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Cracker- Petaluma Music Festival 7/26/25 4K UHD Master w/Schoeps audio Partial set

First off, if you all can do me a favor and NOT post this over on the Cracker crumbs facebook group, I would appreciate it. I got plonked by David on Sunday and was asked to not post there, so let’s play it safe and keep my stuff off of there completely. Yikes. Between that and Morst’s issues at The Fillmore, it seems that the ol’ “taper freindly” label is starting to peel off. haha.

So this is the first of 2 that I am posting from last week’s voter’s choice. It took me over 3 HOURS to get to this fest from home. It’s about 100 miles. I thought I left in time to make it to see Cracker, but there was SO much traffic. So that’s why you see this one cut in and get filmed through the soundboard tent. I had to turn the camera off a couple times to get settings dialed in. It’s amazing it turned out as good as it did, given the circumstances. The CVB set is way better.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Video Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix G9ii w/Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm F/2.8-4 ASPH lens;
Audio Equipment used: Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp
Audio/Video synchs in Pluraleyes 4

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Cracker- Hopmonk Tavern, Novato Ca. 9/11/21 Single Cam 4K UHD GH5S angle Camper Van Beethoven Lowery

Thanks to the kindness and generosity of”Cracker Crumbs” fb group member Mike Sean Zorn, I was able to attend the Cracker show last Saturday. I had tickets to another show that was cancelled, and by that time this show had sold out.
Thanks to the kindness of Velena Vego and KC Turner, I was able to film the show with 5 cameras. Thanks for the help, and allowing me to nerd out with all of the gear.
I plan to post 3 versions of the show- the 2 RAW angles that I shot in 4K with a nice camera mic first, and then the final edit in 1080p with the 3 gopros on stage.
I want to emphasize the RAW aspect of this- these angles are meant to be edited together, so you will see me bouncing around and filming stuff that may make no sense.. but there were 4 other cameras capturing stuff.
It only took youtube 5 days to get this rendered into 4k- not too bad for them!

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic GH5S, Lumix G X Vario 12-35mm f/2.8 II ASPH Lens, Rode Videomic Pro Stereo

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Cracker- Hopmonk Tavern, Novato Ca 9/11/21 4K UHD Raw Footage Canon HFG50 Camper Van Beethoven Live

As promised, here’s another 4k angle of the Cracker show from a couple weeks ago. This one had some issues- the exposure looked really good when I started the camera (the sun was out), but once the sun went down and the lights came on, it overexposed David pretty badly. I did everything I could to fix it, but he still glows a little. I also leveled out the shot since it was a little tilted. The tripod was on a steep dirt hill, so it was pretty tough to get it perfect.
I really like the audio on this one- I will probably use this source for the multicam over the close shot I posted first. This is the complete set.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Canon HFG50 and Rode Videomic Pro Stereo
Lighting, exposure and screen rotation in Adobe Premiere Elements

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CRACKER- Hopmonk Tavern, Novato Ca. 9/11/21 5 Camera Multicam Rode Audio Camper Van Beethoven Live

I posted 2 4k angles of this show back in September and promised we would have a complete edit done soon. Soon is today- here is the full 5 camera edit from the show last September. Thanks once again to KC Turner for going out of his way to help me out even though I got there late, while the opener was performing. Thanks to Mike Sean Zorn for the last minute ticket- this would not have been filmed without his generosity!

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic GH5S, Lumix G X Vario 12-35mm f/2.8 II ASPH Lens, Rode Videomic Pro Stereo; Canon HFG50 with Rode Videomic Pro Stereo; 3 Gopro Hero 4 Silver
Degrain/brightness contrat adjust in Adobe Premiere elements and Neat Video
Edit by Tromster

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Cracker- Empire, Sacramento Ca 5/13/04 xfer from MiniDV Master Tape Camper Van Beethoven Live Video

My original plan to do a pluraleyes synch for a different video for today’s post went south, so here is a nice backup from the collection of master videos.
It still blows my mind that Camper suffered what seemed to be a permanent breakup in 1990… then fast forward 10 years and they did the traveling apothecary with Camper and Cracker together in 2000, to this show. There are 4 members of CVB playing on some of these songs! So awesome, and so thankful it all worked out in the end.
I think Jim McLain might have also filmed this and maybe even recorded through the soundboard. It would be cool to edit them someday if so.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic DV Camcorder (one of the early models)

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Cracker- Empire, Sacramento Ca 5/13/04 Xfer from DV Master with Soundboard Matrix Audio

BONUS POST! So, Cracker is playing close to Sacramento- they are doing 2 shows at Hopmonk Tavern in Novato this weekend. It’s sold out, but there are a lot of tickets floating around on the Cracker Crumbs FB group. I’ll be at the show tomorrow!

Anyway, I recently digitized the master DV tape of both the Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven sets. Jim McLain Taped through the soundboard that night, so he took my video and cleaned it up, then synced the soundboard audio to it. Glorious!

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy (Video) and Jim Mclain (Audio)

Audio recorded by Jim with AKG mics + soundboard through a Behringer mixer
Soundboard synch/Video cleanup: Jim Mclain

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Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven- Mystic Theater, Petaluma Ca 2/12/00 xfer from master Video Tape

I had planned a different post for today’s On This Day in History- it was going to be Firehose’s last show ever (pre 2014 reunion) from San Pedro. I taped it with DAT and it sounds awful. I searched around and there is a way better recording on archive.org of that set, so never mind. Blech.
Let’s do this one instead, especially since Camper van Beethoven is playing some shows in April. This was a true “hell freezes over” event- by most accounts, the CVB breakup was acrimonious. They broke up during a European tour, after a show in Sweden. Nobody thought they would ever reunite for anything. Then we got word of this tour being set up, 10 years after the breakup. It was so exciting that I drove from Sacramento to Pioneertown (9 hours drive!) to see/video the very first show of this run. I remember asking Jonathan how he was doing right before the show at Pappy and Harriet’s and he was nervous! They were great, you could not tell nerves were at play.
This was a traveling apothecary show- Cracker/CVB band members would come on and off stage, sometimes all playing together. Victor played bass for Cracker on this run.
I wish I could remember the person who filmed these shows. He was part of an early CVB/Cracker discussion board around this time. I even remember what he looks like- dark hair and large rimmed glasses. Sorry. If you filmed this, please speak up- it would be great to be back in touch! I was also at the Slim’s show, but it ended up being taped by this gentleman.
It would be great to do a new transfer of these master tapes- this is clearly a primitive VHS to DVD transfer

Recorded by: The guy who followed them around the entire tour
Transfer by: The guy who followed them around the entire tour

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Camper Van Beethoven Cracker- Pappy & Harriet’s, Pioneertown Ca. 2/3/00 xfer from 8mm master

So this was a BIG DEAL. Camper broke up in Sweden during the 1990 tour and it was said (at the time) that they would NEVER. PLAY. AGAIN. So when they let me know that this was happening, I was thrilled. I drove from home(sacramento) to Pioneertown to catch their first show back. Damn, that is a long drive in 1 day. The show was great, and I got to meet a lot of new fans which was cool. I remember some of the band being excited/nervous, and I was as well. This was my only visit to Pioneertown- I need to go back. Filmed with Sony TR81 camcorder. I also have DAT audio, but I remember it being super muddy/not good.
This has Camper & Cracker playing one long set together. Camper/cracker songs mixed throughout.

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Cracker- Autzen Stadium, 061894 xfer from dat clone audio only

don’t have access to wifi so I will attempt to post this to the website from my phone.
This show is probably my favorite cracker set ever. Opening for the grateful dead no less. Morgan fichter (CVB violin 1989-90) joined the band and they played a few songs from the 1990 camper van Beethoven set. Very nice surprise.

Recorded by: unknown
Equipment used: Sony tcd-d7 and nakamichi cm300 mics.
Transfer by: shayne stacy
Equipment used: Sony pcmr500, m’audio audiophile 2496 card

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