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Pleasure Barons- Belly Up Tavern, Solana Beach Ca 3/29/93 f/ 2nd gen VHS RIP Mojo Nixon Dick Montana

I posted my own video last week after getting the new of Mojo’s passing. I found one other one in the VHS tape collection that people might like.
The Pleasure Barons were a “Supergroup” with Country Dick Montana and Joey Harris from the Beat Farmers, Mojo Nixon, Dave Alvin, John Doe, Tim “Steelbone” Cook, Katy Moffat, and Rosie Flores. What a band! Great show! Dave Alvin puts in a killer performance.
This came from a guy named Mark, who I met through the Bernat brothers, who were some of the original San Diego alt/punk tapers. Not the greatest quality- it would be nice to get a transfer off the master tape. Does anyone know who filmed this one?

Recorded by: ?
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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Lois- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 3/27/93 xfer from KALX Pre-FM Simulcast Master Tape Molly Neuman K Rec

I promised Robert McKeown that I would post something today, but that plan went down the tubes- stupid work getting in the way anyway… so on to the KALX archive!
KALX would broadcast some shows live at Gilman as they happened- they would simulcast the board feed. It was usually a straight board mix, but there were some where Radley set up some audience mics and ran it through a mixer for KALX. This one sounds like a straight board mix.

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

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James- KROQ Loveline, Pasadena Ca 3/20/93 xfer f/DAT FM Master Britpop Laid Dr. Drew Tammy Heide

Here’s another Patreon Tell Me What to Do request! You can tell me what to do as well- I will add the link in comments.

Thanks to Adam Dristle for asking for this one. I recorded this off of KROQ with the old home DAT deck. I used to start the deck(10pm show) and then go to bed sice I had to get up early for work. I accidentally started it in SP mode (I used to record FM shows in LP mode because tapes were expensive!) and realized my error, then flipped to LP mode right in the middle of a caller question. You can hear it pause for a second and then restart. This one was a JOY digitizing because of that, haha. It also cuts about 15min before the end, as I ran out of tape because of the SP mixup.

Rare Tammy Heide/Dr Drew duo hosting the show

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DTC-690 I think
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500

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Spitboy- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 3/19/93 xfer from 1st gen soundboard cassette East Bay Punk

Alright, it has been yet another rough work day, so another late post. I’ll post something very short so you can still check it out today without missing your bedtime.
Btw, speaking of rough work day, I have an idea for a proposal for you all that will allow me to digitize and post these 10,000-plus tapes much faster. Stay tuned.
Here is a snippet of a Spitboy show that was so short, but the mix was so good that I couldn’t not post it. If you have not read Michelle Cruz Gonzalez’ book “the spitboy rule”, it’s worth a read. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
From Robert Eggplant’s collection.

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

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The Sundays- Warfield, San Francisco Ca 3/19/93 xfer from DAT Master Audience Nakamichi CM300

Here is the Sundays headlining set from that Luna warfield show. To be honest, I went to the show to see Luna, but The Sundays sounded great live. I was able to remix this one a bit in Sony Soundforge to take a bit of the bass boominess out and touch up the midrange a little.
Recorded from the front of the balcony.,

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 and Nakamichi CM-300 Mic
Transfer equipment: Sony PCMR500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Luna- Warfield, San Francisco Ca 3/19/93 xfer from DAT Master Audience Galaxie 500 Nakamichi CM300

I didn’t have much time to play around with remixing this one (5 hours of meetings before noon!)- this is totally flat right off the DAT. The bass is a little boomy, but sounds pretty decent for a recording from the balcony.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 and Nakamichi CM-300 Mic
Transfer equipment: Sony PCMR500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Screeching Weasel- Maxwell’s, Hoboken NJ 3/18/93 xfer from VHS tape

I had a few options for today’s On This Day in History, but this one looks good enough. It’s from Jim Utz’ collection. It might be worth re-transferring this one and doing the lossless xfer/denoise/upscale. Jim, do you remember who you got this from? It doesn’t seem to be online anywhere. Actually, I wonder who did all of those late 80s Maxwell’s videos. I have never seen even a 1st gen surface.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9911U and Canopus ADVC-300

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Don Cherry & Friends- SFSU 3/17/93 Transfer from Hi8ME-VHS tape Ornette Coleman John Coltrane Jazz

Man, Scott Davey’s collection continues to deliver the goods. what a cool document of this legendary Jazz musician.

A little about Don Cherry, from Wikipedia:
“Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist. Beginning in the late 1950s, he had a long tenure performing in the bands of saxophonist Ornette Coleman, including on the pioneering free jazz albums The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) and Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1961). Cherry also collaborated separately with musicians including John Coltrane, Charlie Haden, Sun Ra, Ed Blackwell, the New York Contemporary Five, and Albert Ayler.”

Well hot damn, that is quite the resume. The VHS tape just said “Don Cherry raw footage transfer from Hi8ME master”, so I had no idea where it is from, until Scott films the flyer for the event at the end of the video. Knowing that Hi8ME tapes came out in 1989 and were popular amongst nerds like me (I filmed the Uncle Tupelo shows with Hi8ME tapes) and Don passed in 1995; AND Scott Davey was based in San Francisco, I am guessing that this performance takes place in the early 1990s. Scott films a flyer that says the performance takes place on Wednesday, March 17. The only March 17 that falls on a Wednesday between these 2 years is 1993.

Recorded by: Scott Davey
Recorded by: Robert Eggplant
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 USB Adapter — Virtualdub
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dRAW PiNKY- Sacto Active Rock, Sacramento Community Cable 3/17/93 xfer f/Umatic Master Ozzie

Another awesome video from Lizz Fisher’s Sacto Active Rock Umatic master collection. dRAW PiNKY is from Sacramento, California. Several members were in local legends, Ozzie.
The band came back from a long period of dormancy to release an EP in mid-2024 and a couple of christmas singles- 1 each at the end of 2024 and 2025. I enjoyed the Krampus cover on the ’24 ep.
Anyway, here they are in better quality than previously posted. The high end has slight distortion, which is present on the source tape.

Recorded by: Sacto active rock crew
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony BVU-800, Datavideo TBC-1000, Tevion USB adapter into virtualdub
Light Denoise in Adobe premiere elements

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Rancid- Phoenix Theatre, Petaluma Ca 3/13/93 xfer f/ soundboard cassette Basic Radio Downfalll Punk

On This Day in History will post later today- I decided to mix it up a bit.
Here’s one from Jason Ross’ cassette collection. This one was odd- the tape had about 8 minutes of another Rancid show at first- an audience recording. I thought it might be the soundcheck for this show, but there is crowd in between the songs, so I just trimmed it off. If you really wanna hear the mystery Rancid 8min thing, let me know.
It’s got some tape hiss and the mix changes/improved througout, so no rebalancing. Too unstable.

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

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