Death and Taxes (Live) - Winter 1994 - Studio Lounge, Westland, Michigan
This is the last video (chronologically speaking) I seem to have of Death and Taxes. I know D&T continued on practicing and performing occasionally up to mid-1996, about the time the album "Creative Differences" came out, and the group disbanded. I just don't seem to have any videos of these last 1.5 years of shows, etc. So the current YouTube Playlist I made for these videos holds about 50 or so performances from mid-1990 to late 1994. Wow, did the group (and the members of it) evolve a lot in the seemingly few years. And hey, if anyone has or finds any other D&T stuff out there, please let me know...
This is one of a series of videos of live performances from the Dumpster Vault.
Artist: Death and Taxes
Date: Winter, 1994 (exact date unknown)
Venue: Studio Lounge
Location: Westland, Michigan
00:00 (Intro)
00:04 White Flight
03:32 Short Attention Span
07:30 Whip It
11:07 Satellites
17:13 It
21:28 (Thank you for your patience, good night…)
This video is from one of 3 generations of Death and Taxes shows, as defined by the drummer:
Vocals/Guitar - Jeremy
Guitar/Backing Vocals - Paul
Bass/Backing Vocals - Scott
Drums - Mike (1989-1991)
Drums - Qorky (Boss DR-550 drum machine 1991-1992)
Drums - John (1993-1996)
For links to Death and Taxes albums on streaming platforms, visit the Dumpster Link Tree:
https://linktr.ee/DumpsterRecords
This live performance video was recorded in the 1990's on my mom's Sony 8mm camera (thanks, mom!), which amazingly and thankfully still works. Then, they were recently (2023) converted on a ClearClick 2.0 digital converter. I only did minor touch-up in Final Cut Pro to make these videos look and sound just a tad better than they did at first, but in an attempt to leave them as pure as possible.
Please note that these videos were never intended to "see the light of day", and were truly just meant for me/us to watch, so we never cared whether they looked or sounded good originally or not. They were meant more as a documentary of the evening overall, than to capture a live sound. The band would usually watch the performance recording at the next practice, to see how bad we messed up, what parts, etc., and what we could improve, and then the tapes went in a box with all the others to sit for the next 30 years until I eventually posted them on YouTube.
Honestly, it's really kinda' hard for me to watch these as I edited them, for myriad reasons. And I have truly resisted posting them for a long time. But I have been asked by so many people through the years to post these videos that I feel I've been doing a disservice, and hopefully this sets it right.
A special thanks goes to James, who recorded many of these videos. But also thanks to anyone else who ended up on camera duty at our shows, such as Phekps, Craig, Sean, Amy, and others. And thanks to everyone that was ever involved, for that matter. It was a helluvalotta fun, and we couldn't have done it without you.
Lastly, if you find yourself in one of these videos, and if you think that it paints you in a bad light, please contact me and I can blur you out or edit the section, etc., and re-upload.
Thanks! And I hope you enjoy. - Jeremy
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