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Luna- Bogart’s, Long Beach Ca. 11/7/92 Transfer from Hi8 Master for first time Ever!

It was strange. Every time I went to Bogart’s, something bizarre and memorable happened. One time, it was when Uncle Tupelo played there and broke their snare on the first song and had a huge delay waiting for another. Another time, it was Penelope Houston and meeting Todd Nakamine, and we have been friend ever since. Or this one- Dean Wareham mentions this show in his “Black Postcards” book, because a guy in the front row was so irritating that he agreed to fight at the end of the set. Like I said, bizarre. The vibe of the club just seemed to invite it.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

 

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David Lowery Band (Cracker)- Bogart’s, Long Beach Ca 3/22/91 from 1st gen tape Camper Van Beethoven

I pulled out a really early Cracker tape for Today’s “On This Day in History” post. I can’t remember his name, but a guy came by my apartment back in 1991 and asked for a bunch of Camper van Beethoven tapes. He was writing a book on the band and wanted some recordings to help with context. He had a lot of recently recorded tapes of the David Lowery Band that I copied in return. DLB was Cracker before they had the name!
This appears to be the band’s 3rd show ever, if setlist dot fm is to be trusted. There is a show on setlist on March 20 in Diamond Bar, which no tape exists to my knowledge. Then my list shows March 21 at the Casbah in San Diego(have a tape of that one), then this one. They were playing NINETY MINUTE sets right out of the gate, with a bunch of Camper Van Beethoven songs. It’s a pretty fun listen.
Finally, check out that lineup- Walter Salas Humara from the Silos opening (logical) and… Petula Clark opening the show?!? That’s wild. I moved to so. cal. the following year- just missed this.

Recorded by: Can’t remember (let me know if you taped this)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Buffalo Tom- Bogart’s, Long Beach Ca 2/9/91 xfer from 1st gen soundboard cassette rebalanced

for today’s On This Day in History, I settled on this one. I got to see (and videotape) Buffalo Tom for the first time 4 days later in San Francisco and they were amazing. Just a wall of sound at the Kennel Club. I have had this tape for 20+ years and the mix was a bit unbalanced- predominantly drums and vocals. I decided to give it a shot in Izotope and I am pretty happy with the results. The guitar is back to the forefront, where it belongs with this band. It takes a few minutes for the mix to settle down, so give it a bit.
Look at that list of shows for 2/9/91 in the L.A. region: Rik Emmett at the Coach House, RUDY RAY MOORE at CLub Lingerie, and the Ventures at the Palomino Club. How could someone even decide what to attend? Crazy.

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

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Steelpole Bathtub- Bogart’s, Long Beach Ca. 4/19/90 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape LIVE

Here’s another video from the old “going through lists and figuring out what’s uncirculated” project. . This is the last one that I have from the Rob Thompson recordings. Thanks to Jim Utz for sending his VHS tapes years ago to be digitized. Just like Babes in Toyland, I don’t know why this is so short. Did Rob get busted for filming? Dead battery? Did he just get tired? Dunno.

Recorded by: Ron Thompson
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9811U and Canopus ADVC300

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Buck Pets- Bogart’s, Long Beach Ca. 1/19/90 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape Live

Here’s another video from the old “going through lists and figuring out what’s uncirculated” project. This one comes from Jim Utz’ collection that he sent to be to be digitized a few years back. His friend (I CANNOT remember his name- same guy who filmed Nirvana at Bogarts) filmed a few shows after he moved to L.A. from the midwest and sent copies to Jim.
Side note- Universal Music told me that my video from Cattle Club was going to be used in the Nirvana “with the lights out” box set, then they asked for the contact person who had this video, so I helped them get in touch… I didn’t know that they were contacting him to use his video in place of mine in the box set. haha, oh well. Michael Meisel made sure I still got paid and they made my name in credits and easter egg as a result. That was nice of him.

Recorded by: Rob Thompson
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9811U and Canopus ADVC300

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Hirax- Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach Ca 8/29/89 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape Enhanced Thrash Metal

For our 2nd video post of the weekend, let’s keep the videos from Todd Nakamine’s collection going- here is another stage-shot Fender’s show filmed by Patrick Vergara. Sounds pretty good for a stage shot thing- the monitors must have been good that night.
Thanks to the Fender’s Ballroom FB group- Todd only knew the filmer’s first name, and we were able to find the filmer of the show- thanks Patrick Vergara!

Recorded by: Patrick Vergara
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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Excel- Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach Ca 7/18/87 Xfer f/1st gen VHS Tape Enhanced Crossover Thrash

It’s Friday! Here’s another video from Todd Nakamine’s bins o’ tapes. After checking the tape, it looks like this one was filmed by a guy named Pat. We don’t have his last name. Pat, if you are out there, please reach out so you can be recognized. Thanks for filming!
1987 Excel shows are just awesome. You have the 12 year old looking guitarist just riffing like hell, and the vocalist with the long hair thrashing around, and the crowd going ape shit. They were so impactful to us crossover kids when the demo came out- so good. This show took place at about the same time as the debut LP was released, but we all knew the songs.

Recorded by: Patrick Vergara
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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Wasted Youth- Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach Ca 4/10/87 xfer from 1st gen audio tape

For today’s on this date in history, you get to hear another sad story of tapes being thrown away.
My good friend Anonymous taped a lot of shows in southern california before moving up to the Sacramento area in 1987. This was one of the last ones before he moved here in the June/July time frame.
We had been friends for years and I was storing his cassettes in the garage of my house back in 2003. It was time to move and I called him one night and asked him what he wanted done with the tapes, and he said to go ahead and throw them away… nothing good is in there.
Well, that wasn’t true. There were many master tapes in there and while many of them sounded like this, that’s a lot of history tossed right into the trash. Sorry Anonymous. I should have kept them.
I got this from Anonymous in a trade in the 1987/88 time frame, so at least it can still me heard. Wasted Youth in their metal years!

Recorded by: Anonymous
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Photo courtesy of Todd Nakamine

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Cryptic Slaughter- Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach 9/6/86 1st gen from band VHS copy enhanced

Back in 1986, Andy Andersen let me borrow a couple of Attitude Adjustment’s VHS tapes. This show from Fender’s has 3 bands- I have video for all 3 and soundboard audio for 2. This set is the one that doesn’t have a board tape, which is too bad because the audio sounds like hot garbage. Expect the 2 other sets to be posted with soundboard audio in the upcoming weeks.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9800 and Canopus ADVC300
Enhanced (degrain) in adobe premiere elements/neat video

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