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Primus- Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento 9/25/97 xfer from 8mm master tape Enhanced Upscale to 1080p

Here’s another one from Gary’s tapes that I digitized last year. Brown Album-era Primus at the Memorial. Brian, was this an Abstract Ent show? I can’t find a poster online anywhere.
I ran a fresh transfer with my gear, then denoised and upscaled to 1080. You can check out many more of Gary’s videos on his channel over at @bootlegcowboys – I am only posting Sacramento- related content but he covered the bay area for many years.

Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV460 firewire into Dell workstation
Denoise/upscale in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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The Slow Poisoners- KALX Live in Studio, Berkeley Ca 9/20/97 xfer from master pre-fm audio cassette

It’s been a couple weeks since I posted one of these KALX live in studio performances, it’s a good time do put up another one. I still have all the reels here and I plan to get those done soon, but it may require baking tapes, and I need to learn how. I should get to that in a year or so. Sorry for the delay. We’ll do the cassettes in the interim.
(Discogs) Slow Poisoners were a US rock band created by Andrew Goldfarb in San Francisco (active 1996-2004), started as a 5-piece band in 1996 with Andrew Goldfarb (vocals, guitar), Mica Pollock (cello), replaced by Rich Trott (guitars, keyboards), Tim Plicka (bass replaced in 2000 by Christopher Webber, Dan Agrella (drums), the group slowly became thinner and thinner over the course of the years and became a one man band: The Slow Poisoner.
I think it is pretty clever that Goldfarb just made the band name singular when he became the only member. Maybe that is what we should require with some of these rock & metal bands who tour with 1 original member.

Recorded by: Rick Sylvain
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Rage Against the Machine- Cal Expo Amphitheater, Sacramento Ca 9/16/97 xfer from master 8mm Enhanced

Another awesome gift from Gary Shurtleff- his vid of RATM from the old amphitheater. He has this on his excellent bootleg cowboys channel (check it out), but I recaptured this one last year for him and he gave me the OK to post. I also fixed up the audio and enhanced it. Enjoy!

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

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Deftones – Press Club 9/11/1997

The band just fresh off recording “Around the Fur”, first public performances of songs like “My Own Summer”, “Be Quiet and Drive”, etc. Many thanks to Walker Edmondson for digging this up and letting us release it. Think I read this was one of Chino’s favorite shows

The Press Club
Sacramento, CA
USA
September 11, 1997
“Around the Fur” North American promotional tour

Recorded by: Walker Edmondson
Generation: master (compressed)
Equipment used: unknown

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Soda Pop F*ck You- KALX Live in Studio, Berkeley Ca 9/6/97 xfer from pre-fm master cassette tape SKA

This one goes out to all people who are trying to get back into the swing of working after a 3 day weekend. This was one of the cassettes from Rick Sylvain that I digitized a while back and rediscovered it on the hard drive.
It seems like Rick had just about every bay area local band play in the studio over the years. It’s pretty amazing.

Recorded by: Rick Sylvain
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Exodus- El Dorado Saloon, Sacramento Ca 9/97 xfer from DAT soundboard master rebalanced thrash

Since Exodus is playing the big outdoor show in Oakland on Sunday, I figured I would put this one up. This show is bizarre- I clearly must have recorded this (the tape # is a few behind Tanya Donnelly, which took place 1-2 months after this), but I have no recollection of this at all. I asked Brian about it and he didn’t know why I chose to bury the recording either. Odd.
It was probably due to the fact that Paul Baloff could not perform because he was sick, and Rick chose not to perform as well… but it is still a lot of fun to hear Gary play these songs with a drummer and guest vocals (he might be singing as well). Some cool covers toward the end.
Oh, please ignore the sped up audio at the end. I forgot to trim the Melvins stuff that I recorded at 32khz. If you were ever curious, that is what a DAT sounds like when transferred at the wrong sampling rate!

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy (I think)
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope – bass and guitar boost

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