Collections post from Rick Sylvain’s KALX archive. I cannot find ANY information on this band. If you know member names, prior bands, any releases they had etc; please let me know!
Recorded by: Rick Sylvain
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here is one from Rick Sylvain’s collection that is not one of his Friday Night Live shows, and it is an actual touring band playing live in studio!
This took place right after the band’s 2nd release, and their first on Sup Pop “Empty Bottles Broken Hearts”.
Recorded by: KALX Staff
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Le Métropolis
Montreal, QC
Canada
November 24, 1998
“House of Fur” tour
Recorded by: unknown; unknown (Philippe Beau?)
Generation: unknown (master/1st gen?); unknown (master/1st gen?)
Equipment used: unknown; unknown
Video editing: Joaquin Romero
I realize that I have been posting a lot of Son Volt/Uncle Tupelo stuff lately, but there are an absolute ton of shows to be posted. There are 216 Son Volt entries on the tape list, over 100 Uncle Tupelo and a ton of Wilco through the Summerteeth era. So you are gonna get a lot of them since the collection has a lot..
This one was recorded with the gold standard of portable (but still huge) cassette decks- the Sony D5. The mics used are not too bad either. Recording is nice and clear- I didn’t do anything to this one, just kept it flat. The cassette master tape was bounced to DAT and my tape is a clone of that DAT.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Another Monday- I hope everyone is having a good one. Keeping with the Shrimp band name theme from last week’s KALX post, here’s another one. Now that I think about it, this is more than just shrimp that these 2 have in common- they are both side/follow on projects by 2 members in each band who were in popular bands. Last week it was the DKs, this week is Death Angel.
Big Shrimp consisted of Andy Galeon and Dennis Pepa from Death Angel, along with Larry Santiago and Mike Pracale(who coincedentally, happened to do layout and design on a 2016 Death Angel album).
Recorded by: Rick Sylvain
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
It’s time for Patreon Voter’s Choice! And what a choice it is. There are no professionally shot videos of the 97s from (imho) their best era in the mid to late 90’s, except for this one… well, and the complete Austin City Limits which the band WANTED me to post and then was whacked by the PBS affiliate in Austin. So, the only one publicly available.
This is when they were the best band on the planet- just absolutely ripping.
I commend Merge Radio for broadcasting this in the early days of the internet and to the person who captured this online- this was not easy to do back then! Sure, it is primitive and clunky by today’s standards (yes, that is an internet pause at 3:50), but I love this. Hope you do too.
Recorded by: Maggie(redmags) maybe?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
I had a little time over the long weekend to clear off the hard drive on the audio capture PC, and I had forgotten that I digitized a bunch of KALX stuff from Rick Sylvain’s archive. Thanks Rick!
Here is the first one. Jumbo Shrimp was Klaus Flouride and East Bay Ray’s late-90s surf project. This performance seems to be rare. Nothing on youtube except for the album, and setlist.fm shows 1 concert- at Slim’s in 1997. I hope everyone kicks back and enjoys this rarity on memorial day.
Rick’s audio levels on this were fine, but the music was rather low, so I did my best to bring up the music levels without making it sound disjointed. Let me know if I should just post the raw file.
And yes, that is Weezer’s “Buddy Holly” to kick things off on this recording.
Recorded by: Rick Sylvain
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here’s one that I have been wanting to get enhanced and synched up for a long time. Finally, thanks to King Bean, Adobe Premiere/Neat Video and Izotope we can get it done. There are a lot more Old 97s videos still to do from the 1998-2002 time frame.
The 7th Note was a pretty big venue in SF for the 97s at the time- I think it was the old Wolfgang’s building- King Crimson played there around the same time as this. The band played the tiny Starry Plough the night before, and then this huge place the next night.
I remember it being full and stuffy in there. I don’t know if that is why my auto-focus freaks out often, or if it due to the disco ball in the foreground. It corrects itself during closeups, so it is still watchable… and it sounds pretty nice.
The last song cuts off (they played longer than expected), but the soundboard is complete. So when you see a blank screen with audio only during the last song, that is how it is supposed to be.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Video Equipment used: Sony TR81
Video Transfer Equipment: Sony DCR-TRV320 firewire into workstation
Audio Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7 into soundboard
Audio Transfer Equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Enhanced/denoise in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat video
Audio/Video synch by King Bean
Now that I have multiple amazing software programs to enhance and synch video and audio, I guess it is time to start taking some of my old master soundboard recordings and synching them up to my old master videos.
Here’s the first one. I was able to take the video and denoise it a bit. I did not mess with the lighting- Rhett is already overexposed a bit and Philip is a bit dark.. so not gonna mess with that. I took the master soundboard and boosted the hell out of bass and guitar, and drums a little bit.
TL/DR version: It will sound better about 5-10min in. The board mix takes some time to settle.
Old 97s at their peak, in one of their favorite clubs in the bay area. So awesome. I think this might have been their last time playing there.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Video equipment used: Sony TR-81 w/standard 8 videotape
Audio equipment used: Sony TCD-D7 DAT
Audio Xfer equipment: Sony PCMR500 & M-Audio Audiophile 2496 Card
Denoise in Adobe premiere elements w/Neat video
Mix rebalance in Izotope
Audio/Video alignment in PluralEyes
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