Here is one more from Wayne Triggs’ stock of VHS tapes. Man, this one is hard to listen to- lots of high end distortion. Maybe turn the audio off and play the album and imagine it is the actual soundtrack.
Recorded by: Wayne’s friend
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9900 and Canopus ADVC300
Ehanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Ah, finally back in the studio. I only spent about 20 minutes in here over the past week. Time to play catch up.
This one is from my collection. I digitized a bunch of stuff for the KCRW archives last year and never did anything with them. Expect a KCRW related post about once every few weeks.
I got to see this band once. They were opening for Kevn Kinney and Peter Buck at Paradise Lounge in SF. I had never heard their music before and they blew me away. It was hard to sit there with a video camera in the bag and not pull it out. Those were the days of expensive tapes and battery packs. Plus I didn’t have permission. It would have been a total bummer to get tossed from the club before Kevn and Peter came on.
Recorded by: ? (Josh maybe)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here is one from Ken Doose’s collection. Ken taped a ton of bands off the radio when they performed live in KDVS’ studios. We are just getting started with these.
DBS were a punk band from Vancouver and they were down our way while touring their first full-length LP, Tales from the Crib. They dropped into KDVS and did a 30 minute set.
For fans of the (in)famous KDVS radio show The Pirate and Angel of Death, there is a hilarious disclaimer for their show at the end of this tape. Classic! I guess 1995 was at the end of the ol’ “album lyrics can get you sued” era.
Recorded by: Ken Doose
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rough day today. I digitized a lot of my friend Gary’s 8mm master tapes- he is “fromthenosebleeds” on youtube. I am enhancing (degrain) and posting all of the Sacramento shows, with his approval. Thanks Gary! I know that some of my friends are big PJ fans, so I hope this helps people get through today.
Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340
Enhanced with Adobe premiere and neat video plugin
Alright, thanks to the folks who told me that today’s “on this day” post is actually 12/3/ and not 3/12/… so I guess I will post something else on this day. I worked up something else before discovering that it was also labeled with the wrong date, so here is attempt #3.
This one came from Jim Utz. He sent me a bunch of VHS tapes to digitize years ago and this was in there. He taped it off 120 minutes back in 1995. Includes interview and promo clips along with footage from Brixton Academy.
Recorded by: Jim Utz
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: I think it was the JVC HR-S9911U and Canopus ADVC300
This show appears to be incomplete. The video starts with Tesla urging the crowd to calm down, then lasts about 25min. Shot side stage, from a ways back. From the archive of Mark Deniszczuk.
Recorded by:Â Mark Deniszczuk
Here’s another Belly show from a beautiful venue in Paris. Man, it must be such a thrill to tour and play places like this, especially for the first time.
This is a transfer off a clone, of a clone, of the master. There were 2 shows on the tape and one had some issues with static (somewhat common with old DATs) but this one seemed to play fine. Good set, nice sound.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
For today’s “on this day in history” post, here is a band that I was totally mistaken about when I was a headbanging teenager. Metal was huge in my world when the Go-Go’s hit the big time, so I wrote them off as “lame new wave” and never gave them a chance. Fast forward about 13 years and Rodney on the Roq plays their new single “The World has Lost its Head” and I was floored. It was only then that I learned of their punk rock roots and dove into their old stuff with the release of the “in the valley” 2-CD set. Then they put out God Bless the Go Go’s which was amazing, and I became a late but lifelong fan.
This session is a great representation of the band’s fun interpersonal dynamic and how killer those harmonies are even in a live radio studio setting.
Photo from the Go Go’s instagram, from around the same time frame a week before this session.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Wow, what a surprise. So many cool things about this video. First, this is the first video that shows a shot from the stage toward the bar that you can kinda see!
Then the show starts and the crowd goes nuts and marty gets clobbered.. then he hops on stage (in my old spot).
sounds remarkably good for a stage video shot with 1995 tech.
recorded by Jose Galvan with Marty Sertich’s camera
transfer by Kirk Janowiak
Pocket Change (Matt Sertich, Marty Sertich, Kirk Janowiak) Live @ Spirit Records Rancho Cordova CA 3/4/95 Filmed by Jose Galvan
Recorded by: Jose Galvin
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