 2023 the tapes were handed over to me. The earliest tape I received was this one, with The Shirts on one side, and Dead Boys and Rubber City Rebels on the other side.


About me:
I've been going to concerts since 1975, starting with Lou Reed at the Felt Forum, 1975-04-26. I started taping on 1978-03-26 with Renaissance at City Center. From 1978 to 1982 I used a portable Panasonic RQ-2309 mono cassette recorder with built-in condenser microphone, as it's all I could afford. I mostly recorded my favorite band at the time, The Shirts, but there were some other new wave and punk bands from that era also. In mid-1982 I upgraded to the Aiwa HS-J2 walkman style recorder with the CM-2 stereo mic. Some of those recordings have already appeared on DIME as I used to trade tapes. Most of my master recordings are indexed on etreedb.org ( https://etreedb.org/10thFloorClown ), and I welcome requests on what I should upload to DIME next. I'd love to connect with some of the other NYC tapers from back then; please feel free to send me a PM. If anyone has any live recordings by The Shirts or Deaf School please contact me!