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The Bicycle Thief- McCabe’s, Santa Monica Ca 12/2/2000 xfer 1st gen VHS tape Bob Forrest Thelonious

This one is so rare and cool. Huge thanks to Ross Weyman for sending it my way. Speaking of Ross, I had not posted anything from the VHS tapes he sent me since early in the year. Still working to post something from different collections here. Got a spreadsheet to track it even.
So this show was filmed without permission. At McCabe’s. I thought that was impossible until I saw this video. That place is so small, someone had to have seen her filming. Kudos to the taper- filming in an arena is one thing, but bootlegging a video in a 200 capacity room is something else!
This is Robert Forrest, Josh Klinghoffer and the SF Brainwash Orchestra. Sammy Hagar Weekend is at the 9-10min mark. Oasis’ Champagne Supernova makes an appearance in the set as well.

Recorded by: Amanda R. Vierra
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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J Mascis- Mccabe’s Guitar Shop, Santa Monica 5/7/95 xfer from DAT Master

So I was talking to Charlie Passarel and I mentioned that I audiotaped J Mascis on his first solo trek out west. J was clearly nervous- he made a mistake early in the set and ended a song abruptly, in the middle of a lead and looked around to see if anyone noticed. It made me laugh. He settled down and played a killer set. Man, I loved going to McCabes when I lived in L.A.
Oh and PS: I opened up the DAT case to transfer this one today, and there was the ticket stub. So you get that as well.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DAT (D7?) & Coresound mics with battery box & bass rolloff.

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Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett- Mccabe’s, Santa Monica Ca. 4/14/95 xfer from DAT Master Tape

Man, what an unbelievably brutal week. Work + the kids= no sleep and lots of stress. So I jumped through a bunch of hoops to go to see KEPI play with one of my all time favorite drummers- Roy MacDonald… and my car’s “check engine” light comes on. So, the night is trashed.

So instead, you get another new post to the archive. McCabe’s Guitar Shop is a magical place. They sell guitars up front, and the back room is an intimate performance room. They have hosted some huge artists there.

Wilco had released their first album “A.M.” 2 weeks before this show. Jeff & Jay came to McCabe’s to play this show, which is odd.- it was a one off show and they were back in L.A. a month later with a full band. This sounds way better than I remember.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7 & Coresound Binaural mics w/battery box bass rolloff

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Buffalo Tom- McCabe’s, Santa Monica Ca. 6/11/94 Late Set part 1 direct from Hi8 Master

This was such a great show. Buffalo Tom, who was very popular in ’94, played the time McCabe’s for 2 acoustic shows. BT acoustic shows were rare, which made it even more special. I have a vivid memory of the entire front row of the seated crowd, “headbanging” while sitting to their song “Larry”. It was funny and awesome. The people looked like those old fashioned toy birds that dipped their noses in water, then back up. Great stuff. I hope my excitement over the show did not affect my filming job too much- I was really excited about this one! Filmed with Sony TR81.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Sony TR81

 

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Buffalo Tom- McCabes Guitar Shop, Santa Monica Ca 6/11/94 xfer from Hi8 Master Enhanced DAT Audio

I was going to post this on the weekend, but I see that it is Erik Flannigan’s birthday today. I have never told this story, but Erik is responsible for me starting this hobby again about 10 years ago. In the mid to late 90s, grunge and punk got huge and people were bootlegging the hell out of my recordings. Bands got so big that you could never get permission, and if you made a decent tape, it would get bootlegged. It got so frustrating that it made the hobby no fun anymore. So I quit and these tapes lived in a closet.
Erik emailed me 10? years ago and asked if I could digitize this video of Buffalo Tom- there were people who wanted to see it. I politely declined and told him I was done with bootleggers. He then told me that with the advent of youtube/etc, all of these videos were free for everyone and DVD bootlegging was pretty much gone. Well, hot damn! Even though I work in tech, I wasn’t paying attention. So I eased back into the hobby with a PCM-M10 and DPA mics, then a consumer Canon camcorder… and it has snowballed into this. So thanks Erik. My wife hates it. Haha. This also means you are finally getting your thumb drive back with this video on it.
I took the hi8 tape and increased brightness and adjusted contrast, then degrained in Neat video. Took the DAT master recording and rebalanced it in Izotope RX8, then put it all together in Pluraleyes.
Audio starts about 20 seconds in- you can see me lay down the camera on my lap to start the DAT! Also, the levels are way too high for the first couple songs so you get a little distortion then I eventually adjust them.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TR-81(Video), Sony TCD-D3 and Nakamichi CM-300 Mic (Audio)
Video Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements (increased brightness and adjusted contrast, then degrained in Neat video)
DAT rebalanced in Ixotope RX8: Boost vocals and guitar, -2db on drums

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Meat Puppets- McCabes Guitar Shop, Santa Monica Ca. 10/3/92 Xfer from DAT Soundboard Master

There was a window of about 10 months between moving to L.A. in 8/92 and my first child being born. I went to a lot of shows in that time- Midwest to see Uncle Tupelo 5 times, Uncle Tupelo again in Socal in Feb of 93, and a ton of local shows. I think this was the first time I went to McCabes. Davo (MP Soundman) did a great job with the mix- the room is small and they were a bit loud if I remember correctly.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

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Meat Puppets- McCabes Guitar Shop, Santa Monica 10/3/92 Early xfer from Hi8 Video w/Enhance Sbd

Man, this was a lot of work to prepare but totally worth it. I am really happy with the end result. I should have boosted the audio a little more, otherwise all good.
btw, there are at least 20 (and maybe up to 100) OLD 1988-2000ish videos where I can give the same treatment (enhance video, remix audio, synch new audio track to video)
I had moved down to L.A. (Whittier) about 2 months before this. This was the first time I was at Mccabes I think.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Video equipment: Sony TR-81 Hi8 camera w/Hi8 ME tape
Audio Equipment: Sony TCD-D3 DAT through soundboard
Video enhancement: Denoise only using Adobe premiere & Neat Video
Audio enhancement: Izotope (drop vocal & drums, boost guitar & bass
Audio/video synch w/Pluraleyes

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Meat Puppets- Mccabe’s Guitar Shop, Santa Monica Ca 10/2/92 DAT Master Xfer Nakamichi CM300 Mic

Wow, this one sounds pretty damned good. It was a little light on the bass so I bumped it up in EQ. This was the first show of 3 at McCabe’s that week- this one on Friday, and then 2 sets on Saturday. I did not even know of the Sunday show at Raji’s until I got a cassette of it later- it’s probably best since I would have killed myself going to yet another show…

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 and Nakamichi CM-300 Mic
Transfer with Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10

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Exene Cervenka (X)- Spoken Word, McCabe’s, Santa Monica 6/10/90 xfer master tape Sony WMD6C/ECM909

Here’s one from Anonymous 1’s collection that has been sitting on the shelf here for many years and I finally got around to digitizing. Thanks for your patience, my friend.
This is a rare early spoken word performance from Exene, opening for Henry Rollins during a 3 night run at McCabes in 1990. My friend Anonymous 1 drove down there from Sacramento and stayed with a taper friend (Jon Vogel). The stories that came out of that were legendary.
McCabes is a tiny room- it holds maybe 150 seated. I used a photo from the back of the room so you could see how tiny the place is. I saw so many killer shows there- Meat Puppets a bunch of times, Tweedy(when he was good), J Mascis, Buffalo Tom, Evan Dando and more. The place is a treasure.
The crowd applause in between spoken word segments was overpowering. I did my best to pick through it and normalize it (manually- ugh) the best I could. As a side note, I just discovered that Rollins put out an official CD from this run of shows- not sure how I missed that.

Recorded by: Anonymous 1
Equipment used: Sony WMD6C & Sony ECM909 Mic
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon cassette deck & Audiophile 2496 capture card

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Hubert Selby Jr.- McCabe’s Guitar Shop Santa Monica 6/10/90 full spoken word performance Master Tape

Here is one from Anonymous 1’s tape collection. This is from the same weekend when he drove from northern cal down to see a weekend of Rollins/Exene and Selby shows.
I know that this is the Sacramento MUSIC Archive and HSJ was not a musician, but his spoken word performance was the opening set for 2 musicians, so we’ll let it slide this time. I am not going to stand up a new archive for authors, so it’ll need to be here or nowhere.
This seems like a pretty rare occurrence- I googled “hubert selby jr live spoken word performance” and there is nothing I can find.
The crowd is super loud in between his pieces, so I did my janky manual vol boost in between so you won’t need to turn it up TOO loud.

Recorded by: Anonymous 1
Equipment used: Sony WM-D6C and Sony ECM-909 mic
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Vol boost in Sony Sound Forge 10

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