Shake Well opening for Eric McFadden and Friends on August 25, 2011 at the Mystic Theatre.
Recorded by: Jim McLain
Tag: Petaluma
Eric McFadden Trio- Mystic Theatre, Petaluma CA 8/25/11
Playing ‘Want Me Too’ and ‘Delicate Thing’ at the Mystic Theatre on August 25, 2011. Featuring the choreography of the Vau de Vire.Society.
Recorded by: Jim McLain
AFI- Phoenix Theatre, Petaluma, CA 6-2-2002 Photos
Nikon N70, Quataray 28-85mm lens, Kodak T-Max 3200 35mm film
Deftones- Phoenix Theater, Petaluma Ca 5/24/00 Xfer from 8mm master tape Enhanced
I mentioned that I cleaned my desk last weekend and found a bunch of stuff to be posted… there are about 12 Sacramento-related shows that my lifelong friend Gary Shurtleff (bootleg cowboys on YT) filmed, and I digitized last year. I thought I had posted all of the Sac ones from him, but there are something like 12 more.
Since I am so late in posting today, I’ll start with a short one. Here are the Deftones at Phoenix Theater back in 2000. I think I saw Romain from Deftones Live mention that Gary got busted filming, which would explain the 23 minute length of the video. Neat video does an AMAZING job cleaning up these 8mm master tapes. It looks so clean now.
Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV460 firewire into Dell workstation
Denoise with Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven- Mystic Theater, Petaluma Ca 2/12/00 xfer from master Video Tape
I had planned a different post for today’s On This Day in History- it was going to be Firehose’s last show ever (pre 2014 reunion) from San Pedro. I taped it with DAT and it sounds awful. I searched around and there is a way better recording on archive.org of that set, so never mind. Blech.
Let’s do this one instead, especially since Camper van Beethoven is playing some shows in April. This was a true “hell freezes over” event- by most accounts, the CVB breakup was acrimonious. They broke up during a European tour, after a show in Sweden. Nobody thought they would ever reunite for anything. Then we got word of this tour being set up, 10 years after the breakup. It was so exciting that I drove from Sacramento to Pioneertown (9 hours drive!) to see/video the very first show of this run. I remember asking Jonathan how he was doing right before the show at Pappy and Harriet’s and he was nervous! They were great, you could not tell nerves were at play.
This was a traveling apothecary show- Cracker/CVB band members would come on and off stage, sometimes all playing together. Victor played bass for Cracker on this run.
I wish I could remember the person who filmed these shows. He was part of an early CVB/Cracker discussion board around this time. I even remember what he looks like- dark hair and large rimmed glasses. Sorry. If you filmed this, please speak up- it would be great to be back in touch! I was also at the Slim’s show, but it ended up being taped by this gentleman.
It would be great to do a new transfer of these master tapes- this is clearly a primitive VHS to DVD transfer
Recorded by: The guy who followed them around the entire tour
Transfer by: The guy who followed them around the entire tour
City Four- Brady House, Petaluma CA January 1995 xfer from master VHS tape
I had a different video planned for today, and about 20 minutes before the 35gb file finished uploading to youtube, I deleted it from the RAID. It had already been a huge ordeal to get this one together, so it’s no surprise that yet another obstacle (albeit self-inflicted this time) is in the way of getting it out.
So, let’s pull one from Rodney Parker’s collection. Rodney has filmed a bunch of shows (the excellent bay area punk shows channel has most of them), but he was also in a band. City Four were a band in 1994-1995 and played some local shows, along with a west coast tour. The band was Rodney on drums, Josh Figueroa on Guitar and Ryan Hendrix on Bass, Brian Daigle played second guitar and Steve Robison on Vocals.
Recorded by: Erika Schmid
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (brightness/exposure/denoise)
Green Day- Phoenix Theater, Petaluma Ca 6/17/93 xfer from VHS-C Master tape Arica Pelino Collection
Yes! Green Day is finally off tour, so we can get back to more GD posts from Arica. This one has been sitting in the queue, waiting for 2 months to post. It’s pretty nice quality and very rare- it looks like a couple of clips were shown on VH1’s behind the music and that was it. Audio is good and nice camerawork as well.
This is the legendary “last show” before they signed their major label contract. Some context from greendaylive website:
Ben Saari: “Word got out. The last show before they signed the contract was in Petaluma at the Phoenix Theater. There were tons of people. Everybody knew the next day they were signing the deal with the devil and everything would suck. They would be sellouts, nobody could be friends with them, they would be on tour forever, they would blow up. Things would get really good for them. And people were aware that this was also gonna bring in a whole new level of attention to what we had been doing.”
The Daily Cougar: “One person [Brian Zero] even went so far as to hold a protest against the band’s signing at a June 17 concert at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma, Calif., calling for the club’s patrons to walk out when the band played. ‘Yeah, some guy came out and expressed his views about major labels, some of which were pretty valid,’ says Billie Joe. ‘I have to give him some credit. He wasn’t a belligerent drunk – he expressed himself intelligently. I mean, if I saw the guy, I’d still want to spit in his face. No one walked out.'”
Huge thanks to Arica for sharing these.
Recorded by: Arica Pelino
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Rancid- Phoenix Theatre, Petaluma Ca 3/13/93 xfer f/ soundboard cassette Basic Radio Downfalll Punk
On This Day in History will post later today- I decided to mix it up a bit.
Here’s one from Jason Ross’ cassette collection. This one was odd- the tape had about 8 minutes of another Rancid show at first- an audience recording. I thought it might be the soundcheck for this show, but there is crowd in between the songs, so I just trimmed it off. If you really wanna hear the mystery Rancid 8min thing, let me know.
It’s got some tape hiss and the mix changes/improved througout, so no rebalancing. Too unstable.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Neurosis- Phoenix Theatre, Petaluma Ca 6/9/92 xfer from master soundboard cassette rebalanced
Yet another awesome gift from James R Edmonds- a master soundboard of Neurosis. At least I think he told me it was the master. And by the way James- I am still working on your CD’s- that turned out to be a HUGE project. I am trying to get them all done by end of week. There will be about a 50 spindle of discs coming!
Anyway, this recording is super clean but was almost all drums and vocals. I tried to rebalance it in Izotope and it happened to boost the high hat to obnoxious levels, so I EQ’d it in Sony Soundforge then rebalanced… and the high hat is still too high. Oh well, I hope you can still enjoy it. It does settle down a bit later on.
Recorded by: James R Edmonds
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge 10 (15khz minus infinity)
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +9, Guitar +8
Green Day- Phoenix Theater, Petaluma Ca 9/28/91 Uncirculated Preshow clip xfer f/VHS Master Enhanced
A couple weeks back, my friend Arica Pelino flew into Sacramento with a suitcase full of tapes. There is SO MUCH amazing East Bay Punk stuff in there- it has been a joy digitizing the tapes for her… and we are just getting started! Thanks for bringing them, Arica!
This one is a short teaser for you- before their show on 9/28/91 at Phoenix Theater, Arica filmed Green Day getting prepared (makeup and all) before the show.
The video was a little dark and grainy (90s video technology and all), but I tried to brighten it up a bit and denoise as much as I could without giving everyone that “iphone beauty” look. I mean, look how beautiful they are without it!
If you all want to be in the loop about the release of this archival East Bay audio/video from her collection, you all should subscribe to YT, sign up for email on the sacramentomusicarchive website, or join the facebook group for the archive.
Enjoy!
Recorded by: Arica Pelino
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (brightness/contrast/denoise)