A couple years back, Barry Ward sent me a collection of master videotapes from his friend Craig. It took me forever to get to these, but I got these digitized last summer and now I am enhancing and posting them. This video is great but audio on is pretty distorted- I checked the usual places and could not find a good audio recording to match up. Let me know if one exists.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV320 firewired into worstation
Enhanced (denoise) in adobe premiere elements/neat video
Tag: Portland
Adolescents- BComplex, Portland Or 8/12/06 xfer from master tape Live
Here’s another nice looking video from Craig Babb. There is no decent quality video of the band from this era, so happy this exists. Same call goes out on this one – if anyone has any leads on any high quality audio from this show, let me know.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV320 into workstation via firewire
Enhance (very minor denoise) in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video
Witch Mountain- Sabala’s, Portland Or 9/30/05 xfer from 8mm master tape enhanced PART 2
About 7 months ago, I posted part 1 of this show, thinking that was all the video we had. After working through the rest of Craig’s tapes, I see that we have more to the show. If I had more time, I would dig out the other disc and put these 2 together, but not enough time for that now. If you want to see the first part of the show, you can find it on the youtube channel or sacramentomusicarchive dot com.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into workstation
Enhanced with Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video
Acid King- Sabala’s, Portland Or 9/30/05 xfer from master tape enhanced Stoner Rock Doom Metal
Here’s another video from Craig Babb’s collection. Audio is distorted, so if anyone has a lead on a cleaner audio source, let me know. Even though they are from SF, Acid King has a pacific northwest connection- the vocalist/guitarist in the band, Lori Steinberg, was married to Dale Crover.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV350
Enhanced(degrain) in Adobe premiere/neat video
Witch Mountain- Sabala’s, Portland Or. 9/30/05 xfer from master videotape enhanced
When I got the box of tapes from Craig, this is one of the first ones that made me do a serious double-take. I had no idea Witch Mountain had been around for so long. When I saw them at Starlite lounge in 2016, I thought they were a relatively new band. Wow. It looks like Rob took on the lead vocal duties in those early days.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV350
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere/neat video (degrain only)
Dan Abbott- Day of the Zombie performance, Portland, Or 7/17/05 master audio tape Bobby Joe Ebola
My apologies to James R Edmonds- it has taken me too long to get this last batch of tapes digitized. Here is an previously uncirculated recording of Dan Abbott from Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children Macnuggits doing songs from his acoustic rock opera, Day of the Zombie. From what I can tell, this is the most complete live performance that has surfaced. Cool! Thanks James!
Recorded by: James R Edmonds
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ(Bass boost) in Sony Sound Forge 10
The Unseen- Portland Meadows, Portland Or 7/10/05 Warped Tour xfer from DV master
Here’s another one from Jordan’s archive- it is definitely “crowdshot”, but it has some great shots of the pit!
Recorded by: Jordan Wolfe
Drunk Horse- Sabala’s, Portland Or mid-2000’s xfer from 8mm master tape Oakland Stoner Doom Kozik
I was planning on posting something from Arica Pelino’s collection since it was her birthday yesterday. Happy Birthday Arica! I discovered that I only have Green Day stuff ready to post and we are waiting until the tour ends to do those, so you all have to wait a week.
Instead, here is one from Craig Babb’s collection that I somehow missed posting when I did that project a couple years back. Drunk Horse was formed in 1998 by guitarist/singer Eli Eckert (formerly of local garage-punk outfit the Pants), drummer Chris Johnson (aka Cripe Jergensen), and guitarist John Niles and bassist Cyrus Comisky. They were one of those early stoner/doom metal bands that followed in the steps of Sabbath, Trouble, St Vitus etc. They were on Frank Kozik’s Man’s Ruin records for a bit.
Anyway, here is a 9 minute clip of a show- probably from the mid-2000s. Sorry for missing it, Craig!
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell workstation
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
YOB- Sabala’s, Portland Or. 11/12/04 xfer from 8mm master tape enhanced Stoner doom metal
I don’t have much time for a write up today. Here is a pretty early Yob show from portland. The audio is a bit distorted but still listenable.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into workstation
enhanced via adobe premiere elements/neat video
Dixie Witch- Sabala’s, Portland Or. 11/6/04 xfer from master videotape Stoner Rock Texas
Here is another cool video from Craig Babb- he filmed so many heavy stoner rock/doom bands in the very early days of the genre. This one is a 10min clip from a show in Portland in 1994 by Dixie Witch. Audio is slightly distorted but still listenable. This kicks ass.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV350 firewire’d into Dell Workstation
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video