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The Enemies- Roxy, Hollywood Ca 3/31/03 Xfer from VHS-C Master Tape Enhanced Lookout Records Punk

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)

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Mother Hips- House of Blues, Hollywood Ca 6/7/96 Backstage interview and acoustic xfer from Hi8 Mast

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

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The Jayhawks- Troubadour, W. Hollywood Ca. 10/22/95 Xfer from Hi8 Master improved audio Black Crowes

Thanks to Heinz Vlatin for the better audio. The improved audio source is missing the first 4 songs, so if anyone has a complete set of decent audio, we are still looking!
Includes the encore with Chris Robinson.

Recorded by: Steve Rogers
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 into workstation
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Audio/Video synch by Derek Purtell

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Swans- Roxy, Hollywood Ca. 8/10/95 Michael Gira xfer from DAT Master Audio R.I.P. Bill Rieflin

I am part of a northwest music facebook group, and I heard that Bill Rieflin passed away. I did not know who he was, so I looked him up… WOW. He was not only the drummer for many of my favorite bands (he was in SO MANY BANDS), but he was unbelievably talented. I tend to focus on drums a lot when listening to music, which is probably due to my cousin Tony Schwartz being a drummer in my formative years. I did not even realize that he was the drummer in this incarnation of The Swans that I saw until I looked up the band member timeline… and I recall that the drummer kicked ass.
So this was at the Roxy, who were a complete pain in the ass about taping. I had to smuggle the gear into the club, and then hide the DAT deck in my pocket (mics on eyeglasses). I set the levels at a “reasonable level” (levels used for Foo Fighters a couple weeks earlier at the same club… I check the deck about 15min in and the levels were PEGGED! Shit. In my haste to change levels without being seen, I unplug the mics. So I lose about 1-2min of the show.
So in summary, it was f*cking LOUD, is not great for the 1st 15min or so.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCDD7 & Coresound mics w/battery box and bass rolloff

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Foo Fighters- Roxy Theatre, Hollywood Ca. 7/27/95 xfer DAT Master Audio Early My Hero Performance

I saw/taped the Foo Fighters twice over the course of 10 weeks in 1995, and I’ve never seen them since. Nothing against them, I just never felt compelled to go to another show.
The odd thing about this show is that I remember standing somewhere that was as close to the PA Mains as possible, and it still sounds a little distant. It doesn’t sound bad, I am just picky I guess. Oh well, I tried. The show features a very early performance of My Hero- Dave mentions that they wrote it last week. After plowing through some setlists, it looks like this was the 3rd time it was played.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7 and coresound binaulrals with battery box bass rolloff
Transfer Equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Geraldine Fibbers- Aron’s Records, Hollywood Ca. 7/8/95 xfer from master live videotape w/Soundboard

I don’t think I ever posted or shared this video before. The audio from the camera’s stock audio mic was terrible- totally distorted. I tried to do some shadow correction in premiere but it kinda freaked out, so I merely denoised/degrained the video.
I’ve also had a DAT master soundboard of the show, but the mix was pretty uneven. I was able to rebalance it in izotope to make it listenable.. I pushed it as far as I could without making it sound weird.

Featuring the head and long black hair of Todd Nakamine in the foreground 🙂

Oh, and this is the earliest GF video on youtube… which proves nothing except show how old I am.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TR-81 camcorder (w/standard 8 tape)
Sony TCD-D7 through soundboard
Enhancements: Degrain in Adobe Premiere; Soundboard rebalance in Izotope.

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Geraldine Fibbers- Arons Records, Hollywood Ca. 7/8/95 Audio DAT Complete show SBD remixed Live

Here is the full soundboard from the Aron’s show. I posted the video earlier this week, but it cuts in at abour the 10 minute mark. I can’t remember, and I wonder why I didn’t film the entire show. I think I was worried about standing in front of people… which explains why I cut Jessy off on the video rather than filming straight on.
One of the best encores ever- Dragon Lady/The Grand Tour. Damn.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7
Soundboard rebalance (increase bass & guitar, decrease drums) in Izotope.

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Foo Fighters- Palace, Hollywood Ca. 5/19/95 Audio Only transfer from DAT Master Tape

I already gave my opinion of the venue (acoustic and general vibe) on the Mike Watt post, but this set sounds pretty good. I remember the anticipation leading up to the show- there was no Foo Fighters music available so pretty much everyone was hearing this for the first time. I remember hearing “Big Me” at the show and being hooked right away.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment: Sony TCD-D7 with Coresound mics with battery box bass rolloff
EQ’d in Sony Sound forge to drop the boomy bass a bit
Transfer with Sony PCMR500 & M-Audio Audiophile card

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