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Shoot the Hostages- Circa Here Oakland 6/29/98? xfer f/VHS-C Master Tape Hardcore R.I.P. Billy Brown

Wow, the planets aligned and you get TWO posts in a row from Arica Pelino’s collection. Yesterday was the misguided Bazooka Joe audio post, but we definitely know who the band is for today’s post. Where and when it happened? Well, that’s a good question.
I used the list (thanks Steve and Jon Luini) to search for any dates that the band played in the area. They had a total of 3 shows here- one at Gilman in 1999, and two in 1998 at venues I was not familiar with- La Val’s Pizza in berkeley and Circa Here in Oakland. It’s obviouslky not Gilman and after looking at photos of the La Val’s venue, this doesn’t seem to be the same place. So I am guessing that this was at Circa Here. If anyone can confirm, please let me know.
The band was from boston and members are not clearly mentioned online, but Billy Brown, also played in Crash and Burn, Ashers and Deadly Sins (among others) and had just released a solo album. He passed from Cancer last year.
One last thing- the band asked that the lights be shut off so this one was SUPER dark. I did my best to enhance it, but it is still pretty low lighting.

Recorded by: Arica Pelino
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced (brightness, contrast, denoise) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Groovie Ghoulies- Old Ironsides, Sacramento Ca 6/28/98 xfer f/ master DAT soundboard Lookout Records

Here is one that I forgot that I taped, for today’s On This Date in History. It’s funny- Mike Desertt (who I did not know at the time) was there and videotaped the show. He posted it a few years back and I commented “I wonder why I missed this show”. Well, I didn’t miss the show. Now you all know why I keep this website- it’s how I remember past shenanigans.
I think I know why I didn’t remember the tape. The mix was not great- almost all vocals, which is not a knock on the sound person that night. Old I is tiny so you typically get an uneven board mix.
This is a really great, unique set. A mix of old favorites and deep cuts that were rarely played. I was able to fix it quite a bit with izotope, with a LOT of tweaking to the original. It’s listenable after about 5 minutes, and then is really good for the end of the set.
Screen cap from Mike Desertt’s video

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Recording Equipment: Sony TCD-D7 or TCD-D8 lined into soundboard
Transfer Equipment: Sony PCM-R500 amd M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in izotope rx8: Vocals -3, Bass +7.5, Drums +8, Guitar +7.

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Robyn Hitchcock- Ram’s Head Tavern, Annapolis Md. 6/13/98 Audio DAT Clone Soundboard Live

It’s Monday! I was going to post another aftershock video until I realized I screwed up and missed 1 part of the 10 step workflow and need to fix and re-upload, so you might get that tomorrow or Wednesday.
This one is more appropriate for a Monday anyway. I enjoy relaxing and listening to these Hitchcock shows and this one sounds great. Surprised that this one isn’t online somewhere already.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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