Here’s one that the band has been asking Steve to post, so here it is. Psychotica played this American Recordings showcase in Miami along with Slayer, God Lives Underwater, etc. Psychotica released their debut album on American in 1996.
Recorded by: Steve Rogers
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into workstation
Enhanced (Degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video
There is a different angle of this show with better audio courtesy of Will Salas. I showed the other video to Steve Rogers and he was blown away that someone else was filming the show. So, nice job taping will. This angle is shot from a tripod and the audio is super distorted. Maybe it would be good to edit these together one day.
Recorded by: Steve Rogers
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into workstation
Enhanced (Brightness/denoise) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Here is another one from Steve Rogers’ amazing batch of Hi8 tapes. This one is a bit of a mystery. This show was an American Recordings showcase, with Slayer headlining. All of the other bands from this show had at least one release on the label. This band never released anything. There is nothing on discogs, nothing on the google, and Shazam couldn’t recognize it. Maybe the band name is wrong. If anyone has any info about these guys please let me know.
Recorded by: Steve Rogers
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into workstation
Degrain in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Here’s another Steve Rogers video from the same show. Fireside appears to be another “one and done” American Records artist. It looks like American picked up the USA distribution of this record from a swedish label. Features Kristofer Åström on guitar and vocals, before his solo career.
Recorded by: Steve Rogers
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into WinDV
Upscale/denoise in Adobe Premier/Neat Video
I recently finished up digitizing Steve Rogers’ collection of Hi8 master videotapes. Steve was based in Stockton and played in the band Surrogate Brains. He moved to Southern Cal in the 1990s, at about the same time that I moved to Whittier.
Steve worked for American Recordings in the mid-1990s, which gave him some pretty amazing opportunities to access bands that don’t typically allow video; one stage-shot video in particular blew me away. You’ll see his stuff being posted over the next few months, along with my stuff, Craig Babb’s PNW stuff and more.
Anyway, here is the first one. All of Steve’s masters are on very high quality Hi8 ME tapes. They produce better quality video than Hi8 MP as a general rule, but the only problem with ME’s is they are not very durable. I can’t play back some of my ME’s anymore- they are shot. Luckily, Steve’s all played back with much issue… except for this tape. You’ll see some lines and a couple quick dropouts.
Crown Heights released one album on American Recordings: More Pricks than Kicks in 1996, then dissolved apparently.
Recorded by: Steve Rogers
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into WinDV
Upscale/denoise in Adobe Premier/Neat Video
Here’s another one from Wayne Triggs’ stack of VHS tapes. Man, this one is super low gen- it almost looks like a master tape, but that’s impossible. No smears/color bleed common with copied VHS tapes.
The date is a guess, but it looks the same as a different angle of the show entitled “AVAIL NYC 4/21” on youtube. The poster put them up on 4/22/06, so I am running with it. Someone tell me if I have it wrong.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9800 and Canopus ADVC300
Enhanced via Adobe Premiere Elements (Brightness/contrast) and Neat Video (Denoise)
I pulled this CDR out for today’s On This Date in history. I am almost certain that Michael Pemberton recorded this, but a) he never matrixed sbd and aud recordings together to my knowledge and b) he knows how to spell “Fibbers”… so I don’t know where I got this but michael mastered at least 1 source. Anyway, the guitar and vocals were pretty low in the mix so I rebalanced it a bit. This is from the run of shows they did opening for Golden Smog.
Recorded by: Michael Pemberton
Matrix by: Michael Pemberton
CD Rip and rebalance by: Shayne Stacy
Rebalance settings: Vocal +3, Guitar +4.
Happy Labor Day! Here is another one from Steve Rogers’ master tape collection. His tape did not have a date, but this is most likely the correct date- they did not appear to play Glass House again during the time that Steve was filming.
Recorded by: Steve Rogers
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer Equipment: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into workstation
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video
Let’s share one of those legendary Sacramento shows for today’s On This Date in History. The (unknown) taper recorded this onto DAT with Schoeps CMC4 mics. The version I am sharing here is Master DAT- Audio Cassette – My DAT- you. So many questions. Who did I get this from? It was on the end of a tape I recorded, so I didn’t trade for it. Someone must have brought the cassette over and I bounced it to DAT. Also, most Schoeps tapers that I knew back then were using MK4, not CMC4, so I have no idea how this happened.
It sounds really good. Nice job on the sound, whoever Brian McKenna hired that night!
Recorded by: ?
Equipment used: DAT and Schoeps CMC4 mics
Transfer from audio cassette to DAT with an Aiwa home tape deck to sony DTC-690
DAT transfer to wav with Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audioi Audiophile 2496 card
Here’s a rare one- the only video I have ever seen come out of the skatepark-turned-venue called The Grind. Thanks to Archie Morse for putting up 7 minutes of the set. The full show exists, so hopefully we’ll see that soon. We can help with the blurring and enhancing of this video!
Recorded by: Wayne “Archie” Morse
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