What's The Source For The Live Tracks On Junta?
The re-release of Junta includes live cuts, with incorrect dates. ...Greg Carrier wrote: "Just got a show yesterday that is labelled 7/25/88. Here's the suprise: It has the exact Icculus and Sanity from Junta! Crazy! Freaked me out. So which date is right? 7/25 or 5/3/88?" ...Shelly responded: "7/25/88 is the correct date, even though Junta says 5/3/88. Here's what happened: During the west coast tour in the spring of 1992, some of the band members and crew and I went wine-tasting in the Napa Valley on a day off. (I guess that was 4/20/92 - between Santa Cruz and Eureka.) At the end of the day, as an afterthought, I lent the band my copy of 7/25/88 to listen to on the drive north, just for giggles. They liked it. At this same time, they were looking for material to fill the second CD of the Junta set, since the original Junta material was too long to fit on one CD. So, they decided to use part of 7/25/88 since it was from the same time period as the creation of Junta. However, back in the summer of '88 the band was not archiving their shows; only one person [Phil Fernandez] made a tape that night, and they only taped 45 minutes of the show. The copy I had was third generation - I tracked it through the people I'd gotten it from till I found the guy with the master, who kindly agreed to let the band use it for the CD. The reason that he only taped 45 minutes of the show that night was that that was all the blank tape he had - one side from another show he'd taped recently: 5/3/88. When the tape went to Elektra to master the Junta CD, apparently they read the date off the wrong side of that tape when preparing the liner notes."