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Screeching Weasel- Circuits, Chicago Il 12/4/92 xfer f/1st gen VHS tape Enhanced Ramones Cover Set

Thanks to Mike Byrne for more info on this show. His brother Bob filmed this. Here’s what he had to say about it:
“33 years ago (1992, the show was 21 & over)My brother went and videotaped the show. This is right around the time that Screeching Weasel started to get really popular. A month before this show they almost sold out McGregors. The Methadones were supposed to open but ended up not playing (This was 8 years before I would join the band). Weasel played the entire Ramones debut album along with a song or two off of other Ramones albums (I Don’t Care and I Wanna Be Sedated) and two Weasel songs (Mary Was A Anarchist and Slogans).”

I did my best to brighten this up and denoise it, but it would look a lot better once a lossless transfer from the master happens.

Recorded by: Bob Byrne
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9911U or HR-S9800 and Canopus ADVC300
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements (brightness, exposure, contrast) and denoise in Neat video

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Darling Buds- Metro, Chicago Il 12/2/92 xfer from 1st gen cassette WXRT-FM Broadcast

WXRT was such a cool station- they broadcast so many great shows in the late 80s, through the 90s. Many of them have been widely circulated and have even appeared on some official releases- gotta have that bonus material for reissues. This show seems to have flown under the radar a bit. I did not get this from my usual Chicago trading friends (Ross Weyman, Paul Galis, etc) and I got it after I was mainly trading on DAT… I wonder who I got it from…

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

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Uncle Tupelo- Lounge Ax, Chicago Il. 11/8/92 Enhanced video with DAT audio xfer from hi8 master tape

Back in 1992, I spent a week following Uncle Tupelo around the midwest. It was crazy- I had no idea what I was doing or where I was going. This was before GPS and I got myself into a couple of dumb situations that I’ll talk about in future posts.
This is the first show of the run… and probably the worst video. There was no place to set up my tripod, so I had to go handheld while standing on these bleacher-style seats on the side. Lots of heads in the way and it is a bit shaky.. but it is also the only performance of the Neil Young cover “motion pictures” caught on video. And it was my only time going to the legendary Lounge Ax venue, so it was still a good night.
The lighting was super uneven at the show. There were a couple of times (maybe 5-10min total) where Jay was lit extremely well, and the rest of the time lighting was low. I adjusted lighting for the majority of the set, which means that Jay is a bit overexposed at times.

Audio kicks in at about 25 seconds. I also have about 1 min video of the inside of lounge ax, if anyone wants to see it.

Video recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Audio recorded by: Jeff Segota
Video equipment: Sony TR81 w/Hi8 ME tape
Audio equipment: Unknown recorder & Shure VP88 mic
Enhancement/noise reduction in Adobe Premiere
Audio/Video synch in Plural Eyes
other work in Sony Soundforge & Avidemux

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Monks of Doom- Avalon Niteclub, Chicago Il 10/24/92 xfer f/DAT clone VP88 mics Camper van Beethoven

I waffled back and forth on today’s On This Date in History before pulling this one to digitize. Whenever I have a chance to share a Jeff Segota tape, I usually go for it. He always made such nice quality tapes.

This was the band at their most popular- they had just released the Forgery album on IRS records and were touring some pretty decent sized venues.

Recorded by: Jeff Segota
Equipment used: Portable DAT and Shure VP88 mic
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Naked Raygun- Cabaret Metro, Chicago Il 7/19/91 xfer from master tape/CDR Clone Complete Show Mott

Lots of great things to choose from for today’s On This Date in History. I picked this one because it has been a while since I posted anything Naked Raygun related, even though I have over 50 live shows of theirs and many of the lowest gen copies still out there. It also has a cover of Mott the Hoople’s All the Young Dudes somewhere in this show, which is a treat.
Image for the video was swiped from Naked Raygun’s instagram- that poster is in the rock and roll hall of fame.
I tried to rebalance this one since it needs more guitar to my ears and it just buried the vocals, so you get it as is. Enjoy!

Recorded by: ?
CD Rip and prep for upload by Shayne
Attempts at EQ and rebalance abandoned.

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Uncle Tupelo- Lounge Ax, Chicago Il 6/14/91 Cassette Master-DAT Complete Show

Uncle Tupelo were always a great live experience, especially early on. The shows were unpredictable and the band would pull out some unexpected covers. On this show, we get the band opening with Soft Boys’ I Wanna Destroy You, a made up on the spot song called Factory Girl to poke fun at an audience request, Crazy Horse’s Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, and the only public performance of The Mike Heidorn song! Encore includes the Vertebrats’ Left in the Dark. This along with all of the usual favorites from the first 2 albums. Whatta show!

I can’t remember who recorded this. I think it might be Jeff Segota, but it was mastered on cassette and he had a DAT when I met him in 1992.

Recorded by: Jeff Segota?
Transfer by: ? (Michael Pemberton maybe)
EQ by: Teddy Ray Bullard (give Ryan Gear his schoeps back if you see this, Teddy)
Extract/prep by Shayne stacy

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Jawbreaker- Reckless Records, Chicago Il. 8/29/90 xfer from low gen audiotape East Bay Punk

Here is another one requested by Todd Pritchard, from Jason Ross’ collection of tapes. There is a video of this show on youtube with fair quality/distorted audio. This one appears to be from a different source- possibly a pro walkman. Sounds like a Sony D3 or D6 to me.

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

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Jawbreaker- Lounge Ax, Chicago Il. 8/28/90 xfer from unknown gen VHS tape East Bay Punk

Here is yet another Jawbreaker show from Jason Ross’ collection, that was digitized for the Turn it Around documentary many years ago. There is another version of this show on Youtube, but it is much shorter- it is less than half of the total time of this one. I think their quality is better- this one is pretty generated.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9811U and Caopus ADVC300
no enhancements. Can’t fix a video this degraded.

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