For a coupla years now I've been after my pal Rob Wortman to digitize his priceless cassette collection of self-recorded events and other oxide oddities. While out in Cali this past January I was able to paw over some of his archive and I insisted he help me find some of the very early Bay Area hip hop shows that he had told me about back when I began blogging for WFMU, and which had whet my appetite considerably.
Today I'll start with part one of my favorite of the things I transferred: A very tasty Darryl C and the Crash Crew show at the Stone in San Francisco on May 25th, 1984. In order to keep the files at full quality, I decided to create a point in the middle to break the show into two portions, but there'll be a tiny overlap section at the top of the next part, two weeks from now.
I had a ball listening to this gig, the show is so theatrical and elaborate; I think this document gives a nice idea of the flavor of a rap show in those earlier days. Not being an expert on Darryl C and Crash Crew I did run across a nice interview with a member of the Crew here. Without further ado, here's part one. Word.
Darryl C and Crash Crew live at The Stone SF CA May 25th, 1984 / part one of two
If you want to see old skool hip hop shows just like this one by the legends of rap playing in their own communities, watch for ongoing event updates in the NYC area on the "Tools of War" grassroots hip hop newsletter here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=101115026613
Posted by: julie covello | June 27, 2010 at 08:52 PM
There was an mp3 box set released a couple years ago called "NYC Live Throwdown" that had some insane amount of vintage bootleg-ish shows compiled on one mp3 disc (26 hours?!), all vintage old school NYC shows: Cold Crush Brothers, Busy Bee, Treacherous Three, Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force, Grandmaster Flash, etc. It doesn't seem to be on amazon but I see at least one guy on ebay has it.
Posted by: tim | June 28, 2010 at 03:26 PM
thanks to mindwrecker for harvesting the CRASH CREW party
"nyc live throwdown" collected tapes that are pretty well circulated
1. Flash On The Beat Box -
2. Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - 'Funhouse 6-18-1982 (Live)’ -
3. Christmas Rappers Convention - ‘1981 (Live)’ -
4. Cold Crush Battle The Fantastic Five - ‘Harlem World 1981 (Live)’ -
5. Cold Crush vs. Force MCs - ‘Paterson, NJ 1983 (Live)’ -
6. Cosmic Force, Afrika Bambaataa, Devastating 4, Soulsonic Force, Original Jazzy Five - ‘T-Connection 1980 (Live)’ -
7. Cosmic Force, Devastating 4, Original Jazzy Five, Afrika Bambaataa, Red Alert, Whiz Kid - ‘T-Connection 1980 (Live)’ -
8. Devastating 3 MCs: Kid West, Magic Dee & Barry Bee - ‘House Tape 1983 (Live)’ -
9. DJ Breakout, DJ Barren, Funky 4+1, DJ Whiz Kid, Harmonizing 4 - ‘T-Connection 1980 (Live)’ -
10. DJ Jazzy Jay & The Jazzy Five MCs - ‘Paterson NJ 1981 (Live)’ -
11. The Fantastic 5, Jazzy 5 - 'Dota Rock's Birthday Party (Live)' -
12. Doug E. Fresh, Barry Bee, Chuck A Luck, Sweet Slick & Sly, Tranquilizing 3 - ‘Unknown Date & Location (Live)’ -
13. Ecstasy Garage All Stars: Grandmaster Caz, JDL, Whipper Whip, K-Gee, Ruby Dee, Theodore, Soul Sonic Force, Nice & Nasty Four - ‘Ecstasy Garage 1980 (Live)’ -
14. Fantastic Five, Grandmaster Caz, Busy Bee, Whiz kid, Treacherous Three, Spoonie Gee - ‘T-Connection 1981 (Live)’ -
15. Force MCs - ‘Broadway International 1983 (Live)’ -
16. Funky 4 + 1 - 'Unknown Date & Location (Live)’ -
17. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 - ‘T-Connection 1980 (Live)’ -
18. Grandmixer DST & The Cold Crush Brothers - 'Unknown Date & Location (Live)’ -
19. Imperial JayCee, Grand Wizard Theodore, Fantastic Five, Touch Of Class - 'T-Connection 1980 (Live)’ -
20. Busy Bee & The Cold Crush Brothers - ‘Kevie Kev & Rubie Dee's Birthday Party, Ecstasy Garage 1980 (Live)’ -
21. Grandmaster Flash, Disco Bee, Busy Bee, Melle Mel, E-Man - 'Live Convention (Live)' -
22. L-Brothers, Treacherous 3, Busy Bee, Melle Mel, Grandmaster Flash, Theodore, E-man, Smiley - 'Live Convention, Celebrity Club 1980 (Live)’ -
23. Phase 3, Cool AJ, Rapper Wise, Ultimate 3 MCs, DJ Disco, Quick, Sweet Slick and Sly - ‘MC Battle, Harlem World 1982 (Live)’ -
24. Rodney C's Birthday Party - 'Zulu Nation 1980 (Live)’ -
25. Super Sonic 4 MCs, DJ Cisco, Cool Clyde - 'Ecstasy Garage 12-26-80 (Live)’ -
26. Rat Ski, DJ Kevin Kanyeah, Emcee SPUD - 'Sweet G's Birthday Party (Live)' -
27. T La Rock & The Treacherous Three - ‘Hempstead, Long Island 1985 (Live)’ -
28. The Incredible 3 MCs: Tech Ski, Destiny, Chucky Chuck & DJ Lil Chase - ‘Unknown Date & Location (Live)’ -
29. Lovebug Starski, Treacherous Three, Spoonie Gee - ‘Treacherous 3 First Anniversary, Disco Fever 1981 (Live)’ -
30. Treacherous 3 - ‘Club Negril 2-18-82 (Live)’ -
31. Jazzy Jay, Smitty Dee, Kid Vicious, Tricky Tee, Malibu, Pow Wow, Nae Nae - ‘Troy Troy's Birthday, T-Connection 1980 (Live)’ -
32. Cosmic Force, Sha Rock Lisa Lee, L-Brothers - ‘Zulu Nation 6th Anniversary, Unknown Date & Location (Live)’ -
33. Zulu Nation, Jazzy Jay, Hutch Hutch, Pow Wow - ‘123 Park 1979 (Live)’
i would never endorse piracy but yo broke-ass people:
http://www.wutang-corp.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-32833.html lotta these links still active
Posted by: activate | July 11, 2010 at 01:58 PM