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fIREHOSE- Wow Hall, Eugene OR 5/30/93 xfer from DAT Soundboard Clone Mike Watt

On This Date in History, finally! The mix on this one wasn’t great, and the mix changes throughout the show. I rebalanced it to sound good for the majority of the set, which is at the end of the show. The early part of the set is still listenable, but a little guitar heavy with no snare.
Cuts at the end. I am not sure if that was just my copy or if the source cuts at that point.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +3, Drums +2, Guitar +6

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Rancid- Berkeley Square, Berkeley Ca 5/28/93 xfer from VHS-C Master Punk Partial set

I am still digitizing cassettes from the 20ish collections I have over here, so you get the regular schedule this week. 2 more audio contributors to finish and then I move to video. Get ready for some crazy stuff- this DRI tape blew me away today.
Wednesday is Arica Pelino day until further notice. Here is 9 minutes and 24 seconds(924- get it? Pure coincidence) of Rancid from that same show as Tilt. I poked around youtube and this appears to be the earliest Rancid video out there. Wow!

Recorded by: Arica Pelino
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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Tilt- Berkeley Square, Berkeley Ca 5/28/93 xfer from VHS-C Master Lookout Records East Bay Punk

It’s Wednesday, so let’s post a video from Arica Pelino’s collection of masters while she travels the world.
I know I have said this before, but I will never understand why Tilt didn’t get huge. The songs are great, Cinder’s vocals are amazing, and the band was tight. No Doubt/Gwen Stefani came up at about the same time as them and became mega-stars. I like Tile better. Hm.
Anyway, Arica did a nice job filming. Berkeley Square had this elevated area that was behind the “dance floor” so it could be a challenge keeping it steady without a tripod. Not bad. Sounds pretty good as well.

Recorded by: Arica Pelino
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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Jawbreaker- Izabel’s, Chicago Il 5/23/93 xfer f/1st gen VHS tape Punk Band Blake Schwarzenbach

It’s time for the Patreon voter’s choice for last week! This one is yet another video filmed by the Byrne brothers and is from Jason Ross’ collection. This club appears to be tiny, it reminds me of the Cattle Club. Bob or Mike was right on top of Chris since there was no place to go.

Recorded by: The Byrne Brothers
Equipment used: Sony HRS9800U or HRS9911U and Canopus ADVC300
Mastered to DVD/vol boost in Sony Vegas Pro 10

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The Muffs- Emo’s, Austin Tx 5/22/93 xfer from ? gen audio cassette Kim Shattuck punk

This one did not sound good at all when I digitized it. In fact, I could not make out the songs due to all of the distortion. Once I found a song I could understand, I did my best to EQ it in Sony Suondforge, then rebalance it in izotope. It still sucks, but you can at least make out what’s happening.

Since I had to push the rebalance on the vocals to hear them at all, you will get super loud crowd between songs. It’s a wonderful feature- Izotope doesn’t differentiate between the vocal you want (Kim) vs. what you don’t want (crowd).

From Scott Hamilton’s collection. Not bagging on Scott btw, his tapes were much appreciated.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
EQ in Sony Sound Forge (boost bass, drop highs), then rebalance in Izotope Rx8- Vocal +11, Bass +4

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The Insignificant- Eagles Club, Sheboygan Wi 5/22/93 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape Pennsylvania Punk

Here is one from Jason Ross’ collection and I have to admit that I have never heard of the band. I tried to look them up and there isn’t much out there- it looks like a band named The Insignificant who was active at this time released 2 7″s on Vandal Children Records. There is 1 2-song live video of a band with the name playing in Reno in 1994. That’s it. No band member names, nothing else that I can find.

So if that is really them, they sure got around on 2 7″ releases. Hopefully Jason or another of the Midwest/east coast punk historians (kelsey, tom) can shed some light.

Recorded by: Anthony Vanderzen
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9911U and Canopus ADVC300

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Chaos UK- All Nations Center, Los Angeles Ca 5/14/93 xfer from VHS tape Punk

You get not one, but TWO posts from Jason Ross’ collection today. It just happened that the Ont This Date post came from his collection, plus he was up for an audio post today.

I digitized this from one of Jason’s VHS tapes over 5 years ago. It’s pretty decent quality for an unknown VHS gen tape.

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

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Econochrist- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 5/14/93 xfer from master soundboard cassette

I was caught unprepared to post today- this weekend was very busy and work continues to be chaotic. So, let’s dip into the awesome archive of older Gilman soundboard tapes, courtesy of Radley Hirsch. There is some more KILLER Tour Manager Doug stuff coming this week! It will be the Ultimate Revenge of uncirculated audio posts (hint hint).
This one sounds great- this is Radley’s raw mix. I love this flyer I found online- complete with an apparent setlist on the back.
Oh, and one last thing- I am growing tired of facebook’s algorithm burying posts with shared links so I am starting something new today- each post will be a photo only, with the link to the sacmusicarchive website in comments. Let’s see if more people can see that. I post every day, believe it or not.

Recorded & transfer by: Radley Hirsch

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