Here’s another fIREHOSE show. I loved videotaping them at Cattle because I could get on the better side of the stage most of the time, since they were a 3 piece and Ed tended to set up close to center stage. I love this “fromohio” era. Watch Grant bounce people in the front row. Filmed with Aiwa CV80 and ECM909 mic
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Aiwa CV80, ECM909 Mic
Smokin’ Rhythm Prawns were an alternative funk-metal (think Primus/FNM etc) band from the bay area. They were around a few years and released 1 CD. They opened for fIREHOSE at Cattle so I shot video. The infamous Cattle lighting was good that night! I don’t see any other live footage of them online, even though they had a decent following back then.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Here is one of the rare times that I was able to stand on the other side of the stage to film a Cattle show. This was only possible when the band was a 3 piece and they left enough room over there. I think I filmed there twice with the big PA in place, and both were fIREHOSE.
I love this era of firehose. Don’t tell Brian, but I think 1989 is my favorite Watt year. Even over the minutement. Flame away!
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Aiwa CV80
Audio recorded by: Anonymous
Equipment used: Sony WMD6C and Sony ECM090 Mic
Audio remixed in Sony Soundforge
Video enhanced (brighten/contrast/exposure/denoise) in Adobe Premiere w/Neat Video
Audio/Video synch by King Bean
So this was a very memorable night. John Conley, Jason Ellis, Mike Yoas and I piled into a car and headed to Rohnert Park on a very foggy night. It was so foggy, we could not see where we were going! I had just started trading tapes with a lady named Carolyn Adams and we met for the first time. We became fast friends and are friends for life! I also had a huge crush, but I was socially inept. Also, you’ll see that the video loses focus A LOT. My viewfinder was broken, so I did not have an eyepiece on the camera. I filmed this entire show while standing on a chair in the back, with my eye up to the tiny(1″?) tv screen. It’s kinda amazing that it looks this good. Filmed with Aiwa CV80 & Sony ECM909 mic
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Aiwa CV-80 and Sony ECM-909 Mic
Live sound by Woody Nuss
Go, Dog. Go! opening for Thin White Rope
Recorded by: Jerry Perry and Shayne Stacy
Edited by: Jim McLain
December 2, 1989 at the Cattle Club. From the video archives of Jerry Perry and Shayne Stacy. Editing and audio mix by Jim McLain.
Recorded by: Jerry Perry and Shayne Stacy
Edited by: Jim McLain
I get daily emails with listings for local estate sales and most of them have the usual stuff- old cookware, vintage clothing & accessories, and general stuff that I don’t need. So I get this listing in my email last week and there are hundreds of photos of the usual things, and then toward the bottom there is a photo of an autographed Buck Naked and the Bare Bottom boys, along with a lot of other autographed memorabilia from people like John Denver. What the heck?
Work was nuts last week so I could not make it over there in time for the Buck Naked LP (dammit Robert Mckeown), but oh man what an amazing collection. I have never seen someone with such a deep collection of just a small handful of artists- personally autographed items from Alan Jackson, thanking “Laurie” for believing in him before he was popular; a ton of Chris Isaak autographed stuff, and these 4 8mm tapes that were by the door where you pay. I knew right away what they were and snapped them up.
Obviously filmed with permission
R.I.P. Laurie Vilarich and Jimmy Wilsey.
Recorded by: Laurie Vilarich
Equipment used: Sony MVCFD71 (I think- it was also for sale there)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony EV-S2000 — Datavideo TBC-1000 — Tevion USB capture — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Here’s one of the last ones (if not the last one) that Todd Pritchard pulled out for me to digitize back in December of 2019. I may be slow, but I get it done eventually.
This mix was decent on the source tape, but there is next to no snare. I popped it into Izotope and boosted the snare as much as I could. It is still buried, but it is a nice, full-sounding mix. Hopefully you can still enjoy it.
Btw, this is not the big alternative rock band named Fuel. This is a post-punk band out of San Francisco with releases on Lookout records among other labels.
From Jason Ross’ collection.
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope RX7
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