Here’s a short one for today’s On This Date in History. Why did I pick this one? Convenience. It was already digitized as part of the KCRW project. Sorry, haha. It’s only 3 minutes long, so low time investment needed.
Recorded by: I got it from the taper and forgot his name
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I have not posted anything related to my “trolling ebay for stuff” hobby for months, so here’s one for you. It’s also gives folks a short break from the endless stream of classic/thrash metal (doug), gilman punk tapes (eggplant), and local bay area bands on KALX(Rick) that will continue for the foreseeable future.
This one seems to be a master or clone of the master tape. This seller had a bunch of DATs with Chicago/Indianapolis stuff AND he was based in Chicago so he was clearly close to the taper, if not THE taper.
The tape is pretty representative of a mid-90s DAT, recorded with Sonic Studios or coresound mics. Lots of bass-heavy stuff came out of that era. This one sounds pretty good, and my friend Ross Weyman (who has more Chilton than I have ever seen) tells me that this show is not circulated. Cool.
Sorry for that pic- I need to up my phone pic taking game apparently.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 into M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Can’t remember if EQ’d this one. I think I might have EQ’d some bass out and mids up.
So the bottle rockets used to play unbelievably loud and I was only using the stock mic on the Sony TR81 camera, so the audio is totally distorted. I tried to get a DAT soundboard recording, but the traveling soundman was not allowing it. Oh well. It looks like there are ZERO videos of the Bottle Rockets on YT from 1995, so it has that going for it.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Sony TR81
Here’s one that I filmed 25+ years ago and it didn’t turn out very good. The lighting was low and the stock audio on the camera distorted, especially later in the set. I was able to brighten it up and degrain it in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat video, plus Kingbean synched up the not great but not distorted DAT audio that I also did. So, this is as good as it’s going to get. I put the time into it because I love the band, plus there are zero full sets from this early out there.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TR-81 Camcorder, TCD-D7 DAT, Coresound Binaural Mics w/ Battery Box bass rolloff.
DAT EQ in Sony Soundforge 10
Audio/Video sync by Kingbean
Here’s one from Barry Ward’s VHS collection. I debated whether I should post this since it is already on Barry’s channel but 1) He asked me to do a better retransfer and 2) the retransfer looks A LOT better than the one that Barry posted. So, here you go.
It’s an odd video. It seems to be done with the house videocamera setup and it looks great for the first 38min. Then something happens where 2 angles are superimposed and you get this view for the next hour. Odd. Still awesome.
Recorded by: The Venue I think
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Philips VR-1000 PAL VCR- Dataviceo TBC1000- Tevion USB Adapter- Virtualdub
Enhanced (denoise) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
It was my turn in the rotation for an audio post from my collection and it’s been a while since I posted something from the batch of KCRW tapes I digitized for the station a year or so back.
I think this was during the time that ML was managing them. I think I saw him at the Troubadour when the band played there around this time.
Recorded by: I can’t remember
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Man, what an unbelievably brutal week. Work + the kids= no sleep and lots of stress. So I jumped through a bunch of hoops to go to see KEPI play with one of my all time favorite drummers- Roy MacDonald… and my car’s “check engine” light comes on. So, the night is trashed.
So instead, you get another new post to the archive. McCabe’s Guitar Shop is a magical place. They sell guitars up front, and the back room is an intimate performance room. They have hosted some huge artists there.
Wilco had released their first album “A.M.” 2 weeks before this show. Jeff & Jay came to McCabe’s to play this show, which is odd.- it was a one off show and they were back in L.A. a month later with a full band. This sounds way better than I remember.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7 & Coresound Binaural mics w/battery box bass rolloff
No videos from me today- Pluraleyes did not synch part of a show that I had been working… so it is BONUS VIDEO TIME!!
Here’s another pleasant surprise from Kirk Janowiak and Marty Sertich- Down by Law at the Cattle from 1995. By the time I moved back from L.A. in November of 1995, Cattle Club would be gone. Brian & Jerry, what was the last show ever promoted as Cattle Club?
Recorded by: Martin Sertich
Transfer by: Kirk Janowiak
OK, here is the obscure demo that I normally post on Mondays. Huffy play decent alternative rock/pop punk, from a time when that type of music was king.
From Dan Pettit’s collection
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
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