Primus and Ugly Kid Joe perform 3-21-92 in Daytona Beach Florida. The BetaGems channel also has “Ugly Kid Joe 5-22-92 New Artist TV Profile,“ “The Fixx 3-19-89 Spring Break television performance,“ “Vixen 3-19-89 daytime TV performance, Daytona Beach,“ “Cheap Trick 3-19-89 Spring Break television performance,“ “Was (Not Was) 3-18-89 daytime TV performance, Daytona Beach,“ “Information Society 3-18-89 daytime TV performance, Daytona Beach,“ “Richard Marx 3-18-88 Daytona Beach spring break,“ “Spring Break 1994 Flintstones Dancers,“ “PM Dawn, LA Guns live 3-21-92 spring break,“ “Lenny Kravitz performs in a loincloth March 1992 spring break,“ “Aimee Mann & Til Tuesday 3-27-87 Daytona Beach FL 7 songs,“ “KBC Band (Kantner Balin Casady) 3-27-87 Daytona Beach FL 4 songs,“ “Primus 3-21-92 Daytona Beach FL w/Ugly Kid Joe,“ “Samantha Fox 3-18-89 Daytona Beach FL TV performance,“ “Marky Mark 3-21-92 Daytona Beach FL w/L.A. Guns,“ “Right Said Fred 3-21-92 Daytona Beach FL w/Brand New Heavies,“ “3-18-89 Spring Break John Stamos hosts Penthouse Pet bikini contest,“ “3-18-89 Spring Break dancing, Ami Dolenz, bikini contest.“
BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded from 1983 into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn’t seem to be anywhere else on Youtube or online. Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads.
In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we’re only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area.