Playground- Press Club, Sacramento Ca. December 94 xfer from band archive VHS enhanced Davis punk

Matt Mason from Playground reached out to me last week and let me know that he had some more good stuff to share. Here is the first one- a full show from December of 1994 that is believed to be from Press Club. I wasn’t around Sac in 94, but that backdrop doesn’t look familiar to me. Can someone (Jay Onyskyn maybe) confirm or deny?
This is not too bad of quality for 1994. The audio is not great but listenable. The video was clean enough to let me brighten it and noise reduce it enough to bring our finer detail. Thanks Matt!

Recorded by: the band on a tripod
Transfer by Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9900U and Canopus ADVC300
Enhanced in adobe premiere, noise reduction via neat video

Live Concert Video

Pale Saints- Lunapark, Los Angeles Ca 11/23/94 xfer from clone of DAT master Live

Here is another one from the DAT transfer project- it just happened to be on top of the pile of stuff to do, so this gets posted today. The early 90s were a good time to be in L.A.- so many small clubs having shows, and many of them not publicized. I was usually able to catch most of the ones I wanted to see. The one that KILLED me for missing (it was a secret show) was Pirner and Murphy from Soul Asylum playing an acoustic set.
Anyway, here is another pretty nice audience recording from Kevin Haynes’ collection of masters. This one is not on YT and appears to be uncirculated.

Recorded by: Kevin Haynes
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7 and ECM909 mic (I think)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge

Audio Live Concert

NAR- Fireside Bowl, Chicago Il 11/22/94 xfer from 8mm master Sacramento Punk Very Small Records

Happy Mothers Day to all moms out there! We are getting close to the end of the NAR November 1994 tour videos. Here is a show that I had seen on video, but from a different handheld source. This is the best picture quality of them all- I didn’t even need to degrain this one.

Recorded by: Ed Carroll
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell workstation

Live Concert Video

7 Seconds- Capitol Bar, Omaha Ne 11/21/94 xfer from 2nd gen VHS tape Punk Hardcore

I think I mentioned this before- back in the 90s, there were certain towns/cities where you could bank on a person consistently filming good stuff. Omaha was one of them. I never traded directly with the person who filmed these, but I usually snagged a 2nd gen copy from someone who did.
Interesting note about this show- this is a rare (to me) 3 piece setup, with Kevin playing guitar and singing. Kev, did you guys do a full tour like this? I never knew, and wikipedia is no help.
It’s cool to hear out the shizzy songs played live.

Recorded by: That omaha video guy
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9811U and Canopus ADVC300

Live Concert Video

Melt-Banana: Loft, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan 11/19/94 xfer f/DAT Clone Punk Thrash

Man, has it been a DAY so far. More on that later. That TSOL that I posted earlier for today’s On This Date in History actually happened in MAY of 2020. No idea how I screwed that up. Consider it a bonus post.

Instead, let’s do this one that my friend Saki Honma taped 30+ years ago. Saki was a big Uncle Tupelo fan, flying from Japan to see the band’s final shows. We lost touch later in the 1990s. I wonder what she is up to now.

This is a very early Melt-Banana show. It sounds great, but there is almost no crowd noise at all in between songs. I had to keep checking to see if the show was over since it was so quiet. Sounds like this might be incomplete, but there was still room on the DAT so maybe that’s all there was.

Recorded by: Saki Honma
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

Audio Live Concert

Moist- Kalx Live in Studio, Berkeley Ca 11/18/94 xfer from Pre-FM Master Cassette Tape Stockton Punk

I love it when one of my archival projects collides with a Sacramento-based band… even better when they are one of my favorites from here! The band had a few members while they were active- the only constants were (I think) Sunita Bhardwaj (Guitar & vocals), and Eric Torres (Guitar). They have Tony Muth on drums for this session, but Karen Simmons and Wendy Powell from the great Sacramento band The Skirts also did time in the band.
They only released 2 7″ EPs and a split EP with Screw 32 (fun fact- that split was one of Side One Dummy’s very first releases). So, lots of great Sacramento and general punk rock history involved.
Stick with the show- the vocals come up in the mix a bit.

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

Audio Live Concert

Bikini Kill- Las Palmas Theatre, Los Angeles Ca. 11/18/94 Lossless xfer from 1st gen VHS tape

Here is a rare one from Dwayne Triggs’ collection. His friend Alex Maciel filmed 2 sets of Bikini Kill’s show at the Las Palmas thtr back in 1994.

Recorded by: Alex Maciel
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9900U — Datavideo TBC-1000 — Tevion USB capture — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

Live Concert Video

Charm Fueled- Lava Lounge, Chico 11/94 video

There are four live videos total of CF, of which this is the second chronologically, the first three filmed at Lava Lounge and the last one at Blue Room, ranging from late 1994 to early 1995.

Filmed by James Johnston.

Master VHS transferred to DVD in 2007, and sent to me in 2013. You can see I was in a huge hurry to share these (/s), but not due to a lack of quality of what was on offer, at least in my humble opinion.

This one doesn’t say whom they played with. This is the show where Trish was holding a guitar but never actually appears to play it, also a stunt she pulled in her prior group, cue to the three minute thirty second mark to see that inaction here.

It appears that the Lava Lounge room was pretty dark, so for me, it’s more important as a means to preserve the audio, which luckily is clear as a bell, no processing or tinkering has been done at all for either.

Visually, this one is the worst of the lot.

Setlist, keeping in mind this is *all* unreleased material. The guitarist / occasional vocalist is Sean Gowan of The Vertels, but don’t know much else about this project, or the names of the other players.

  • If I Could (Sean & Trish vocals) [0:28]
  • Painkillers Work [4:34]
  • Consume Me [8:25]
  • ? (Slow #, Sean on vox, Trish backup) [10:50]
  • Savage Republic ‘Exodus’ intro [15:05] / Don’t Count Me Out [15:37]
  • You Are The Sugar Ring [19:29]
  • Repeat Myself To You [23:12]
  • Tell Me Where Do I Go From Here [27:22] (cut at 29m30s)
  • Dumb Fuck [34:58]
  • (encore) [39:03]
  • Rescue Me [40:04]
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Teenage Fanclub- Rodney on the Roq, KROQ FM, Pasadena 11/13/94 xfer DAT Master Brian Wilson Live Int

Wow, this is really cool. I thought that I had posted this one but I couldn’t find it on YT. I really wish that I was able to stay up late every Sunday to tape ROTR, but I had a job. And a 1 hour commute. And a 1 year old.
1st 20min-plus is interview, then 2 acoustic songs like in studio… including Brian Wilson’s “Love and Mercy” performed by the band for the first time.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DTC-690
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

Audio Live Performance

Linda Brady- KALX Live in Studio, Berkeley Ca 11/11/94 xfer from pre-FM Master soundboard cassette

I’ll keep this one short, since I know a bunch of folks are visiting family and friends today. This one comes from Rick Sylvain’s KALX archive. I can’t find much recorded output- just 1 song on a Beserkeley Records comp on discogs, and a self-titled album that is on Amazon Music.

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

Audio Live Performance