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Adrenalin O.D.- Punk Rock Museum Tour, Las Vegas NV 1/12/24 4K Master Hardcore OD Partial

I wasn’t planning on posting this (ever) because it was a pretty tough weekend, but I was cleaning off the RAID and decided to do so to honor my friend Richard.
I booked a trip to Las Vegas to see the Punk Rock Museum and meet up with my friends Dave and Jack from the band. I was also looking forward to seeing my old friend Richard Brown- his parents used to run Arjay Rock in the 1980s/1990s and we have been friends ever since. I had not seen him in about 10 years, when he lived in Portland and I was on a business trip up there.
After I booked the trip, it was announced that my daughter was playing a all-city concert at a local high school on Jan 13.. I figured that I could still make this work since the tour was on Friday, my daughter’s performance was on Saturday, and AOD’s mini-concert in the garage at the PRM was Sunday. So I booked ANOTHER round trip ticket LAS-SMF-LAS so I could go see her performance on Saturday. I pulled it off with very little sleep and made it to her performance. After her show was all done, she ignored me- would not speak to me. Teenagers…
To add insult to injury, I discovered that schedules at PRM are not set in stone, and it kinda revolves around Fat Mike’s schedules or whims.. and they ended up playing on Saturday. I missed the performance. Mike had a busy schedule and moved the performance time to suit his needs. I wasn’t even going to come back, but I had a rental car parked in the airport parking garage, so I kinda had to..
I am glad I did head back, because I was able to spend a good part of Sunday with Richard and his daughter Jasmine. Richard had been sick with a skin cancer but was able to make it out to both the tour and the Sunday hang. Richard passed away in June so spending that day with him meant a lot. I hope his daughter is doing well- Richard and his daughter were very close. It makes me so sad every time I think about it.
You can see Richard in the video- I spotted him at 11:00 in the grey jacket, his daughter has the Descendents hat on.
Anyway, sorry to be such a downer, Dave and Jack do a nice tour guide job. Lots of inside info on the east coast bands including the misfits. This is 23 minutes of a TWO AND A HALF HOUR tour. That Dave guy can talk!

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix ZS70 or 200 (can’t remember which, I had both)

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Adrenalin O.D.- Dingbatz, Clifton NJ 11/5/22 4K UHD Multicam w/ 3 source matrix audio AOD NYHC NJHC

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

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Adrenalin O.D.- Bowery Electric, New York NY 11/4/22 4K UHD Multicam with Matrix Audio AOD A.O.D.

Happy Friday! It’s turning out to be a good day. Here’s the first night of the 2 day “tour” to promote the release of the great book “if it’s tuesday, this must be Walla Walla- the wacky history of Adrenalin O.D.”
We held off on doing this one because of the audio- I don’t know what the deal was, but there is no guitar anywhere in the club or soundboard mix. It gets better about midway through when Keith Hartel hits the stage and Jack moves from bass to guitar. Also, I thought I found a good place for the drum gopro, and a cymbal cut the view of Dave’s head off. Some people might say that’s a good thing, but we left it out of the video edit. So, 4 camera with suspect audio. Best we could do.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Video Equipment used: Canon HF G60, HF G50, 2 gopro hero 7’s.
Audio Equipment used: Sony PCM-M10 through soundboard, Rode Videomic Pro on the G50, DPA4061 and Church Audio Preamp into Sony PCM-A10
Matrix by Jim McLain
Edit by Tromster
I think I rebalanced this one in Izotope Rx8 in a deperate attempt to find guitar in the mix

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Adrenalin O.D. OD- Stanhope House, Stanhope NJ 10/25/15 Multicamera with Matrix Audio!

Here’s the final night of the 2 show AOD “tour”. This show was more of a drunken party than the Bowery show, and it was a lot of fun. This was my first time seeing Jack Steeples play with the band- I saw AOD once at the Mab in 1987 with Keith on bass and Keith also played with them in NYC so that was a treat. Lenny from Buy Our Records & Bedlam came up on stage to do the spoken part at the beginning of Trans Am. Thanks to Art Zawodny for the help with filming, Agelos for the excellent edit work as usual, and Jason for the soundboard/audience audio matrix. This one was a good team effort. Thanks to the band for permission to film. One final note about this one- the stage has very uneven lighting- Paul had a bright white light on him, while Bruce had a low red light on him which makes filming a challenge. I set the 2 Canon G10’s to auto setting, which caused Paul to overexpose a bit, and set the G30 (the one stright back) manually, so Paul is lot properly there and everyone else is dark. Hope you still like it.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Canon G10, G30

Edited/Remixed By: Agelos

Additional help by: Art Zawodny

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Adrenalin O.D.- Bowery Electric, New York City 10/23/15 Multicamera with Matrix Audio!

This show made the trip to the east coast (and staying in DB central The Jane Hotel) totally worth it. Be sure to watch the entire thing so you can see the Pit Chicken, “The Bass Player” downing Bruce’s beer, and the shower of bills hitting the stage (and bruce picking them up as he played). The show totally exceeded my expectations. Thanks to Agelos for the excellent edit- this one was hard because the camera on the side of the stage was obstructed at times, and then shut off about halfway through. Thanks to Jason Ellis for the Soundboard/Audience matrix work. Thanks to Joe Vincent for supplying his footage (sorry we could not use it). Thanks to Bowery Electric for letting me film, even though there was nowhere to put cameras in there. Finally, thanks to the band. Filmed with 2 Canon HFG10 and 1 Canon HFG30 on a monopod. Audio source- Soundboard + DPA4061 mics.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: HFG10, HFG30, SBD, DPA4061

Edited/Remixed By: Agelos

Additional help by: Joe Vincent, Jason Ellis

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Adrenalin O.D.- Bowery Electric, New York City 10/23/15 Part 1 Single Camera Version

We shot a 3 camera video of this show with soundboard/audience matrixed audio, but I checked out this raw footage last night and I thought it was suitable to post as is. I will post the multicamera one when it is done. What a show! Masterpiece performed 2x for money, and the threat of a third! Pit Chicken! And much more. It was one of the most entertaining shows I have seen in a long time. Filmed with a Canon HFG30 and internal microphone.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: HFG30

 

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Adrenalin OD- The Anthrax, Norwalk Ct 6/3/88 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape AOD A.O.D. NYHC Hardcore

Even though this is off a 1st gen VHS tape from the band’s archives, the quality is not great. Very shaky camerawork and the video is pretty dark. Good enough for an On This Date in History post. It could use a full deshake and brightening/denoise. Maybe some day.

Speaking of AOD, it looks like they are finally going to get over to England to play some shows in a couple months. I had grand plans to see them a bunch of times over there in 2020, but we all know what happened in 2020. The “legion of boom” fest at Boom Leeds never refunded my money despite multiple emails. Gotta love punk rock. On the other hand, Rebellion fest were more than accommodating- they were really great dealing with the cancellation. I hope to get over there someday.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Probably the JVC HR-S9800 and Canopus ADVC300

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Adrenalin O.D.- Anthrax Club, Norwalk Ct 8/22/87 xfer from 1st gen VHS Band Archive Tape AOD Covers!

For today’s On This Date in History, let’s celebrate AOD’s recent tour to Europe for the first time ever! They were supposed to go in 2020 and do a much more extensive tour, but we all know how 2020 turned out… The promoter for their 2020 show at Boom Leeds never refunded my money. Boo to unscrupulous punk promoters!

Anyway, this came from Bruce, the guitarist in the band. Bruce is totally cool and I wish he was still playing with the band.

This was not a show that AOD was scheduled to perform, they were summoned to come up by the band on stage. They do all covers and get off the stage “before they make it any worse”. Haha! Soundboard audio is pretty garbled but still listenable for hardcore fans (get it?).

Recorded by: The Anthrax Club?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (denoise)

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Adrenalin O.D.- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 7/19/87 xfer f/1st gen VHS tape w/soundboard audio A.O.D.

Both posts today are from bands back east.. so let’s do the band that is 3 hours ahead of us first, then the one 2 hours ahead in a bit.

This one is from Chris Eng’s collection, same tape as the MTX we posted a couple weeks back. I got this same show from Bruce Wingate’s archive o’ stuff, but I have better VHS transfer equipment and audio transfer capabilities, so Chris’ tape wins.

This is from the infamous show where The Feederz threw a dead dog out into the crowd in their opening set. That is what AOD was talking about at the beginning of the show. The board mix is really odd. When there are no vocals, the music peaks and maxes out. When Paul sings, the instruments go waay in the background. I might pull my cassette of this show and take another swing at transferring the audio. Maybe that won’t have the odd instrument volume drop.

As it is, I pulled the audio track off of this and rebalanced it. It sounds slightly better than the original imho.

Recorded by: Peter Conheim, Smilin’ Banana Productions
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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Adrenalin O.D.- WFMU Live in Studio, E Orange NJ 6/11/87 xfer f/ 1st gen audio tape AOD A.O.D. NYHC

I didn’t have time to transfer a tape for today’s post so I poked around the hard drive and found this classic. I digitized some tapes for the AOD reissues and this one didn’t get used, but I really loved the WFMU in studio sets. The one from 1985 with White Flag is the best one, I think. I might have listened to that tape more than their albums.
The quality on this one is decent, but you can tell that they were playing pretty loud in the studio. This performance was just before their US tour in the summer of 87. Sounds like it may be one of the first shows with Keith Hartel (he is referred to as the new kid).

Recorded by: George Norton
Transfer by Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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