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The Bryan Stokes Tape Archive

In Memorium 2024

June 2024: This page is currently under preparation.
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These tapes were recorded by Dave LaDelfa (and others) in the late 1980s and early 1990s, some of them in the studios of KCSB-FM, the radio station on the campus of UC Santa Barbara, and others on location with a Sony portable cassette recorder.

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These recordings are NOT licensed for commercial release or for (re-)broadcast.

Please note also that many of these recordings contain extensive profanity. If you feel you will be offended by such things, perhaps the Internet is not really where you want to be today.

This page was most recently modified on Friday, June 28, 2024.

Outside Recordings
Recordings made mostly outside, in the car, walking around, and so forth.
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In the Car with Dave, Scott & BryNEW
Scott Easley drives, Dave LaDelfa and Bryan Stokes yuck it up from the cheap seats, 27 August 1989.
Original cassette digitized June 2024
6/27/20240:35
Tunnel SoundsNEW
In a very reverberant concrete storm drain tunnel under a residential Santa Barbara neighborhood, Scott Easley, Dave and Bryan make creative noises and somehow avoid being arrested. 27 August 1989.
Original cassette digitized June 2024
6/27/20240:48
By the HighwayNEW
Stranded by a malfunctioning automobile at the side of the northbound US101 freeway, Bryan and Dave pass the time with crumhorn and recorder duets while Corey Johnson and Susan Barnes look on bemusedly.
Undated original cassette (Spring 1990?) digitized and remastered June 2024
6/27/20240:50
Isla Vista Chamber Orchestra: Pax Party Live 93NEW
Ad-hoc band of Chris Ball, Dave LaDelfa, Bryan Stokes, and Paul Stinson play numbers from "Hairy Gary," the Jon Song, and assorted other mood music in Pax Wasserman's Isla Vista backyard some evening in 1993.
Original cassette recording produced by Jon Leidecker, digitized and remastered by DL June 2024.
6/27/20240:46
Inside Recordings
Recordings made mostly inside, usually in someone's living room.
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Bryan and Dave Xmas 1987NEW
Dave plays the Rhodes piano, Bryan plays clarinet, recorder, bongos, and snare drum in this program of traditional Christmas favorites. Recorded in Dave's Camino Del Sur apartment in Isla Vista, sometime in the Fall of 1987.
Original cassette digitized, resequenced and remastered June 2024
6/27/20240:55
Bry and Dave: Too StonedNEW
Bryan rolls joint and free-associates. Dave, too wasted to get up out of the beanbag chair, tries to navigate the conversation with only a single eye open, "to save energy." Fall 1989. Much of this tape was repurposed for the Off the Air "Gibbons" episode of 8 December 1989.
Undated original cassette digitized and remastered June 2024
6/27/20240:40
Off The Air
"Off The Air" was a radio program which aired on KCSB-FM Santa Barbara from 1989 to 1994. Initially founded by Dave and Bryan along with Jon Leidecker, Alex Zisch, and Chris Mabli, its later contributors included Tim Meany, Mark Dolan, Chris Ball, Ryan Gold, Scott Easley, and Ted Mills.

A more complete catalogue of Off The Air episodes can be found here
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BogusNEW
Chris Mabli, Bryan, Jon and Dave record stories for the Off The Air "Disasters" episode, October 1989.
Undated R/R tape digitized June 2024
6/27/20240:36
Unairable Chuckles of ComfortNEW
Bryan, Alex Zisch, and Corey Johnson read copy for the Off The Air "Comfort" episode, 16 February 1990. Things get spicy and most of this couldn't be broadcast.
R/R tape digitized June 2024
6/27/20240:32