On top of the 4,000 cassettes of my own that reside at the archive, I also have other collections– I have over 500 punk cassettes from Jason Ross, about 100 from Dal Basi, A lot from Brian McKenna, and a couple hundred from my friend Anonymous. He taped with a Sony WMD6C Pro Walkman back in the late 80s and was able to get some nice results from the deck along with a Sony ECM909 mic.
He told me that this was one of the loudest shows he had ever attended, and it still sounds pretty damned good. This is a transfer from his master tape.
Recorded by: Anonymous
Equipment used: Sony WMD6C & ECM-909 Mic
Here’s a Fungo Mungo set from Cattle, from way back in 1989. Shot with an Aiwa CV80 camcorder & Sony ECM909 mic. It starts out SUPER dark, but gets way better 3min in, and even better later in the set. This one is for Chris Macias- he requested it.
Uncle Tupelo were from Belleville, Il, so the closest major city was St. Louis. They played many venues around town in the early days, but Cicero’s was their home base. Cicero’s was a legendary basement bar/venue below an italian restaurant. You’ll see a good chunk of classic UT shows coming from here.
Setlist (courtesy of the great factorybelt dot net website:
Otherside/ Sin City/ Graveyard Shift/ D.Boon/ Flatness/ Cocaine Blues/ Outdone/ Screen Door/ So Called Friend/ Baby, Please Don’t Go/ Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door/ Train/ Whiskey Bottle/ Fortunate Son/ Factory Belt/ Mercedes Benz/ No Matter What/ That Year/ Life Worth Livin’/ There Was A Time/ Mannish Boy (sort of)/ A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall/ Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
That’s right. Gimme Gimme Gimme by Black Flag, country style.
Recorded by: Tony Marghertia(?)
Transferred by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: 1994 DAT transfer- Playback with consumer Aiwa belt drive deck (big regret)- Sony DTC690 using monster audio cables.
Equipment used: 2019 DAT to WAV transfer: Sony PCM-R500 — Audiophile 2496 card — WAV
Transfer Lineage: Band Archive Tape – My DAT (90 meter DAT in 32khz- big regret) – You
PS: I know that the DAT sleeve says 10/13/87, but the band did not have that many songs in 87, so the cassette must have been labeled with the wrong year.
Here is the end of the show that I had promised earlier in the week. So, in summary, you get:
1st 15min of set of what was silent video synched with soundboard audio (posted Sunday)
Entire show, audio only (posted.. tuesday?)
and now this- final 20-25min. This part is my favorite part of the show. First George Benson, then Friends with a broken bass string which turns into a dub version… then a super long break where Ralph entertains us all by doing metal screams & guitar that sounds exactly like the scream… then onto “anti satan song for mom” with no vocals. Even though it was midnight and they had to dick around with the bass guitar no one left.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Video: Aiwa CV-88 camcorder; Audio: Sony WMD6C into soundboard Transfer: Sony DCR-TRV340 via firewire into workstation Enhancements: Video Brightness & noise reduction: Adobe premiere & neat video. Audio rebalance: Izotope Audio/video synch: Pluraleyez
So here is the VF full show audio I promised. This was probably the best VF show I had ever seen. Amazing set with brand new “White Bread Blues” songs, including an instrumental version of “Anti satan song for mom”!
PS: There were shockingly few VF images on the internets. I had to chop this one from my Gilman flyer archive for a different show :-O
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment Used: Sony WMD6C into soundboard Enhanced in Izotope (bass/guitar boost)
This one is a bit of a long story. TL/DR version: Part 1 is today, full audio show is tomorrow, part 2 of video is Monday. Video will not be the full show. Audio/video synch starts at about 30 seconds in, and seems to align better after a short while
When I had the ancient Aiwa CV-80 camera from 1988-1992, I used an external microphone so the audio would be decent quality. It was a Sony ECM-909 mic, which required it to be plugged into the camera AND powered on. The old cameras had no audio levels, so if you screwed up and left it unplugged or forgot to power it on, you got silent video and did not realize until the show was over. My 2 biggest screwups were this show (the best show I have ever seen VF play) and Pavement at the Kennel Club in May of 1992. No audio has ever surfaced of the Pavement, but I did tape a nice soundboard of this show.
Massive thanks to Jesse Davis for synching the first 16min of SILENT footage of the show to the soundboard recording. Not easy. It falls out of synch after that, so 17min-45ish min of the set’s video won’t be posted. The final 25ish min will (hopefully) be posted Monday, if pluraleyes can make it happen.
Amazing set with brand new “White Bread Blues” songs, including an instrumental version of “Anti satan song for mom”!
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment Used: Aiwa CV-80 camcorder Audio equipment used: Sony WMD6C into soundboard Video enhanced (brighten/degrain) with Adobe Premiere & Neat Video Audio Enhanced (boost bass and guitar) with Izotope
You are going to get an assortment of East Bay punk bands this week, thanks to Todd Pritchard. Today’s post comes from Jason Ross’ collection. The mix wasn’t perfect on this one, so I popped it into Izotope and rebalanced it, and removed as much hiss as I could without making it sound weird.
Recorded by: ? (Marshall Stax or Radley Hirsch?) Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragohn and M-Audio 2496 card Rebalance and noise reduction in Izotope Rx7
