It’s Monday- time for another one from Robert Eggplant’s collection. Since that 90 second clip of Spitboy got over 100 views in a hurry last week, I figured I will follow it up with a full set.
The mix on this one starts out with no snare, but snare emerges as the set goes on. If you hate the starting mix, go about halfway through the set and you’ll probably be happy.
Recorded by: Tall Tim
Transfer by Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here’s a decent audience recording of Avail right when they started their lookout records run. I decided to post this one because of the unruly crowd – it sounds like there was at least one person who was disrupting the show. Tim had to stop the song/show multiple times because of this guy.
It sounds like this was done with some type of pro walkman, it has that “big hall echo” going.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I saw/taped the Foo Fighters twice over the course of 10 weeks in 1995, and I’ve never seen them since. Nothing against them, I just never felt compelled to go to another show.
The odd thing about this show is that I remember standing somewhere that was as close to the PA Mains as possible, and it still sounds a little distant. It doesn’t sound bad, I am just picky I guess. Oh well, I tried. The show features a very early performance of My Hero- Dave mentions that they wrote it last week. After plowing through some setlists, it looks like this was the 3rd time it was played.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7 and coresound binaulrals with battery box bass rolloff
Transfer Equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Collections post, from Scott Hamilton’s box of tapes. This one was semi-officially released- it was self released and sold at shows. I considered not posting it since someone must have the official tape, but then I listened to the mix and it needed some fixin’. So what the heck, let’s rebalance this one and post it.
And there is nothing better than posting Anal Mucus and Pansy Division on this particular day.
Recorded by: The Band
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocal +3, Drums +3, Guitar +2
This is a fun one for today’s On This Date in History- I really enjoy these English radio sessions. So laid back and fun. I could not find an image to go with this one, so you get the concert poster for the big concerts they were talking about playing during the session. I know the REM show at Milton Keynes was broadcast worldwide, but I don’t have a Belly recording from any of these. Odd.
Recorded by: Mike Siou? It looks like your writing but you didn’t tape these, did you?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here is another video from Jim Utz’ collection that I digitized a few years back. The Chubbies started out on my ex-brother in law’s label, Sympathy for the Record Industry. Man, family reunions were always entertaining with that bunch!
I tried to find a concert venue called The Barn in San Angelo Texas, but came up empty. It looks like this show might have taken place in an actual barn. If you look at the rafters and floor, it definitely could be.. I kinda like it when places like this are repurposed for punk shows. We had one out here in Lincoln (The Junk Yard), but I have not made it out there yet.
Recorded by: Paul Blacksmith
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: one of JVCs into Canopus ADVC300
Here is a really cool one for today, again from some of the stuff that I digitized for the Turn it Around doc. This was a poorly lit basement show, and the original tape was super dark… but since Jason Ross had the awesome old-school giant GE VHS camcorder, the recording was clean enough for me to boost the hell out of brightness and exposure to make it watchable. Thanks Jason!
Recorded by: Jason Ross
Equipment used: GE Full Size VHS Camcorder
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9911U and Canopus ADVC300
Adobe Premiere and Neat Video used for brightness/exposure boost and denoise
Since I am going to be seeing my old friend Guerin Myall at Punk in the Park tomorrow, I figured that I would post one of his master tapes that had a tie to tomorrow’s show.
I find one of his many Pennywise tapes- this one is labeled “Pennywise 1994” and nothing else. That sets off a search through the between-song banter to try to figure out where it is from. They thank DFL at one point, and at another they mention it is a Monday night… ok… then toward the end of the show, they FINALLY say the location- Palo Alto. That sets off ANOTHER search to find when they played with DFL on a Monday in Palo Alto in 1994… nothing.
Thanks to newspapers dot com (thanks Dan), I finally figured it out. This is from the DFL/Joykiller/Pennywise tour in 1995. They played the edge on 7/10/95 which was a Monday.
There are over 100 tapes labeled like this. I don’t know if I have enough time and patience to figure all these out. haha.
OH. If you have read this far, here is a special bonus- I have 2 tickets and artist parking for tomorrow’s PITP show (thanks Shawn). Please ping me if you are interested in going with me. I can’t really drink since I am gluten sensitive.
Recorded by: Guerin Myall
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DSR-1800 — Dataviceo TBC-1000 — Tevion USB — Vitrualdub
Here is the full soundboard from the Aron’s show. I posted the video earlier this week, but it cuts in at abour the 10 minute mark. I can’t remember, and I wonder why I didn’t film the entire show. I think I was worried about standing in front of people… which explains why I cut Jessy off on the video rather than filming straight on.
One of the best encores ever- Dragon Lady/The Grand Tour. Damn.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7
Soundboard rebalance (increase bass & guitar, decrease drums) in Izotope.
I don’t think I ever posted or shared this video before. The audio from the camera’s stock audio mic was terrible- totally distorted. I tried to do some shadow correction in premiere but it kinda freaked out, so I merely denoised/degrained the video.
I’ve also had a DAT master soundboard of the show, but the mix was pretty uneven. I was able to rebalance it in izotope to make it listenable.. I pushed it as far as I could without making it sound weird.
Featuring the head and long black hair of Todd Nakamine in the foreground 🙂
Oh, and this is the earliest GF video on youtube… which proves nothing except show how old I am.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TR-81 camcorder (w/standard 8 tape)
Sony TCD-D7 through soundboard
Enhancements: Degrain in Adobe Premiere; Soundboard rebalance in Izotope.
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