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Still Life- Wilmar Center, Madison Wi 7/30/94 xfer f/master VHS tape enhanced Green Bay Punk

Here’s a Jason Ross master VHS tape that was a bit of a challenge. The show was poorly lit so the source video was very dark. I brightened it in Elements and when I tried to denoise, it would not work… because that grainy pattern you see may not be video noise. This pattern stays static on the screen which I have never seen before. Odd.

Anyway, here it is. Too bad these were not digitized before that Green Pay punk documentary was done.

Recorded by: Jason Ross
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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None Left Standing- Wil-mar Center, Madison Wi. 7/30/94 xfer from Master VHS Tape The Promise Ring

Man, we have been hitting Jason Ross’ collection A LOT for these On This Date in History posts. Things must get busy with shows in the summer in the northern midwest part of the USA, because there are a lot of shows he filmed during this time.
This is another one that will benefit from a lossless transfer and brightening/denoise on day. I’ll get to it eventually.
Guitarist Jason Gnewikow went on to form The Promise Ring.

Recorded by: Jason Ross
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: One of the JVCs (HR-S9800/9911U) firewire into Dell workstation

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The Pixies- Barrymore Theater, Madison Wi 1/25/92 xfer from 1st gen audio cassette complete show

Here’s another “On this day in history” recording, that I received from the taper and can’t remember who that is. I had moved to trading on DAT almost completely at this point and this is on cassette, so this person must have only taped on cassette, and had good stuff that I had to have.
This is a pretty nice quality recording of The Pixies that I can’t find anywhere else online. I think this was a WMD3 or WMD6 recording. I did a little EQ (drop bass slightly, boost mids), but it didn’t need a lot of help.
For you Sacramento folks, my DAT recording of The Pixies at the Crest Theater is on the archive. Check it out if you want.

Recorded by: ? (I got it from the guy who taped it)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Dave Pirner and Dan Murphy (Soul Asylum)- Der Rathskeller,Madison Wi 4/12/91 xfer f/1st gen VHS tape

For today’s On This Date in History, I figured I would post something early to give the Soul Asylum fans something to do while waiting in RSD lines for that After the Flood vinyl. Unfortunately, I can’t make it out today due to Little League scheduling conflicts. If record stores would open at 8am, I would be all set. Stupid rock & roll time anyway.
This one has been online before, on Mike Wilson’s excellent “littletooclean” youtube channel. If you are a SA fan, check out that channel- a treasure trove of stuff. The reason I decided to post it again is due to the quality of this one. I got this directly from the filmer (Steve Hanson- R.I.P.) so along with the lossless VHS transfer setup and denoising, it looks as good as it can. Audio is surprisingly distorted for an acoustic show.

Recorded by: Steve Hanson
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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The Cynics- Club Underground Madison Wi 3/10/90 xfer from 1st gen audio cassette Garage Rock Get Hip

It’s a laaaate collections post today. This was one of the more physically demanding days in a while. Thanks to Bill and Cory for all the help. What a day.
One good thing about it was that Jason Ross had all day to reply to my questions about this tape from his collection:
“my copy is first generation. It was taped by the co-owner of a used record store that I worked at an Appleton. His name was Stan Erickson. He would have taped that with Awai an deck, the same model I used for a Rawlins Band and some others. Not sure of the generation. Remember around that time it retailed for about $129 at Best buy. I’m sure if I saw a picture of it, I’d recognize the model.” I think I know the model – anonymous used it for his early tapes as well.

The 5 second space of nothing at the start of this one is intentional, so we could avoid the F Bomb within the first 8 seconds of the video. YT gets excited when Early F-Bombs drop

There was some high end distortion that I was able to EQ out of there. Sounds pretty decent now.

Recorded by: Stan Erickson
Transfer by: shayne stacy
equipment used: nakamichi dragon and m-audio audiophile 2496 card

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