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The Jesus and Mary Chain- Roxy, Hollywood Ca 9/29/94 DAT Clone Audience Tape Live

Here is another uncirculated DAT clone from Kevin Haynes’ collection of masters. When I lived in L.A., I was at home often with young kids so Kevin would hit a lot of the indie/alternative shows and tape them with his gear. This one sounds really clear, but it was lacking on the low end. I tried to EQ it a bit so it at least had a little bottom.

Recorded by: Kevin Haynes
Recording Equipment: Sony TCD-D7 and ECM737? mic.
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer equipment: Sony PCMR500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in sony soundforge 10

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Air Miami- Troubadour, W. Hollywood Ca 9/27/94 DAT Master Clone Mark Robinson Unrest Live

Hm, this one is odd. The band is clearly playing an opening set so the stage volume should not be an issue, but the recording has vocal distortion. I wonder what happened- the Troub has a decent sound system. Anyway, uncirculated Air Miami so yay.

Recorded by: Kevin Haynes
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7 and ECM737 mic(I think)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Luna- The Roxy, Hollywood Ca 7/14/94 xfer from DAT Master Audio Nakamichi CM-300 Galaxie 500

Today was one of the busiest days I have had in months. I am finally getting the On This Date in History post out late.
This one has a story. I videotaped a few early Luna shows. Looks like 3 of them in 1992 and 2 in 1994. Well, it SHOULD have been 3 in 1994…
I get to the club with my video bag and let them know that I have permission from Luna to video the show. Guys at the door sneered at me, then proceed to tell me that they don’t care what the band says. You are not bringing that camera in. So I had to put my $900 (1992$) camera back in the car and hope it was there when I got back.
As a grand F*ck You to the bouncers, I snuck my DAT and a Nakamichi CM300 mic in anyway and audio taped the show. Because that was bullshit.
Recording sounds great, but there was no bass and very low vocals. I fixed it up in Izotope Rx8 so you can actually hear Dean and Justin.
Cuts in on the first song. I had some mic issues

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Recording Equipment: Sony TCD-D3 and Nakamichi CM-300 mic
Transfer Equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocals +6

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Fem 2 Fem- Tower Records, Hollywood 5/25/94 xfer from master video tape live

Here is one that I debated posting, and had actually deleted it from YT a couple years ago… but I noticed that there is a small but loyal following of the group online and there is nothing too offensive here (there is nudity), so up it goes.

Recorded by: Prefer not to disclose
Recording equipment: Sony TR-81 with stock mic
Transfer by Shayne Stacy

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Teenage Fanclub- Palace, Hollywood Ca. 2/5/94 xfer from Hi8 Master Tape

I think I mentioned a while ago about my disdain for the palace. Terrible acoustics and security was everywhere. It made it very difficult to videotape, and even getting a decent quality audio recording was challenging. I was such a big fan of Yo La Tengo(opener) and TFC that I asked my friend Todd Nakamine to come with me and “help” videotape the show. I can’t remember which of us snuck the camera in, but I tried filming the YLT set and failed miserably. Todd took the camera and at least hit the stage most of the time for TFC. The stock audio is TERRIBLE. If anyone (Jonathan, Erik, Jon?) has better audio to synch with this, please let me know!

Recorded by: Todd Nakamine (and maybe Shayne Stacy)
Equipment used: Sony TR81 with stock mic
Transfer equipment: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell server.

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Meat Puppets- Palace, Hollywood Ca 9/26/93 xfer from DAT Soundboard Master Rock for Choice benefit

I was surprised to see that this one wasn’t up on Youtube for LMA. Then I played it and realized why… the mix was not great- almost no guitar. this whole night was kind of a mess. There were about 10 tapers up at the board and we tried to do a live matrix of Mudhoney. We did not take into account the delay between stage volume and board feed and the Mudhoney matrix is a mashup of board mix and half second delayed audience. At least this one is clear, with not enough guitar.

Why didn’t I tape the others? No idea.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Recording Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 line into soundboard
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Last American Heroes- Club Lingerie, Hollywood Ca. 3/1/93? xfer from Band’s VHS Master Tape

Here is another gem from Robert Kuhlmann. Man, I wish I knew where “Video Bob” was so we could perform lossless transfers on all of these Club Lingerie multicams that he did in the early 90s. If anyone has any leads, let me know…
Longtime bandmates Bob Kuhlmann and George Schneller moved to Los Angeles from their native St. Louis in 1985. Originally calling themselves the Orchids, they showcased their songs on stages throughout Southern California for nearly a decade while changing their name to the Last American Heroes along the way.

Last American Heroes:

Ed Domer – drums
Jeff Harris – guitar
Bob Kuhlmann – guitar, vocals
George Schneller – bass, vocals

Recorded by: Video Bob
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS-9900U- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video

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The Muffs- Club Lingerie, Hollywood Ca 2/16/91 semi pro multicam Kim Shattuck Garage Punk

Big thanks to Alan Bruce for asking me to dig this one out of the VHS piles. It had 2 Muffs shows on the tape and neither seem to be out there. I could have sworn that this one was on Youtube but I searched a few different ways, even on different devices and nope.

This is one of the band’s first shows. Their first was in January of 1991. There are a few multi camera shows from Club Lingerie from the early 1990s, done by a person named Video Bob. If anyone knows who video Bob is or how he can be contacted now, please let me know.

Recorded by: Video Bob
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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The Muffs- Club Lingerie, Hollywood Ca 2/16/91 semi pro multicam Kim Shattuck w/better audio

I know I just posted this a couple weeks back, but I figured out how to improve the audio on this new capture setup. I will go ahead and hide the old post- enjoy!

Here are my ramblings from the original post:
Big thanks to Alan Bruce for asking me to dig this one out of the VHS piles. It had 2 Muffs shows on the tape and neither seem to be out there. I could have sworn that this one was on Youtube but I searched a few different ways, even on different devices and nope.

This is one of the band’s first shows. Their first was in January of 1991. There are a few multi camera shows from Club Lingerie from the early 1990s, done by a person named Video Bob. If anyone knows who video Bob is or how he can be contacted now, please let me know.

Recorded by: Video Bob
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Mr T Experience- Anti-Club Hollywood Ca 11/25/88 xfer f/unknown gen audio cassette complete show MTX

Hey, someone else told me what to do! Mann Medic just signed up and asked for this MTX show. It was their first show ever in Los Angeles. It’s an audience recording but sounds pretty good. Probably done with a Sony D6 or some other quality piece of gear.

Frank Portman adds: “A memorable night, at least I think I remember it. The recording is new to me, sounds surprisingly good. Astonished to find the unfinished and never released “TV Movie” song (at around 21:50) — surprised we ever played it in public (if the Anti Club counts as “public.”) It’s too long at two minutes, probably best left unreleased, but to my surprise it has its moments.”

Thanks Mann Medic!

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

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