Finally, here is today’s On This Date in History post. I searched all over the web and newspapers dot com and I can’t find a venue name or an ad for this show. The band played 2 nights before in Buffalo, so the date seems to be right. They were opening for Suicidal Tendencies on the 25th, so either this headlining show (or the ST show) was a one-off.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment: JVC HR-S9911U – Canopus ADVC300
OK Everybody- I made a mistake with yesterday’s On This Date in History post. I had a super busy day and was in a hurry, so I pulled the DVD and uploaded it without checking it. I accidentally pulled a Testament show from Philadelphia in 1989 which is already on YT in better quality so I deleted it. Here is the Kreator video I should have posted yesterday.
The one good thing about the mistake is that Sacramento flyer king Ken Doose had a flyer image for this Kreator show, with the venue name! So we now have more info and an appropriate image for the facebook posts.
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Finally, here is today’s On This Date in History post. I searched all over the web and newspapers dot com and I can’t find a venue name or an ad for this show. The band played 2 nights before in Buffalo, so the date seems to be right. They were opening for Suicidal Tendencies on the 25th, so either this headlining show (or the ST show) was a one-off.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment: JVC HR-S9911U – Canopus ADVC300
It’s Friday, so time for video! Next up is something from Gary Shurtleff’s VHS collection. Not only was he one of the most prolific arena filmers in the 90s, but he traded VHS tapes and got some amazing stuff. It’s kind of funny- every time I go to work on Gary’s tapes, I never know what I am going to find. This time it is an Attitude show that I helped film and never had a good copy.. and this.
Canadian TV network Much Music went to the CMJ Music Fest in 1989 (I think) and profiled 5 bands. The GWAR segment is really good- especially the backstage interview and when they crash the “do drugs belong in rock and roll” panel. Includes a mix of live footage shot from the fest, interviews, and an occasional “official” video for one of the band’s singles.
Very nice quality- must be a low gen VHS copy.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced (denoise) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Today’s post is from Ross Weyman’s collection. Ross is an old friend who traded tapes back in the 90s. We reconnected recently and he sent me a stack of VHS tapes to digitize. They are all either better quality than what is on youtube today(such as this one), or they are not online at all. This one is better quality than the slicing up eyeballs version- fewer artifacts, higher resolution. I wish I could have done more with it, but Paul is near overexposed and Slim (R.I.P.) is in very low light. Too many extremes to deal with.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Well here is something from way back- a Token Entry interview from 1989. Russ Gibb traveled to NYC to get this footage- you can see him getting things set up here.
Also on this tape (not posted here) is some random footage of NYC back in the late 80s along with some more interviews with people in the punk scene. Let me know if there is any interest in a post of that.
Also, the audio/video is slightly out of sync. It’s like that on the tape.
Recorded by: Russ Gibb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony EDV-5000 — Datavideo TBC-1000 — Tevion USB capture — Virtualdub
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
A youtube commenter asked for all of the raw Russ Gibb NYC Street footage from that Token Entry interview, so here is a rare non-musical post. It looks like it has some punk rockers in there, so we’ll call it good enough.
If you want an actual musical post, you can sign up for updates at sacramentomusicarchive.com — I am posting a super secret Roger Waters multicamera thing from Sacramento last month over there. Can’t access it anywhere else.
Recorded by: Russ Gibb
Equipment used: Broadcast quality Beta camera
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony EDV-5000 — Datavideo TBC-1000 — Tevion USB capture — Virtualdub
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Man, I have a LOT of shows that happened on April 25. I picked this one for On This Date in History because a contributor to the archive loves the band. Thanks for the setlist documentation and research, Obaku Cubs/Isabella Askaan. I don’t know your real name, but I appreciate the help!
I think this one was taped by a friend of Anonymous and me. Katie Dee from Buffalo was one of our first tape traders and she is the person who turned me on to a bunch of the early pop punk/alternative bands. I remember her sending me early goo goo dolls stuff during their late 80s Metal Blade Records era.
I am almost certain that Katie bought a Sony D3 walkman to tape shows, and this one definitely sounds like a D3 tape. Nice and crisp with shallow bass.
I found a nice review of the show on newspapers dot con- thanks Dan!
Recorded by: Katie Dee
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I was caught unprepared for today’s “On This Day in History” post- I had a meeting that ran long and I still needed to digitize the cassette. So I did a quick search to see if I could find anything else to post and I found this one. This is from Jim Utz’ VHS tapes that I digitized many years ago. He had a 2nd gen VHS tape of the show, which seems to be one hell of a lot better quality than the version of this show that is up on Youtube now.
Recorded by: Those new york bootleg guys who did a ton of show probably
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9911U – Canopus ADVC300 – Windv
Here’s something a little different for our LAST On This Date in History posts. Yup, this is the LAST ONE. I started the On This Date project last year on January 13 to see if I could post a show from this date in history for an entire year. Can’t believe it has been a year since I started this. The only date that I didn’t do was 2/29 since last year wasn’t a leap year, but I do have tapes from that date. I’ll make that one a Patreon Voter’s Choice for this week.
I plan to continue to post at least 2 things every day. I have decided to speed up the collections posts. It’s not really fair to the folks who have their tapes sitting here to only have something posted every month or so. This requires a lot more work on my end, so you will still see me pulling a disc from my collection on days when I am short on time. But expect 2 collections posts every single day from here on out!
Anyway, here is Joey plugging his all star jam show at The Ritz. Lemmy makes an appearance and Howard pokes fun at him. Classic.
Recorded by: George Norton
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here’s another one that the On This Date Project was able to dig out of the ocean of tapes over here- a complete set from Danzig, taken from a copy off George Norton’s master tape.
The tape isn’t without flaws. The first 6 minutes of the tape is badly damaged. If you can’t take the quality early on, forward to 6 minutes and issues resolve. Back in the days of 1980’s tape trading, we used some cheap tape decks to copy tapes. We would use high speed dubbing to get the job done quickly. Tape trading at the time was for fun so if a tape was sped up or damaged like this one, we wouldn’t think much of it. Now I wish I had asked george for a clean re-dub of this one. Dammit.
Great set with Misfits and Samhain “covers”.
Recorded by: George Norton
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
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