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Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks- The Chapel, San Francisco Ca. 10/1/16 Pavement Complete Multicam

his one has a somewhat funny story. I got the ok to film from Scott(Spiral) but only from 1 angle. Since the show was packed, the club stuck me in this corner by the soundboard. I had 3 cameras, so why not use them? This is the first(and probably only) multicam that I will do, which all 3 angles are filmed fromt he exact same spot. Kinda cheesy, but I tried to make each angle unique.
HUGE thanks to Richard Pearsall for stepping in and doing the full edit of the show!
Filmed with 2 Canon HFG30s(one on tripod, one monopod operated by me) and 1 Canon HFG10(mounted to the pole). Audio via Rode video pro stereo mic. Encore has a bunch of pavement songs.

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Pavement- Steve Lamacq Session, BBC UK 5/24/99 xfer from DAT to CDR Clone Stephen Malkmus Indie Rock

It’s odd- some of these things that I figured would be online and accessible just do not exist. It happens twice with these “On this date in history” posts over the long weekend. Here is the first.

First of all, this sounds like a live set- not an in studio session. I tried shazam’ing it and noting comes up, so it probably wasn’t officially released anywhere. All you pavement completists, tell me what this is, if it is indeed labeled incorrectly.

Speaking of Pavement, it looks like I might be getting some of my soundboard recordings on an official release. That’s pretty cool. I hope it materializes.

Oh, one last thing. I know that this photo is not time appropriate, but it is the only photo of the band with Steve Lamacq out there. The photo is from 2022, session from 1999.

Recorded by: Someone with a DAT recorder off the radio
CD rip and prep for upload: Shayne Stacy

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Pavement- Guilty, Ebisu, Tokyo Japan 1/11/96 xfer f/DAT Clone Audience Complete Indie Rock

Oh wow- I pulled this DAT to work up for today’s On This Date in History and it sounds really nice after an EQ job. According to my list, I got this from the taper but the only person I recall trading tape with in Japan at the time was Saki Honma. I don’t recall her using bass-heavy mics such as these. Maybe she did later on. Hm.

The raw tape was a bit heavy on bass and lacking in low end, so I really pushed the EQ and I am really happy with it. Oftentimes, the midrange and high end get so overpowered by the bass that an EQ like this won’t work.

Recorded by: Saki Honma?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Pavement- Lollapalooza, Irvine Meadows, Irvine Ca 8/14/95 xfer from DAT Master Coresound Malkmus

I’m a little late with today’s on this date in history- it is my daughter’s first day of high school! Pretty exciting. I had to digitize this one as I didn’t have anything prepared.

Even though this isn’t as exciting as the 2nd stage set that I posted a year or 2 back, this is still a solid set. Surprised they got 50 minutes, but they were billed pretty high. I recalled this one not sounding great but it is a lot better than I remembered.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Coresound binaural mics w/bass rolloff and a TCD-D7
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge 10 (bass down, mids and highs up)

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Pavement- Lollapalooza, Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, Irvine Ca. 8/14/95 DAT Master xfer 2nd Stage

I wasn’t planning on posting this one today, but a few people asked me for it and it happened to be on the audio PC’s hard drive, already transferred from DAT. Awesome set- Opens with you’re killing me, includes Maybe Maybe, Box Elder, Forklift and a bunch of stuff off of Slanted and Enchanted. At the time, I thought it was the best show ever.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7 and Coresound Binaural mics with bass roll off
Transfer Equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Pavement- E-Werk, Cologne, Germany, 6/26/95 Full Set

Uploaded by: James Grimes.

No lineage or taping info provided. Perhaps this is known, but it wasn’t included in the YouTube footage. As I do some digging, I will add the information here.

Pavement has been featured before on SMA, but not thoroughly. As they formed in Stockton, they of course qualify for inclusion here. A thorough examination of their available output will probably require many, many hours, but as I encountered a tape of the audio (inferior quality to what was online already, sometimes that’s how it goes) for this show while working on other things, I figured including it here would be helpful.

Setlist

In The Mouth A Desert

Elevate Me

Grave Architecture

Kennel District

Rattled By The Rush

Unfair

Heaven Is A Truck

Brix Job

Serpentine Pad

Best Friend’s Arm

Half A Canyon

Black Out

Grounded

Conduit

Motion Suggests (Itself)

Pueblo

Cut Your Hair

Encore, Encore!

Shoot The Singer

Here

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Pavement- Cadillac Club, Fresno Ca. 9/16/94 DAT Master Soundboard xfer Rebalanced Live band

Here’s one that I taped with the DAT machine a little over 27 years ago. I missed the first 4 songs, and I can’t remember exactly why. I recall being super tired(I went to both Palace shows the 2 nights before and went to work during the day) and getting stuck in bad L.A. weekend traffic. It was a long drive- it would have been 3.5 hours with no traffic and I think it took me about 5hrs to get ther. I must have come in late. Shoutout to Remko for plugging me right in to the soundboard.
It was an odd show. I remember it being very loose- to the point that the band were having a “make your instrument fart” contest between songs. The DAT machine I used to record the show was out of alignment (they would break down about every 6 months) and it had some static when I had played it in the past, but I don’t hear it on this transfer. Sony PCM-R500 for the win!
I rebalanced this in Izotope to bring up vocals and guitar. I thought about re-doing it, but the vocals come up later in the set. Good enough.
Oh, and check out that ticket stub. $10 with a $3 fee, and I bought the ticket less than 2 weeks before the show. That’s quite a bit different than buying $100 tickets a year in advance…

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope RX7: Vocals +4, Guitar +5, everything else flat.

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Pavement- Great American Music Hall, San Francisco 4/23/94 9pm Set Xfer from DAT Master

1994 was such a fun year. I was able to follow a couple of my favorite bands around and record them. Pavement was one of those bands. They had just released Crooked Rain, so I went and saw them in Phoenix/So. Cal and the bay area in April and Fresno/So Cal in September. It was so fun to see a band at their peak, obviously having fun up there.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3
Thanks to Remko Schouten.

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Pavement- Great American Music Hall, San Francisco 4/23/94 DAT Master Soundboard Rebalanced Indie

Back in 1994, I took some vacation time and followed Pavement around Airzona and California… twice. Scott (Sprial Stairs) and their soundman Remko Schouten were super cool to me and allowed me to plug into the soundboard with my DAT. Almost all of these mixes sounded great as they were recorded, but I was able to rebalance this one and make it sound even better. This is the last of 5 shows from the spring run with the band.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 lined into board
Transfer Equipment: Sony PCMR500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotop Rx7 (voice +5, Bass +5, Guitar +2)

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Pavement- The Roxy, Phoenix Az 4/20/94 xfer from DAT Master Soundboard Rebalanced Complete Set Live

In 1994, I was lucky enough to tape 8 Pavement shows through the soundboard with my DAT recorder. Huge thanks to Scott and Remko for making it happen. This was the first show I did in a 5 show run in April of 1994. I drove from L.A. over to Phoenix on Wednesday, then Hollywood the next night, then 3 sets in San Francisco over the weekend.
Then I flew to the Midwest the next weekend to film Uncle Tupelo’s last shows ever. I would say that was a pretty productive 2 weeks.

Anyway, this one was the weakest mix of the 1994 shows. It starts off with the guitar too low in the mix, then you hear the guitar zooming in and out of the mix for a bit from 6-12 minute mark. By the 15 minute mark, it stabilizes. My rebalance is focused on the set from 15 minutes on- there are short parts where the guitar or bass is WAY too loud before that. FYI.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 into soundboard
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope RX8: Bass +1, Guitar +5.

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