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Econochrist- Hand Gallery, Portland, Or 11/30/91 xfer f/1st gen VHS tape Punk Very Small Records

Today’s On This Date in History comes from Jason Ross’ collection. It was labeled as “Portland 11/30/91” and looked like it took place in a DIY space. I figured I didn’t have a remote chance of finding out the venue, but a newspapers dot com search came up with the listing. Kudos to the Oregonian- they were the paper that ALWAYS had the inside info on my former tech employer before it was made public too. Haha.

The reason that you are seeing so many Jason Ross videos for the OTD project is because I received his collection early on, and took every master and 1st gen tape that I could find and digitized it. I honestly do not recall doing this many of his tapes- always a nice surprise to come across stuff like this.

UPDATE- master was located and it’s slightly better quality, so I am pointing you there

Recorded by: Ward Young
Transfer by: ?
Equipment used: ?

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Big Drill Car- Orlando, Fl. 11/17/91 2nd gen VHS xfer Dan Pettit Archive

OK, time to start posting more archival videos. I recently reconnected with Dan Pettit on facebook. We traded tapes in the 1980’s and he always had great and unique tastes for a punk guy. In fact, he was the first guy to turn me onto the Gin Blossoms- he taped their EP for me in 1988! Anyway, this is the first of about 7 tapes worth of stuff. Big Drill Car multicam video from 1991!

Recorded by: Dan Petit

 

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Toad the Wet Sprocket- Trax, Charlottesville Va 11/14/91 xfer f/Cassette Master-DAT Soundboard

I digitized this one for you last night and this morning. It’s a decent soundboard tape but the guitars were distant. I was able to pull the guitars up a bit in Izotope, but they are still a little thin. Good listen anyway.

I think I got this one from Marcus Winfree. Before he moved to Austin, he was in the bay area and then Charlottesville for a bit. He has a bunch of great board tapes from the area in the mid-90s. He also got these cassette masters from someone there and bumped them to DAT.

Recorded by: ?
Cassette transfer by: Marcus Winfree
DAT transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +1, Guitar +8.

You know what, I am not real happy with that rebalance. Here is the raw board tape, without my interference.

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The Vandals- KDOC Request Video, Anaheim 11/14/91 Xfer f/ Master VHS Tape Enhanced Punk Josh Freese

It’s Friday, so it’s time for some videos. This one comes from Todd Nakamine’s killer collection of VHS tapes. These look SO MUCH better than the copies I had from the 90s. Features current Foo Fighters drummer Josh Freese doing the ONJ part in Summer Lovin’. Thanks Todd! There are hundreds of Todd tapes here- we are just getting started with his stuff.

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

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Teenage Fanclub- Jabberjaw, Los Angeles Ca 11/9/91 xfer f/1st gen VHS tape

It’s time for another Patreon voter’s choice, and once again the patrons have great taste. This has to be the smallest venue that TFC has ever played, and at the time that they were poised to “break out”. They played SNL less than 2 months later! What a cool show to be at. This is why Jabberjaw was legendary.

It’s a bit dark in spots and the audio isn’t great but it is still enjoyable.

Recorded by: Josh? RG maybe
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Thin White Rope- RCKNDY, Seattle, Wa 11/9/91 xfer f/1st gen soundboard tape Complete Frontier Record

Here’s today’s On This Date in History. I can’t remember who I got this from, but he claimed that he taped it off the board. The guitar was buried in the mix so I popped it in Izotope and it did a pretty nice job with it. You never know how Izotope will behave with imperfect board tapes, especially ones on cassette but an impressive job this time. Between the lack of hiss, Izotope’s ability to repair, plus a few minutes of intro music (trimmed out), I guess it really is a 1st gen board. Cool. In fact, it might be the best unreleased Ruby Sea-era recording I have heard.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocals +3, Bass +1, Guitar +9.

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