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The Cranberries- Irvine Meadows, Irvine Ca 8/31/95 xfer f/DAT Master Audience tape w/Coresound Mics

I was going to share a Brent Best soundboard tape in honor of his birthday tomorrow, but It is in a spot I can’t access. Can’t wait to get this cast off my arm.
Instead, here is a mediocre recording I did from the last show I attended at Irvine Meadows. I remember that the opener (Toad the wet Sprocket) sounded way better- but I don’t see that recording on my list. Where did it go? Why did I even go see this show? I was not a huge fan and irvine was not close to home (Whittier). What does “1lt flt may cause postponement” on the ticket stub? So many questions.
I did my best to EQ this thing but it is still pretty bassy and muddy sounding. The curse of coresound mics in a big venue.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7 and Coresound Binaural mics w/battery rolloff
Transfer Equipment: Sony PCM-R500 ans M-Audio audiophile 2496 card

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Matthew Sweet- Tower Records, Chicago Il. 8/24/95 Live in-store Audio Only WXRT-FM xfer from master

After 8.5 hours straight of meetings today, I finally get a break.
I kinda blew my wad on the cool archival video stuff early this week, so you get audio for a few days. Man, I love Matthew Sweet. He always seems to get lumped into the “90s alternative” bucket of bands, but all I hear is a great songwriter. Killer power pop.
This is an in-store concert broadcast broadcast on WXRT in Chicago, who were probably the best station in the country for live broadcasts back then. I hope they are still relevant, and didn’t go the route of KROQ.

Recorded by: Paul Galis (I think) off radio onto cassette, transferred to my DAT.
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer equipment: Sony PCMR500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496

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Metallica- Fan Can 2:Astoria London 8/23/95 Donnington 8/26/95 Tuktoyaktuk 9/2-3/95 Aberdeen 6/24/96

I don’t usually post commercially released stuff, but a) This was a fan club only limited edition release and 2) It doesn’t seem to be on youtube, which is kinda unbelievable.

Fan Can is/was a fan club-only product that usually gave some rare audio on a CD, rare video, and extras. This can had a door hang for example.

This is the VHS tape only from Fan Can 2. I found this and 1 other Fan Can VHS tape at a thrift store for 99 cents each! I went to pull one of them out to play and discovered that part of the VHS shell was damaged and the tape needed a complete reshell. I spent WAY too much time reshelling the tape to make it like new. Can’t remember if it was this tape or the other one, but this one plays great!

I didn’t have room in the description, but this is a lossless transfer done with my usual gear.

Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (very light denoise)

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Crash and Britany- Oddfellows Hall, Placerville ca 8/19/95 xfer f/master VHS-C Tape

Another video from Anonymous 2′ collection. These VHS-C tapes are not cooperating. I might need to pull out backup decks to get them to play. Tape surgery is probably happening as well.
Crash and Britany were a 90s indie/emo band from Sacramento with Huy Ngo, Kelly Slusher, and Mike Thiemann. I had no idea that shows happened at an Oddfellow’s hall in Placerville. This one was DARK and I did my best to crack up the light and remove the video noise.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Ned’s Atomic Dustbin- Roseland Ballroom, NYC 8/18/95 lossless xfer from 1st gen VHS Enhanced Proshot

Here is a VHS tape that I digitized for my friend Derek Purtell, since he asked about Ned’s. I got this tape from Saki Honma, who lived in Japan and taped it off Japanese TV. There was this very cool TV show there who would broadcast concerts in higher quality than other sources that eventually came out. This particular tape had a Wonder Stuff show that is very common, a Cranberries show that seems to not be anywhere, Frank Black, and more. Most of those are coming up!
Anyway, this show was introduced as the “last show” on the TV broadcast. I think this means this is the last show before their breakup in the mid-1990s and according to Wikipedia, they broke up after a show in NYC… so I think this date/venue is right.

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

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Wilco- H.O.R.D.E. Fest, Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati Oh 8/17/95 xfer f/2nd gen soundboard Tape

Another Joel Gerson tape. I have a ton of Wilco H.O.R.D.E. board tapes that Joel’s friends taped. From what I remember, they are/were a couple and they went around to a lot of the horde shows and some non-horde Wilco shows in 1995. Look at my list for 2nd gen Wilco soundboards from 1995, that’s them.

The mix is decent, but the bass guitar drops out of the mix a few minutes in. I rebalanced it the best I could, but if I made the bass sound right for the last part, the mix would be ALL BASS for the first part. So I went in the middle of the too. So, a little too bassy to start and then not quite enough bass after the first few min. No time to cut it in half and rebalance both parts. If you really love this show and want a proper 2-part reblanace job, you can always “Tell Me What to Do” on the Patreon campaign…

Recorded by: Joe Gershon’s friends
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +7, Guitar +4.

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Pavement- Lollapalooza, Irvine Meadows, Irvine Ca 8/14/95 xfer from DAT Master Coresound Malkmus

I’m a little late with today’s on this date in history- it is my daughter’s first day of high school! Pretty exciting. I had to digitize this one as I didn’t have anything prepared.

Even though this isn’t as exciting as the 2nd stage set that I posted a year or 2 back, this is still a solid set. Surprised they got 50 minutes, but they were billed pretty high. I recalled this one not sounding great but it is a lot better than I remembered.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Coresound binaural mics w/bass rolloff and a TCD-D7
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge 10 (bass down, mids and highs up)

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Beck- Lollapalooza, Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, Irvine Ca. 8/14/95 Xfer from DAT Master Audience

Back to the Lollapalooza 95 DAT master recordings. Here is the Beck set- he played early in the day- right after Jesus Lizard. This was in between the Mellow Gold (1994) and Odelay (1996) releases, but he does material from the upcoming Odelay album. Pretty cool. People got a little chatty around me during this one.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7 and Coresound Binaural mics with bass roll off
Transfer Equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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