Strange night. This was a local guy’s “birthday bash” with 5 local bands and then The Skull. The show started late, and ran later as the night went on. Eric Wagner, who is the mellowest guy in the world was even visibly irritated about it. They did not start their set until 1am, ended at 2:30. I was hurting the next day- my daughter woke me up at 7 or so. That was a long drive back to Sacramento. Shot with the HFM30.
This is part 2 only- you can find the rest of the show on Youtube
R.I.P. Eric Wagner Well, Damn. This is a total shock. I kinda missed the boat on Trouble the first time around and became a big fan in the late 90’s. When I heard that The Skull had formed and were playing the old Trouble classics with Eric and Ron Holzner, I couldn’t wait to see them play. In 2013, they announced a show in L.A. but nothing up in norcal.. so I made a family vacation out of it and drove the 3 of us 7 hours to L.A. to see them play, and do some sightseeing in L.A. When I met Eric outside of the club, I told him how excited I was to see them play and how much I loved those early Trouble albums. Then I told him I drove 7 hours to get there- most traveling musicians would say the standard “wow, that is a long way- thanks for coming out”– Eric looked at me sideways and said “Why didn’t you just fly down”. Haha! He didn’t suffer fools at all. This was a birthday show for someone and there were 5 bands booked and the 2nd to last band played for what seemed to be hours. Eric was PISSED. It led to a hilariously sarcastic show with him smoking it up onstage with random fans. I have better multicamera videos of them on my site, but this was my favorite show. Thanks to Chris Lemos for bringing them to Sacramento. Twice.
Here is my original description of the show: Strange night. This was a local guy’s “birthday bash” with 5 local bands and then The Skull. The show started late, and ran later as the night went on. Eric Wagner, who is the mellowest guy in the world was even visibly irritated about it. They did not start their set until 1am, ended at 2:30. I was hurting the next day- my daughter woke me up at 7 or so. That was a long drive back to Sacramento. Shot with the HFM30.
This is the first time that this has been posted in full quality Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Canon HFM30 handheld
I thought this was one that I digitized from Jeff Melendez’ collection of minidiscs, but it ended up being something I must have gotten from DIME or someplace similar. I am surprised this one isn’t online- there are some pretty low quality cellphone videos and a website with a bunch of great (but low res) photos from the show, so this might be one of the best documents from the show. It was a warmup show for their european tour and you could only win tickets to get in. Glad at least some of it got documented.
Recorded by: ? CDR extract & prep for upload: Shayne Stacy
Late post from the collections today, but it is a short one. This one comes from Arica Pelino’s videotapes. She likes her stuff to be posted on weekdays, so you get a surprise weekday video! It’s only 2min and 35 seconds long. If the Roxy was anything like when I lived in L.A., they probably shut her down. I remember filming the San Diego and Coach House shows of Luna’s July 1994 tour with full permission, so I swagger up to the door at the roxy. Security Dick: “what’s that?” Me: “A video camera. I have full permission from the band (smile)” SD: (no smile) “We don’t care. Take it back to the car. It’s not coming in here tonight” So, I took it to the car and snuck the DAT in and audio taped. Jerks.
Anyway, The Enemies are playing for the first time in a long time… maybe since I saw them at Gilman, opening for Green Day in 2015. I can’t tell since setlist.fm has multiple bands named “enemies” all commingled. They are playing with the Subhumans, Scene Killers (Jesse Townley’s first US show in years) and Tension Span (Noah Landis from Christ on Parade’s great new thing). Buy a ticket soon if you want to go.
Recorded by: Arica Pelino Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (denoise)
Man, this is unbelievably cool. There is about a 35 minute interview with the band, and then a few acoustic songs with Tim and Greg (I think). Recorded by the legend, Steve Rogers. Thanks Steve! PS: This tape is marked as House of Blues only, I am assuming that this is Hollywood since it was close to Steve at the time.
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 Enhanced (Degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
