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Black Crowes- Supper Club, NYC 7/23/96 Soundcheck xfer from hi8 Master Tape Enhanced

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

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10000 Maniacs- Marquee at the Tralf, Buffalo NY 3/8/96 Live Soundboard xfer from 1st gen tape

Here’s a real treat today. Someone had asked me to transfer a tape that had part of this show. I figured that it would be nice to transfer this entire show as well. This is another one of Joel Gershon’s seemingly lost archives. Recorded through soundboard with band permission.
I love this era of the Maniacs- it is the full “classic” lineup of Buck/Augustiniak/Drew/Gustavson, PLUS John Lombardo from the early days (my favorite era), and Mary Ramsey on vocals. You get old 10,000 maniacs songs along with some John & Mary sings I think. Great stuff.
The mix was pretty weak so I fixed it up in Izotope RX7

Recorded by: Joel Gershon
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Boost guitar/bass/snare in Izotope RX7

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Ned’s Atomic Dustbin- Roseland Ballroom, NYC 8/18/95 lossless xfer from 1st gen VHS Enhanced Proshot

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

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Pansy Division- Tramps, New York City, NY 7/25/95 xfer from low gen soundboard cassette

Collections post, from Scott Hamilton’s box of tapes. This one was semi-officially released- it was self released and sold at shows. I considered not posting it since someone must have the official tape, but then I listened to the mix and it needed some fixin’. So what the heck, let’s rebalance this one and post it.

And there is nothing better than posting Anal Mucus and Pansy Division on this particular day.

Recorded by: The Band
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocal +3, Drums +3, Guitar +2

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Willie Nelson- Beacon Thtr, NYC 2/14/95 xfer f/ DAT Soundboard Clone Rare Performance with Symphony!

For today’s On This Day in History, I am sharing one of my all-time favorite live shows. When you collect a bunch of live sets, you can see that some bands are spontaneous while others basically do the same things every night.. even down to the banter in between songs. Willie typically falls into the latter group of artists. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, haha.

But this show was unique and special. Willie plays with an orchestra and had 1 rehearsal to prepare. You can hear him say at the end of the show that it was “without a net” but turned out pretty good. I agree, wonderful show.

The show is very dynamic- many quiet parts and a couple of louder ones. Turn it up.

From Damon Bramblett’s collection
Recorded by: Willie’s soundman
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Plexi- Live at Brownies, New York City 1990 xfer from band promo soundboard tape Sub Pop Indie Rock

Last one for today. This one comes from Anonymous 2’s collection. I still owe you the spreadsheet with all of his tapes- I will do it as soon as possible.

Since Anon 2 was a promoter, he would get all kinds of unique demo tapes from bands. This one from Plexi is written completely in white-out by the band. That’s pretty cool.

Plexi released some singles on small labels, was signed to Sub Pop, released 1 album in 1996, and that was it. They’ve played a few reunion and benefit shows since.

This one sounds pretty good.

As with all Anon 2’s tapes, this one is for sale. Please contact me if interested.

Recorded by: The Band
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Belly- Impaxx, Buffalo NY 9/7/93 xfer from 1st gen cassette Live Audience Recording

Here is one from an old taping friend who taped some really amazing stuff in Buffalo. He also had connections with 10,000 Maniacs and he shared some cool stuff by them as well. In fact, this was on a tape with a soundboard tape of 10,000 maniacs that he mastered. That one is coming soon.
He had a ton of jam bands that I didn’t care about, but he would tape all of the alternative bands coming through and they always sounded stellar. This is an example. He has been gone about 25 years now. R.I.P.

Recorded by: Joel Gershon
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Ziggy Marley- Downtown Festival Tent, Rochester NY 8/16/93 xfer f/ 2nd gen soundboard complete show

Here’s a nice one for the weekend. Great quality and not on youtube from what I can see.

It’s fun going through the tape list to see what has made it out there and what hasn’t. I got this one from Joel Gershon, a tape trader from Buffalo who passed away in the mid 90s. He taped a ton of great stuff and seemed to have shows I have not seen before or since.

This one is a complete show 2nd gen cassette soundboard, except for 1 song which is 1st gen audience (Joel taped that one)

Recorded by: ? and Joel Gershon
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Yo La Tengo- Acoustic and interview in studio, Idiot’s Delight, WXRK, New York 5/10/92 3rd gen tape

For today’s on this date in history, I pulled this one. This is my favorite era of YLT, plus Vin Sclesa from Idiot’s delight is a great host and interviewer. Even though this is a 3rd gen tape, it’s totally worth a listen. Check it out.

This is my favorite YLT era as well- not too snoozy or effects-laden. Just good straight forward songs

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Yo La Tengo- CBGB, New York City 1/31/92 xfer from 1st gen audience cassette

For today’s “On This Day in History” post, I chose this Yo La Tengo set that I received from the taper. I had thought I got it from Jim Romeo (gloriously depicted in the Tom Courtenay video), but as I was trying to find an image for this post, I discovered that 1 track from this set was officially released AND it helped me remember an old trader friend. Double Dare (Sominextraction) from this set was released on the Big Day Coming 7″ and the notes helped me remember trading with Rich Baybusky, the taper of the show. I have close to 200 Yo La Tengo recordings on the ol’ tape list, and just about all of the early ones came from Rich and Jim.

Recorded by: Rich Baybusky
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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