Collections post first today, from Chris Eng’s collection…. and what a nice surprise- I had digitizied this tape 5 months ago and didn’t listen to it closely. It not only sounded decent with no distortion, it was clean enough for an EQ and rebalance job.
I’m not sure if Chris taped this one as well as videotaping. I’ll update the description if I find that it is his master tape.
I’ll get around to synching this audio with the video as soon as I can. The video soundtrack is heavily ditorted so this will be a huge improvement.
Recorded by: Chris Eng? Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card EQ in Sony Soundforge 10 Rebalance in Izotope Rx8 (Vocal and guitar boost)
As promised, I am going to attempt to post something from each of the 20 collections I have over here somewhat regularly. It has been a long time since I posted anything from Russ Gibb’s tapes. I was able to get my hands on a nice beta VCR for a short amount of time and get clean transfers of all of the Russ tapes I have. No more white vertical lines! For those who need a Russ refresher (wikipedia): Russel James Gibb (June 15, 1931 – April 30, 2019) was an American rock concert promoter, school teacher and disc jockey from Dearborn, Michigan, best known for his role in the “Paul is dead” phenomenon, a story he broke on radio station WKNR-FM in Dearborn, and as the owner of the Grande Ballroom, a major rock music venue in Detroit. (me) He was also a teacher at Dearborn High School who filmed a lot of small/unknown bands in the midwest. So humbled to have a good amount of his tapes here. Anyway, Guilty Bystanders were a punk band from Flint, Mi. They put out 1 self/independently released CD. The photo used for the facebook post has more info about the many members that were in the band.
Recorded by: Russ Gibb and or Crew Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony SL-2100 – Datavideo TBC-1000 – Virtualdub Enhanced (denoise) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
If you were following along on the Chris Eng video posts, you probably figured out that this one was next….Oh man, it’s really great. Great camera location and it sounds pretty good for a 1987 stock camcorder microphone thing. Massive thanks to Chris Eng for filming this and making these available now.
Recorded by: Chris Eng Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (brightness/denoise)
Chris Eng filmed a bunch of east bay bands, some of which became very popular… while others played a few shows, maybe released a demo, and that was it. Vomitorium is a band that falls in that latter category- but a couple of their members went on to do some other things. Vocalist Rumpkin Bignose Scaribreakfast(real name Christof Certik) and guitarist Zanzibar Buck Buck McFate(real name Gideon Zaretsky) went on to play in the psych-pop band Benjamin Kitestring. The duo also played with/engineered a diverse number of bands such as Mother Hips, Buck-o-Nine, and Vicious Rumours. Who woulda thought.
Recorded by: Chris Eng Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (denoise)
When I take in a new collection to digitize, I like to post something that is somewhat of a “big splash” to announce what’s up… well, I got so excited that I just started digitizing stuff that was important to me and not the most popular. So, with that in mind: Last Monday I braved the big storm and drove to Maraga to meet up with Chris Eng and go through his collection of tapes. Chris was the guy who filmed a LOT of the early east bay punk stuff at Gilman in 1986-87 time frame- he had a nice camera for the time that picked up low light way better than most cameras of the era. I left with 5 boxes of tapes- 2 boxes of video and 3 of audio, so expect those to dominate short-term weekend video posts. Thanks to Chris for having the foresight to film the bands, and for trusting me with the collection. So, here is the first one. Tim Armstrong (Lint)’s band before Operation Ivy/Rancid was called Basic Radio. Actually, the discogs description is really good: “Basic Radio was Ska band, formed in 1985 in Berkeley, CA mainly from members of Urban Noise, and played shows in the San Francisco Bay Area with other East Bay bands such as The Uptones, Freaky Executives and Primus. Members of Basic Radio went on to form Operation Ivy, Rancid, Critical Mass , Elephant Men and Tilt.
Members Include; Michael Valladares – vocals, saxophone, accordion Tim Armstrong “Lint” – guitar Jeff Kamalian – guitar Matt Freeman – bass Vincent Camacho – drums John Healy – percussion, b/u vocals Cliff Smith – keyboards”
I posted a version of this from a VHS copy a few years back, but this one looks MUCH better- this is straight off of Chris’ master tape, captured with the lossless setup here. Nice!
Recorded by: Chris Eng Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (brightness/denoise)
Here’s one that I was surprised to see uncirculated. I was told that this is a 1st gen VHS copy, but it has a slight screen bend which makes me suspect it is was copied a couple times. Looks like the location was Dave’s garage.
Recorded by: Chris Eng(?) Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: JVC HRS9811U and Canopus ADVC300
NOTE the first 20min of this is rough- lots of audience chatter. It gets a lot better after 20min. Fast fwd if you can’t stand it- it’s worth the listen!
I think this was a one of a kind event- Henry Rollins and Ian Mackeye on stage together, reminiscing about the fun times working at the pet shop in D.C. and talking about ill-fated tours. Henry was doing spoken word shows regularly at this point, but I have never seen Ian do one of these since. I also have a different recording of this show (recorded by Jim Hildreth) that is longer- 90 minutes- but lesser quality. Let me know if you are dying to hear that one and I’ll pull it out.
Recorded by: ? Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card Edit in Sony Soundforge 10- copied right channel into left, as right channel had annoying high end distortion
Here’s one from my collection today. It comes from that lot of KCRW sessions that I digitized for the station’s archive. I wish I could remember who I got this from- I recall it being someone who wasn’t a prolific trader and taped stuff in so. cal. They taped it off the radio and sent me a cassette copy.
Recorded by: ? Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
On this day 38 years ago, I promoted my first show in Sacramento. I was a huge fan of attitude adjustment and became friends with Andy Andersen, the vocalist in the band. Attitude Adjustment had just broken up, but they started a new band with Rick and Chris from the band along with Keith from Condemned to Death. It was great- they did AA songs, C2D songs, and brand new songs they just wrote. I asked them to play Sacramento and went to Spanky’s to submit their demo and to get it all arranged. My good friend John Conley drew up the flyer and we were off and running. The venue supplied the opening bands, and I lucked out with Dissident Aggressor being on the bill. I actually have a soundboard tape that is so bad that pluraleyes won’t ID it to synch the sources together. it is almost all vocals and the vocals distort at times. I attempted to fix it in izotope and it just made it worse. Oh well. Instead, this is the audience recording that we made. I think Mark Martin taped it for me. It doesn’t sound great, but it is a pretty cool memory for me. Plus there aren’t a ton of Spanky’s tapes out there.
Recorded by: Me(Shayne) or Mark Martin Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card EQ in Sony Sound forge 10
