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
Wow, this is probably the best looking Josh Parten video I have seen! It was filmed behind the PA so you can’t hear Casey too much and there is some distortion, but not so bad that you can’t enjoy it.
Man, Eddie can really hold it down when the guitar has issues.
Recorded by: Josh Parten Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Consumer DV Camcorder
It’s too bad that there isn’t good audio for this video- Josh Parten gave me 2 angles and an interview to digitize. It would be nice to edit them together with better audio.
Recorded by: Josh Parten Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Consumer DV camcorder firewire into Dell workstation
Here’s another one from the DV Masters that Josh Parten sent to me about 10 years ago. Man, the audio on this one is ROUGH. If anyone has a lead on better audio, let me know. It might be worth a sync job.
Recorded by: Josh Parten Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment Used: Consumer DV camcorder firewire into Dell workstation
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
