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Slobberbone- Barley House, Dallas Tx 12/31/02 Set 1 DAT Master Soundboard Clone rebalanced R.I.P. Jess Barr

Jess Barr, Slobberbone guitarist, passed away Monday night at the age of 46. To say that this is devastating doesn’t seem to be enough.
I got to see Slobberbone play w/Jess 7 times from 2000-2003- in Berkeley, Sacramento and Chico. If they came within 2 hours of Sacramento, I was there. I even got to help bring them to Sacramento (thanks to Chalres Twilling) a couple of times. He was a force on the guitar and was a great showman- he even endured the beat to hell banjo that he would need to play every night.
After Jess left slobberbone, I did not hear much about him. I know that he opened up a bar and had a family, but not much more than that. It was comforting knowing that such a great talented guy seemed to be doing what he wanted, on his terms. It is such a shock to lose him so young.
I wanted to get a video ready today, but it isn’t cooperating so I’ll pull from the 71(!) live audio concerts I have. Let’s make this Jess week- I’ll post a week of slobberbone and Drams stuff in honor of the man.

Recorded by: Marcus Winfree (I think- I know I got it from the guy who taped it)
Equipment used: DAT recorder in soundboard
Rebalance by Shayne in Izotope Rx8 (Bass +5, Drums +1, Guitar +6)
Photo by Allan Hayslip

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Slobberbone- Barley House, Dallas Tx 12/31/02 Set 2 DAT Master Soundboard Clone rebalanced RIP Jess

In tape nerd circles, they sometimes do a thing called a flood, where people post a bunch of stuff by 1 artist in honor of them. I don’t have the bandwidth to do a flood, but it will be a more of a light shower, with (hopefully) more than 1 post per day. I’ll do as many as I can in this week.

Here is the late set of the show I posted yesterday. I had planned to post both of these together but the mix on this one changes so much that I could not use the same settings. The guitar gets REAL loud for the 2nd half of the set. I tried to adjust it so you could hear guitar for the 1st 25min but also hear anything other than guitar for the last 25.

Really cool set with a bunch of covers- I just randomly clicked in to make sure the upload worked and they were doing The Long Ryders’ “Looking for Lewis and Clark”. Wow.

Recorded by: Marcus Winfree (I think- I know I got it from the guy who taped it)
Equipment used: DAT recorder in soundboard
Rebalance by Shayne in Izotope Rx8 (Bass +,4 Drums +1, Guitar +2)
Photo by Allan Hayslip

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Sutcliffes- Barleypalooza, Barley House, Dallas Tx 6/1/97 xfer from Hi8 master tape incomplete

Let’s mix it up today and post a couple of short clips from some of the archives people have sent me.
The first one is a semi-obscure band called the Sutcliffes. I was trying to prep/align some analog camera angles of a Gourds 3 camera thing from this show, and I noticed that this was at the end of one of the tapes. I have heard of them because they played with Old 97s at times in the 90s, but I had never heard them. Discogs describes them as “Skiffle revival band from Dallas, Texas, founded in 1990.”, and they are not wrong. Their first album is even called Wall of Skiffle.

Recorded by: Neil Werries
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony EV-S2000- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub

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Old 97s- Barleypalooza, Barley House, Dallas Tx 6/1/97 xfer from Hi8 Master w/Soundboard audio 97’s

Please read- request for help below.
Here’s another collection that I let fall off the radar- Neil Werries sent me his Hi8 masters to digitize a couple years ago. He did a lot of great stuff in the late 90s/early 2000’2 in the alt.country/americana genre. I sent his tapes back right away, but the last thing I posted was in 2023. Sorry Neil!
Why haven’t I posted this show yet? Well, he has a few shows that are multicamera but since both angles are filmed with analog equipment, it is not easy to time align the angles for edit. IF YOU ARE GOOD AT TIME STRETCH/ALIGNMENT AND YOU WANT TO HELP WITH THIS, please email me at shaynestacy@hotmail.com and I can let you know what’s up. Maybe someone will have some down time over the holidays and can help out.
These are the multicamera shows that need alignment:
this show (old 97s barleypalooza 6/1/97)
Gourds barleypalooza 6/1/97 (one angle is already up on the channel)
Old 97s- fitzgeralds 7/4/97 (2 angles)
Silos- lexington ky 7/26/97
Silos- Louisville Ky 7/25/97
I think that’s all of them.

OK, on to this one. I happened to have a DAT clone of the soundboard of this show (not from Neil) so I figured that I would synch it up with one of the angles. Turned out alright. I love this era of the 97s, so it was nice to get at least 1 angle out there in good quality. It’s a pretty special show since Jon Rauhouse joined the band on pedal steel for a good portion of the show, playing a bunch of stuff off Too Far to Care 2 weeks before the album was released. Dayum.
I might work to rebalance the audio in sections if someone signs up to align angles for edit- that pedal steel is WAY up in the mix.

Recorded by: Neil Werries
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Video transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony EV-S2000- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video
Audio recorded by: ? (DAT Soundboard Clone)
Audio/Video synch via Pluraleyes 4

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The Gourds- Barleypalooza, Outside of Barley House, Dallas Tx. 6/1/97 Set 1 xfer from Hi8 Master

For the middle of this long weekend, here is a nice quality show from Neil Werries- this is the first of THREE sets that the Gourds did at this fest, so I figured I would post them separately. I think there might be soundboard audio of this show floating around out there somewhere- if any of you old DAT traders have it (Mike Shiner, Michael Pemberton, etc), let me know! I know there is a board of the 97s.. I have that one.

Recorded by: Neil Werries
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell Workstation
no enhancements needed.

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