It’s mediocre Monday, on a holiday week!
This one is mediocre due to its length. Only 2 and a half minutes. The venue was super dark- I cranked the brightness and contrast for this enhancement so you can at least see it. Glad that Craig captured these guys so much- love the surf space rock.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into workstation
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
It’s Monday again. I don’t have anything prepared that fits the bill for Mediocre Monday, so you get this one. A portion of an undated Galaxy Trio show from La Luna. This one is nice- lighting is good. Galaxy Trio are usually playing the small dark bars.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer Equipment: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into workstation
Enhanced (degrain) in adobe premiere elements/neat video
A while back, I was given a box of 8mm master videotapes to transfer. Thanks to the kindness of the taper, they are being posted for everyone to enjoy. They are almost all from the northwest and mostly northwest bands.
The first one is a surf-rock band from Bellingham Wa who released a few records on Estrus in the mid 90s.
Many of these tapes are not clearly labeled. This one says “lost forest” under Galaxy Trio, so I assume that is the venue. Has anyone heard of a venue named Lost Forest from the mid-90s in OR/WA?
Recorded by: Gern (Craig Babb)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Enhanced (brightness/exposure/contrast) and denoise(neat video plugin) in Adobe Premiere.
Here is another cool Galaxy Trio video from Craig Babb’s collection of master tapes. This one features Sam Henry on keyboards for the last minute of the video. Sam was a legendary drummer- starting with The Wipers in the late 70s, to Napalm Beach in the 80s, through many great punk/surf bands up to 2022. Sam was on tour with Jenny Don’t and the Spurs in late January when he fell ill. Doctors discovered that he had cancer, and he passed away on Sunday. What a terrible, sudden shock- I will add a link to the Gofundme to help his family in comments.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV350 firewire into workstation
Enhanced (Brightness/contrast/noise reduction) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Here is a fun one from Craig Babb. I hope he doesn’t mind me sharing his recollection of the show:
“This was on my 30th birthday, a legendary show! At a
bowling alley in Bellingham. I didn’t get much band footage, but the lineup was Poison 13 reunion, The Makers, Satan’s Pilgrims, Galaxy Trio. An Estrus records showcase, and one of my greatest shows ever!”
I think this is only the Galaxy Trio set, it sure looks and sounds like them.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into workstation
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere elements/Neat video
Here’s another time capsule from Craig Babb’s collection. I don’t have date info on this one, so if you have any ideas please let me know. Sow Belly is first, then Galaxy Trio comes in at about the 20:00 mark.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firwire into workstation
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Here is another one from Craig Babb’s seemingly endless supply of master videos. There are still more to post, including a Cheezy Trolls one that people were asking about!
Anyway, this is from Max’s. I asked Craig about a date and he did not recall, so “mid-90s” it is.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell workstation
Enhance in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Since a lot of people will be watching the pregame at the time that I usually post, here’s an early one today. This may be the very last one from Craig Babb’s collection. It took a couple years for me to digitize and post. Thanks Craig for your patience- it was a fun project!
This one is short so you can substitute it for whatever the SB halftime show is this year.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell workstation
Enhanced in Adobe premiere elements/Neat Video (Brightness/contrast/degrain)
Here is a nice quality video from Craig Babb’s collection- Galaxy Trio, opening for Dick Dale at La Luna in Portland Or. We don’t know the exact date, Craig thinks it is from around 1995.. and a quick setlist.fm and concert poster search shows that he played there in 1994 and 1996. Please let me know if you know which show Galaxy Trio opened.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment: Sony DCR-TRV320 into PC via firewire
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Sorry for the late post today. Work has been hellish. Here’s yet another cool video from 25-plus years ago, courtesy of Craig Babb. All of these Galaxy Trio shows have made me a fan. Special appearance by tricky dick.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV350
Enhanced (degrain) in adobe premiere elements and neat video
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