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Dinosaur Jr.- Ace of Spades, Sacramento 10/20/26 Schoeps Audio Master J Mascis

I can’t remember the last time that I posted something a few hours after the concert took place, but I was pretty happy with this recording and I didn’t need to do anything to it- no EQ, no Izotope magic… thanks to standing on J’s side and Lou’s bass tone being schoeps friendly, we don’t get the typical schoeps bass overdrive.

It was a good show, and the band played together in a way that I had not seen in a long time. Lots of fun banter from Lou as well. They played my favorite song (Freak Scene) so I went away happy. I also shot video which will take my typical year backlog to process, lol.

Thanks to my friend Kirk for contacting me about the show and to Kurtis Bishop for the ticket donation– remember, we are a 501c3 nonprofit over here and donations are welcome!

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Somy A10 digital recorder

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Dinosaur Jr.- Ace of Spades, Sacramento Ca 2/15/22 Live 4K UHD Complete Show with Schoeps Audio

What a treat this show was, but for an unfortunate reason. Lou was sick, so Kevin Sweeney from J Mascis + The Fog was flown in for the show. Because of this, we got a set that was totally different than most of the tour and very heavy on the old stuff. Glad to hear that it was a mild case and Lou is OK.
Man, this one was needlessly difficult to prepare. Pluraleyes didn’t like part 2 of the video and would not synch it. It synched the other 6 parts just fine…. so I did pt2 manually in Sony Vegas. Then, even though my export was the same file type, avidemux would not join it properly. I tried 5 times and it would have no audio for pt2, then it would crash, etc. I learned a lot about avidemux- like don’t ever even attempt to join even the slightest different file type. I finally just put the whole damned thing in vegas and exported it. So if it looks different than other Lumix ZS200 videos I did, that’s why. Geez.
Also, I realized that I forgot to turn on image stabilization during the last song. Whoops.

Video Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix ZS200
Audio Recorded by: Anonymous
Equipment used: Schoeps MK4/Aerco Preamp
Audio Video Synch in Pluraleyes, Sony Vegas 13 (pt2 from about 10 min-25min)
Join and export in Sony Vegas 13.

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J Mascis- Mccabe’s Guitar Shop, Santa Monica 5/7/95 xfer from DAT Master

So I was talking to Charlie Passarel and I mentioned that I audiotaped J Mascis on his first solo trek out west. J was clearly nervous- he made a mistake early in the set and ended a song abruptly, in the middle of a lead and looked around to see if anyone noticed. It made me laugh. He settled down and played a killer set. Man, I loved going to McCabes when I lived in L.A.
Oh and PS: I opened up the DAT case to transfer this one today, and there was the ticket stub. So you get that as well.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DAT (D7?) & Coresound mics with battery box & bass rolloff.

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Dinosaur Jr.- Rose Bowl, Pasadena Ca. 6/27/92 opening for the Cure DAT Master xfer Nakamichi CM300

Well, I told you this post was going to be late…
I wasn’t planning on going to this show since I am not a Cure fan, but my stepson Jeremy really wanted to see the show, so we bought last minute tickets… and they were WAY the hell up there. That’s why this recording, while crisp and clear, has a strange mix. It was recorded from the top lip of the rose bowl grandstands. The best thing about this show is that Dinosaur Jr covered “Just Like Heaven” at a Cure show! I wonder if they asked Robert if it was cool, or if they just launched into it.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 DAT and Nakamichi CM-300 mic
Transfer with Sony PCM-R500 DAT and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Dinosaur Jr.- Espace Ornaro, Paris France 9/24/91 Live FM Soundboard Audio xfer f/ 1st gen cassette

Man, what a stressful day. Here comes a week or so of audio for you. First off, this one just happened to be on the end of one of the KROQ Almost Acoustic Xmas DATs, so I went ahead and ran it. The quality isn’t perfectly clean, but it doesn’t appear to be circulated or on youtube. The way that the hosts talk incessantly over everything, this sounds like a Black Session.
I borrowed this 1st gen tape from Kevin Haynes and copied it to DAT in 1995.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Aiwa belt-drive home deck.

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Dinosaur Jr.- Club Citta, Kawasaki Japan 6/4/91 DAT Master Quasi Clone Live Full Show

I am starting to post a lot of these DATs and cassettes that I had digitized a long time ago, but never got around to pulling them off the hard drive. That Pavement show yesterday was sitting there for over 10 months. I need interns.
This show was taped by a lady named Saki- she was a huge Uncle Tupelo fan. She flew from Japan to the band’s final shows in 1994. She taped quite a few shows in Japan with her DAT recorder, and then kinda fell off the radar. We don’t know what she is up to nowadays.
Anyway, this one and the Big Star show posting tomorrow appear to be uncirculated so even though it isn’t pristine quality, up it goes. Enjoy.

Recorded by: Sakiko Honma
Equipment used: DAT and ? Mics
Live sound by: Woody Nuss
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Dinosaur Jr- Citi Club, Boston Ma 5/18/91 xfer from 1st gen audio cassette J Mascis Complete Show

I’m getting a late start after back-to-back 7 seconds shows. Man, doing those multicamera videos gets more tiring the older I get. Also, today’s collections post will be late. I just finished digitizing it and I still need to process and upload. So tonight on that.

Today’s On This Date in History post is one that I got from the taper. It sounds nice, likely another Pro Walkman tape. For the image, I had the choice of this article or a scathing post-concert review, so I chose this. Man, what was up with reviewers in the 90s. I rarely saw a show I could not stand. The only ones that were not enjoyable to me off the top of my head were the Palace Hollywood shows because the acoustics were garbage and security was overbearing.

Recorded by: ? can’t remember
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Dinosaur Jr.- Kennel Club, San Francisco Ca 2/4/91 xfer f/ master cassette Marantz PMD430 Nak CM300

I pulled a pretty good one for today’s On This Day in History, I think. For a short time, I had a really nice analog audio taping setup. I bought a used/demo Marantz PMD430 from Circuit City (it is like a Sony D5- the nicest portable cassette recorder) and 2 Nakamichi CM300 mics. Some of the tapes from this time frame turned out really nice- in fact, I had a youtube commenter ask me if the Siouxsie show from lollapalooza was a soundboard.. nope, not even close.
Dinosaur Jr. Played a show in SF in early 1991. It was a Monday night, so we expected it to be not too crowded- the 1989 show had a decent amount of people but not a ton. We get there late and the place is PACKED. I was only able to squeeze in front of the bar toward the back of the venue.
The show sounds ok. The CM300 is a shotgun mic which is intended to be held still on a stand, but I had to hand hold it, which is why this has an odd swirling sound. I was able to use Izotope to boost guitar and vocals, and I am pretty happy with it now.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Marantz PMD430, 1 Nakamichi CM-300 mic
Transfer equipment: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocal +6, Guitar +3.

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Dinosaur Jr- Kennel Club, San Francisco Ca. 9/26/89 xfer frmo D6 Master Audio Tape

Thanks to Daniel Hague for getting me to look through Anonymous’ stack of tapes and finding this one. I know Dan is a big fan. This doesn’t sound as good as some of Anonymous’ other recordings with this setup, but Dino Jr always played LOUD and the kennel club was never known for their acoustics.

A funny side note about this show- I was there with my video camera and I was trying to approach Jay so I could get permission to film. I tried to start a conversation, but it was so impossibly awkward and incoherent, I gave up. Damnit, I should have just whipped it out and recorded anyway.

Recorded by: Anonymous
Equipment used: Sony WMD6C Pro Walkman, Sony ECM-909 mic
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Transfer equipment: Nakamichi Dragon, M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card.

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Dinosaur Jr.- Blue Note, Columbia Mo 3/27/89 Transfer from 1st or 2nd gen soundboard tape J mascis

Today should be Mick Martin Memorial day, but I am bumping that to tomorrow since Dinosaur Jr. is playing Ace of Spades tonight. NEW COLLECTION alert- this is the 3rd of 3 collections that I picked up on the midwest trip a couple weeks back. This comes from my old friend Jim Utz’ cassette collection. We have been friends for 40 years now- we got to know each other from tape trading in 1986 and still chat regularly 40 years later. I can’t think of anyone outside of family that I have been close friends with for so long.

Anyway, Jim has an amazing collection and this is just a tiny part of it- I grabbed some cassettes and videotapes but he has so much more. I hope he starts to share his DAT masters from the St. Louis area in the near future.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in izotope Rx8: Guitar +3

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