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Mudhoney- Sabala’s Portland, OR 12/1/06 xfer from 8mm master video with improved Nakamichi CM300 Aud

Here is an upgrade of one of Craig Babb’s videos I posted a few months ago. It has some great footage but the audio was distorted pretty badly. I saw someone post their recording of the show using nakamichi cm-300 mics and it sounds amazing! I asked Derek Purtell to help me synch this (not easy with 2 analog sources with cuts) and he did a great job as usual.

Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCRTRV340 firewire into workstation
Enhanced in adobe premiere by Shayne
Audio/Video synch and additional contrast fixes by Derek Purtell
Thanks to the taper who gave the ok for his audio to be used.

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Mudhoney- Sabala’s Portland Or 12/1/06 xfer from master tape enhanced

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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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