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Neil Young- Pacific Coast Amphitheatre, Costa Mesa Ca 9/22/92 xfer f/DAT Master Solo Nakamichi CM300

Finally starting on today’s posts at 6pm! One more collections post to go tonight and the weekly Patreon $10 and up survey goes out before sleep. I did a lot of driving this weekend and came up with a good idea- this week and next, I will pull shows from my “no list”- These are recordings that were sensitive at one time, but some of the ones I taped are now ok to share, but not on the main list. There are still some that will never see the light of day. Sorry. This week will be “no list video” and next “no list audio”. Jump on the voting tier if you want a say.

I taped this one back in 1992 with the D3 DAT and a Nakamichi mic. That was my go-to through the early 90s. It is very dynamic- I did my best to level the music out, but crowd cheering peaks as a result.

Solo acoustic supporting the Harvest Moon album.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 DAT and Nakamichi CM-300 mic
Transfer with Sony PCM-R500 DAT and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Neil Young- Greek Theater, Los Angeles Ca. 9/22/92 xfer from DAT Master Audio Nakamichi CM300 Solo

Here’s another Neil Young solo show that I taped when I lived down there. What a week- 3 Neil shows during the week (and waking up to work all day the next day), and then Pavement/Mudhoney/Cobain/Sonic Youth on the weekend. Not a bad week at all.
The recording here is okay. Some clapping/chatter

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 and Nakamichi CM300 mic
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Neil Young- Greek Theater, Los Angeles Ca. 9/21/92 Audio only xfer from DAT Master Nakamichi CM300

I moved to L.A. on the last weekend of August 1992, and hit a bunch of shows in late 92 into 1993. There was so much happening in the area, you could see something every night. My big regret is not digging into the smaller clubs to see what was playing- I only went to Raji’s once, and never went to Jabberjaw or Hell’s Gate. Oh well, hindsight and all that.
Another cool thing was being able to see artists play multiple times- I saw/taped Neil 3x in Sep of 92. They sound pretty decent but the crowd is a bit chatty.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 and Nakamichi CM-300 mic
Transfer with Sony PCMR500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2406 card

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Neil Young- The Concert for Walden Woods Universal Amphitheater L.A. 4/1/92 DAT Master solo acoustic

This was a tough one to prep. Neil was not pushing much volume and the crowd was going insane because he was playing new songs and the hits. Compression won’t even help.. so I dropped the levels whenever the crowd cheers loud and Neil is not playing. There are still some obnoxious crowd parts, but it makes it a little more listenable at least.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Sony TCD-D3 DAT and Nakamichi CM300 mic
Tried to make it better in Sony Soundforge 10

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Neil Young and Crazy Horse- Arco Arena, Sacramento Ca 4/7/91 xfer from master cassette Nakamichi 300

What an ordeal. I had planned to post something different for today’s “On This Date in History”, but I discovered that someone posted it a couple years ago with the wrong tape info. The I was going to do a Victims Family video from 1991 and I pop the VHS in, and the band is playing in complete darkness. THEN, I looked for these tapes to digitize and they were not in the tape #1924/1925 slot. As a last resort, I searched my “On This Date” PC directory and there it was. I had already digitized this months ago and forgot I did it. Self-inflicted frustration.

Speaking of ordeal- I can’t remember how I got this equipment into Arco- I remember having help from a friendly usher (Kenny maybe?), but there was NO WAY that I got this in on my own- the deck was 10″x 6″ and weighed a ton without the 4 “D” cell batteries that it took! I also had 2 Nakamichi CM-300 mics and a ridiculous amount of microphone cord. Luckily I was in the middle of a row or security would have pounced on me- I was comically obvious.

On top of it all, one of the 2 mics would not give a signal. You hear a mic cut early on and once again later in the set- that was me trying to get the other mic to work, but I finally just settled on taping in 1 channel. Just fixed it up today so it can be heard in 2-channel mono.

It sounds pretty decent for Arco- the arena was notorious for terrible concert sound, but I was really close to the stage so the drums and bass are pretty clear, with vocal and guitar a bit echoey/distant. Not bad, probably my best sounding tape from Arco.

Youtube forced me to edit out the Star Spangled Banner at the beginning- Jimi’s estate = no bueno

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Marantz PMD430 and Namakichi CM-300 shotgun mic
Transfer Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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