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Joe Henry- Bestial Market, Bologna Italy 11/10/92 xfer f/Cassette Master-DAT Soundboard Americana

I traded DATs and VHS tapes with a couple of people in Italy, but I didn’t keep their tape lists so I can’t recall their names. One of my old trading friends taped this show on cassette and bounced it to DAT to send to me.

The mix was a bit thin on everything except for vocals, so I did some work in Izotope to get it to sound a bit better.

There were shows at the Beastial Market in the early 90s, but no good images of the venue or flyers from the events there.

Recorded by: My friend in Italy
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +12, Drums +4, Guitar +9.

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Jesus Lizard- WOW Hall, Eugene OR 11/9/92 xfer from master video tape enhanced

When I started to prep this one, I realized I made a mistake while transferring it. Some of these old tapes are dirty, or the tape sheds and dirties up the heads while it plays. I needed to clean heads constantly to get some tapes to transfer. I thought I got a clean transfer of this one, but it craps out at about 17 minutes- sorry about that. The video wasn’t much longer than this anyway, and it looks like there is another version of this show (amazingly) up on the internet as well.
If you ever wanted to see what a slow descent into dirty-headedness looks like, fast forward to 16min.

Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV320
Degrain in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Uncle Tupelo- Lounge Ax, Chicago Il. 11/8/92 xfer from Hi8 Master

In 1992, I had pretty much given up filming shows with the CV-80. It was a dinosaur after 4 years. I got the Sony TR-81 (hi8 hifi stereo camera) in late 92- it was a top of the line consumer model at the time. I took a week vacation and flew to the midwest to follow Uncle Tupelo around for a week and film them. I land in Chicago and start driving around- no map or anything- and I got totally lost. I stop at a gas station to buy a map and a random guy comes up to me and yells “what are you doing here? You need to get out- it is too dangerous for you”. Errr, ok. I flailed with the map for a while and eventually found the club. Lounge Ax was the most difficult venue to film- no place to set up a tripod. So I hand held it from the bleachers. Sorry for the shakiness. Jesse Hamm helped with this transfer, and the audio sounds really good. This may be Jeff Segota’s audio from his DAT and Shure VP88 mic.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Sony TR-81, Shure VP88

Edited/Remixed By: Jim Hamm

Additional help by: Jeff Segota

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Jesus Lizard- Satyricon, Portland OR 11/8/92 xfer from master videotape Enhanced

Here’s another awesome video from Craig Babb’s collection of masters- a Jesus Lizard set from 1992. The audio is heavily distorted- if anyone has a lead on good audio, let me know so we can get this synched up. I have 2 JL audio shows from Satyricon in June of 91/June of 92 but not this one.

Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV350
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Luna- Coach House, San Juan Capistrano Ca 11/4/92 Hi8 Master xfer Enhanced w/DAT Audio Galaxie 500

Here is a show that I posted before, but it was the raw hi8 tape with the camera’s audio. This time, I took the superior DAT audio and synched it up with Pluraleyes 4. plus, I cleaned up what little grain there was in Adobe Elements/Neat Video.
Unfortunately, my DAT battery decided to croak on me about 10min into the show, so this version is only 24min long- the first 10 and last 15min of the show. I will also post the full enhanced version of the show with camera audio in a bit.

recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TR-81 camera (video), Sony TCD-D3 and Nakamichi CM300(Audio)
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card (DAT), Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into windv (video)
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video
Audio/Video synch in pluraleyes 4

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Uncle Tupelo- Lounge Ax, Chicago Il. 11/8/92 Enhanced video with DAT audio xfer from hi8 master tape

Back in 1992, I spent a week following Uncle Tupelo around the midwest. It was crazy- I had no idea what I was doing or where I was going. This was before GPS and I got myself into a couple of dumb situations that I’ll talk about in future posts.
This is the first show of the run… and probably the worst video. There was no place to set up my tripod, so I had to go handheld while standing on these bleacher-style seats on the side. Lots of heads in the way and it is a bit shaky.. but it is also the only performance of the Neil Young cover “motion pictures” caught on video. And it was my only time going to the legendary Lounge Ax venue, so it was still a good night.
The lighting was super uneven at the show. There were a couple of times (maybe 5-10min total) where Jay was lit extremely well, and the rest of the time lighting was low. I adjusted lighting for the majority of the set, which means that Jay is a bit overexposed at times.

Audio kicks in at about 25 seconds. I also have about 1 min video of the inside of lounge ax, if anyone wants to see it.

Video recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Audio recorded by: Jeff Segota
Video equipment: Sony TR81 w/Hi8 ME tape
Audio equipment: Unknown recorder & Shure VP88 mic
Enhancement/noise reduction in Adobe Premiere
Audio/Video synch in Plural Eyes
other work in Sony Soundforge & Avidemux

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Luna- Bogart’s, Long Beach Ca. 11/7/92 Transfer from Hi8 Master for first time Ever!

It was strange. Every time I went to Bogart’s, something bizarre and memorable happened. One time, it was when Uncle Tupelo played there and broke their snare on the first song and had a huge delay waiting for another. Another time, it was Penelope Houston and meeting Todd Nakamine, and we have been friend ever since. Or this one- Dean Wareham mentions this show in his “Black Postcards” book, because a guy in the front row was so irritating that he agreed to fight at the end of the set. Like I said, bizarre. The vibe of the club just seemed to invite it.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

 

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Jawbreaker- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 11/6/92 xfer from master soundboard cassette East Bay Punk

Let’s celebrate that incredibly kind article from Gabe Meline and the KQED arts and entertainment staff. What a wonderful gift. Thank you.

I haven’t posted anything from Radley’s CD’s for quite a long time, but I am adding them back into the rotation after doing those collections videos. It gave me the push I needed to bring the collections that are not physically here. Out of sight, out of mind, you know?

Here is one that doesn’t seem to be anywhere online. The mix starts off super hot but even though the recording peaks often, you can’t really hear it in the recording. The mix moves around and settles into a nice balance a few minutes in.

Recorded by: Radley Hirsch
Transfer by: Radley
Equipment used: Tascam prosumer cassette/CD combo unit
Extract and prep by Shayne

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Luna- Whisky a Go Go, Hollywood Ca. 11/5/92 Part 1 Dean Wareham Direct Xfer from hi8 Master

This is one of only 2 times that I paid a club money to videotape. The Whisky’s policy was $50 to tape. I was (am) such a huge Luna fan, I could not resist. I plunked down the cash and still don’t regret it. Great set, and the best sounding Luna show I have. Taped with the Sony TR81.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Sony TR81

 

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