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Centro-Matic: Emo’s, Austin Tx. 1/27/01 Minidisc Audience Master Full Show Will Johnson

For today’s “On This Day in History”, I pulled out a CDR that I received in trade over 20 years ago. I wish I could remember who recorded this. It probably wasn’t Marcus Winfree, who was the main guy in Austin at the time.. he had a DAT.

Anyway, Centro-Matic are one of my all time favorite bands. I have been a fan since the late 90s. I helped bring them to Sacramento (thanks to Charles Twilling for doing all of the actual work) in 2002, and I flew to Dallas a couple years back to video and entire weekend of shows of theirs at Dan’s Silverleaf.

They still play an occasional show- I think they recently played Jason Isbell’s destination festival in Mexico or the Caribbean. Makes me happy to see that the songs are still being performed.

Anyway, the mix on this one was not good. It was all drums. I did my best to rebalance in Izotope. The mix moves around a bit as well, so this one sounds decent early on and then gets worse later. If you have never heard them, I encourage you to check them out- great stuff.

Recorded by: ?
CD extract by Shayne Stacy
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocal +3, Bass +8, Guitar +5, Drums -3.5

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Deftones – Rock in Rio 1/21/2001 (video [pro] w/ enhanced audio [pro])

Rock in Rio
Cidade do Rock
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
January 21, 2001
“Back To School” South American promotional tour

Recorded by: unknown (video) (TV rips) (DirekTV?); unknown (audio) (radio rip?)
Generation: unknown (1st/2nd?) (2 broadcasts); unknown (master radio rip?)
Equipment used: unknown; unknown
TV rip: unknown (2 broadcasts)
Picture: unknown photo source
Extra editing, audio enhancement: Vesanic

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Drowning Adam- 1st EP Early 2000’s Sacramento Pop Punk xfer from Band Archive

Here’s a real special one for you today. Back in the mid-1990s, my stepson Jeremy became friends with a couple guys from high school- Nathan Castillo and Travis Damman. The 3 of them were inseparable for years. Nathan and Travis went on to play in at least a couple bands, including this one. I was lucky to catch what might be their last reunion show at Shakers back in 2016 (video in the archive).

I had no idea this EP even existed. I knew of the full-length and have a copy of it here, but David Lindsay asked me about it at a show back in November, so I got to work to find it. I checked with Nathan and he pointed me to Vocalist Ryan Scalise. Ryan sent these tracks to me last week- thanks Ryan!

Tracks:
Innocence
Just Wanted You to Know
Bottle for Two
Reminding Me
That Lonely Day
That’s the Way it has to be
Like Ryan

Recorded by: The band w/James Groth

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Underfire- Pugz, Sacramento Ca late 90s/early 2000’s xfer f/Low Gen VHS tape

Ken Doose has this one VHS tape that had a bunch of Sacto bands on it, in 6 hour speed. I think there are at least 6 bands on there. This is the first. This is yet another video of Underfire at Pugz record store in Sac. Thanks to Ken for the help in ID’ing the band and venue. This one seems to be different than the other 2 underfire sets already up on the archive.

Recorded by: Cory Wiegert we think
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Mick Martin and the Blues Rockers- Blues Rock U.S.A. 2x CD Compilation Sacramento Blues Society

Today’s planned post has been pre-empted for a Local Spotlight.
News came out last night about Sacramento blues legend Mick Martin’s passing. I never had the pleasure of meeting him, but seeing so many of my friends’ tributes was really nice. What a life!
I picked up this 2x CD set from my local Orangevale Goodwill about a year ago. Pretty much any time I see a local CD, I pick it up and I am glad I did! This thing has 31 songs, over 140 minutes of music! Bargain at twice the price.

Recorded by: David Houston, Wayne Smith and David Whitaker
CD Extract and prep for upload by Shayne Stacy

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Sheryl Crow- Soundcheck early 2000s, possibly January 2001 xfer from record company VHS tape

Here’s something totally different for you, from Todd Nakamine’s collection. Like I mentioned before, going through Todd’s tapes is always an unexpected treasure hunt. I pulled an Interscope records VHS tape of The Jam 2/10/03, which ended up just being previously released live clips, but this was at the end of the tape.
I can’t tell where it is from, but looking at the stadium, the vehicles, and the signage, I think it is somewhere in Europe or South America. If anyone recognizes the venue, please let me know.

Recorded by: The Label I guess
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

Live Performance Video