Archive Finds
Sometimes One Flyer Changes the Timeline
Oral history is the heart of this project, but surviving artifacts give those memories weight. A flyer can establish a venue and date. A cassette can settle a song title. A backstage pass can connect two bands to the same show. A magazine clipping can reveal a lineup nobody remembered correctly thirty years later.
The goal is not to collect old paper for nostalgia alone. The goal is to preserve evidence before it disappears into garages, storage boxes, estate sales, dumpsters or simply gets thrown away.
Artifacts That Are Rebuilding the Story
These are selected examples from the working archive. The deeper collections, complete scans, detailed chronology and additional discoveries are being reserved for the books and future archive features.
Sacrificial Death — David's Cave
A surviving flyer places Sacrificial Death at David's Cave in Phoenix on January 21, 1990. The artifact gives the archive a hard date, a venue address and a snapshot of the band's identity during a period that was remembered only approximately.
Live at the Quarry
A May 1988 Quarry flyer helps anchor Sacrificial Death's early live history and the band's connection to the location that served as rehearsal space, church and home base.
Scapegoat at the Sun Club
Surviving listings place Scapegoat repeatedly at the Sun Club in Tempe during 1992, preserving a run of dates that helps reconstruct how active the band was during that period.
Scapegoat · Vengeance · Moshketeers
A surviving February 28, 1993 all-area pass links Scapegoat with Vengeance and Moshketeers in Tempe and provides another fixed point in a rapidly changing lineup era.
Music Voice — Doc Martinez
A 1993 magazine feature preserves the Doc Martinez period, including the band's sound, songs and lineup context after Scapegoat began changing direction.
Helter Shelter / CFCR Letter
A letter from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan shows Scapegoat's music reaching beyond Arizona after the band was discovered through Heaven's Metal, offering physical evidence of international interest.
Surgical Steel CDs and Inserts
Surviving releases and printed inserts help document Surgical Steel's lineup history, recordings and the names tied to different periods of the band.
Rock For Life — 1994
A surviving July 30, 1994 Phoenix flyer places Scapegoat on a bill with Focused, Plank Eye, The Blamed, Unashamed and EDL, preserving another piece of Arizona's Christian heavy-music network.
The Original Sacrificial Death Master Cassette
Don't Take the M666
The original master cassette survives. Its handwritten track list preserves the four-song order from the 1988 demo and gives the archive something far stronger than memory alone.
The cassette is also a reminder of how fragile local music history can be. This was not a major-label release stored in a corporate vault. It was a home-recorded Arizona demo, duplicated onto cassettes, handed to people, mailed out and carried around for decades. The fact that the original master still exists matters.
The complete recording story, duplication process, surviving correspondence and deeper history belong in the book. The website preserves just enough to show why the artifact matters.
Nothing Is Too Small If It Helps Tell the Truth
The Website Shows the Evidence. The Book Tells the Whole Story.
The archive pages will show selected artifacts and explain why they matter, but the site will not dump every scan, every photograph or every piece of documentation online.
What the Books Preserve
Complete context, deeper artifact histories, disputed dates, full interview connections, additional images, recording stories, handwritten evidence, venue histories and the discoveries that change what we thought we knew.
You May Be Holding a Piece of Arizona Music History
If you have old Arizona music material sitting in a closet, garage, storage bin or photo album, please do not assume nobody cares about it. A single flyer, cassette or photograph may contain information that exists nowhere else.
- Original concert flyers and handbills
- Band photographs and live photos
- Demo tapes, masters and rehearsal recordings
- Backstage passes, tickets and club calendars
- Local magazines and newspaper clippings
- Letters, fan mail and booking correspondence
- Old websites, videos and digital files
- Anything that helps identify a date, venue, lineup, recording or forgotten name