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Circus Lupus- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 4/25/92 xfer from 1st gen soundboard tape Dischord Punk

First post of the new year- I hope everyone was able to enjoy the evening last night. We got a LOT of fireworks here in Orangevale.
It’s time to post a show from Robert Eggplant’s tapes. I usually go in alphabetical order by artist so I don’t miss anything, but the Blatz tapes needed some work that I didn’t have time for today, so here is a pretty nice mix from Circus Lupus. The bass is way up front for the first 10 minutes or so and then the mix settles into perfection pretty much.

Recorded by: ? (Tall Tim?)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Dr. Timothy Leary- Whole Life Expo, San Francisco Ca 4/92 xfer from 2nd gen cassette

It’s difficult to find the right posts for the “On This Date in History” project on the 1st of the month, since my excel sheet defaults “april 1992” to “4/1/92”. I searched and found this one, then discovered via newspapers dot com that it took place later in the month. Oh well. April Fool I guess.
There is a few minutes of video of this performance, but I did not see the complete thing out there. This the complete audio recording. Sounds like it could be a soundboard, but the audience is prominent.
I got this in trade from Jim Hildreth, who got it from the taper.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Citizen Fish- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 4/24/92 xfer from master soundboard tape Punk Ska Subhumans

I got pretty busy with work and stuff today and I realized about 10min ago that I have no post ready. Whenever that happens, I go to the trusty pile of Radley stuff and find something cool I think you’ll like.
Man, this mix sounds amazing. Having the bass up in the mix is just perfect for ska.

Recorded by: Radley Hirsch
Transferred from cassette via Tascam 302(?) Professional CD recorder

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S.F. Seals- Cattle Club, Sacramento Ca. 4/18/92 Rebalanced DAT Master Soundboard Barbara Manning

This show was not only one of my favorite Cattle Club shows, but a pivotal one for me. I was a casual fan of Barbara Manning’s music, but this early incarnation of SF Seals really got me hooked. I love Melanie Clarin’s harmonies with Barbara- just excellent! We all became friends and I even booked Barbara’s 2 month long 2001 U.S. tour. Huge amounts of respect for booking agents- that’s not an easy job!
Unfortunately, this mix isn’t great. When I use Izotope rx7 to rebalance a recording, it usually lets me re-do the vocal, bass, drums and guitar. Well, instead of guitar, Izotope only allowed a rebalance of the cello. So the guitar is buried and the cello is prominent in the mix. Still a great set and funny between song banter.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx7.

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Yo La Tengo- Cattle Club, Sacramento Ca. 4/18/92 xfer from DAT Soundboard Master Rebalanced band

I wasn’t planning on posting this one today, but the rebalance job turned out so good, I figured what the hell. Also, it is one of my favorite YLT performances ever.
It was a funny show, sound-wise. The first song is just the raw mix and it sounds great! Then Ira turns around and cranks his amp and launches into “Artificial Heart” and the mix just drops. So, you will hear the recording cut over to the rebalanced version at about 12:00. So, in summary= 0:00-12:30= sounds great. 12:30-13:00 sounds not so good, in transition. 13:00-fwd= the mix you’re gonna get for the rest of the show.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3
Transfer Equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope RX7, boost bass +6 or so, Guitar +4 I think

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Engage- Le Chateaux, Berkeley Ca 4/92 xfer from 8mm master tape Enhanced Santa Rosa Hardcore

Late post today- here is one that I received from Rodney Parker and it was filmed by his wife Erika. Funny story behind this one- Rodney was going through some boxes in storage and came across these. That’s pretty cool when you discover that your wife filmed shows too!
This one was a tough one to enhance. It starts really well-lit, then the lights go out about halfway through. I brightened it to a good midpoint, but I am afraid I did not denoise it enough. Pretty grainy. I might take another swing at this one.

Recorded by: Erika Schmid
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony EV-S2000- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Denoise in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Fifteen- Le Chateau, Berkeley Ca April 1992 Xfer from 8mm master tape Jeff Ott Crimpshrine

Here’s a funny happy ending to a story that happened a couple weeks ago. There was some confusion around who taped a 1991 Green Day show at Gilman, and we ultimately figured out that Rodney Parker filmed the show. Rodney and I reconnected to help figure out the Green Day thing, which started up an old conversation that we had around digitizing his master tapes. We did the ol’ tape handoff last week and here is the first post from his & his wife’s collection.
FYI, I am pretty sure that all of these had been digitized before and posted over at his awesome bay area punk shows youtube page- we figured it would be a good idea to run them through the lossless transfer setup and denoise them and post them again.
This is a good teaser for the Fifteen show that is happening in 2 weeks from today in Santa Rosa. It is a benefit so you might want to pick up tickets if you want to go. There seems to be a lot of excitement around the show!

Recorded by: Erika Schmid
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony EV-S2000- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Denoise in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Neil Young- The Concert for Walden Woods Universal Amphitheater L.A. 4/1/92 DAT Master solo acoustic

This was a tough one to prep. Neil was not pushing much volume and the crowd was going insane because he was playing new songs and the hits. Compression won’t even help.. so I dropped the levels whenever the crowd cheers loud and Neil is not playing. There are still some obnoxious crowd parts, but it makes it a little more listenable at least.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Sony TCD-D3 DAT and Nakamichi CM300 mic
Tried to make it better in Sony Soundforge 10

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John Fogerty- Walden Woods Benefit, Universal Amphitheater LA 4/1/92 DAT Aud Creedence Clearwater

In my opinion, there were 2 really nice things about living in L.A.– The food (I gained 30lbs while living there!) and the concerts. Living in Whittier, I was able to hit shows in San Diego, San Juan Capistrano, Hollywood, Santa Monica or L.A.– all within 2 hours drive. On the downside, the job, the culture, and the traffic sucked badly.
One of the nice concert perks were special shows like these- this was a benefit for Walden Woods which featured Fogerty (doing Creedence songs, which was a big rarity at the time), Roger Waters doing Pink Floyd material, and Neil Young doing stuff from Harvest Moon prior to its release, along with his more popular songs. Glenn Frey played too, but that’s when I went to the concession stand.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 and Nakamichi CM300 Mic
Transfer Equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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