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Joe Fraulob’s birthday Jam- The Boardwalk, Orangevale 3/16/24 4K UHD Gary Holt Exodus Black Sabbath

Bonus post for you- Joe Fraulob (Danzig, Deconstruct, many others) threw a concert last night for his birthday and a ton of people came out, including Gary Holt from Exodus/Slayer. The show was over 2 hours long, so here is an early snippet. Gary came up and played on 2 songs- he was scheduled to only play one, but there were guitar issues during Paranoid, so he stayed up for the Priest cover.
Man, the schoeps sound nice in that room. Looking forward to recording more shows there. Derek Clark and his partner, along with the staff there have completely transformed the club into something… warmer. No dig on Mark, it’s just got that Hawaiian laid back vibe now. I really enjoyed it. They even have tropical/theme drinks for each show!
There were 4 different lineups who played a mini set each. I think I will post each lineup’s set separately. This was part of the sabbath set which featured Joe, Gary, Bobby Real, Ash Hades and Tom Frost.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic GH5S, Lumix G X Vario 12-35mm f/2.8 II ASPH Lens
Audio from Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder
Audio synch in pluraleyes 4, synch in Sony Vegas 15

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Joe Fraulob’s birthday Jam-The Boardwalk, Orangevale 3/15/24 4K Black Sabbath set pt 2

After fighting with my ancient Windows 7 PC for a good part of the weekend, I downloaded Vegas 18 so I can finally import/edit files from the new G9ii camera, so expect some sweet schoeps synched vids next weekend. Man, that new camera is NICE.
Here is the last video from Joe Fraulob’s birthday jam a couple months back. This was supposed to be the complete version of the longest section of the night, but for some reason, only the last 30min rendered. I will post up the full hour at some point.
Band is Bobby Real, Ash Hades, Tom Frost along with Joe

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic GH5S, Lumix G X Vario 12-35mm f/2.8 II ASPH Lens
Audio from Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder
Audio synch in pluraleyes 4, synch in Sony Vegas 15

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Black Sabbath- Pacific Amphitheatre, Costa Mesa Ca 11/14/92 Audio xfer f/1st gen Sony WMD6C Cassette

Collections post first today- I had to go to Costco and have just started digitizing the On This Date video. Video takes about 2x as long as audio to digitize, transfer and denoise, so it’s gonna be a bit.
This concert is somewhat legendary and has been well circulated- it is the one where Dio refused to open for Ozzy Osbourne, so he left Black Sabbath.. again. Sabbath called up Rob Halford to help at the last minute. There is video of this performance on youtube.
What makes this post unique is that this is from a new source- Karl Lundmark was a prolific audio taper of the norcal metal shows in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Him and another one of the bootleg cowboys headed down to southern cal for this one. He had a pro walkman, which was one of the best decks you could find at the time.
There is a lot of crowd noise on the tape, but it still sounds great.

Recorded by: Karl Lundmark w/ Sony WMD6C
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Black Sabbath- Cow Palace, San Francisco Ca. 1/25/84 xfer from master Audio Cassette w/Ian Gillan

Here is a really great recording from Doug. He sent me this ticket picture, and followed it up with a story about how he had an unused ticket signed by Tony and Ian. He was in line for the show and he saw a limo go around the arena– a bunch of people followed the car but Doug went the other way around the arena. Long story short, doors were open, security was nowhere to be found, so Doug walked right in and found a room with food… and Ian Gillan/Tony Iommi. He was offered a sandwich by someone, but he declined and got these autographs and left. He realized after that it was Geezer Butler offering him the sandwich. D’oh!
So, Doug went up to the box office and bought another ticket for the show (remember those times? ahhh, the good old days) and has this one as a keepsake. What a story!
As for the show, it sounds pretty damned good for that place. I have never heard a Sabbath live set with Gillan, and it’s pretty good. He absolutely kills on Ozzy’s songs, and Dio’s are…interesting. They had radically different vocal styles, so they are pretty different interpretations.
Doug mentioned that the band got there very late, and it sounds like they may not have had an adequate soundcheck. It takes a bit to get the mix right in the room.

Recorded by: Tour Manager Doug
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge 10

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