I had planned to post something else today but this was so much fun I decided to call an audible. Sorry Neil- yours are going up this week! I went to Charles’ birthday and it was a blast. I am not a social guy, but it felt like I walked in and then 3 hours had gone by in an instant. So much great conversation with cool folks. Charles should have birthday parties more often. This was a one-time only show (I think) for the party- a band that played all SSD covers. The band is Charles Albright on Guitar, Craig Hancock on drums, Brian Hanover on bass, Tommy Faucett on vocals, and Steve Borek from B’LAST on Guitar.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Canon HF G60 and Rode Videomic Pro Stereo
Happy Friday everyone! I don’t have any video to share today, but here is the best version of this well-circulated tape I have ever seen. James thinks it is 2nd gen, and it sounds like it. I did EQ this because it was super heavy on high end and light on bass.
From James Edmonds’ collection Transfer by: Shayne Stacy EQ in Sony Soundforge 10
For all of you who are on the fence about going to the Quasi show at Starlet room tonight, you need to go. They have an excellent new album out, and they are weeks into a national tour. They are firing on all cylinders at this point. If you are unaware of them, I am posting the video from last night. It was sold out and packed and I could not find Sam before the show, so this one is 1 camera only. The set consists of all Organ/Drums songs, which are my favorite. Quasi has not been to Sac since 2004, so you need to come see this! This one is still uploading at the time that I wrote this, so it may not be rendered to 4k when I post. It will, takes YT some time with a file of this size.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Canon HF G40 with Rode Videomic Pro Stereo
Zoran (former Sacramentan) headed over to the Ivy Room earlier this month, and caught Seized Up. They were formed in Santa Cruz, California in early 2019 with Bl’ast singer Clifford Dinsmore, Fast Asleep guitarist Danny B., Good Riddance bassist Chuck Platt and The Distillers drummer Andy Granelli.
This last 24 hours has been the busiest I have been in months. 4 kids sports games and an arcade game pickup in Walnut Grove.. and now to Oakland to see SATAN. It feels a lot like the night I filmed this Mean Jeans show. I can’t remember why (probably kids sports again), but I could not get out of sac until late and I sped all the way there. I find a spot right up front and walk in to see the Mean Jeans (headliner) setting up. I set up, filmed, broke down and headed home in about 90 minutes. That’s efficient taping! This was the first time the bad had played at Gilman and they were pretty stoked about it. Their set was longer than usuak and they took some “deep cut” requests from the audience. Super fun (and hilarious) set from the guys.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Canon HFG60, Canon HFG50, 2x Gopro Hero 7 black. The one on Billy Jeans(bass) froze up. Gah! Audio was a USB through the soundboard, rebalanced in Izotope Rx8 Edit by Tromster
I’ll take a little risk today and post this one. When I filmed this, the tour manager asked to see the video before posting. Well, we can’t find his contact info so I sent an email to Evan’s manager, John Kastner. No reply. Joe Burns- maybe you can tag Evan to see if he is cool with it. Anyway, this was such a great show. I sang along a couple of times, forgetting that I had mics right next to my face. I hope you can’t hear it. Everything went ok with the shoot, except for the off-center anchor cam and the soundboard did not work for some reason.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Canon HFG60, HFG50 x2, Gopro Hero 7 Black x2. Audio Equipment: DPA4061 mics-church audio preamp-Sony A10 Some angles degrained in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat video Edit by Tromster
This one hurts. This was such a great show, and I put a lot of effort into bringing my good audio gear in to get a decent (DPA 4061 mics) quality audio recording to match up to this. I get home to listen to the audio and it is distorted. The battery in the preamp was low. Damnit, I have been having terrible luck with audio lately. If anyone has a line on audio, let me know. Nothing through the network of usual suspects or on DIME. Anyway, the audio on this is fairly clear but lacks punch/low end. I did my best filming, but there were a LOT of phones/hands/ etc in the air. So, if you are wondering why I am focusing on someone other than Hank Sherman when he is playing a lead, it’s because there was a hand, beer or phone in the way. Such is life. Nice seeing so many old and new friends. I’ll try to list everyone I saw/hung out with. PS: I have never seen so many happy middle aged dudes singing about satan, in my life.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment: Panasonic Lumiz ZS200 Enhanced (degrain) in adobe premeire elements
If it’s Tuesday, it must be time for an AOD post. Last month, AOD got together for the first time in 8 years to celebrate the release of Dave Scott’s book “If it’s Tuesday this must be Walla Walla: The Wacky History of Adrenalin OD”, which is a hilarious chronicle of not only AOD but the early punk scene in NY/NJ. Dave put a lot of work into the book, pulling from his own surprisingly lucid memories along with a network of old friends’ accounts which makes it a much more detailed account of events than the usual oral history. I laughed out loud a lot while reading it. Available through DiWulf publishing. Enough of the sales pitch, on to the performance. I think that these 2 performances were better than the 2014 reunion, and some of that had to do with the preparation. Dave (and I assume the rest of the band) practiced for a couple of months ahead of the show and you could really tell. Unfortunately, the video suffers a bit from lighting challenges. The sound/light man was the highest person actually working a show that I had ever seen and it seems that he forgot to turn on the main stage lights until the last 5 min of the show. So we got red lights which caused my cameras to freak out a bit- I had to dial down the exposure on the G60 so Paul would not overexpose. Get a tan, wouldya?. We did our best. It sounds good- the 3 source mix sounds pretty nice.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Canon HFG60, Canon HFG50, 3x Gopro Hero 7 black. Should brought the GH5S with this lighting, damnit. Audio Equipment: DPA4061 Mics, Church Audio Preamp, Sony A10; Sony M10 in soundboard; Rode Videomic Pro on the G50. Audio mix by Jim McLain Video edit by Tromster
Both AOD shows had great opening acts- both shows had Fear Gods, which is Jack Steeples’ new band.. and the Dingbatz’ show had the Accelerators opening. They put out a 7″ in 1984 and have released some albums on CDR over the past 10 years. Challenging lighting- same as the AOD set. Very red. At least it sounds good.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Canon HFG60, Canon HFG50, 3x Gopro Hero 7 black. Should brought the GH5S with this lighting, damnit. Audio Equipment: DPA4061 Mics, Church Audio Preamp, Sony A10; Sony M10 in soundboard; Rode Videomic Pro on the G50. Audio mix by Jim McLain Video edit by Tromster
Here’s the last Dingbatz post from me. I didn’t realize their sordid history until after filming this show. Yikes. Anyway, fear gods. are a newish band featuring Jack Steeples from AOD and they are damned good. Forward to about 7:00 and 27:00 for my favorite tracks. Since Jack mentioned that AOD are doing “a bunch” of shows in 2023, I hope fear gods. can come along as the opener. That would be a bonus.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Canon HFG60, Canon HFG50, 3x Gopro Hero 7 black. Should brought the GH5S with this lighting, damnit. Audio Equipment: DPA4061 Mics, Church Audio Preamp, Sony A10; Sony M10 in soundboard; Rode Videomic Pro on the G50. Audio mix by Jim McLain Video edit by Tromster
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