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Build Us Airplanes- Cafe Colonial, Sacramento Ca 11/16/24 4K UHD Master w/ Schoeps Audio indie Punk

OK, Matt Kadi asked me to post this, so you get another thing filmed by me this weekend. But first, here are some “I got hacked” FAQ:

Q: Do you have your account back?
A: No. I opened a new account that I hope is temporary until I get my real one back. You can friend me here if you’d like: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571139156608

Q: Are all of your videos going to disappear?
A: No, they are on Youtube (3 cameras and a microphone channel) with a wordpress internet frontend (sacramentomusicarchive dot com). I use FB to announce videos only.

Q: Since your old account has disappeared from FB, will the Sacramento Music Archive FB group disappear as well?
A: No. A couple years back, I made two close friends admins on the Sac Music Archive FB group, in case this ever happened. According to facebook, even if a group creator’s account goes “poof”, the group lives on. I am an admin on the new/temp account.

Q: I sent you a PM and have not heard back. Can you see it?
A: No. All of my PMs are gone. Please friend me at the account above and PM me again. Sorry.

Q: Have you given up on getting your old account back?
A: No. I have a hard time accepting injustice and I probably will spend way too much time trying to get my account back… and find a way to punish the hacker if at all possible.

Alright, on to the video. This was without a doubt the LOUDEST show I have ever seen/heard at the cafe. As they were playing, I was worried about what the neighbors were thinking lol. (The club has an early curfew due to being in a semi-residential area).

But as you can hear, the band sounded really great. They have a new album out called “All Things Expire”- their first release in 13 years! Nice to have them active again.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix G9ii w/Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm F/2.8-4 ASPH lens;
Audio: Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder
rebalanced in Izotope Rx8 (Bass +3Guitar +6)
Audio/Video synchs in Pluraleyes 4

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Hotbods- Cafe Colonial, Sacramento Ca 11/16/24 4K UHD Complete show Schoeps Audio

I posted this one a month or 2 ago and I tried to use pluraleyes to prep the audio files for matrix’ing. Well, that didn’t work so here is that show again with schoeps (only) audio.

This was a show that I really wanted to attend but I had some family conflicts and figured it wasn’t happening. The family event ended earlier than expected, so I grabbed a camera and the schoeps and got to the cafe right toward the end of Lightweight’s set. Man, that band’s new songs are great. I had not seen/heard them in over a year. I wish I could have caught the set- next time.
This was an LP release show for Hotbods and Build Us Airplanes. They both sounded great, but this was the loudest Cafe show I have ever attended. You know that feeling when your earplugs are overwhelmed and it is STILL too loud despite them being in your ears? Well, that was this show. Still great, but the neighbors (the club is close to residential) couldn’t be too happy.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix G9ii w/Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm F/2.8-4 ASPH lens;
Audio: Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp
Audio/Video synchs in Pluraleyes 4

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Violent Coercion- Cafe Colonial, Sacramento Ca 11/8/24 4K UHD Multicam Schoeps Audio East Bay Punk

Last night, I discovered that today’s “on this day” post I had prepped actually took place on 2/14… so I am still working on a new old one.
Here is your Saturday video while I work the other one. Here is a great blurb written by Aaron Cometbus about VC:
“Three members of Violent Coercion went on to form Neurosis, the fourth drew the cover of the first Neurosis LP, and the fifth ended up in Samiam. Talk about an all-star cast.” -Aaron Cometbus, 2018

The band released a demo tape called House of Terror in 1985, played a bunch of shows, and then broke up and went on to do Neurosis, Samiam, Attitude Adjustment, etc. They are back and have released an album (limited to 100!) called Still Time. Their next show is opening for Final Conflict at the Ivy Room this coming Friday, Feb 7.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix G9ii w/Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm F/2.8-4 ASPH lens and 2x gopro hero 7 black; Audio from Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder
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Fang- Cafe Colonial, Sacramento Ca 11/8/24 4K UHD Multicam w/Schoeps Audio Landshark punk

This is an unusual one. The stage at the cafe is a bit small, so Sammy decided to perform on the (dark) floor in front of the stage. So this video is mostly his band playing with an occasional Sammy silhouette singing. Haha. Oh well, they all can’t be perfect.

Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix G9ii w/Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm F/2.8-4 ASPH lens and 2x gopro hero 7 black; Audio from Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder
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Haywire- Harlow’s, Sacramento Ca 10/28/24 4k UHD Multicam with Soundboard Audio Boston Hardcore

I posted the Negative Approach and Terror sets from this show last year, and here is the last band that I filmed that night… aaand this is embarrassing. I film a lot of hardcore shows for my friend Agelos, and he asked me to film Terror/NA and Bite the Hands. It was an early show and I arrived while the first band was playing. I had assumed that the first band (and the band I missed) was Haywire, and I thought that I had filmed Bite the Hands.. until I watched the edit. So, even though the home screen at the start of the video says Bite the Hands, this really is Haywire.
Now it all makes sense- I was trying to figure out why the band was singing “Sweet Caroline” at the start… they are from Boston! Deerrrp. Oh, and I hope the band doesn’t mind that I filmed this. I asked Bite the Hands for permission. Double derp.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix G9ii w/Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm F/2.8-4 ASPH lens; 3x gopro hero 7 black
Soundboard audio rebalanced in Izotope Rx8
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Negative Approach- Harlow’s, Sacramento Ca 10/28/24 5cam 4K UHD Multicam with Schoeps Audio Hardcore

Negative Approach opened (co-headlined? the sets were the same length) for Terror at that Harlow’s show back in October. I got to know them a bit when I followed 7 Seconds around Texas a couple years back. Thanks to Harold for giving the OK for video.
Unfortunately, the soundboard is incomplete for this set. The soundman (nice guy, great work) came up to me during NA’s set and told me that the M10 had come unplugged from the soundboard. I figured it was only for a minute or so, but after checking the files, it was for almost all of NA’s set. Luckily the Schoeps sound pretty good. The M10 survived, thanks to the recorder landing on top of a box of shirts that one of the bands was selling. Lucky.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix G9ii w/Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm F/2.8-4 ASPH lens (x2); 3x gopro hero 7 black
Audio from Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder
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Terror- Harlow’s, Sacramento Ca 10/28/24 4K UHD Multicam w/ Soundboard Audio Full Hardcode Set

Late post for you this Sunday. Terror came through Sac last month on a loaded bill- better yet they played Harlow’s which is perfect for the ol’ camera pole mounts. The show was high energy and pretty violent- there was a huge brawl that started in the back corner of the club, continued across the club- right in front of me! The stage divers had me worried about the pole mounted camera. They came close to hitting it a couple times but it survived. One of the gopros did not survive- broken mount and only about 5 minutes of the show recorded.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix G9ii w/Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm F/2.8-4 ASPH lens (x2); 3x gopro hero 7 black
Soundboard audio rebalanced in Izotope Rx8
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Pat Travers Band- Boardwalk, Orangevale Ca 10/17/24 4K UHD Multicam w/ Matrix and Schoeps audio

I know that today’s post is a bit of a departure from the typical metal and punk posts every day… but my long time friend (from high school!) Loren Scott put out a call for someone to video the show, so I obliged. I am glad I did- this show was spectacular! The way that Pat and bass player David Pastorius (Jaco’s nephew) jam together, it’s like they share a brain. It’s amazing to watch. David is a bass master.
It took us a while to get this posted because we had one hell of a hard time with the audio. The soundboard was mastered at 96khz and ever after I dithered it down to 48, it would NOT synch with any of the other sources. Pluraleyes couldn’t do it and I couldn’t do it manually. I was able to get the first 35min of the show aligned and the rest is schoeps audio. I spent the good part of TWO DAYS trying to get this to work. Ugh. It still sounds good throughout. You can hear the sources fall out of synch at about the 35 minute mark, right before we cut over to schoeps-only audio.
Fun fact- I had no classic rock shirts to wear to the show, so I pulled out my Roky Erickson shirt and still stood out. lol.
Oh, one more fun fact. I had a +1 so I asked Wayne Triggs if he wanted to go. He didn’t know what he was getting into. I started to get set up for Travers and I realized I left my gopros at home! Thank goodness this show was at the Boardwalk (5min away) or I would have been toast. Thanks to Wayne for the help- he scrambled and drove me there and back.

Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix G9ii w/Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm F/2.8-4 ASPH lens; 3x gopro hero 7 black
Audio from Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder plus soundboard for 1st 35min
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Body Count- Aftershock Festival, Discovery Park, Sacramento 10/12/24 Complete 4K Schoeps Audio ICE-T

Welp, it looks like the Till Lindemann video from yesterday was removed from Youtube due to nudity. I don’t agree with the decision, but what are you gonna do? It’s not like can talk to anyone at YT HQ. Sorry everyone. I spent a week on that one for it to be available for less than a day.
Let’s post 2 videos today to make up for it. Here is probably the best video I have from aftershock- performance, quality, camerawork-wise. Right before they started the set, I told my friend Matt that I was moving over to avoid the pit and right after I said it, you can see the pit erupt. That is how the video starts. I get over to a safe area to video about a minute in, and the audio and video quality improve about 5min in. Such a great set!

…and the hits keep on coming! Body Count does a new song that YT has blocked the audio portion, so I had to choose between editing out the audio and video, or replacing the audio. The pit was raging and I did not want to lose the video, so I found some awesome music from youtube’s library to use. Hope you like it. Concert audio ends at about 13:00 and resumes at about 17:00.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Canon ZS200 and Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder.
Audio EQ in Sony Sound Forge
Video degrain in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat video
Audio/Video synch via Pluraleyes

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Judas Priest- Aftershock Fest, Discovery Park, Sacramento 10/12/24 full complete show Schoeps Audio

Although Till and Body count had the best sets (IMHO) at Aftershock, this one was by far the most enjoyable. Judas Priest holds a special place for me, as British Steel was the first heavy metal album I bought in 1980- from the Columbia House record club. I remember putting it on for the first time. I’ve seen priest twice before- once in 1988 (thanks to Slayer for the passes to that one) and in 2018(?) on that Deep Purple co headline thing.
I saw some folks on the aftershock facebook group complaining about Rob’s vocals. He is a power vocalist who is 73 years old- he’s not gonna sound like he did on Unleashed in the East. If you take that mindset going in, you can enjoy the show.
What made it so great for me was the choice of setlist. It was the perfect “greatest hits” set, plus I finally got to see Rapid Fire- one of my all time favorite priest songs- performed live. In fact, we were supposed to cut out toward the end to get to the main stage for Iron Maiden, and I told my friend Matt that I was staying- it was too good.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Canon ZS200 and Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder.
Audio EQ in Sony Sound Forge
Video degrain in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat video
Audio/Video synch via Pluraleyes (EXCEPT pt2 which was done manually in Sony Vegas 15)

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