I was organizing the 1TB worth of footage that I shot from last weekend and this one angle turned out good enough to post right away. This is Jack Steeples from AOD’s new band which includes members of Ruth Ruth, Headwound, Blisters and more. Give them a listen- they are very good. I shot 5 angles (this is one of them) and recorded 3 high quality audio sources (this is not one of them), so a full edit is coming someday. Since I was orchestrating 7 different recording machines, it took me a couple minutes to adjust levels on this one. It gets better after about 3min.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment: Canon HF G60 and Stock Mic
Posting 11 days of videos- here is day 1: I traveled to New York/New Jersey last month to see 2 AOD shows. This band I had never heard of were opening, so I decided to save battery and memory card space and only film with 1 camera. Well, that was a mistake because these guys ripped and they featured Antidote vocalist and film producer/NYHC Chronicles host etc Drew Stone. Also featured my old friend from The Undead Tristan D’Graves. At least I was able to get the board mix (which had NO guitar all night) to rebalance to sound reasonably well.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Canon HFG60 (video), Sony PCM-M10 through soundboard Rebalance in Izotope RX8 (cranked guitar and bass) Audio/Video synch in pluraleye 4.0
My laptop decided to die so I am tapping the daily post out on my phone. man, I hate using my phone for computer tasks. anyway, here is another one from Dan Pettit’s collection. this is a bonus live show at the end of the demo. to give you a sense of timing, this tool place the week after sonic youth’s somewhat famous shows there.
Transfer by shayne stacy equipment used: nakamichi dragon and m-audio audiophile 2496 card
Jordan Wolfe stopped by today and dropped off a BIG box of tapes. There is a lot of stuff you will want to see, but this is the one that he wanted to post first. FS at CBGB!
I will let Jordan tell the story(and edit the post here), but he told me that they *really* wanted to play CBGB before it closed. A few months before it was scheduled to shut down, they received a call to open a show. So they did what any reasonable band would do- they drove from California to NYC to play the show!
Transferred from Jordan’s DV master. Audio is distorted, but you get the idea.
Thanks to an anonymous donor and the “frenchonionsoupandkittylitter” youtube channel, we have a special treat today. This is a stellar recording of one of those famous unannounced club shows that Prince used to do. Here is the detail: Prince & The New Power Generation
April 11, 1998 Irving Plaza, New York, NY
Recording: SBD (MTX) – DAT Master – cassette Transfer: unknown
Live Matrix Recording & Transfer by Anonymous Source provided by a kind soul Edited & Mastered by kid with a computer July 19, 2020
Notes:
This was a one-off performance
The doors opened at 11:59pm on 4/10 the show took place in the early morning hours of 4/11
Prince played earlier that night (4/10) at The Theater at Madison Square Garden formerly known as The Felt Forum.
Robert Hunter played earlier that night (4/10) at Irving Plaza.
t01 & t16 are missing.
track 12 includes a human beatbox improv from Doug E. Fresh
track 13 includes Give Up The Funk [Tear The Roof Off The Sucker] (Todd Anthony Shaw, Ramon Russell Gooden, Anthony Banks, William Earl Collins, George Clinton Jr., Mhisani M. Miller)
track 14 contains shades of 2001 [That’ll Work] (Charles Luis Brown)
The Players
Prince; guitar, vocals
Kirk Johnson; drums
Rhonda Smith; bass
Morris Hayes; keys
Mike Scott; guitar
Marva King; backing vocals Special Guests
Mayte Garcia; dancer
Larry Graham; bass, vocals
Chaka Khan; vocals
Mike Campbell; guitar
George Benson; guitar
Doug E. Fresh; vocal rap
setlist – t01 – Days of Wild – t02 – Thank You [Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin] (Sylvester Stewart) t03 – Days of Wild – t04 – Everyday People (Sylvester Stewart) t05 – Free – (Larry Graham) t06 – Sweet Thing (Paul Anthony Powell, Mica Paris) t07 – You Got The Love (Chaka Khan, Ray Erskine Jr. Parker) t08 – Tell Me Something Good (Stevie Wonder) t09 – The Jam (Larry Graham) t10 – Mad Sex (New Power Generation)
encore – t11 – I Want to Take You Higher – (Sylvester Stewart) t12 – Guitar Jam – t13 – Push it Up – (New Power Generation) t14 – Bustin’ Loose – (Charles Luis Brown) t15 – Lodi Dodi (Snoop Dog) t16 – Talkin’ Loud and Saying Nothing (James Brown)
Total Run Time; 1:53:05.000
Also, I happened to check out the old frenchonionsoup channel and it looks like the Misfits show from Vegas got whacked. We will need to figure out how to make that available again. 🙂
In our search for better audio for Steve Rogers’ videos, we found that there was a nice sounding soundboard tape of the Crowes from this date. I asked the taper for the files and he sent them over for synch. Well, it appears that the band played 2 sets that night and the board tape is not this show. Damn, we tried.
Edit: Steve let me know that this is the soundcheck. Mystery Solved.
Recorded by: Steve Rogers Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Workstation Enhance (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Here’s another one from Wayne Triggs’ stack of VHS tapes. Man, this one is super low gen- it almost looks like a master tape, but that’s impossible. No smears/color bleed common with copied VHS tapes. The date is a guess, but it looks the same as a different angle of the show entitled “AVAIL NYC 4/21” on youtube. The poster put them up on 4/22/06, so I am running with it. Someone tell me if I have it wrong.
Recorded by: ? Transfer by: Shayne stacy Equipment used: JVC HR-S9800 and Canopus ADVC300 Enhanced via Adobe Premiere Elements (Brightness/contrast) and Neat Video (Denoise)
Here is a VHS tape that I digitized for my friend Derek Purtell, since he asked about Ned’s. I got this tape from Saki Honma, who lived in Japan and taped it off Japanese TV. There was this very cool TV show there who would broadcast concerts in higher quality than other sources that eventually came out. This particular tape had a Wonder Stuff show that is very common, a Cranberries show that seems to not be anywhere, Frank Black, and more. Most of those are coming up! Anyway, this show was introduced as the “last show” on the TV broadcast. I think this means this is the last show before their breakup in the mid-1990s and according to Wikipedia, they broke up after a show in NYC… so I think this date/venue is right.
Recorded by: Sakiko Honma Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: JVC HR-S9900U — Datavideo TBC-1000 — Tevion USB capture — Virtualdub Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Here’s another Ebay score- Babes in Toyland live in the studio, recorded for radio broadcast. This is clearly the pre-broadcast soundboard recording. There were big gaps of silence on the DAT from when they were broadcasting commercials or something. I did miss one bit of silence at about 26min. Keep listening, they do come back. The mix on that first (real) song could use some work- vocals are buried.. but the rest is good. By the way, even though I keep posting stuff I bought off Ebay, that doesn’t mean that I am running out of material. I still have my 4,000 cassettes, 2,000 DATs, and 1,000 VHS tapes work through.. along with Jason Ross’ collection of 1,000+ VHS and cassettes, Anonymous’ cassette masters, Radley & Dal Basi’s stuff and many more. These just happen to be in front of me today.
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card Used Sony Soundforge 10 to clip it all together
Sacramento Music Archive 