Let’s do this one for On This Date in History, in honor of Camper van Beethoven playing what might be their final 3 shows ever this weekend. Big thanks to Jonathan for letting me borrow his tapes back in the 90s.
Jonathan played on KZSU’s Wednesday night live and did 1 CVB song and at least 1 from Storytelling. I really like that album, it would be cool to see him perform some of those songs again.
Recorded by: KZSU Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi CR5A line into Philips CDR880 CD Recorder
Here is the first of 3 posts today. Facebook folks get a bonus 4th one as well. For today’s On This Date in History, let’s dive back into the Uncle Tupelo archives. This was one of the many tapes we got from Tony and Bob back in 1994, but then a better quality version popped up. Michael from factory belt has the details:
“FM broadcast and pre-FM studio tape, from the late Doug Morris’ KDHX radio show “High Anxiety.” The only known recorded performance of the “The Dust Bowl Club” (Brian Henneman, Jay Farrar, and Tom Parr). A number of songs played are from a demo tape that Brian recorded with members of UT during the recording of Still Feel Gone. For quite some time, the only known tape of this show was recorded off the radio, with all of the between-song conversation edited out. More recently, Doug Morris’ pre-fm cassette of the show surfaced, though unfortunately Doug recorded over the last 30 minutes of his tape, meaning that the last 5 songs only exist from the FM tape.”
So, there are 2 versions. This better quality one and the one from the band’s archive that is more complete. I believe this one has both versions put together.
Recorded by: Doug Morris Cassette to DAT Transfer by: Michael Pemberton (main part) and Shayne Stacy (last 5 songs) DAT to wav transfer by: Shayne DAT to Wav Transfer equipment (shayne): Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Another 5pm video for you today from my collection of VHS tapes. Now that the video transfer setup is working, I figured I would mix in stuff from the VHS collection. There is a ton of stuff that I got in trade that is not out there at all.
I think I got this one from a guy named Josh. The camera he used was good on picture and not so good on audio, even with a solo performer. Still really cool to see this 35 years later.
Recorded by: Josh? Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Starting early today. Thanks to Adam Dristle for telling me what to do! He picked this Robyn Hitchcock Loveline show. If you ever wanted to hear Robyn give love advice, well here you go. Morris and Andy are there to help him out. Thanks Adam for supporting the archive!
Recorded by: ? Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card Removed tape hiss in Izotope Rx8
I think I mentioned before that I have 90 audiotapes of Thin White Rope that need to get digitized over time. Other than some of my master tapes, I haven’t had a chance to do very many. I pulled this one out because it was listed as a soundboard on my list, but after a closer listen it is an audience recording… but it sounds really good. TWR would play so loud that many audience tapes are not too great.
Recorded by: ? Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Well apparently today is the 33rd anniversary of Kerplunk’s release. Our pals at Green Day Brasil (instagram) asked for something close to the release date to commemorate this occasion, so I found this tape in Arica’s suitcase. From the look of the actual tape, it didn’t look like one that Arica filmed… but it still looks very good. I’m estimating a 1st gen VHS- I bet that Arica will confirm or correct me when she checks in from her world travels.
This means that Tour Doug Tuesday returns next week- sorry metalheads
I checked on youtube and elsewhere and this does not seem to be out there. According to GD Brasil, this is the earliest documented recording of Dominated Love Slave.
Setlist (courtesy of Maicon from GD Brasil): 00:00 Intro 01:06 I Was There 06:45 Don’t Leave Me 10:37 Dominated Love Slave [Live Debut] 12:05 At The Library 14:40 Only Of You 17:18 409 In Your Coffeemaker 20:26 Christie Road 24:20 Disappearing Boy 27:18 16 29:39 Paper Lanterns 32:43 Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? 35:21 Knowledge [Cut – Not in the tape]] 35:24 Road To Acceptance [Cut In] 37:29 1,000 Hours 39:30 Going To Pasalacqua 44:48 Words I Might Have Ate 46:28 Dry Ice 52:30 The Judge’s Daughter
Recorded by: ? (Arica do you know?) Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Here’s a cool one from Ken Doose’s tape collection. Bathe No More (GREAT band name btw) was a short-lived project with Ken Doose on bass, Andy Vaughan (Hypnotic IV) on guitar and vocals. Chris G. on 2nd guitar and a mystery drummer. Recorded on Ken’s old boombox at Matt Erich’s.
Recorded by: Ken Doose Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I ran over to Eddie Jorgensen’s house today and picked up a treasure trove of tapes. Here is the first one- the Elegy demo from 1991. This tape was cracked down the middle, about 75% through the tape. Glad it played ok! Freaked me out a little. More info (inner J-Card) in fb comments.
Recorded by: Eric Bianchi Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon & M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
