Victim December 1983 San Diego Public Access "Victim"

Описание: December 1983 episode of the San Diego public access TV program Club 33 featuring Victim performing "Victim." Victim was a 1980s heavy metal band founded in Spring 1983 by Brian Thoryk (who played with cover band Desire and a punk group called Skullbusters) and three members of another cover band named Syndrome; Rockwell "Rocky" Reiger, Mike Pfahler, and Junior Solis. This lineup remained extant until Autumn 1984. Their 1984 debut album Power Hungry was engineered by Mike Harris and recorded in the fall of 1983 at Western Audio Recording Studios. It included a track called "Victim" that also appeared on a KGB Homegrown compilation. A followup album, By the Neck, was recorded in spring 1984 at Western Audio, but the masters were lost during a period of financial difficulty for the band and not recovered (thanks to engineer Mike Harris) until nearly 30 years later.

A later lineup (late 1984 to early 1986) featured Reiger and Thoryk backed by another player from Desire, guitarist Scott Hackwith, along with White Witch drummer Greg Talley. This roster recorded a third album in December 1985 at Golden Track Recording Studios, DMN, aka Dirty Mean & Nasty. After its release, the band split. Mike Pfahler later played with Nemesis. Rockwell Reiger later sang for Hard Echo, which opened for Wasp, among other touring headliners.

BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded between from 1983 into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on Youtube or online. Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads.

In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area.