Here’s a short one from Josh Parten’s collection today. I picked this one because Josh has been in front of the camera for other interviews and I was hoping we’d get to see him. It sounds like he is behind the camera asking questions.
Recorded by: Josh Parten
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Consumer DV camcorder firewire into Dell workstation
Here’s something a bit different for today. This tape is from Eggplant’s collection and it doesn’t appear to be out on the internet anywhere.
The background noise on this one made the interview pretty much inaudible. I was able to use the good channel and take out a bunch of the background noise with Izotope Rx8 to make this listenable. Levels start off a little low and build after a bit, so I decided normalize it up to 0db and leave it as is. Turn it up! Then turn it down later. Haha.
Great insight into the origins of 924 Gilman and other stuff.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Channel fixing/normalizing in Sony Sound Forge 10
Spectral Denoise in Izotope Rx8
This one has been a long time coming. Arica Pelino asked me about this tape so many times and I could not find it in her magic suitcase, until I moved it to make room for a NEW collection (to be announced tomorrow!). Finally! Sorry for the delay, Arica.
This tape is an odd one. It takes place shortly after the band’s legendary Woodstock 94 show and Lollapalooza tour as an opener. They are playing CSDH that night (I was there!) and that’s around where this happens. Arica says she thinks she taped this off the radio, but it sure sounds like a Pre-FM thing to me. The interviewer’s mic is off/distant. Wacky, jet-lagged chaotic interview.
Recorded by: Arica?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Hey everyone. I am not going to give any hot takes about last night, but I am here for anyone who needs help or support. Please reach out if you need someone to talk to or someone who can help connect you with resources. We will persevere with love, empathy and community. I love the groups that I am part of- the sac music scene, sac music archive friends, commenters and helpers, and so many more. None of the sense of community changes- in fact, it would be good to amplify it a bit now. Time to make sure we are here for each other.
Back to regular programming- Here’s a short but funny interview from Arica Pelino’s suitcase of tapes. Nothing like talking about smokin’ cr*ck on the radio.
Recorded by: Arica Pelino
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Collections post from Ken Doose’s audiotapes- there are a ton of tapes here from Ken and we are just getting started with them. I just digitized a stack of 12 earlier this week.
Here is yet another one that doesn’t seem to be out there at all- not on YT, google searches don’t show it anywhere. Thanks Ken!
Recorded by: Ken Doose
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
It’s early but not too early for today’s audio post. I digitized some of KALX’ reels a few months back and most of them sounded terrible- the tapes probably need to be baked. This is one of the only ones that transferred well. Good X interview with a DJ named Xandy.
From Rick Sylvain’s collection of KALX tapes
Recorded by: KALX
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Otari MX-5050 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Today’s video collections post comes from Barry Ward’s pile of VHS tapes. I was thinking of separating these but it was kinda fun just watching the entire thing.
The first part appears to be raw interviews from their appearance on Hard Copy. One of those “how the sausage is made” raw TV videos- it’s a fun watch. I think the live in Torrance is part of Hard Copy’s raw footage as well. The Bogus interviews is the guys screwing around at home. There was more, but there was some X rated magazine being filmed that I had to cut. The audio is distorted on the Bogus Ints source tape.
Recorded by: Hard Copy, Barry, etc
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
I had some options for today’s “on this day” post. The first Gilman show I ever video taped (RKL) was today in 1988, using a borrowed camera. Thanks to Barry Ward, I now have a 2nd angle of that show and a soundboard tape that may not be salvageable. Hopefully I can put those all together one day, but that is a multi-day project.
I decided on this. I videotaped DZ at Sac State in 1990 and posted it on YT years ago. I recently saw a huge uptick of views and comments and wondered what the hell was going on. Turns out there is a new Dread Zeppelin documentary called “A Song of Hope” that is bringing new fans out. That’s cool.
A bunch of folks sent hate mail/hate comments because I called them a gimmick band. Sorry, but I usually enjoy bands like this for a short while and then I am done with them. Same with GWAR- it’s on me, not you. It’s fun and funny for a bit then it wears thin. They are a great, talented and super entertaining band.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-audio audiophile 2406 card
Collections post time! This is from one of the many Russ Gibb tapes that I was able to snag off Ebay. The tape just said “Toronto 9/87” – that was how a lot of the Russ auctions went- you had a vague description on the tape and you kinda rolled the dice when you bid on it.
This one turned out to have a bunch of interviews with punks and skins, along with an apparent mentally ill guy at the very end.
Recorded by: Russ Gibb and Crew
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony SL-2100, Datavideo TBC-1000, Tevion adapter- Virtualdub
OK, I can finally come up for air. I have been working on video reels for the Sonoma County Punk exhibit which opens tomorrow. I had to do a bunch of wacky stuff to get these clips to play together on a USB drive. Finally done.
This one is from Chris Eng’s collection. I think they were in a van, driving down the road and the background noise was comical. I ran it through spectral denoise and it is somewhat listenable now. There is 1 more interview from this day and it is hard to tell who it is.
This is how interviews were conducted for fanzines back then. Just a kid with a handheld tape recorder asking questions in the band’s van.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Denoise with Izotope Rx7’s spectral denoise
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