Charlie’s friends received shocking news yesterday that he passed away the night before. I did not know Charlie well, but he was nice to me the times that I approached him for permission to film his band. Charlie was one of the original punks in the Sacramento (Rancho Cordova) scene, becoming a father and becoming his brother Pat’s caregiver later in life. Here Charlie is on drums with his band The Vacant. This was the last time that I saw them perform. A Gofundme has been set up for the funeral and to help the family through this. I will GFM post the link in comments.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix GH5S and either the 14-140 lens or the 25-75 lens. Audio normalized in Sony Vegas 13
I had trouble getting out of the house (kids, I tell ya) and I got to the show at about a quarter after 8. Negativland was ALREADY ON! Sh*t. I was told that I did not miss much of the set- I caught the last 45min. Wow, what a great show. I encourage anyone even remotely interested to go see this show. The visual show along with this soundtrack was really cool. At the end of the show, I went to talk to my friends Vinny and Sherman and looked down at my PCM-M10 and it had shut off. I don’t know why- I think the batteries that I had in there since before the pandemic(and showed full) pooped the bed. So I get home and I see that I got the complete end of the show- great! I try to EQ it and the file is corrupt due to the power drop. I had to jump through hoops (huge thanks to youtube tutorials) to un-corrupt it. First world pandemic problems. It sounds pretty good. I should have stood in the center of the venue rather than next to 1 PA speaker- I did not know it was going to be a stereo mix. Very cool. Thanks to Brian McKenna for continuing to bring great and risky (promoting wise) acts to town.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony PCM-M10, Church Audio preamp, DPA4061 mics.
As promised, here is the video that I shot from Sunday. Getting upgraded to 13th row was an unexpected treat, and it meant that I could get some killer closeups of the band. This is shot extremely tight/close. Enjoy! Also, I could synch this up with the audio that I posted with DPA mics on Monday. It would be a lot of work. Let me know if anyone really wants to see it. It would be DPA audio in 1080p… unless someone wants to synch and output in 4K for me.
Here’s the original insane story from that night: Oh man, what a night. This is going to be long. Buckle up. I bought a pair of the cheap $20 lawn seats that ticketmaster was selling a while back, not even sure if I was going to go yet. I saw Kiss back in 1983 on the Creatures of the Night tour, and that was the only time I had ever seen them.
I decide to go and invited my friend Cory last-minute. After we got into the venue, he decided to rent a couple lawn chairs for us rather than use the blanket I had. I was bagging on this idea the entire time we were in line for the chairs- complaining that LiveNation stops letting us bring in chairs, then rents them to us for $10 a pop. What kind of bullsh*t is that? We get to the front of the line and the nice worker there hands us comp tickets for the 14th row! Like, the 14th row of the front section of the venue. We couldn’t believe it. Thanks Cory!
But it doesn’t end there. We get to the seats and realize that we both have a ticket for the same seat. I haul ass back to the chair rental place and let the lady know and she apologizes, and then heads to the ticket office to correct the issue. She comes back with EVEN BETTER seats in the 13th row, right in front of a PA main (important for nerds like me). So I go back to where Cory was sitting and tell him to DITCH THE BLANKET in the aisle. So, Toyota Amp now has a 20 year old blue and white blanket. Sorry guys. Also, the chair lady was an MVP- she could have just told me “sorry”, but she took care of it. I wish I knew her name…
The show was great- I have never been a big Kiss fan, but I knew all but 2 of the songs played just through osmosis- either hearing it on the radio, or through friends & family. It was silly fun- I have not laughed or smiled like that at a show in years!
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix ZS70 with stock internal microphone
Oh man, what a night. This is going to be long. Buckle up. I bought a pair of the cheap $20 lawn seats that ticketmaster was selling a while back, not even sure if I was going to go yet. I saw Kiss back in 1983 on the Creatures of the Night tour, and that was the only time I had ever seen them.
I decide to go and invited my friend Cory last-minute. After we got into the venue, he decided to rent a couple lawn chairs for us rather than use the blanket I had. I was bagging on this idea the entire time we were in line for the chairs- complaining that LiveNation stops letting us bring in chairs, then rents them to us for $10 a pop. What kind of bullsh*t is that? We get to the front of the line and the nice worker there hands us comp tickets for the 14th row! Like, the 14th row of the front section of the venue. We couldn’t believe it. Thanks Cory!
But it doesn’t end there. We get to the seats and realize that we both have a ticket for the same seat. I haul ass back to the chair rental place and let the lady know and she apologizes, and then heads to the ticket office to correct the issue. She comes back with EVEN BETTER seats in the 13th row, right in front of a PA main (important for nerds like me). So I go back to where Cory was sitting and tell him to DITCH THE BLANKET in the aisle. So, Toyota Amp now has a 20 year old blue and white blanket. Sorry guys. Also, the chair lady was an MVP- she could have just told me “sorry”, but she took care of it. I wish I knew her name…
The show was great- I have never been a big Kiss fan, but I knew all but 2 of the songs played just through osmosis- either hearing it on the radio, or through friends & family. It was silly fun- I have not laughed or smiled like that at a show in years!
I shot the show in 4k and will be posting that soon. It takes Youtube about a week to process 2 hours of 4k video, and I already have 2 up and processing now. So, hopefully video this weekend. In the meantime, here is my audio recording. It turned out pretty good. I did a quick EQ and brought a lot of the thumpy bass out of the mix, and pushed up the mids and highs.
More to come.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony PCM-M10, DPA 4061 Mics, Church Audio preamp. EQ in Sony Sound forge (Bass minus 2-3db, Mids and hughs plus 2-3db.
I posted 2 4k angles of this show back in September and promised we would have a complete edit done soon. Soon is today- here is the full 5 camera edit from the show last September. Thanks once again to KC Turner for going out of his way to help me out even though I got there late, while the opener was performing. Thanks to Mike Sean Zorn for the last minute ticket- this would not have been filmed without his generosity!
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic GH5S, Lumix G X Vario 12-35mm f/2.8 II ASPH Lens, Rode Videomic Pro Stereo; Canon HFG50 with Rode Videomic Pro Stereo; 3 Gopro Hero 4 Silver Degrain/brightness contrat adjust in Adobe Premiere elements and Neat Video Edit by Tromster
As promised, here’s another 4k angle of the Cracker show from a couple weeks ago. This one had some issues- the exposure looked really good when I started the camera (the sun was out), but once the sun went down and the lights came on, it overexposed David pretty badly. I did everything I could to fix it, but he still glows a little. I also leveled out the shot since it was a little tilted. The tripod was on a steep dirt hill, so it was pretty tough to get it perfect. I really like the audio on this one- I will probably use this source for the multicam over the close shot I posted first. This is the complete set.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Canon HFG50 and Rode Videomic Pro Stereo Lighting, exposure and screen rotation in Adobe Premiere Elements
Thanks to the kindness and generosity of”Cracker Crumbs” fb group member Mike Sean Zorn, I was able to attend the Cracker show last Saturday. I had tickets to another show that was cancelled, and by that time this show had sold out. Thanks to the kindness of Velena Vego and KC Turner, I was able to film the show with 5 cameras. Thanks for the help, and allowing me to nerd out with all of the gear. I plan to post 3 versions of the show- the 2 RAW angles that I shot in 4K with a nice camera mic first, and then the final edit in 1080p with the 3 gopros on stage. I want to emphasize the RAW aspect of this- these angles are meant to be edited together, so you will see me bouncing around and filming stuff that may make no sense.. but there were 4 other cameras capturing stuff. It only took youtube 5 days to get this rendered into 4k- not too bad for them!
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic GH5S, Lumix G X Vario 12-35mm f/2.8 II ASPH Lens, Rode Videomic Pro Stereo
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