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J Church- Nottingham Co-op, Madison Wi 8/20/95 transfer from master VHS tape Lance Hahn Cringer

I was digging through Jason Ross’ VHS master tapes, trying to find a certain show and found this one instead. Cool! This one was vey dark so I adjusted brightness upon capture in Virtualdub, then fixed up contrast and denoise in Adobe/Neat. It turned out ok!
The cool thing is that there was more than 1 person videotaping that night, and the other angle you see was posted to YT not long ago. So the facebook photo for this is of our illustrious filmer, Jason Ross! Lance and other crowd are there too.

Recorded by: Jason Ross
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

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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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Meat Puppets- Barrymore Theater, Madison Wi 1/25/90 transfer from 1st gen VHS tape Soundboard Audio

It’s time for this week’s Patreon Voter’s choice! As usual, they picked out a gem. This seems to be a local TV production, albeit 1 camera with raw soundboard audio. I don’t recall ever realizing that- really cool!

I got this in a one-off trade from someone in Wisconsin. Can’t remember their name.

Produced and edited by: Jason Spafford and Alan Ritchie
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

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