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Pinhead Gunpowder- Klub Komotion, San Francisco Ca 2/12/94 xfer from master VHS-C Tape Green Day

We have a big surprise for you today- not one, but TWO previously unseen Pinhead Gunpowder videos from Arica Pelino! We figured we would celebrate the surprise release of a new PHGP album with a surprise release of some PHGP videos.
This one looks great- lighting was pretty good and the enhancement/denoise really worked well. Includes an early version of Geek Stink Breath. Thanks Arica!
Setlist:
00:00 Intro – Ain’t Talking ‘Bout Love {Van Halen]
02:20 Future Daydream
04:09 Big Yellow Taxi
06:35 I Wanna
09:00 Beastly Bit
12:25 Losers Of The Year
15:15 Freedom Is…
18:08 MPLS Song
20:22 Walking Catastrophe
24:09 Dull
27:00 Geek Stink Breath
29:55 Hey Now

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 (lighting/denoise)
Cover photo by Maicon Cássio Riediger

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Firehose- Warner Grand Theater, San Pedro Ca. 2/12/94 xfer from DAT Master Aud Recording Nak CM300

I was planning on posting something different today, but I listened to this last night and realized that today is the anniversary of this show. So we heard through the grapevine(the only way to hear about stuff like this back then) that fIREHOSE were playing their last show ever at a place that was never on the radar for shows..
So I show up and there is hardly anyone there. The place is massive, so they just had everyone come on stage with them and they set up sideways on the stage- meaning they were on one end of the stage, facing the side stage area on the opposite side. It was a very odd experience.
The show was odd as well. It was a bit tense- you can hear Watt stop Ed at one point and ask him to slow it down, since it is the last show. The sound is not great- playing sideways in a huge theater causes a lot of sound issues.
I am surprised that no one has posted anything from this show. There were multiple tapers and video cameras there.
So, yeah, fIREHOSE broke up 27 years ago today.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 DAT and Nakamichi CM300 Mic
Transfer by Shayne using Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Rush- Arco Arena, Sacramento Ca 2/10/94 xfer from 8mm master tape Enhanced Geddy Lee Neil Peart Alex

We have almost made it to the weekend- what a grind of a week this has been. I hope everyone stays cool- temps are going to be brutal.
Speaking of cool, here is one out of Gary Shurtleff’s box of master tapes. This looks to be a partial set and I did not see the other part in any of the boxes. I hope it was captured.
Anyway, here is 40min of the Rush set at Arco in 1994. I am sure that a bunch of my friends were there. This is another one that cleaned up that 8mm grain nicely, even though it wasn’t captured lossless.

Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell Workstation
Enhance (degrain) in adobe premiere elements/neat video

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Seaweed- Cattle Club, Sacramento CA 2/6/94 xfer from master videotape!

I want to thank Kirk Janowiak and Marty Sertich personally for posting this stuff, as I have not had enough time to post things that have been on my hard drive for a month.

Another awesome post! I missed so many good cattle club shows when I was in L.A. For reference, I was at Yo La Tengo/Teenage Fanclub at the Palace in Hollywood the night before this show.

Recorded by: Marty Sertich

Transfer by: Kirk Janowiak

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Teenage Fanclub- Palace, Hollywood Ca. 2/5/94 xfer from Hi8 Master Tape

I think I mentioned a while ago about my disdain for the palace. Terrible acoustics and security was everywhere. It made it very difficult to videotape, and even getting a decent quality audio recording was challenging. I was such a big fan of Yo La Tengo(opener) and TFC that I asked my friend Todd Nakamine to come with me and “help” videotape the show. I can’t remember which of us snuck the camera in, but I tried filming the YLT set and failed miserably. Todd took the camera and at least hit the stage most of the time for TFC. The stock audio is TERRIBLE. If anyone (Jonathan, Erik, Jon?) has better audio to synch with this, please let me know!

Recorded by: Todd Nakamine (and maybe Shayne Stacy)
Equipment used: Sony TR81 with stock mic
Transfer equipment: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell server.

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D.I.- Berkeley Square, Berkeley Ca 2/4/94 xfer from 1st gen audio cassette Adolescents Casey Royer

Here is a cool one from Dal Basi’s tape collection. Man, I love D.I.- they have been one of the only bands who hooked me on first listen (horse bites dog cries) in 1986 and have been with me ever since. They were one of the first punk bands I ever taped (El Dorado Saloon 1/10/87), the first band I ever recorded on DAT (Cattle Club 6/30/91), and one of the first multicams I attempted in 2013. So great that they are still at it.
This show comes from the same tape (and taper) who taped the Moist Berkeley Square and Offspring Gilman shows, and it sounds similar. Sounds like a Sony D3 deck to me. Nice and clear but thin.

Recorded by: Dal & Sunita’s friend (trying to remember name)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10

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