It’s video weekend! I have been trying to mix it up with the weekend posts and add 1 from Gary’s masters, 1 from Parisi’s VHS tapes, and 1 of mine that I recently did each weekend… but recent videos are starting to pile up around here so that approach might change soon. Anyway, here is one from Gary Shurtleff’s pile of masters. You can see all of his videos @bootlegcowboys if you want to dive in… this one is degrained and upscaled to 1080p after a transfer on the camcorder-firewire-dell setup over here. That zoom lens could REALLY get close up to the stage from the back of the arena. Wow.
Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV460 firewire into Dell workstation Denoise with Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Man, nothing like getting home from a show late, getting to bed at 1am, and then having back pain wake you up at 6. When I was a kid, I always wondered why old people were so grouchy. Now I know. Getting older is no joke. Anyway, I had a rare day off yesterday with kids in school- it happens about once a year. I was organizing discs onto spindles and realized that I totally forgot about this project. My good friend Gary Shurtleff (fromthenosebleeds on YT) asked me to digitize most of his 8mm masters last summer. He told me that I could post all Sacramento-related stuff to the archive as a thank you. Here is the first one- expect to see more of these over the next couple months. No Doubt, opening for Cake and the Vandals.
Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell Workstation Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Alright kids, it’s time to feed you Bizkits and Korn with a spoon (if you get that reference, you are cool. If you don’t, you are still alright but you should google those lyrics and listen). Actually, it’s only Korn today- no Bizkits. Korn opened for Metallica on a run of shows in late December 1996. Here is the Arco Arena stop of that tour. As always, huge thanks to Gary at @bootlegcowboys for giving the OK to post enhanced/upscaled Sacramento-related content to the channel/website here. Gary is cool.
Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV460 firewire into Dell workstation Denoise with Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Happy Father’s Day! I was trying to come up with a good Dad band to post on Father’s day, and since I didn’t have any Wilco prepped, this will have to do. Here is another one of Gary Shurtleff’s master tapes that I digitized recently, and then gave it a small amount of degrain in Neat Video. It turned out pretty nice! Gary did a nice job filming in the arenas.
Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into workstation Degrain in adobe premiere elements/neat video
Here’s another one from Gary Shurtleff’s collection of master recordings (fromthenosebleeds on YT). This has to be the darkest lighting I have ever seen for a band in an arena setting. No fault of Gary’s- the camerawork is good for an arena vid and it sounds great for the time frame. I did my best brightening it up and the denoise worked really well on this one. If nothing else, just play it as an audio track- the audio is that good. And look at that young Mike IX! AWWW
Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell workstation Lighting and denoise in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video
Here is another video from Gary Shurtleff (youtube channel fromthenosebleeds), and I think that this is one of the better Pantera show I transferred for him. Great sound (for an arena 1 camera thing) and excellent camera work. This is from a co-headline with White Zombie, a band I will never understand. I tried.
Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into workstation Degrain with Adobe Premiere Elements/neat video
Here’s another Sacramento/Central Valley based video from Gary Shurtleff. Check out his YT channel @bootlegcowboys which has a ton of bay area stuff that he filmed. Here is his capture of the peppers’ show in Sac, back on the One Hot Minute tour.
Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV560 firewire into Dell workstation Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
I am going to keep this one short- I can’t remember the last time I was so tired, both physically and mentally. Can’t wait to go to sleep tonight. Here’s another Arco show shot by Gary. He has a ton of 90s punk/metal/alternative over at his channel @bootlegcowboys — check it out. This one has been degrained and upscaled to 1080- thanks to Gary for letting me enhance his Sacramento related vids.
Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV460 firewire into Dell workstation Denoise with Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
A couple months back, my old friend Gary Shurtleff(fromthenosebleeds yt channel) dropped off about 50 of his 8mm master tapes for transfer. I got through all of them and discovered that the PC I was using was glitching – just a few frames per tape but enough to make it imperfect… so I brought back the old Dell T3500 workstation and it took care of these, no problem. It sucked doing them twice but worth it in the long run. Gary gave me the OK to post all of the Sacramento-based shows. I plan to enhance them before posting. Here’s the first one. AC/DC came to the much-hated Arco Arena Sac on their Ballbreaker tour in 96. It looks like there might a bit missing, as an audio recording of this show is over 2 hours. Anyway, enjoy. Thanks Gary!
Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 into workstation via firewire Enhanced in Adobe Premiere/Neat Video (degrain)
Setlist: 1) Back in Black 2) Shot Down in Flames 3) Thunderstruck 4) Girls Got Rythm 5) Cover You in Oil 6) Shoot to Thrill 7) Boogie Man 8) Hard as a Rock 9) Hells Bells 10) Down Payment Blues 11) The Jack 12) Ballbreaker 13) Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution 14) Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 15) You Shook Me All Night Long 16) Whole Lotta Rosie 17) TNT 18) Let There Be Rock 19) Hail Ceasar 20) Highway to Hell 21) For Those About to Rock
I never realized that Slayer headlined Arco. I lived in L.A. at the time and this totally passed me by. That kinda blows me away, never thought they were that huge in the mid 90s. This is another one filmed by Gary Shurtleff- owner of the “bootleg cowboys” youtube channel. This one is already posted over there, but I denoised that 8mm grain out of it to post here… and he gave me the OK to post the sacramento stuff I transferred for him!
Here is what Gary had to say about the show:
I consider myself to be one of the lucky few who got to film Slayer with permission. Tom was interviewed for a video zine I was working with before the gig and after the interview we asked him if we could film the set. Tom said- Yeah sure, don’t release the whole show though. After 25 years sitting in the vault. Felt now is the time to finally share this RARE one with you thrashers!!
I firmly believe if they adopted a “taping policy” similar to Metallica. They could have reached an even bigger audience within the taping circles world wide.
My only gripe, is when zooming in, the focus is not sharp like it should be. Looking through these small view finders, sometimes one cannot tell if the sharpness is where it’s suppose to be. Anyways, enough of my rambling…..
Another side note – If you have ever seen the Serenity in Murder CD single cover, there is a fan who carved the SLAYER logo into his back with a knife and blood dripping down from the letters. That fan was from the Sacramento area and at this show. Which is where he showed Kerry, he thought it was insane but of course had to take a picture. So think of Sacramento 95 when you see the image.
Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell workstation Enhanced (degrain) in adobe permiere elements/Neat Video
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