Recorded by: Steve Vanoni
Month: December 1988
Earwigs- Unknown Location, New Years, Unknown year Part 1. Late 80s?
Recorded by: Steve Vanoni
Operation Ivy- Danceteria, Sacramento Ca 12/26/88 VIDEO
I bought my first video camera in 1988 just so I could video tape Operation Ivy. This is probably the best of the videos I did of them, as the lighting is good and the performance is great. One of the few Clear and Distinct Ideas shows (Stewart Katz) I ever did.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Aiwa CV80 camera with stock microphone
7 Seconds- Danceteria, Sacramento Ca. 12/26/88 Part 1 Transfer from Master Tape
I think this was the last Clear & Distinct show I went to. Stewart Katz was our promoter in town from the early ’80s, starting at Club Minimal until the late ’80s. I caught up with him last year and hear some awesome stories. Thanks Stewart for bringing awesome bands to town- the bills back then were crazy. Also shown in this video (in the background) is my good friend and drummer of my band, Scott Oakes. Rest in Peace buddy. This was 26 years and 1 day ago. I am old. Sorry for the audio, this was before I bought a mic that did not suck.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Operation Ivy- Danceteria, Sacramento Ca. 12/26/88 Live xfer from Master Enhanced
With this one, I attempted to brighten the video and it did not turn out well. This version has been de-noised with neat video. It is still a bit dark but much cleaner.
I also have a different audio source from “anonymous” that we can hopefully synch one day.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
7 Seconds- Danceteria, Sacramento Ca. 12/26/88 xfer from 8mm master enhanced Live
Here is the very last band to play a Clear and Distinct Ideas show. 7 Seconds headlined Stewart’s last show ever. I cranked the brightness all the way up, please let me know if those stage lights are too annoying.
This is a fun video to watch if you like to hear Steve’s bass lines, not so much if you want to hear Kevin. I have an audience tape that was recorded FOH if anyone wants to synch it for me. REMINDER: I need help with edits, and audio/video synchs. As I work my way through my old masters, I am also digging out audience and soundboard masters that me & “Anonymous” recorded. Holler if you want to help!
PS: I think John Muheim was in my way for a lot of this show, before we knew each other!
PPS: Many appearances by Scott Oakes, who worked stage security. I miss that guy, it’s nice to see him here.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Aiwa CV80 and stock mic
Enhancement: Adobe Premiere increase brightness and exposure, denoise with neat video.
Flyer: 7 Seconds, Operation Ivy, Inner Strength @ Dancerteria 12/26/88
7 Seconds, Operation Ivy, Inner Strength
Danceteria
Sacramento, CA
12/26/88
Flyer scan by Ken Doose
Operation Ivy- Danceteria, Sacramento Ca. 12/26/88 xfer from master videotape w/ NEW IMPROVED AUDIO
When we used to go to shows back in the late 1980’s, I would bring my video camera and my good friend “Anonymous” would audiotape. Even before he bought his WMD6C pro walkman in May of 1989, his audio was almost always superior to my video camera’s audio. I have all of his audiotapes here, and still need to digitize about 95% of them.
There are quite a few videos that I filmed that would benefit from his improved audio. I think the only one we synched before this one was Fugazi at Gilman in 89.
Anyway, the stock audio on this video always bugged the hell out of me because the midrange was totally distorted. Anonymous used a consumer Aiwa recorder to record the show and it was average at best. I remixed it twice- once in Ixotope RX7, then again in Sony Soundforge. It’s now listenable!
Huge thanks to Kingbean for the audio video synch
Video recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Aiwa CV80 camcorder
Audio recorded by: Anonymous
Equipment used: Aiwa handheld recorder with stock plugin mic
Enhancements via Adobe Premier elements, Neat video, Izotop RX7, Sony Soundforge
Audio video synch by Kingbean
Bliss- Club Me, Sacramento Ca. 12/17/88 xfer from 8mm master tape LIVE
Here is a video from the first time I filmed Bliss, opening for Vomit Launch. We had seen them up in Nevada City a while before this, but they left a great impression. They were sac’s resident SST sounding band, right down to Brandon’s Greg Ginn style Plexi guitar. Filmed with Aiwa CV80 and stock mic. We have a soundboard tape of the show, so if anyone wants to synch them, let me know!
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Aiwa CV80
Vomit Launch- Club Me, Sacramento 12/17/88 Enhanced Master w/improved audio
I heard Vomit Launch for the first time, opening a Stewart Katz show- it may have been a 7 seconds show in late 1986 and I liked them immediately. I think that this was their first Sacramento appearance after I bought my camera- back in the Clint/Jeff O’Toole/Greg Dean promoter gap between Stewart and Brian & Jerry.
I took my master and brightened it and de-noised it, then added “Anonymous”‘s audio, courtesy of an Aiwa handheld recorder with stock mic? Or it may have been a Sony ECM909 at this point. Anyway, it sounded better than my stock mic.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Aiwa CV-80
Audio: Anonymous, Aiwa Handheld recorder
Audio sync: Sam Habash, “thehappyone” on youtube.
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