Equipment Used: Nikon N70, Quantaray 28-85mm lens, Kodak T-Max 400 35mm film
Tag: Bottom Of The Hill
Solea- Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA. 3/26/2002 Photos
Equipment Used: Nikon N70, Quantaray 28-85mm lens, Kodak T-Max 400 35mm film
The Movielife- Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA. 3/26/2002 Photos
Equipment Used: Nikon N70, Quantaray 28-85mm lens, Kodak T-Max 400 35mm film
Thursday- Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA. 12/15/2001 Photos
Equipment Used: Nikon N70, Quantaray 28-85mm lens, Kodak Ektachrome 160T (cross processed), Kodak T-Max Pro 3200, Kodak T-Max 400, and Ilford Delta 400 35mm film
The Posies- Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco Ca. 9/19/98 Audio xfer DAT Soundboard Live LAST SHOW
Man, this is totally going to be a tl:dr.
So in 1998, The Posies announced that they were calling it a day. They announced their final show at Bottom of the Hill in SF, which was an odd choice of location since they are known as a Seattle band! B.O.T.H. shows are notoriously late- they usually go until 1:30-2am, which is really tough on out of towners like me (2 hours home).
This show was special- since it was The Posies “last show”, they kept playing and playing… and Ken got naked for one of the encores, and they ended up playing for almost 2 hours. They finally ended at 2:30am or so.
I get out of the venue with some of my friends… and MY CAR IS GONE. I think it has been stolen and start freaking out. One of my friends (Jason Smoliak or Jason Sherrett I think) offered to drive me around to try to find the car. It was on the block over- I was already delirious from lack of sleep!
So I start driving home. I get over the Bay Bridge and 80 is fucking CLOSED. They put me on 580 with no choice. I had no idea how to get home- remember, this was before GPS/Cell Phones were common. So I happen to see a sign for hwy 13 and head that way. At this point it is about 3:30am so I stop and call my wife on the pay phone to let her know I will be super late, and it goes to voicemail. What the hell.
I fight falling asleep at the wheel and finally make it home around 5 or 5:30am. I walk in the door and wife starts screaming “I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!”. Well, pick up the damned phone. I get a whopping 2 or 3 hours sleep before the 3 and 5 year olds beat on my head to wake up.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy & Kelly Minnis
Equipment used: Sony TCDD7 DAT (plus Kelly’s)
Swingin Utters, Jack Killed Jill, Social Unrest, The Nukes-Live at Bottom of the Hill VHS Master xfr
Bonus post today from my VHS collection. I checked online and didn’t see this one posted anywhere, which is odd since it was released on VHS by New Red Archives in 1995 and then reissued on DVD by MVD in 2003. It’s not like those 2 labels didn’t have distribution.
Jack Killed Jill were preparing to reunite when Revik Dillon tragically drowned at the Alameda harbor last month. There is a celebration of life and a Jack Killed Jill tribute to Revik happening next weekend. UPDATE: I think the celebration of life got cancelled…
And the memorial show is 11/23
Recorded by: David Plank, Mark Eastwood
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (denoise)
Zuzu’s Petals- Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco Ca. 11/9/94 Pre-FM Soundboard xfer from KALX Master
Happy Monday! Here is another one of those live shows where the soundboard mix was simulcast on KALX. I knew KALX did these from Gilman- I actually taped a Naked Raygun show off KALX while watching the show inside the club! I did not know (until receiving this box of tapes) that they branched out to other venues.
Here is Zuzu’s Petals from Minneapolis, playing at Bottom of the Hill. The band was Coleen Elwood, Laurie Lindeen, and Linda Pitmon. They had a couple of LP’s on Twin/Tone in the early 1990s. Linda went on to play with Golden Smog, Steve Wynn, The Baseball Project, Filthy Friends and many more.
Pretty cool to find this one in the box- thanks Rick!
Recorded by: Rick Arroyo
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Fastbacks- Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco Ca 1/30/94 xfer from 2nd gen audio cassette incomplete
For today’s “on this day in history” post, I found a Fastbacks recording that wasn’t out there so it was a no-brainer to choose this one. It looks like I got this one in a trade with Steve Hanson (R.I.P.) who got it from the taper. It’s incomplete, so if anyone has a line on the full show, let me know.
I did my best with this one. It was a bit tinny so I EQ’d it to bring up bass and get rid of the harshness. The vocals were a bit buried so I izotope’d them up a bit as well.
Look at that weekend of shows at BOTH! Thanks to DJ for the newspapers dot com help- the tape was labeled as being at Kennel Club, but it didn’t sound like a Kennel tape. Turns out is was from BOTH.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge 10, Rebalance in Izotope RX8: Vocals +4
Red Aunts- KALX Berkeley Interview at Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco Ca 8/20/93
Ah, Monday! Another 100+ degree day in Sacramento. It’s getting old, folks.
What isn’t getting old is fresh 30-year-old content from the KALX Archive! Especially with an under documented band like Red Aunts.
KALX interviewed the band during their show at Bottom of the Hill in 1993- then it sounds like they edited it together with some album tracks and broadcast it sometime later.
From Rick Sylvain’s collection of tapes.
Recorded by: KALX
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card