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Green Day- Rodney Parker’s, 1893 Sagewood Ct, Concord Ca 6/16/91 xfer from master VHS tape enhanced

OK, my “on this day in history” post is taking forever to process, so let’s do this one first today.
I met up with Rodney Parker a few months back and he let me borrow his collection of VHS and 8mm master tapes. He filmed this one back in 1991 when the band played his graduation party and he posted the raw footage to his great bay area punk shows youtube channel about 12 years ago. The video was very dark as the sun set and you could not see the band well after the first few minutes. I tried to enhanced it in Adobe premiere and it didn’t help much… and then I remembered that virtualdub has the ability to adjust brightness and contrast at the source, so that’s what I did. I cranked up the brighgtness, adjusted contrast for the last 11min of the capture and then did the work in adobe. You can actually see them playing now! Sure, it looks like 1980s night vision security footage, but still, you can actually see them.

Recorded by: Rodney Parker
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced (denoise the snowstorm) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Green Day- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 5/3/91 xfer from VHS Master tape enhanced Arica Pelino Collection

Here is a special surprise post for a Wednesday. Arica has asked for this one to be shared this week- it is a show that she filmed at Gilman in 1991. She then handed off a suitcase packed with tapes (including this one) to me a few months ago for digitizing. This has been posted on youtube before- Rodney over at Bay Area Punk shows posted this set 12 years ago, but not in this resolution. EDIT- Rodney filmed this one, not Arica. Sorry Rodney!
HUGE thanks to Arica for sharing her collection with us. There is a lot more to come!

Recorded by: Rodney Parker
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (denoise)

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Green Day- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 5/3/91 Lossless xfer f/ Rodney Parker’s VHS Tape Enhanced Lookout

A few months ago, I posted this video from Arica Pelino’s collection. At the time, we had thought that Arica had filmed this video but Rodney Parker let us know that he was actually the filmer. A while later, Rodney kindly loaned me his tapes and I was able to do a fresh transfer of his VHS master tape. So this one should be a little bit better quality than the version on his (great) bay area punk shows youtube channel. You should check out his channel- he has a ton of awesome videos including a bunch from the past 10-15 years that are really cool.

Recorded by: Rodney Parker
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Sweet Children / Green Day- Billie Joe’s tape to Arica Demo and 7″ Sessions tape complete

It’s a late for the collections post today. Sorry Arica!
When I posted the Sweet Children demo last month, people chimed in and wanted to hear the entire tape that Billie Joe gave to Arica, so here you go. Check out “Words I Might Have Ate” from the 1,000 hours session. There is awesome stuff throughout this tape. Enjoy!

Recorded by: The Band
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Green Day- Davis Community Center, Davis Ca 6/2/89 xfer from master incomplete brightened

Here is one for Scott Torguson and Danny Ensele. I asked Jim McLain to brighten my operation ivy last show master, and there happened to be a bit of the Green Day show on there as well, so he did it too! I should have asked him to do both, he does amazing work. Check out his youtube channel if you can. So, I went to this show after seeing Green Day play at Gilman on 5/28. I fell in love with them immediately so I went to this Davis show. This video would have looked GREAT but they turned the lights out right before they played. D’oh. I talked to Billie Joe about this video at the Monsula show last year- he not only knew about the video, he said he watched it and that there is an unreleased song on it called “xxx” (I can’t remember, shit). I thought that was really cool that he knew of the video. I’ll post the complete non-brightened version next.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

 

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Green Day- Davis Community Center, Davis Ca. 6/2/89 xfer from 8mm master enhanced LIVE

OK, here is the last one for today. I did my best with this one but it looks like bad surveillance video. They turned the lights off so the band only had lighting from behind them. In past versions of the video, you can’t see the guitar at all. I cranked the shadow fill effect in adobe premiere and de-noised the video as much as I could with the neat plugin. I hope you like it. If not, the original version is on sacramentomusicarchive.com as well.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Aiwa CV80 & Sony ECM909 mic
Enhancement: shadow fill effect in adobe premiere and de-noised with the neat plugin

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Sweet Children- Complete Demo 1988 xfer from low gen audio cassette pre- Green Day HBD Billie Joe

Today is Billie Joe Armstrong’s birthday, so let’s pull something extra special out of Arica Pelino’s suitcase of gold here.
Some tracks from this have been out on youtube for some time, and I thought I saw the complete thing somewhere but I can’t find it now. Regardless, this is the first time that this has been transferred with the Nak Dragon and the capture chain over here. Wow, it sounds really good. This is on a normal bias tape so I didn’t have high expectations, but it sounds excellent!
Track list is in the image – just the Sweet Children demo in the upper left there.
Highlight for me is during the end of the instrumental- it just cuts off and Billie Joe recorded over the end on this tape and says Never Mind. LOL.

Recorded by: 924 Gilman (not sure which engineer- Radley? Marshall?)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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