Here is a nice sounding video from Steve Rogers’ collection master tapes. We think this is Largo from the mid-90s, and it looks like he made a couple of radio appearances in the area that might narrow down the date- either February 1995 or October 1996.
Recorded by: Steve Rogers
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firwire into workstation
Enhanced (degrain) in adobe premiere elements
Here’s another Son Volt radio appearance from their March of 1996 tour- this one from KSCA. KSCA was the big commercial “adult alternative” station, and the interview reflects as much. They handle it pretty well.
Recorded by: Kevin Haynes and gifted to me
Equipment used: He had a TCD-D7 I think
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I usually post obscure audio on Monday, but since I didn’t post on Saturday I will make up for it here.
Huge thanks to Gary Davis for digitizing his master video and sending it my way to be synched and posted- that was very kind.
This one had a funny story- I had heard that Fugazi was OK with soundboard recordings, but this was L.A. and the Shrine was huge. I was not holding out much hope plugging in to the board for this one. I sneak the DAT in and head over to the board and my old friend Greg Dean was there! We had worked together at Valley Parcel and now he was running one of the biggest? (best for sure) audio production companies in L.A. along with his friend Greg. He plugs me right in and lets me stand in the board area (the place was PACKED). Meeting Greg here and at the Geraldine Fibbers show in Aron’s records parking lot earlier in the year reconnected us permanently. It’s fun to watch Greg’s world travels with Green Day, Social D, Megadeth, and now Riot Games. Awesome.
The mix was great- I did a little rebalancing in Izotope RX8, boosting guitars and such.
Video recorded by: Gary Davis, courtesy of Rock-Steadi-Cam (subscribe to his youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6wo3cgmYY-HhDTSh5oTMeQ)
Audio Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 lined in the soundboard
Audio/Video Synch by King Bean
Rebalance in Izotope RX8
Here’s a post with purpose. This guy, Wayne Kramer(original member of the MC5) is coming to Harlow’s tonight to play tracks from MC5’s catalog, along with some new songs from an upcoming MC5 release.
Shockingly, the show has not sold out yet. Harlow’s looks to be the smallest venue of the 2 week tour, and tickets are available at the door. You won’t want to miss this one.
OK, to the video. This in-store was to celebrate/promote the release of The Hard Stuff, released in 95. It remains the loudest in-store I have ever attended. I had posted this before, but the camera audio was distorted- this DAT audio sounds much better, albeit without much vocal in the mix.
I had always thought that I filmed this set, but you can see my plump, dress shirt and big eyeglass wearing ass fiddling with the DAT machine at the end of the set. I guess Todd filmed it. Thanks, Todd!
Oh, and if you have read this far: if you go to the show, seek me (Shayne) out and I will buy you a beer from the bar. I have this $100 gift card that I bought to help venues while closed and I can’t seem to get rid of it.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy and Todd Nakamine
Equipment used: Sony TR-81 camcorder, Sony TCD-D3 DAT with coresound mics/battery box bass roloff
Transfer equipment: Sony DCR-TRV340, Sony PCM-R500 with M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Audio/Video synch in Pluraleyes 4.0
When I mentioned yesterday that I had this video & my master dat tape that needed to be synched, I didn’t realize that it had already been done many years ago. I think that JEMS might have sent this DVD my way 10+ years ago.
The video was filmed by RG and I taped on DAT with Coresound mics for the audio track. This was probably one of the best quality tapes I got out of those mics- they were pretty bassy & muddy at times. There is a 4 minute audio cut where I didn’t realize my battery died and had to do a quick swap. I don’t miss the old battery pack days.
Recorded by: RG and Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Camcorder and Coresound battery box mics with bass rolloff into a Sony TCD-D3
Synch by JEMS (I think)
Back in the pre-internet days, getting information about shows(especially smaller ones at non traditional venues) was spotty. I once missed an Uncle Tupelo show while I was following them on tour because I didn’t know!
So on the way out of the Wilco show at the Whiskey the night before, someone handed me a flyer. Wilco were playing Rhino Records the next day- I had no idea! While taping this show, I learned that Wayne Kramer was playing a week later! I went to that, then lost contact with what was happening there. That’s how it was then- you must go regularly or you lose out.
This recording sounds really nice for the equipment used- some people have mistaken it for a soundboard. I just had my head about 6 inches from a speaker on one side, and the band was playing into my other ear.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 DAT & Coresound battery box binaural mics w/bass rolloff.
Here’s a great video of The Dragons, shot by Todd Nakamine with my camera. Todd has always had amazing musical taste, and he does it again here. He drove from his house to pick up my camera in whittier(wrong way), and then back to L.A. to the show. So glad he did it, as I ended up loving the bands he filmed.
Recorded with a Sony TR81 camcorder
Recorded by: Todd Nakamine
Equipment Used: Sony TR81 camcorder
Filmed with my Sony TR-81 camcorder using a standard definition 8mm tape. Filmed by my old friend Todd Nakamine. Please check out my youtube channel for hundreds of other punk videos, many multi camera
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy, Todd Nakamine
Equipment Used: Sony Tr-81
I lived in the L.A. area from 1992-1995. I had 2 good friends when I lived there- Todd Nakamine was one of them. We met at a Penelope Houston show at Bogart’s shortly after I loved there in 1992 or 93. We both filmed shows. In 1995, Todd’s camcorder died, so he would drive out from Redondo Beach (I think), pick up the TR-81, then go back and tape a show. He did this a few times- once for this show, once for a fem2fem in-store performance. That’s an hour round trip, that was dedication! Anyway, Todd was always trying to get me to see this band called The Muffs. I never did, and then years later they become one of my all-time favories. Glad I have the tape now. The audio is extremely distorted- sorry about that. They must have been loud.
Recorded by:Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Sony TR-81
I love videos like this. Steve went over to KMEL with his video camera for an interview with The Nonce. It looks like they had one release on American Recordings in 1995, so this was probably right around that time. I really like seeing the behind the scenes stuff like this. Also, who is the dude in the red and white flannel at the start of the video? He looks so familiar.
Recorded by: Steve Rogers
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
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