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Mt. T Experience- Cybelle’s Pizza, El Cerrito 6/29/91 re-xfer from master VHS tape Enhanced MTX

I debated about whether I should post this one from Rodney Parker’s collection of master tapes he loaned me, but what the heck. You can see Jon Von and Frank a little better than my original post a while back.

I followed the same approach that I took on that Green Day video from Rodney’s graduation party- virtualdub has the ability to adjust brightness and contrast at the source, so that’s what I did. I cranked up the brightness, adjusted contrast BEFORE the capture and then did the work in adobe. Sure, it looks a bit like 1980s night vision security footage, but still, you can actually see them.

recorded by: Rodney Parker
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Green Day- Cybelle’s Pizza, El Cerrito Ca 6/29/91 lossless xfer from master VHS tape Enhanced

As promised, here is the last of the “4 day video weekend”. This one comes from Rodney Parker’s master tape and is one of the most improved videos that I was able to do- thanks Rodney! Check out his channel @BayAreaPunkShows for more great stuff!
Cybelle’s lighting was close to non-existent so the early ’90s video camera didn’t pick up much… but thanks to a clean transfer and lighting adjustments/denoise in Adobe Premiere, it looks alright. Sounds good as well. Now if people would just get out of the way, it would be perfect!

Recorded by: Rodney Parker
Rodney’s video equipment: JVC GF-500 VHS Video Camera
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (brightness/exposure/denoise)

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MTX Mr. T Experience- Cybelles Pizza, El Cerrito 6/29/91 xfer from master VHS tape Enhanced

Late Saturday post for you with another one from Rodney Parker’s collection. This one cuts at 9min- that’s all that exists of the MTX set from this night. The video was very dark- I had to crank the brightness to 100 to get something to show. I like Rodney’s filming perch, up above all the heads.

Recorded by: Rodney Parker
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (brightness/exposure/denoise)

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D.I.-Cattle Club, Sacramento Ca 6/29/91 Audio Only DAT Master Soundboard Rebalanced Punk Casey Royer

I started a new project while working from home- digitizing my DAT masters and DATs that are uncirculated. Here is DAT #1.
This is the first show I ever recorded on DAT. As soon as portable DAT machines’ price point dropped below $1000, I grabbed one. I got the Sony TCD-D3 shipped to work on 6/28/91 and wasted no time going to a show to try it out that weekend. I am so glad that D.I. happened to be playing, as they are one of my all-time favorite bands. Great long set which includes covers by Devo, Gary Glitter and The Ramones.
Eric Bianchi did a great job with the mix- the guitar and bass were slightly low but everything was there and the mix was consistent. I was able to rebalance this in Isotope and bring up the instruments and drop the vocals a bit. Mix sounds great now- thanks Eric!

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 into soundboard
Transfer with Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audipphile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope (Vocal -1, Bass +4, Drums +3, Guitar +6)

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The Feelies- Cattle Club, Sacramento Ca 6/23/91 xfer from master cassette Marantz PMD430 Sony WMD6C

It’s mediocre Monday y’all! I brought my video camera to film this show, and fIREHOSE was cool about it, as usual. The Feelies shut me down, so I snuck audio. I cannot remember what equipment I used for this, so I am going to make an educated guess. I think I had the huge PMD430 in the bag with the Nak mic, and it sounds like it as well. Not the greatest quality, but listenable.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Marantz PMD430 and Nakamichi CM-300 mic – I think
Transfer with Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2406 card

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Shonen Knife- Inkstick Factory, Tokyo Japan 6/22/91 xfer from DAT Clone Complete Show

Here is a quick one for today’s On This Date in History. What a day. I will probably make a tab on the ol’ website to poke fun at these last 24 hours sometime soon.
But enough vagueposting. I got this one from my old friend Saki Honma- I met her at Uncle Tupelo’s last show at Mississippi Night, and then we traded DATs for a few years until we lost touch. She got this from the taper as a DAT clone, then cloned it for me.
The recording is clear but thin. It lacked bass so I used Izotope Rx8 to bring the bass up A LOT. The odd thing is that the bass is in the mix (and a little too loud) during the first song, then drops out. I wonder if the bass player was having an issue.
Anyway, a nice EARLY recording on the eve of what I think was their first US tour. They played CBGB in 1990, but I don’t think that one was a full blown tour.

recorded by: someone in Japan
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Guitar +3, bass +20(!)

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Nirvana- Crest Theater, Sacramento Ca 6/17/91 xfer from Master Audiotape

So I tried to video the show and I was told NO. I tried to track down John from Gold Mountain, and he appeared to be avoiding me. So, I snuck up into the upper seats of the Crest to set up my mics to at least get an audio recording. Glad I did- sounds pretty damned good.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Marantz PMD430 & 2x Nakamichi CM300 mics

Edited/Remixed By: Mike Ziegler

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Dinosaur Jr. – Crest Theater, Sacramento Ca. 6/17/91 Audio only Xfer from Master Tape!

Someone asked me to post this back in the March time frame. Sorry I am so slow with audio, but it takes a bit more work than video to transfer and prep. I had my video camera at the show, but I asked John Silva (Nirvana Mgr) if I could video and he shut me down. So, I took off to the upper section of the crest and hid in the seated area and audio taped. My audio setup at the time was HUGE- a Marantz PMD430 (bigger than a Sony D5), 2 namakichi CM300 shotgun mics, about 100 feet of cable. It was comical trying to sneak a recording with all that crap. This was transferred flat- no remix. I am pretty happy with it, given how LOUD they play!

 

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Marantz PMD430 & 2x Nakamichi CM300 mics

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Green Day- Rodney Parker’s, 1893 Sagewood Ct, Concord Ca 6/16/91 xfer from master VHS tape enhanced

OK, my “on this day in history” post is taking forever to process, so let’s do this one first today.
I met up with Rodney Parker a few months back and he let me borrow his collection of VHS and 8mm master tapes. He filmed this one back in 1991 when the band played his graduation party and he posted the raw footage to his great bay area punk shows youtube channel about 12 years ago. The video was very dark as the sun set and you could not see the band well after the first few minutes. I tried to enhanced it in Adobe premiere and it didn’t help much… and then I remembered that virtualdub has the ability to adjust brightness and contrast at the source, so that’s what I did. I cranked up the brighgtness, adjusted contrast for the last 11min of the capture and then did the work in adobe. You can actually see them playing now! Sure, it looks like 1980s night vision security footage, but still, you can actually see them.

Recorded by: Rodney Parker
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced (denoise the snowstorm) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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