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I.G.D.- House Party 4/24/97 xfer from band VHS tape enhanced I.G.D. Infectious Garage Disease

I almost forget to post today- the kids have been sick so I have been tending to them this weekend… and now I have a headache, right in time for the work week. Yay. Only 14 more daily posts and I will have met the 2023 post-a-day goal.
After double-checking this one, I should have enhanced/brightened it. Those bright moving lights fooled me into thinking it was lit better than it actually was. I might go back and fix it later…
Another one frm Mike Parisi’s collection

Recorded by: ? (from the sound of it at the start, some random drunk dude that Mike is trying to train right before they play)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1960 – Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced (denoise) in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video

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Matthew Sweet- El Dorado Saloon, Sacramento 4/18/97 audio xfer from DAT Soundboard Master

I loved Sweet’s music in the 90s, and his live shows were incredible. Here is an hour and 45 minute concert from El Dorado with covers by The Kinks and David Bowie. The mix is decent for an Eldo board. I tried to look up his band for this tour and came up empty. I don’t recall Richard Lloyd being on board.
By the way, Matthew Sweet is coming back to Sacramento this Saturday at Harlow’s. I know that there is about 20 things on the calendar for that night, but you can’t go wrong seeing Matthew Sweet play.
PS: Thanks to Danny Ensele for his concert archives website- I had to use that site to get the date, then dig into the “dresser of 2,000 DATs” to find the tape.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Sony TCD-D7, most likely.

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No Doubt- Arco Arena, Sacramento Ca 4/15/97 xfer from 8mm master tape enhanced Gwen Stefani

Man, nothing like getting home from a show late, getting to bed at 1am, and then having back pain wake you up at 6. When I was a kid, I always wondered why old people were so grouchy. Now I know. Getting older is no joke.
Anyway, I had a rare day off yesterday with kids in school- it happens about once a year. I was organizing discs onto spindles and realized that I totally forgot about this project.
My good friend Gary Shurtleff (fromthenosebleeds on YT) asked me to digitize most of his 8mm masters last summer. He told me that I could post all Sacramento-related stuff to the archive as a thank you. Here is the first one- expect to see more of these over the next couple months.
No Doubt, opening for Cake and the Vandals.

Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell Workstation
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Prayer Wheel- Unreleased Death Knell Record Spring 1997 mp3 xfer from master tapes

from drummer Eric Marias:
This is one my bands from a while back . Our last record. Its very different from the others . Final mix , unmastered , unreleased . Recorded in spring 97′ at Enharmonik studios. ERIC STENMAN captured our wierd dark mood perfectly. My favorite batch of songs we wrote . Noisy , heavy.. a tad menacing. We were listening to the Melvins and Tom Waits alot around this time amongst other things, and I can tell.#PRAYERWHEEL

Not sequenced. Have fun figuring out what song starts where…..that you can do on your on your own if time if you want to. Here are tracks in order . Last track was meant to be a hidden gem ?
1)STARFUCKER ( not a stones cover ! )
2)CIRCLE THE WAGONS
3)THINNER
4)MOTHERS NEVER…
5) GET YOUR OWN GOAT
6)E.E. CUMMINGS
7)UNTIRED
8)VIA CON DIOS
9)EVIL AIRPORT
10) DEBBIE HARRY
11)GASOLINE
12)COCKROACH
13) STARFUCKER ( MARACA RE-MIX)
14) THINNER ( SECOND TAKE )
15) SACRAMENTO. This is meant to be the end. If sequenced it would have gone from 12 to SACRAMENTO

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Groovie Ghoulies- El Dorado Saloon, Sacramento 4/10/97 xfer from DAT Master Audio Rebalanced

Following up yesterday’s Shonen Knife post is the Groovie Ghoulies’ opening set from the same night. This is Dan Panic (from Screeching Weasel)’s first show with the Ghoulies! There is an inexplicable 2 minute cut (lost signal) at the beginning of the show that I edited out.
The rebalance in izotope made a huge difference in the quality of this one. This used to be a typical board mix- guitars and bass way back in the mix, lots of drums and vocals up front. Izotope was able to pull the guitar and bass up in the mix without making it sound funny. One of the better results I have had to date with the app.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496
Rebalance in Izotope RX7 (Bass +6, Guitar +3)

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Shonen Knife- El Dorado Saloon, Sacramento Ca. 4/10/97 xfer from DAT Soundboard Master Rebalanced

Thanks to Brian Mckenna for the flyer image, it got me motivated to transfer the DAT of this show.
A somewhat funny story behind this one- I asked the soundman for permission to tape and he said “sure, as long as you don’t have a DAT”. Uhhh… luckily, I had the Marantz PMD430 in the backseat of the car. At this point, the Marantz deck was 10 years old and not really functional anymore. I think I lined the board feed into the marantz, and then out into my DAT which was hiding in my gear bag. Odd but effective, and it explains the cut at about 41:00 into the show.
I rebalanced it (maybe a little too much on the guitar) and it sounds pretty full.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope rx7 (Bass +6, Guitar +3)

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Old 97s- Hi Pointe St. Louis Mo 4/5/97 xfer from Hi8 Master tape Enhanced 97’s alt.country americana

This is one of my favorite videos of the Old 97s. I didn’t see this No Drepession Tour (even though I had a ticket) because I was brand new at my job and I didn’t want to screw up. I am still at that employer, so I guess it turned out ok. It was awesome to see a full set from that tour in nice quality. I had posted a 2nd gen VHS of the show years ago, but Neil sent me his masters a while back, so here it is in all of its lossless enhanced glory.
If only the audio was a little better… it’s clear they were LOUD.

Recorded by: Neil Werries
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony EV-S2000- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced (Degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Whiskeytown- Hi Pointe, St. Louis Mo 4/5/97 Lossless xfer from Hi8 Master Tape Enhanced Ryan Adams

This is probably one of Neil Werries’ most popular videos on the internets. Good ol’ Ryan and Co., right before the release of Strangers Almanac. This one is a big upgrade vs. what was posted before. Thanks to Neil once again for sending the tapes my way!!

Recorded by: Neil Werries
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony EV-S2000- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video

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The Picketts- Hi Pointe, St. Louis Mo 4/5/97 Lossless xfer from Hi8 Master Enhanced

I learned something new today- I had no idea that The Picketts were from Seattle (they were called “grange rock”- get it?) AND Scott Mcaughey was in the band. I had no idea- cool!

Here is the allmusic bio: The Picketts were Seattle’s only “grange rock” combo. Led by vocalist Christy McWilson, the band also included drummer “Blackie” Sleep, McWilson’s guitarist-husband Scott McCaughey, and rhythm guitarist Jim Sangster.
McWilson and McCaughey had met at San Francisco State. They moved to Seattle in 1980, where McWilson started a ’60s retro/new wave band called the Dynette Set, and McCaughey fell in with the ragged pop combo Young Fresh Fellows. Raised in Northern California, McWilson had grown up on the Bakersfield sound and the cosmic country of Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris. But Seattle was pretty much devoid of that sound, and what little did exist didn’t have the greatest reputation. Nevertheless, after McWilson noticed Sleep’s distinctive standup drumming style during a gig his rockabilly band played opening for the Dynette Set, she asked him about collaborating, and the earliest form of the Picketts was born.

This is toward the end of their run- Scott was busy with R.E.M. so that might have contributed. This no depression tour was legendary with Old 97s/Whiskeytown along with Picketts and Hazeldine.

Recorded by: Neil Werries
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony EV-S2000- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced (brightness/degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video

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Old 97s- Hi Pointe, St. Louis Mo 4/5/97 xfer from 2nd gen VHS Enhanced Live Complete Full Concert

Here is the other show from that Old 97s VHS tape- this one RIPS. Man, I love this era of the band and I am so thankful to have seen them so much back then… but this may be my favorite 97s video from the ’90s. The lighting on stage is uneven so I just denoised the pic and left the lighting as is.
Oh, one other thing about the Stubb’s show from yesterday- I mentioned that Ken made mistakes at the beginning of the set. He let us know that he had a new guitar tech- first time out- and they totally screwed up the tuning the guitar. Haha, that must be a nightmare. I experienced that once in person- Girlschool in 2014.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9800 w/tbc and Canopus ADVC300
Enhanced (denoise) in Adobe Premiere, Neat Video

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