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Uncle Tupelo- Mississippi Nights, St. Louis Mo 4/30/94 xfer from Hi8 Master w/Soundboard Audio!

Hi Everyone! I checked youtube, and I am really surprised that this full show was not posted yet. Usually any old, popular master of mine is posted by some random youtuber and they get 100k views. 🙂 So this was an interesting time. I had burned all of my vacation time following Pavement around the southwest in early 1994 and was not planning to see UT until they toured California again. Then my good friend Jim Utz calls me and tells me that rumors are flying about a breakup. I called Tony M (back when he was accessible) and he confirmed it. So I flew to see that last 2 shows. I flew in after work on Friday, saw the shows Sat/Sun night, then flew back 1st thing Monday morning to get to work that day. This show turned out great. Everyone was buying me drinks so I got super hammered but you can’t really tell in my camera work. Enjoy!

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

 

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Fifteen- Eagles Club, Green Bay Wi 4/30/94 xfer 1st gen soundboard audio tape enhanced! east bay punk

This was a typical board mix- lots of vocals, drums were noticeably higher than the guitar. I was able to take Izotope rx and drop the vocals, boost the guitars/bass and it came out pretty nice! The mix fluctuates but it evens out a few minutes in.

Recorded by: Jason Ross
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon & M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card.
Enhanced with Izotope rx.

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Pavement- Great American Music Hall, San Francisco 4/23/94 9pm Set Xfer from DAT Master

1994 was such a fun year. I was able to follow a couple of my favorite bands around and record them. Pavement was one of those bands. They had just released Crooked Rain, so I went and saw them in Phoenix/So. Cal and the bay area in April and Fresno/So Cal in September. It was so fun to see a band at their peak, obviously having fun up there.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3
Thanks to Remko Schouten.

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Pavement- Great American Music Hall, San Francisco 4/23/94 DAT Master Soundboard Rebalanced Indie

Back in 1994, I took some vacation time and followed Pavement around Airzona and California… twice. Scott (Sprial Stairs) and their soundman Remko Schouten were super cool to me and allowed me to plug into the soundboard with my DAT. Almost all of these mixes sounded great as they were recorded, but I was able to rebalance this one and make it sound even better. This is the last of 5 shows from the spring run with the band.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 lined into board
Transfer Equipment: Sony PCMR500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotop Rx7 (voice +5, Bass +5, Guitar +2)

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Pavement- The Roxy, Phoenix Az 4/20/94 xfer from DAT Master Soundboard Rebalanced Complete Set Live

In 1994, I was lucky enough to tape 8 Pavement shows through the soundboard with my DAT recorder. Huge thanks to Scott and Remko for making it happen. This was the first show I did in a 5 show run in April of 1994. I drove from L.A. over to Phoenix on Wednesday, then Hollywood the next night, then 3 sets in San Francisco over the weekend.
Then I flew to the Midwest the next weekend to film Uncle Tupelo’s last shows ever. I would say that was a pretty productive 2 weeks.

Anyway, this one was the weakest mix of the 1994 shows. It starts off with the guitar too low in the mix, then you hear the guitar zooming in and out of the mix for a bit from 6-12 minute mark. By the 15 minute mark, it stabilizes. My rebalance is focused on the set from 15 minutes on- there are short parts where the guitar or bass is WAY too loud before that. FYI.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 into soundboard
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope RX8: Bass +1, Guitar +5.

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Fifteen- WFMU Live in Studio, E. Orange NJ 4/14/94 xfer from low gen audio cassette RIP Jack Curran

We received news this morning that Jack Curran, bass player from the band Fifteen passed away this week. I had seen posts about him trying to get housed and back on his feet while sick recently. Terrible news. Jack also created the first documentary about 924 Gilman, released in 2007.
I dug through Jason Ross’ collection of tapes here and found this Fifteen appearance from WFMU in 1994. I think Jason was trading with a guy who was taping these off the radio since this has very little tape hiss.
I think Jack is performing here, it is hard to tell with all the lineup changes the band had.
R.I.P. Jack

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

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Spitboy- Fireside Bowl, Chicago Il. 4/14/94 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape live East Bay Punk

I know it is a little early for the daily post, but I did not sleep much due to election anxiety. I was looking through the rest of the “Turn it Around Project” videos for the most appropriate video to post today (election day), and I think I found it. Here is a killer video of Spitboy at fireside bowl. Man, I love it when a video captures the essence of the show, and this one does so in a big way.

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

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Rancid- SCRAP Skate Park, Hoffman Estates IL 10/3/93 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape Live Enhanced Punk

Happy halloween everyone! It looks like I have 7 or 8 more shows to post from the raw files I created for the Turn it Around movie project. Funny story about the project- I mailed about FIFTY DVDs to them.. and they got lost in the mail. I re-did them all and mailed them again! Some postal worker or random Oakland citizen has a lot of east bay punk DVDs now.
This one looks like a big upgrade from what is on the youtubes today. If we could get the masters digitized, we could really clean these (especially the mcgregors shows) properly.

Recorded by: Mike Byrne
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9811U and Canopus ADVC300
Enhanced (brightness/exposure/degrain) in Adobe Premiere and Neat Video

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