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Victims Family- Cotati Cabaret, Cotati Ca 5/24/89 Enhanced w/ Sony ECM 909 audio

Since Tim Soylan asked for it, here is an enhanced, complete version of Victims Family at Cotati Cabaret. I had hoped to synch my friend’s superior Sony D6 audio recording to this, but pluraleyes can’t read the stage audio well enough to match it up. That app drives me crazy sometimes. I will try to get my synch friend to do this one when he gets time. Anyway, you were right Tim- I see you playing during backward/forward at the 42 min mark.
I checked the sacramentomusicarchive.com site to see if we had enhanced this one before, and check out this week-plus span of shows:
5/20/89: Fugazi at Gilman
5/24/89: Victims Family and Short Dogs Grow at Cotati Cabaret
5/27/89: Neurosis and 7 Seconds at Gilman
5/28/89: Operation Ivy’s last show at Gilman
5/29/89: Death Angel at Cattle Club.
Holy shit, what an amazing run.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Aiwa CV-80 and Sony ECM909 mic Velcro’d to the top.
Degrain/denoise with neat video

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Dr. Drew the Electric Man- Cotati Cabaret, Cotati Ca. 5/24/89 xfer from 8mm master tape

I am doing a project for a gilman webcast, so I digitized an old gilman show from 1989. At the end of that tape, I discovered this long forgotten gem. If anyone from Victims Family or Short Dogs Grow (who played that night) knows this guy, please let him know!
btw, I forgot to turn my microphone on for the first 3min of the 5min video. I just repeated the audio so he wasn’t dancing to silence. I think it worked pretty well.

Recorded by Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Aiwa CV80 camcorder & Sony ECM909 mic

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Fugazi- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca. 5/20/89 enhanced video w/ Pro Walkman Audio xfer from master tapes

Here’s another one that we prepped for the clif bar event. Gilman was beyond packed for this show and there was no good place to video. I had to be close to the stage or onstage because my camera’s light sensitivity was terrible. I ended up filming the 70 minute show from right in front of Joe, on my knees the entire time so I wouldn’t be in his way.
This was my good friend “Anonymous” first time audiotaping with his Sony WMD6C. He got it that day. We always thought that it didn’t turn out well and wasn’t worth digitizing, but I was able to make it a LOT better in izotope.
Anyway, this is the best that this one is going to get.

Video recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Aiwa CV-80
Audio recorded by: Anonymous
Equipment used: Sony ECM-909 mic
Video enhanced (brighten/contrast degrain): Adobe Premiere and Neat Video
Audio Enhanced(boost guitar and vocal) Izotope RX7
Audio Video synch via Plural Eyes

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Fugazi- Gilman St. Project, Berkeley 5/20/89 VIDEO

This video is decent but not great. Gilman’s lighting was not very robust which left some of my videos dark and grainy. This is the best of the 2 Fugazi Gilman videos I shot. It was PACKED in there, so it was a challenging shot. I think I stood on my knees the entire time! Ow,

This is part 1. The rest of the show is on youtube- you can search by title.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Aiwa CV-80 and Sony ECM909 Mic

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Pitchfork- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca. 5/20/89 xfer from master 8mm videotape enhanced Live RFTC

Most people probably know of Pitchfork as the band that John Reis’ played guitar in, before Rocket From the Crypt…. but there are some hardcore fans (like Chris Sanders) who saw them back in the late 80s and are still fans now. Chris asked me to post this one- this is not the best video. The stage is SUPER dark for everyone except for the bass player’s back. I did my best by brightening, correcting the exposure, and de-noising the video. It’s not great, but it’s at least a decent early document of the band.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Aiwa CV-80 & Sony ECM909 mic
Enhanced with Adobe premiere/neat video

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The Boon- John Conley & Mike Yoas at Kallie’s, Sacramento Ca 5/13/89 Xfer from master video

The Boon was John Conley and Mike Yoas’ band, long before Desario. Here they play at Kallie’s, which was an odd little restaurant/bar in east sacramento. It looks like most of the time, they were an oldies bar. How did you guys even get this gig??
Recorded with the Aiwa CV80 and Sony ECM909 mic.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Aiwa CV80

 

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fIREHOSE- Eagle’s Hall, Sacramento Ca 5/11/89 xfer from master videotape enhanced Mike Watt

I have always felt that this was the best fIREHOSE video I shot- best sound and performance. The problem was that this Eagles hall (like a VFW hall) had high flourescent lighting that cast shadows over Ed and Mike. I was able to fix it enough in Adobe Premiere Elements and neat video to at least see their faces. It’s a big improvement from the original version.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Aiwa CV-80 and Sony ECM-909 mic
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements (shadow correction, lighting/contrast) and neat video (degrain)

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Robyn Hitchcock- Live 105, San Francisco Ca 5/8/89 live acoustic in studio and interview

Man, what a late On This Date in History today. It’s a long story- I was going to do an anonymous recording, but then I decided to post his claimstake recording… then I was going to do a Wilco DAT board tape and that one tape # is not where it should be… then I was going to do George Norton’s Dag Nasty show from CBGB in 1988 and I see that a version is already on the Mackenzie Tapes.. jeez.
So here is a short one. Robyn Hitchcock at his peak (IMHO) playing some songs in studio at Live 105. From an unknown gen audio tape, it might be a little sped up.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Mary’s Danish- University of California Santa Barbara UCSB 5/6/89 xfer f/1st gen VHS tape incomplete

I cleaned my desk and found a few of my VHS tapes that I digitized quite a while ago, so I’ll be posting those along with the recent masters for the next week or so.

This is on the same tape as the Janes Addiction that I posted a year or so ago and I swear that I have the entire set. Maybe I shut off the VCR since I was in a hurry. If there is enough interest, I’ll re-do the entire thing after the video capture setup is back up.

Recorded by: David?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub

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