After trick or treating with the kids, I hustled over to The Press Club to see the halloween covers show. Man, it was packed! I wish the bands saw this size of crowd when they played their own songs!
Anyway, here is Chrome Ghost doing their sludgy versions of Nirvana classics. It was fun.
Jim Mclain also filmed the show and tried to edit our angles together and it didn’t work out.. thanks for trying! Now you have 2 videos of the show to enjoy.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Canon HFG40 & Rode Videomic Pro Stereo
Man, I had a hard time finding something that had not been posted online for today’s On This Date in History. The last thing I would want to do is bum people out with Cobain death reports, especially in today’s environment.
Btw, the one really cool thing I have from April 9th was posted a few years back- a 1st gen tape of Danzig’s first show at City Gardens. If you are looking for something less depressing, check that one out.
Anyway, these come from a VHS tape that I got from Jim Utz, who taped them off TV. The tape had a bit of snow/noise so I did my best to clean it up a little.
Recorded by: Jim Utz Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
So this entire show is a long story- thanks to Scott Kennberg, I was able to get a pass. I thought it was a filming pass, but it was actually a backstage pass. It was really odd, being a 25 year old kid, given access to backstage with Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, and Kurt/Courtney/Frances. It made me feel pretty strange, so I bailed after a beer.
Anyway, here is Mudhoney’s set. They were GREAT. Encore is Fang’s “The Money Will Roll Right In” w/Kurt on guitar.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Sony TR-81 camcorder with stock mic
And here is Kurt’s solo performance. Yes, that is my goofy ass voice saying “give me a break”.
So this entire show is a long story- thanks to Scott Kennberg, I was able to get a pass. I thought it was a filming pass, but it was actually a backstage pass. It was really odd, being a 25 year old kid, given access to backstage with Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, and Kurt/Courtney/Frances. It made me feel pretty strange, so I bailed after a beer.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Sony TR-81 camcorder with stock mic
Here’s what I remember of this show. I could not get my equipment through security, so I asked Scott K (Spiral Stairs) for help. He looked suuuuppeerrr put out but he came through with a pass about an hour later (thanks and sorry Scott). It was shortly before Pavement’s set, so I had to hustle out to the car, grab my stuff, and then hustle back in. Later on, I realized that the pass was an all access pass and I really had to go to the bathroom, so I went back and grabbed a water and stuff. I remember walking by Kurt and Courtney, and I vaguely remember seeing a baby… but Frances was only like a month old at the time so maybe I am misremembering. Sorry these sets from Castic are such crappy camerawork. I had a tripod, but the entire place was just one huge, flat dirt field. There was no place to go. I should have just gone up on stage to film. This was the last time I would see my friend Matt Polish(randomly saw him at the show) for over 20 years. For this Cobain clip, I am SO happy to not have to hear my voice on the audio track anymore. I caught flak for not knowing who leadbelly was… in 1992. Yeah, sorry I wasn’t a music encyclopedia at 25 years old. How many of you metalheads/punk/alt peeps knew then?
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony TR-81 Audio recorded by: Jonathan Wolff Equipment used: Sony WMD6C & ECM909 mic Audio/Video synch via Plural Eyes
So I tried to video the show and I was told NO. I tried to track down John from Gold Mountain, and he appeared to be avoiding me. So, I snuck up into the upper seats of the Crest to set up my mics to at least get an audio recording. Glad I did- sounds pretty damned good.
Warning- this is gonna be long. I wasn’t planning on making this an all- filmed by me weekend, but apparently that’s what we are going to do. A nice gentleman named Zaved Khan reached out to me about the Nirvana Cattle Club video I filmed in 1990. He was looking to get permission to use a clip for his instagram post, but was having difficulty contacting people to get the OK for the multicam version (eternal thanks to Jim McLain for editing Jerry Perry and my angles together). I told him he could use my raw stage shot angle… then I remembered that I had this version that was cleaned up by Lance Bangs to be included in the “With the Lights Out” box set that I never posted.. then I remembered that I never told the story of getting screwed on that deal. So, sit down kids, grandpa has a story.
I about 2002 or 2003, I was contacted by Universal Music Group about using some of the Cattle Club footage in the “with the lights out” box set that was released in 2004. I worked closely with Michael Meisel, who was a totally cool guy and a pleasure to work with. I fedex’d the tape to Lance Bangs (Jackass series, tons of his own stuff, married to Corin Tucker, etc) and he did a nice job of bouncing it to digibeta and cleaning up/color correcting. Jim McLain’s version looks brighter, as software advanced over time.. but this one looks pretty good, albeit dark. I like the color balance on it.
So, I am all excited to get my footage on the box set AND get paid. In 2004, UMG randomly contacts me again and asks for contact info to the guy who filmed them a few days later in Long Beach. I work with my good friend Jim Utz to get his contact info and I relay that to UMG. Then there is no communication- complete silence. The release date is drawing near and I was getting concerned. I call UMG asking for Michael and am routed to the A&R guy. I don’t know his name, but he was a total d*ck to me. He tells me that my footage was cut from the box set (for the Long Beach footage I helped them acquire!), that I was not getting paid, and there was nothing I could do. So, I furiously call Michael and he calls me back in 1 minute- he is super pissed off too because nobody told me what happened.
Michael tells me that they found a version of Sappy (the song they wanted) that had better lighting with the Long Beach show, so they went with that. The A&R guy was supposed to call me and tell me…he didn’t. He was also supposed to tell me that I was still getting paid, and that as a consolation, they made my name an easter egg on the DVD…he didn’t. So, if you have the DVD from the Nirvana “With the Lights Out” box set, you can select my name in the ending credits and it will take you to some secret footage of Nirvana.
So, that’s the story of how I became an easter egg.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Aiwa CV-80 w/ Sony ECM-909 mic velcro’d to the top. Enhanced (lighting and color correction, denoise) by Lance Bangs
Here’s something cool, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of this show. For the first time ever, here is Jim McLain’s edit of the full Nirvana set. There is another 2 camera edit out on Youtube, but that one is a totally different edit and it has different(inferior) audio. THIS one is the one that was shown at The Crest a couple of times.
A funny story about this show- I always used to ask the bands for permission to video. I went up to Kurt(remember, this is pre-internet. it was not easy to find a band photo) and asked him “Are you in Tad?”. He said no, he was in that other band. He gave me the OK to film and wrote his aunt’s address on a slip of paper… which I transferred to my personal contacts book and threw the original slip of paper away! D’oh! Kudos go out to Mark Martin for strongly encouraging me to go film this show- he was the early adopter of grunge among our circle of friends.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy (stage cam) & Jerry Perry (Cam on PA)
