Playing AFTER Pavement at Reading was an ABBA cover band. I had always thought that Bjorn from Abba was in this band with a bunch of hired guns, but I found out yesterday that no, no original Abba members. They sound great for a cover band, and I do love some Abba.
Recorded by: Sakiko Honma off Japanese TV
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS8900 and Canopus ADVC300
I don’t know who is responsible for the amount of airtime each band received in this hour long special from Japanese TV, but I question the judgment of a person who gives 11min to bjorn again and less than 3min to L7. D’oh. And, like I said yesterday, I love Abba!
Recorded by: Sakiko Honma
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9800 and Canopus ADVC300
Here’s the last of the Reading Fest clips that I am posting. The other 2 bands from the Japanese TV special are Teenage Fanclub (better copy posted on YT already) and Nirvana (commercially released, I think)
Love the song selection here.
Recorded by: Sakiko Honma
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment: JVC HRS9800 and Caopus ADVC300
I was looking at my old VHS tapelist over the weekend, because I could have sworn I had another SNFU Gilman show from 1987 but it must be gone… then I saw this tape and figured that would be fun to digitize.
Back in the mid-90s, I traded with a lady name Saki Honma. She was the biggest Uncle Tupelo fan in Japan- she even flew from Japan to St. Louis to see Tupelo’s last shows in 1994. She would tape stuff off of Japanese TV (they broadcast KILLER stuff in nice quality) and send it to me. This one is a VHS copy off of her SVHS master.
This clip has been posted to youtube 2 other times, but I think this is slightly better quality. I will be posting other bands from this day throughout the week.
Recorded by: Sakiko Honma
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment: JVC HRS9800 and Canopus ADVC300
After they ended the Tombstone Blues set, the band took about a 1 minute break and played a 45 minute ghoulies set. It was so much fun- you will hear a “clink” and a dropout at about 11:30 into the recording. The deck & mic fell off of the heater and hit Kevin Scott in the head. Sorry!
This whole night was fuzzy, but I remember the tiny house (700 sq ft) being WAY too packed with 100+ people, I remember getting way too drunk and being hung over for 2 days after for the first (and only) time ever, and I remember my band playing a song without rehearsal for the first time in 5 years(that was not recorded). I also remember the cops coming, and kicking people out so I could sleep.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy, on top of wall heater in the house (FOH)
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D10 & Nakamichi CM-300 Mic
Back in 1992, I moved to Los Angeles for a couple of different reasons- my job moved down there. The weekend before I left, my old rental house was empty, so we bought a keg from Sudwerk and had The Groovie Ghoulies & Tombstone Blues play.
Tombstone Blues was a very short lived side project of the Groovie Ghoulies. Kepi, Roach & Brian Scott played a set of old Rock and Blues covers. This might be the only recorded document of the band, Kepi would know for sure.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy, on top of wall heater in the house (FOH)
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D10 & Nakamichi CM-300 Mic
Man, I was busy in the summer of 1992. I was taping shows in northern cal in July, then packed everything up and moved to the L.A. area in early August and already back taping shows a couple weeks later. I wish I still had that much energy.
Like the Robyn Hitchcock show I posted yesterday, this 2nd night sounds better and is a longer/better show.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 and Nakamichi CM-300 mic
Transfer with Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
We were too late to catch Matthew’s opening set on night 1 of the Indigo Girls’ 2 night run at The Greek, but I made sure to show up early (which meant leaving work/home SUPER early because of L.A. traffic) to catch his set. I was pretty lucky to catch a show from the Girlfriend tour, albeit an opening set.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 and Nakamichi CM-300 mic
Transfer with Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Happy Monday everyone. As you can probably tell, I am just plowing through my DATs in order for the weekday audio posts. So far, we are on DAT #26 out of 2,000. Expect these weekday posts to go on forever.
This one happened right around the time I moved to L.A… in fact, this might have been the first show I attended after moving. I was never able to get a really good recording out of the Greek. That place and my Nakmachi mic did not play well together. Oh well. Warts and all, here it is.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 and Nakamichi CM-300 Mic
Transfer with Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here’s the next one in the series of VHS tapes that I digitized for Corbett and Dan, for the East Bay Punk doc. Here is Econochrist from McGregor’s. I was able to enhance this and remove the grain without making it look like you are in a dream, which is rare for a copied VHS tape. As with all of the McGregor’s shows, I hope to re-digitize them and see if I can use the canopus box to bring that exposure down a bit.
From the collection of Jason Ross
Recorded by: Bob and/or Mike Byrne
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9811U and Canopus ADVC300
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere/Neat Video
Sacramento Music Archive 