Collections post from Robert Eggplant’s LARGE collection of East Bay Punk. I know that we just posted a Crimpshrine show earlier this week, but I actually planned ahead for once and had this one done beforehand. And Crimpshrine is one of the greatest EB punk bands ever, so no apologies necessary. I wish I had kept notes on what I did with this one- I know that I had to push the EQ quite a bit. I probably should spectral denoise that low rumble on the tape at some point.
Recorded by: Robert Eggplant Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
THIS IS MY NEW Temporary FB account, while I try to get my hacked/disabled one back. You would think it would be easy- all FB has to do is look at the activity on the old one and see that it is the same type of activity as here, then determine who the impersonator really is…. but I have discovered that there are not many humans overseeing this. It’s a nightmare. Please add me as a friend if you’d like. Christopher Eng-Ster, please friend me so I can ask you questions about your tapes in the future, haha. But seriously, this FB profile has been reported as the impersonator (at 4:15am today which is when the hacks always accur), so please friend me through other channels if you can: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/sacmusicarchive.bsky.social Sac music archive website- sign up for email notices: https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/ and of course, subscribe and/or turn on alerts for the youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@sacramentomusicarchive Big thanks to Lee Osh(Craig) for getting word out and Jason Ellis for his help as well.
OK, on to the goods. Here is another one from Chris Eng’s collection of the Battle of the bands show at 924 Gilman. This one looks dark at first, but they finally turn the lights up and it looks good. On a side note, I found the soundboard tape that Wayne Vanderkuil got from Radley for some of these bands that day and I will synch them… soon. I need to find the other tape with the rest of the bands- I am sure it is in those boxes somewhere.
Recorded by: Chris Eng Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Here is one from Chris Eng’s collection of tapes. This one had some lighting issues- I tried to brighten it up and fix contrast as much as I could. The funny thing is that Jeff Ott’s new band (Dollar Store) is playing People’s Park in Berkeley right about now, unless they got tear gassed/rubber bulleted out of there. It was a surprise announcement- wish I could have made it there but I am 2 hours away… I had already planned to post this video today, the surprise show announcement was pure coincedence.
Recorded by: Chris Eng Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (brightness/contrast/exposure/denoise)
If you were following along on the Chris Eng video posts, you probably figured out that this one was next….Oh man, it’s really great. Great camera location and it sounds pretty good for a 1987 stock camcorder microphone thing. Massive thanks to Chris Eng for filming this and making these available now.
Recorded by: Chris Eng Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (brightness/denoise)
Collections post first today, from Chris Eng’s collection…. and what a nice surprise- I had digitizied this tape 5 months ago and didn’t listen to it closely. It not only sounded decent with no distortion, it was clean enough for an EQ and rebalance job.
I’m not sure if Chris taped this one as well as videotaping. I’ll update the description if I find that it is his master tape.
I’ll get around to synching this audio with the video as soon as I can. The video soundtrack is heavily ditorted so this will be a huge improvement.
Recorded by: Chris Eng? Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card EQ in Sony Soundforge 10 Rebalance in Izotope Rx8 (Vocal and guitar boost)
