Wow, what a day. Work into dinner for the kids into Kings game and now home. This may be the latest daily post ever, but I made it before midnight! Here is the last 1980s video from Laura Levy’s collection of master tapes. Feedbags were also a local Phoenix band with the following members: Jim Swafford, Dave Swafford, Rick Purcell, Gary Martin Suffers the same audio fate as the Gin Blossoms and Glue from the same show, I still need to get schooled by Seneca on this “de-distort the audio” stuff.
Recorded by: Laura Levy & Dan (the soon to be Blossoms next drummer!) Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: JVC HRS-9900U- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced (denoise) in adobe premiere elements/neat video
Since today is an observed holiday (day off) for many people, here is another video. I’ll start the audio posts tomorrow. Here is yet another awesome 1980s video shot by Laura Levy. Glue were a local Phoenix band with the following members: Todd Joseph, Jim Peterson, Scott Palmer, PJ Van Zanen. Suffers the same audio fate as the Gin Blossoms from the same show, that I posted a week or so back.
Recorded by: Laura Levy & Dan (the soon to be Blossoms next drummer!) Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: JVC HRS-9900U- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced (denoise) in adobe premiere elements/neat video
Here is another amazing gift from Laura Levy. She let me borrow a couple of tapes when I was up in Seattle back in August. Thanks again, Laura! The Gin Blossoms played a local showcase at The Mason Jar with a couple other band- those will be posted soon. Unfortunately, the video suffers from distorted audio. Maybe Seneca St. James can tutor me on his anti-distortion skillz in Izotope Rx8. When I try to use Spectral Repair, it just sounds weird… and we still have that Muffs soundboard that could be saved as well.
From Laura: Gin Blossoms: Doug Hopkins, Bill Leen, Jesse Venezuela, Chris McCann, Robin Wilson
Fireworks I Can Sleep Found out about you Seven Days A Little Bit O’Soul Movin’ on Up Cajun Song Sweet Home Alabama Happy Birthday to PJ with Glue The G Song Lost Horizons Run for your Life Surfin’ Safari
Recorded by: Laura Levy & Dan (the soon to be Blossoms next drummer!) Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: JVC HRS-9900U- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced (denoise) in adobe premiere elements/neat video
Pierre Kezdy, one of the most humble, genuine, and nicest people I have ever met, passed away yesterday. Meeting your heroes sometimes ends in disappointment, but Pierre treated me like an old friend. My full story around that trip (Colorado 2014) is at the bottom of this post. My heart goes out to his family (he has young kids), his close friends and former bandmates. I wish I could have hung out with him more.
The mix on this one starts out a bit weak, but gets way better at about the 10min mark.
I’ll pull out some of my favorite NR shows and post them as time allows. Here is the first one. I was a HUGE NR fan in the late 80s, thanks to Mike Yoas turning me onto them when All Rise was released. This was NR’s first trip out west in 4 years, and my first time seeing them. I even tried booking them in Sacramento, but they wanted $500! That is a lot of money when you made $4.25 an hour. I had my videocamera at the show and tried to videotape, but band manager Karen Bemis shut me down- I was so bummed. Instead, we learned that KALX was broadcasting the show live, so I brought in a boombox and recorded the FM signal while watching the show. I then got a better quality recording from Radley Hirsch, Gilman’s soundman. This recording is Radley’s version, with “New Dreams” spliced in from my boombox at the 45:00 mark.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy and Radley Hirsch Equipment used: Montgomery Ward Boombox and Radley’s gear Transfer by: Shayne Stacy with Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card.
Meeting Pierre: In 2014, I flew to Denver on a whim since Naked Raygun was playing, my wife and kids were out of the country, and last minute flights were super cheap. I get to the venue early and ask the promoter if I can get permission to video. He goes back for a bit and tells me that the band wants me to come backstage with them. When I get back there, everyone was so nice to me, but Pierre was amazing. He treated me like I was an old friend. I told him I worked at Intel and he says “oh, you know about electronics. can you fix my phone? my camera is taking too many pictures”. I tried to explain that Intel has nothing to do with phones and I just ended up fixing it for him. 😀 I would have to say that out of all of the encounters that I have had with musicians (and there have been a lot), meeting Pierre has been #1. What a kind, generous man. (Having Jeff sing “Broken Things” a Capella to me 1:1 backstage in long beach may be #2 as well)
This was the 2nd show I ever filmed with my camera. The Omni made me shut it down after about 15 min, I was so bummed because it looks great. Fun fact about this show- No Use for a Name Opened with Chris Dodge on vocals. I think it was their first show. I also have that on video.
OK, everyone is asking for old local stuff. I bought my first video camera on 5/6/88. I went straight to Gilman to film Operation Ivy and my battery died. The next day, the guys in Identity Crysis invited me over to their rehearsal space to video. They were based in roseville, and had a 7″ single on Mystic Records back around this time frame. Oh, also, since I had a new camera, I was video taping everything in sight.. so at the beginning you will get to see my mom’s old cat Molly (she was a jerk) and my mom briefly with her fabulous 80s hair. Enjoy.
For today’s on this date in history, I picked this totally wild Dickies show from 1988. I think I grabbed it off dimeadozen many years ago. It’s not on there anymore, and it isn’t on youtube.
I picked it for a few reasons. This show takes place the day before I saw (and video’d) them for the first time at The Omni in Oakland. The performance is excellent. “hitwithstuff” (the person posting on dime) had the greatest recap of the show. I liked it so much that I took the printed copy of the info sheet I had and scanned it to .pdf, then converted to text to include here… and it didn’t work. I will post the scans of the docs as comments on the facebook posts, because it was clearly a classic show!
Oh, and if “hitwithstuff” or “MC Ferret” wants this pulled down, let me know. Posting it out of love and respect, but happy to comply with whatever they wish.
An MC Ferret AUD Recordlng / Hitwitstuff2 mastering and upload Extract from CD and prep for upload: Shayne Stacy
This one comes from Eggplant’s collection, and I could have sworn that I received this show in a tape trade back in the 80s.. but no. I have the infamous show where they throw a dead dog into the crowd from the prior July, but not this. Fun fact: I was at the show the night before (op ivy), but not this one. That 90+ minute commute back-and-forth to Fair Oaks/Citrus Heights made multiple weekend night trips to Gilman difficult. I was able to push the rebalance on this one quite a bit and got some pretty decent results. If there was a good way to pull out that snare and bring it up, that would be even better. Nice ONJ cover.
Recorded by: ? (Radley hirsch?) Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocal +5, Bass +1, Guitar +9
OK, I am stretching the rules of the Sac Music Archive a bit. I did not tape this, it is not a sacramento based band, but there is a story behind it…
There are a couple of events that really motivated me to save for 5 MONTHS (working for $6 an hour) to buy a video camera. One was borrowing a rented video camera from Attitude to film RKL at Gilman on 1/16/88. The other one was seeing Operation Ivy and Isocracy on new years 1988(12/31/87). Op ivy instantly became my favorite band.
So on a Friday, I get off work with my $650 and go to Montgomery Ward to buy a video camera. The sales guy tells me that the Aiwa that I picked out can film for “about 2 hours” on a battery pack. So I charge the battery and shoot down to Gilman to film Op Ivy’s return show, from their US tour in Mar-Apr 1988.
I film one of the opening bands- Neighborhood Watch, then I turn on my camera to film op ivy. The battery is dead. I plug my camera in from the back of the venue and did not like filming from back there, so I shut it off. So, no video of this show but here is a nice sbd. This is probably a better quality version than the bootlegs that surfaced of this show.
Lineage: Radley Hirsch’s Hifi VHS master-“Anonymous” cassette, xfer with Nakamichi Dragon.
