Here is the last Willie show for a while- there are many more, but I haven’t pulled anything off of those DATs yet. Thanks to Damon Bramblett for sharing these 25+ years ago! These were recorded by Willie’s soundman, then given to Damon and cloned for me.
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Playing AFTER Pavement at Reading was an ABBA cover band. I had always thought that Bjorn from Abba was in this band with a bunch of hired guns, but I found out yesterday that no, no original Abba members. They sound great for a cover band, and I do love some Abba.
Recorded by: Sakiko Honma off Japanese TV
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS8900 and Canopus ADVC300
I don’t know who is responsible for the amount of airtime each band received in this hour long special from Japanese TV, but I question the judgment of a person who gives 11min to bjorn again and less than 3min to L7. D’oh. And, like I said yesterday, I love Abba!
Recorded by: Sakiko Honma
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9800 and Canopus ADVC300
Here’s the last of the Reading Fest clips that I am posting. The other 2 bands from the Japanese TV special are Teenage Fanclub (better copy posted on YT already) and Nirvana (commercially released, I think)
Love the song selection here.
Recorded by: Sakiko Honma
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment: JVC HRS9800 and Caopus ADVC300
I was looking at my old VHS tapelist over the weekend, because I could have sworn I had another SNFU Gilman show from 1987 but it must be gone… then I saw this tape and figured that would be fun to digitize.
Back in the mid-90s, I traded with a lady name Saki Honma. She was the biggest Uncle Tupelo fan in Japan- she even flew from Japan to St. Louis to see Tupelo’s last shows in 1994. She would tape stuff off of Japanese TV (they broadcast KILLER stuff in nice quality) and send it to me. This one is a VHS copy off of her SVHS master.
This clip has been posted to youtube 2 other times, but I think this is slightly better quality. I will be posting other bands from this day throughout the week.
Recorded by: Sakiko Honma
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment: JVC HRS9800 and Canopus ADVC300
When I am choosing content to post every day, I try to keep it to things that are either very unique, or things that I recorded myself (or received from the taper). This one appears to be unique. I got this in a tape trade back in the 1980’s and gave it a pretty low quality rating. When I digitized it for someone a while back, I was blown away about how decent it sounds- especially for that era. It’s not on YT- not sure how rare this one is, but I hope some people will enjoy it.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
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