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Pavement w/ Stereolab- VK, Bruxelles Belgium 3/19/94 xfer from DAT Clone 1 song encore “Contact”

Here’s one for my friend Jim Utz for today’s “On This Day in History”. Thanks to Mike Siou for letting us know which show that Pavement and Stereolab performed encores together- I would have never found it without his help.

My list shows this as an EX- rated audience recording, but it is pretty clearly a board tape- I have a vague memory of being asked to list it as an audience tape due to the sensitivity of the tape. Because of that, I am only posting the 1 song encore. Sorry, I always post full sets but I don’t want old friends to be upset if the full set shows up on a bootleg. My DAT has glitches anyway, don’t get too excited. This one song sounds clean.

one more thing- I know that the image used is not from this show. I could not find any posters/flyers for this show, but I found a ticket stub from 1999 where they both played. Good enough.

Recorded by: Rainer Bunnefeld aka Pavemalk
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Pavement- Transbordeur, Lyon France 3/16/94 xfer from WMD3 Cassette Master-DAT Stephen Malkmus

Busy day, so a late On This Day in History. When I look for content to post, I check around to see if a concert is on youtube, if a setlist exists, is it on archive or old trade lists, etc. This one seems to be NOWHERE. I hate to use the “uncirculated” tag, but this one sure didn’t seem to get out much.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge 10

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Pavement- Old Ironsides, Sacramento Ca. 5/10/93 xfer from 1st gen audiotape R.I.P. Gary Young

My long-time friend and 1990s tape trader Mike Siou asked me to post this one. Pavement played a semi-secret show at Old Ironsides, as a warm up show for some Australian tour dates. It also happened to be Gary Young’s last show with Pavement in the US, ever.
Mike used some nice equipment from the KDVS radio station- a Marantz deck (most likely a PMD430) and a Sony Mic (Probably an ECM-929 from the sound of it.
Keep in mind that this was before Old I had many touring bands come through- in fact, it was before the stage was built. I tried to search for a flyer of this show and was shocked to see that the Old Ironsides facebook page posted some video of this show a couple years back… that is where this picture comes from. Let’s hope Kim K (or whoever has these tapes) is up for getting them digitized with the lossless setup so they won’t be so pixelated. It sounds like there are more early videos from old I!

I also EQ’d this one a bit and I think it sounds better now. Thanks Mike!
I can post more pavement if people are interested- looks like I have 178 items on the audio list available at the sacramento music archive website.

Recorded by: Mike Siou
Equipment used: Marantz portable recorder and Sony mic
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ (+Midrange and high end) in Sony Sound Forge 10

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Pavement- Reading Festival, England 8/30/92 Proshot xfer from 1st Gen VHS Tape Japanese TV Live

I was looking at my old VHS tapelist over the weekend, because I could have sworn I had another SNFU Gilman show from 1987 but it must be gone… then I saw this tape and figured that would be fun to digitize.
Back in the mid-90s, I traded with a lady name Saki Honma. She was the biggest Uncle Tupelo fan in Japan- she even flew from Japan to St. Louis to see Tupelo’s last shows in 1994. She would tape stuff off of Japanese TV (they broadcast KILLER stuff in nice quality) and send it to me. This one is a VHS copy off of her SVHS master.
This clip has been posted to youtube 2 other times, but I think this is slightly better quality. I will be posting other bands from this day throughout the week.

Recorded by: Sakiko Honma
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment: JVC HRS9800 and Canopus ADVC300

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Pavement- Rough Trade Record Shop, England 7/11/92 xfer from 2nd gen audio cassette-DAT

I chose this for today’s On This Date in History not because of it’s great quality (it’s not), but because it seems to be pretty rare and I think this might be the only in-store performance with Gary Young.
Stockton representing for the 2nd day in a row!
The recording distorts a bit at volume so I tried to EQ as much of it out as possible across the 56 and 113 hz bands. The high hat/splash cymbal was super grating to I toned that down a bit as well.
Recording was only marked as “Rough Trade England”- no specifics of city.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10

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Pavement- Kennel Club, San Francisco 5/20/92 SILENT FOOTAGE 8mm master Enhanced R.I.P. Gary Young

We met Gary when my friends’ band (The Boon) went to Louder Than You Think studios in Stockton to record their “A Swell Revenge” demo. I think that they chose LTYT at the recommendation of Scott K (Spiral Stairs)- Scott worked with Mike Yoas for a stretch in the late 80s. It wasn’t the first time that I had been in a studio, but it was definitely the first time I met an engineer like Gary. I remember knocking on the door to his home studio and knocking with no answer… then after about 15 minutes, he answered the door. “Sorry, I was sleeping”. Drink in hand during the session, talking about Scott and his new band called Pavement (who at the time had just been a studio project and we had not even heard them) and talking about classic rock. He was unforgettable, if my brain can remember these small details, 30+ years later.
Anyway, on to the video. My DAT audio recording of the Cattle Club from 5/19/92 has been well circulated for 30 years.. but this one has never been shared. In fact, I had no idea that this much footage survived! I took my video camera to the Kennel Club show the night after Cattle, and we were blown away. The place was packed for Pavement! It was unreal- Slanted and Enchanted was released 1 month before and they were relatively unknown. A favorable cover story in SF Weekly packed the place- it was stunning to see all these people- where did they come from? It was an indication of things to come I guess.
Since I was up until 2-3am the night before (cattle shows ran late) and woke up at 7ish for work, I was deliriously tired… and that is the excuse I am using for plugging in my mic and not turning it on.. so this footage is slient. Audio from this show never turned up either. To add further insult to injury, I ended up recording my sister’s softball game over part of the show. They played about 90min!
R.I.P. Gary. What a character.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Aiwa CV-80 camera and Sony ECM-909 (powered off)
Transfer equipment: Sony EV-S2000 – Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced (brightness/degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video

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Pavement- Cattle Club, Sacramento Ca. 5/19/92 xfer from DAT Master Audio Malkmus Indie

This was an eagerly anticipated show, and this was also the first time I got to see Pavement play. I thought this was their first west coast show ever, but setlist.fm shows that a show took place in Davis in 1989. Hmm, I never knew. We were friends with Scott K (Spiral Stairs)- he even played bass in my friend roommate’s band for a show in 1990. We also knew Gary well, as my friends had recorded at his studio in Stockton. I wonder how he’s doing…

OH, and as a side note, one of my biggest taping screwups happened the next night. I video’d the entire 90 min set from Kennel Club and forgot to turn the mic on my camera on. Silent video. I was running on about 4 hours sleep and then drove to SF for the show, so I was dead tired. I then taped over almost all of it because I never thought people would care about silent video footage. I might have 5min of it on a tape somewhere.

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 Rx7: Bass +5, Guitar +6

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