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Build Us Airplanes- Cafe Colonial, Sacramento Ca 2/16/25 4K Multicam w/ Schoeps Audio Monster Squad

Alright, I need to hurry up, so here is an early Saturday video post. Build Us Airplanes is a pretty unique sounding indie-punk band with some members of Monster Squad. The recently released a new LP “All Things Expire” after a 10+ year break. They occupied the middle slot in that stacked False Flowers/Generacion Suicida show.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: 2x Panasonic Lumix G9ii w/Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm F/2.8-4 ASPH lens and 3x gopro hero 7 black;

Audio from Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder

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Ultrafiend- Cafe Colonial, Sacramento Ca 2/2/25 4K UHD Horror Punk Debut Show

Here is the last in the series of the Local Show backlog- you will still see stuff I filmed at the regularly scheduled interval, haha.
This band opened the Slamtaro show about a week back. It was their first show, and what a nice surprise. To my knowledge, we have not had a horror punk band in Sac since Strange Party called it quits about 5 years ago. Good songs, vocalist can actually sing, I’m all in. I will definitely make an effort to see the band again.
I didn’t even realize my friend Penelope was in the band because it was so dark back there. She came up to say hi after the show and that was a nice surprise.

Oh, and it took me about 30 seconds to fix my recording levels so stick with it.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Video equipment: Panasonic Lumix GH5S w/ Lumix G Vario 14-140mm, F3.5-5.6 Power O.I.S. Lens
Audio Equipment: Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp lined in to the G9ii

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Slamtaro- Cafe Colonial, Sacramento 2/2/25 4K Complete Show Schoeps Saxophone Powerviolence Hamtaro

Alright, here is a video that is WAY more entertaining than that snooze of a super bowl game. Last weekend, I went to see my friend Charlie’s band called Slamtaro. I had heard his band Anime Aliens before, so I was kinda expecting something in that vein. Um, no. This was the most insane sh*t I have ever seen. I was wondering what the hell I got myself into about 10 minutes into the set. Just watch/listen. The mics are high quality- all of that distortion was coming from the stage. Oh, there is bass and drums too.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Video equipment: Panasonic Lumix GH5S w/ Lumix G Vario 14-140mm, F3.5-5.6 Power O.I.S. Lens
Audio Equipment: Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp lined in to the G9ii

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Bi Score- Cafe Colonial, Sacramento Ca 2/2/25 4K Complete Schoeps Audio Video Game Soundtrack Live

Back to more recent master videos. This was the surprise of the year. Not only does this band play their favorite video game soundtrack/scores, but they also show the actual game being played on the screen next to them! It was really great- sounded great and was entertaining. I don’t recall everything they performed, but I did hear them mention Robocop and Pokemon… maybe final fantasy as well?
Sorry for the somewhat distant view, but I figured showing the screen as they played was more important than my typical closeups.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Video equipment: Panasonic Lumix GH5S w/ Lumix G Vario 14-140mm, F3.5-5.6 Power O.I.S. Lens
Audio Equipment: Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp lined in to the G9ii

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Bafus/Raskin- Cafe Colonial, Sacramento Ca 2/2/25 4K UHD w/ Schoeps Audio Free Jazz Gentleman Surfer

Alright, I am going to take a short break from posting the collections I have over here because I have quite a few local shows that I video’d and I am getting requests to post them.
The first one is this set from last Sunday night. What a wild diverse bill this was! First it was a new horror punk band, which was nice to see since Strage Party went away years ago.. then this free jazz duo consisting of Jon Raskin on Sax and Jon Bafus (Gentleman Surfer) on drums. These guys are seriously talented. I am more drawn to drums since my cousin played them gorwing up, and Bafus is insanely great. I guess I need to check out a Gentleman Surfer album. Then, later on we got some rockin’ video game tunes and finally, “demented italian saxophone powerviolence”. Yes, you heard that right.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Video equipment: Panasonic Lumix GH5S w/ Lumix G Vario 14-140mm, F3.5-5.6 Power O.I.S. Lens
Audio Equipment: Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp lined in to the G9ii

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Holehog- Demo Art and Books, Sacramento Ca 1/26/25 4K UHD Complete Show Hardcore Punk

My “On This Day” post is giving me some trouble today (Izotope is not cooperating), so you get this first. The locally shot video clearout continues! You have 1 more day of this, and then a Green Day post on Wed, then back to the ol’ collection rotation.
Last week, I post the video of Bootlicker and told the story about why these videos are less than great. After bootlicker ended their set, I was able to bring the 10 foot high camera back down to a place where I could fix settings and I turned the light sensitivity to candlelight mode. It is still dark because of the backlight, but better than bootlicker. I did get some nicely lit full crowd/full venue shots of the crowd going nuts, so it is worth a watch for that alone.
I did not fix my mic settings so I used crust-tech’s audio from his video of this set.

Video Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment: Canon HF G60 w/lanc remote to control pan and zoom.
Audio recorded by: crust_tech
Enhanced (denoise) in Adobe Premiere Elements
Audio/Video synch with Pluraleyes 4

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Bootlicker- Demo Art and Books, Sacramento Ca 1/26/25 4K UHD complete show Hardcore Punk D-beat

OK, where do I start with this one. I showed up late to this one (family and all) and arrived right before bootlicker. I left the DSLR at home and brought the G60 because if needed, I can get that camera about 10 feet in the air with the monopod in my pocket. I get there and sure enough, there is no stage and there has been a raging pit which means the 10 foot high solution. So I make my way to the back of the room, where it should sound better.
I am rushing to get everything ready- camera into the LANC remote (so I can control the camera), mics into preamp, preamp lined into the camera. I get it all ready right before they start playing so I did not have a chance to check a couple of things- light setting and audio line-in input… and both were set wrong. That’s why this is so dark and the source audio sucks. Thanks to “crust_tech” for getting good audio that I could steal and synch with this.
On top of all that, I was finishing up setting all of this up and I see a projectile heading at my face. I did not have any time to react- luckily, the FULL beer can only smashed the tip of my finger and not the camera or mics. So, thanks for that. The beer bath on my feet as the band played was nice as well.

Video Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment: Canon HF G60
Audio recorded by: crust_tech
Enhanced (brighten) in Adobe Premiere Elements
Audio/Video synch with Pluraleyes 4

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Zeros 77- Cafe Colonial, Sacramento Ca 12/5/24 4K UHD Multicam with Schoeps Audio Punk Muffs

I had been looking forward to this show since it was announced- Zeros, Avengers and Divided Youth at the cafe. I was shocked that this lineup was playing such a small room. This was my first time seeing the Zeros and they were fantastic. Another big surprise was Ronnie Barnett coming up to play “Beat Your Heart Out” with the band (the song is a Zeros song that The Muffs covered in the early days). That’s probably as close as I will get to seeing The Muffs again… thanks Robert, Hector, Lety(from Schizophonics) and the band for permission to video and being all around nice people. Appreciated it.

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- rebalance in Izotope Rx8- bass +2, Guitar +5.
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Avengers- Cafe Colonial, Sacramento Ca 12/5/24 4K UHD Multicam with Schoeps Audio San francisco Punk

Aw man. I was so busy today that I didn’t get the Friday video posted. Here it is at the high-peak hour of 1am. I hope people see it tomorrow… A trip to the bay area with the kids followed by a show at Gilman threw me late.
Here is the Avengers’ set at the cafe last December. I also have the Zeros 77 set, but I am still waiting for the OK to post that one.
This only has 3 cameras at the request of the artist- no side stage cameras.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix G9ii w/Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm F/2.8-4 ASPH lens (x2); 1 gopro hero 7 black
Audio from Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder
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Divided Youth- Cafe Colonial, Sacramento Ca 12/5/24 4K UHD Multicam w/Schoeps Audio Hardcore Punk

We continue with the run of shows I filmed. Regular programming will probably resume mid next week.
If you enjoy early hardcore like D.R.I.’s first album, you should not miss this band. Absolutely ripping tight hardcore from these youngsters. They have Sacramento punk roots- Tommy(Vocals) is the son of Brian Hanover (Whiskey Rebels, Hanover Saints, Union Hearts) and I think that one of the other member’s dad/relative is Jesse Mitchell from Kill the Precedent.
Right when they started, one of the drummer’s cymbals falls over. I hope my gopro stand didn’t contribute to that mishap- yikes.

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- listen to how good the cafe sound now!
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