Jason Ross’ collection is up for a post today so let’s post this Schlong show from “Barrington Il”… isn’t this the same venue that Rancid played at in 1993? SCRAP Skate Park in Hoffman Estates? Maybe the midwest has a bunch of similar looking skate park venues.
Regardless, it doesn’t seem to be on youtube and it is nice quality. Unfortunately, there are no vocals from the filmer’s location. Great angle, no vocals.
Recorded by: The Byrne Brothers 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
I don’t have much time so this one needs to be quick. Here is another one from the Turn it Around digitizing project, from Jason Ross’ collection. The gen is unknown but it is relatively low. It looks like only 1 song in inferior quality has made its way to YT so far.
Recorded by: ? Transfer by: Shayne stacy Equipment used: JVC HRS9811U and Canopus ADVC300 Enhancements with Adobe premiere and neat video
Today’s On This Date in History is a major upgrade to an old, well-circulated show. I had a 5th(!) generation cassette copy of this back in tape trading days, but we (probably Steve Brothers or Michael Pemberton) was able to get the master tape bounced to DAT.
That provided a clean enough version of this to run through Izotope and get some decent results. The only issue that I hear is that the violin is WAY too loud. Otherwise, it turned out pretty good.
Recorded by: ? DAT Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card Rebalance in Izotope Rx8- Bass +2, Guitar +6
For today’s On this Date in history, I learned about this Lookout Records supergroup. The Ne’er Do Wells had John Kiffmeyer/Al Sobrante on drums (Green Day, Isocracy, etc), Chris Imlay and John Denery from the Hi-Fives etc on guitars/vocals, and Jesse Hillyard on bass. They put out 2 releases in 1993 and that was it.
This comes from Jason Ross’ collection. Most likely filmed by the Byrne Brothers. I saw a podcast/youtube stream of the brothers and it sounds like they want their stuff digitized and put in one place. I’m RIGHT HERE. Reach out anytime. haha.
UPDATE: Additional info from Chris Imlay: “Neat! For the record, John Denery couldn’t make the Ne’er-do-Wells (and Thee Shatners) tour, so al, Jess and I (Chris) were joined by Paul Curran who was a friend of the band, and a famous East Bay creative person in his own right. That’s Paul playing without singing. He played in TONS of great bands including Crimpshrine and Go Sailor. I don’t remember playing this show…feels like a bunch of technical difficulties and talking with some “musical” interludes haha. The story Al tells about us being extras on the “Little Big League” film is true, by the way.”
Recorded by: a Byrne probably Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Probably a JVC (HRS9800 or equiv) and Canopus ADVC300
I was finally organizing about 500 discs on random spindles into some semblance of order, and I came across these. I digitizied a ton of stuff for Corbett and the East Bay Punk documentary, and I kept the raw files for these ones. These come from Jason Ross’ collection of great tapes that he sent me a few years back. This tape (as with most mcgregor’s tapes) is super overexposed. Now that I know how to adjust it with the Canopus, I will need to re-transfer this sometime in the future. I’ll be posting east bay punk/gilman/lookout related artists all week!
Recorded by: Bob or Mike Byrne Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: JVC HRS9911U and Canopus ADVC300
I was all ready to post a Chubbies video from Jim Utz’ collection for today’s On This Date in History, only to discover that this is the 17th, not the 18th. Whoops! Here is a video shot by Jason Ross and transferred from his master tape. I did this with my old digitizing setup a few years ago, so no 1080p and no enhancements. Still better than the 240p generated one on youtube now.
Recorded by: The Byrne Brothers Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: One of the JVC’s (HRS9911, HRS9800) into a Canopus ADVC300
This was supposed to be a BONUS POST, but I am unpacking and I don’t have anything prepared so it has just become the daily post for Friday, haha. I recognized Erica, Dave(Obviously), and Al… but who is that on guitar? I looked it up on wikipedia… Chris Wilder? I don’t recall seeing him with long hair, but the jump at 10:00 is classic Chris. Nice dress, sir.
From Jason Ross’ collection.
Recorded by: The Byrne Brothers. I hope to someday get a hold of their master tapes so I can do proper transfers of their tapes. Their camera was NICE- so good in low light that it would overexpose at times, and we can fix that up at the point of capture in Virtualdub. Hope it happens. 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
It’s time for the Patreon voter’s choice for last week! This one is yet another video filmed by the Byrne brothers and is from Jason Ross’ collection. This club appears to be tiny, it reminds me of the Cattle Club. Bob or Mike was right on top of Chris since there was no place to go.
Recorded by: The Byrne Brothers Equipment used: Sony HRS9800U or HRS9911U and Canopus ADVC300 Mastered to DVD/vol boost in Sony Vegas Pro 10
Thanks to Mike Byrne for more info on this show. His brother Bob filmed this. Here’s what he had to say about it: “33 years ago (1992, the show was 21 & over)My brother went and videotaped the show. This is right around the time that Screeching Weasel started to get really popular. A month before this show they almost sold out McGregors. The Methadones were supposed to open but ended up not playing (This was 8 years before I would join the band). Weasel played the entire Ramones debut album along with a song or two off of other Ramones albums (I Don’t Care and I Wanna Be Sedated) and two Weasel songs (Mary Was A Anarchist and Slogans).”
I did my best to brighten this up and denoise it, but it would look a lot better once a lossless transfer from the master happens.
Recorded by: Bob Byrne Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: JVC HR-S9911U or HR-S9800 and Canopus ADVC300 Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements (brightness, exposure, contrast) and denoise in Neat video
WXRT was such a cool station- they broadcast so many great shows in the late 80s, through the 90s. Many of them have been widely circulated and have even appeared on some official releases- gotta have that bonus material for reissues. This show seems to have flown under the radar a bit. I did not get this from my usual Chicago trading friends (Ross Weyman, Paul Galis, etc) and I got it after I was mainly trading on DAT… I wonder who I got it from…
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
