Here is another one from Craig Babb’s seemingly endless supply of master videos. There are still more to post, including a Cheezy Trolls one that people were asking about!
Anyway, this is from Max’s. I asked Craig about a date and he did not recall, so “mid-90s” it is.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell workstation
Enhance in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
We are getting to the end of Craig Babb-filmed shows. I think I have 2 or 3 more. Thanks again, Craig!
This one sounds pretty good- I am surprised that a garage punk band like The Mono Men did not play at a pure distortion volume. Good.
If anyone has any info on the venue/city, please let me know.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCRTRV340 firewire into Dell workstation
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Since a lot of people will be watching the pregame at the time that I usually post, here’s an early one today. This may be the very last one from Craig Babb’s collection. It took a couple years for me to digitize and post. Thanks Craig for your patience- it was a fun project!
This one is short so you can substitute it for whatever the SB halftime show is this year.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell workstation
Enhanced in Adobe premiere elements/Neat Video (Brightness/contrast/degrain)
Here is a nice quality video from Craig Babb’s collection- Galaxy Trio, opening for Dick Dale at La Luna in Portland Or. We don’t know the exact date, Craig thinks it is from around 1995.. and a quick setlist.fm and concert poster search shows that he played there in 1994 and 1996. Please let me know if you know which show Galaxy Trio opened.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment: Sony DCR-TRV320 into PC via firewire
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Here is another amazing video from Craig Babb’s collection. I totally missed the boat on this band, so this was a really cool video to transfer. I jumped on discogs to pick up some of their releases and just about everything is out of print and expensive. Excellent psych rock.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV350
Enhanced (brightness/exposure/denoise) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Sorry for the late post today. Work has been hellish. Here’s yet another cool video from 25-plus years ago, courtesy of Craig Babb. All of these Galaxy Trio shows have made me a fan. Special appearance by tricky dick.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV350
Enhanced (degrain) in adobe premiere elements and neat video
On This Date in History, finally! The mix on this one wasn’t great, and the mix changes throughout the show. I rebalanced it to sound good for the majority of the set, which is at the end of the show. The early part of the set is still listenable, but a little guitar heavy with no snare.
Cuts at the end. I am not sure if that was just my copy or if the source cuts at that point.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +3, Drums +2, Guitar +6
When I started to prep this one, I realized I made a mistake while transferring it. Some of these old tapes are dirty, or the tape sheds and dirties up the heads while it plays. I needed to clean heads constantly to get some tapes to transfer. I thought I got a clean transfer of this one, but it craps out at about 17 minutes- sorry about that. The video wasn’t much longer than this anyway, and it looks like there is another version of this show (amazingly) up on the internet as well.
If you ever wanted to see what a slow descent into dirty-headedness looks like, fast forward to 16min.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV320
Degrain in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Here’s another awesome video from Craig Babb’s collection of masters- a Jesus Lizard set from 1992. The audio is heavily distorted- if anyone has a lead on good audio, let me know so we can get this synched up. I have 2 JL audio shows from Satyricon in June of 91/June of 92 but not this one.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV350
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
It feels like I have been posting stuff from Craig’s collection for a year now, and it has taken about that long to get it all posted- he filmed a lot back in the 90’s!
This is the 2nd and last video of Sow Belly. This one looks to be the full hour-long set and it sounds pretty good. No distortion!! Thanks Craig for filming and trusting me with your collection.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell workstation
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video. Brigthness/contrast/denoise
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