My long-time friend and 1990s tape trader Mike Siou asked me to post this one. Pavement played a semi-secret show at Old Ironsides, as a warm up show for some Australian tour dates. It also happened to be Gary Young’s last show with Pavement in the US, ever.
Mike used some nice equipment from the KDVS radio station- a Marantz deck (most likely a PMD430) and a Sony Mic (Probably an ECM-929 from the sound of it.
Keep in mind that this was before Old I had many touring bands come through- in fact, it was before the stage was built. I tried to search for a flyer of this show and was shocked to see that the Old Ironsides facebook page posted some video of this show a couple years back… that is where this picture comes from. Let’s hope Kim K (or whoever has these tapes) is up for getting them digitized with the lossless setup so they won’t be so pixelated. It sounds like there are more early videos from old I!

I also EQ’d this one a bit and I think it sounds better now. Thanks Mike!
I can post more pavement if people are interested- looks like I have 178 items on the audio list available at the sacramento music archive website.

Recorded by: Mike Siou
Equipment used: Marantz portable recorder and Sony mic
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ (+Midrange and high end) in Sony Sound Forge 10