Oh jerseydave77! Thanks for making it easy on me. Check out this great description,
“H2O Demo Tape – This is the original demo tape from 1994. I’ve never seen one since the day I bought this since they issued a 7″ a short time later. This was a treasured item in my collection but I’m done with Tapes and it’s time to pass this one on. The condition is played but it is in great shape.
Since I’ll never see one of these again you get to hear the story of how I got this. I went to see Rancid at the Limelight in late 1994 or early 1995 (confusion will be explained later). It was at the infamous Limelight in NYC and the opener that night was a band playing their second show: H2O. They blew this High School kid away. The night went on and Rancid was killing it when some jackass stage dove feet first into my head. The next thing I remember was 4 strangers each holding one limb carrying me out of the pit. God I hate stagedivers. Well, I was plopped at the merch tables where a bunch of nice roadies got me waters and let me keep a chair for a while. In appreciation I bought this tape, an H20 Shirt and my treasured Rancid t-shirt. This tape was on regular play for three years and a couple of these songs are better in my opinion than what went on the debut album – my opinion but I saw H20 a dozen times before that first album and I swear the demos caught what was so special about them at that time.”
If anyone has a copy of this, post a link. I wanna hear it.
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