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Yo La Tengo- KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic, Santa Monica Ca 6/20/95 xfer f/DAT FM Master Live Studio

I mentioned this before, but it’s relevant to the post today. I lived in Whittier California from 1992-1995 and didn’t go to nearly enough concerts since I was raising a family. I was also just outside of a decent signal for KCRW, so anything I taped there would be super staticky.
Thankfully, my good friend Kevin Haynes lives closer to the station and was able to get a nice signal. I would call him on occasion (no email for me back then) and ask him to tape certain things.. and that is the only reason that this tape exists. It’s a full session with them playing live in studio, preceding their show at the Alligator show that night. So, thanks to Kevin for this one.

Recorded by: Kevin Haynes who gave me the master DAT
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Yo La Tengo- Alligator Lounge, Santa Monica Ca 6/20/95 Xfer from master video tape + DAT Audio Enhan

So let’s hope this stays up for a while… Matador seems to get excited about taking down videos.. so here’s a message from me to Matador video takedown person:
“Hi! My channel is not monetized- please claim away and make your money. I also shot video and recorded audio with permission. I am merely posting to share a historical document, nothing more… and it’s not like you are going to release this or anything!”

Anyway, here’s another one of the old 8mm videos that gets the full enhancement treatment via Adobe Premiere/Izotope/Pluraleyes. So happy to finally create final versions of these, after 25 years. This is the best show I have ever seen from YLT.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Video Equipment used: Sony TR-81 camcorder
Audio Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7 DAT
Video enhance (noise reduction) via Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Audio rebalance (boost bass and guitar a lot) via Izotope
Audio/video synch via Pluraleyes
Thanks to Kevin Haynes for watching the DAT while I was up front videotaping. I wonder what happened to that guy?

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The Walkabouts- KCRW Brave New World, Santa Monica Ca live in studio 6/19/95 xfer f/1st gen cassette

One from my collection today. This was part of my KCRW digitizing prject that I did for the station a couple months back. It’s also my first post to the pacific northwest music facebook group after getting the old account disabled. I had over 100 posts under my old profile. Ugh, there goes my top contributor badge.

Recorded by: I can’t remember, but he taped it off the radio
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Wilco- KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic,Santa Monica Ca 5/12/95 xfer from DAT Clone Interview and Live

It always amazes me when I search on youtube- so many obscure things are out there and posted 10 different ways, and then I check on something like this. You would think this would be common, but I only see 1 track from this session up there and with no lineage. Here’s the entire 40 minute thing.

May 1995 was a good time to be a Wilco fan in southern cal. They played 4 times in 48 hours- this is the first performance, then at the Whisky that night. They played the next day during the day- noon maybe? at Rhino Records in Westwood, and finally at Galaxy Concert Theater (now The Observatory) in Santa Ana. I was at all of them. Except for this one obviously.

I need to synch up my high quality DAT audio with RG’s video of the Rhino Records in store when I get time.

Recorded by: Kevin Haynes (thanks Kevin!)
Transfer by Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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J Mascis- Mccabe’s Guitar Shop, Santa Monica 5/7/95 xfer from DAT Master

So I was talking to Charlie Passarel and I mentioned that I audiotaped J Mascis on his first solo trek out west. J was clearly nervous- he made a mistake early in the set and ended a song abruptly, in the middle of a lead and looked around to see if anyone noticed. It made me laugh. He settled down and played a killer set. Man, I loved going to McCabes when I lived in L.A.
Oh and PS: I opened up the DAT case to transfer this one today, and there was the ticket stub. So you get that as well.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DAT (D7?) & Coresound mics with battery box & bass rolloff.

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Pizzicato Five- KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic, Santa Monica Ca 4/28/95 xfer from 1st gen audio tape

Here’s a short one for today’s On This Date in History. Why did I pick this one? Convenience. It was already digitized as part of the KCRW project. Sorry, haha. It’s only 3 minutes long, so low time investment needed.

Recorded by: I got it from the taper and forgot his name
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Bottle Rockets- Alligator Lounge, Santa Monica Ca. 4/22/95 xfer from 8mm master! LIVE

So the bottle rockets used to play unbelievably loud and I was only using the stock mic on the Sony TR81 camera, so the audio is totally distorted. I tried to get a DAT soundboard recording, but the traveling soundman was not allowing it. Oh well. It looks like there are ZERO videos of the Bottle Rockets on YT from 1995, so it has that going for it.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Sony TR81

 

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The Bottle Rockets- Alligator Lounge, Santa Monica Ca. 4/22/95 master videotape enhanced DAT Audio

Here’s one that I filmed 25+ years ago and it didn’t turn out very good. The lighting was low and the stock audio on the camera distorted, especially later in the set. I was able to brighten it up and degrain it in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat video, plus Kingbean synched up the not great but not distorted DAT audio that I also did. So, this is as good as it’s going to get. I put the time into it because I love the band, plus there are zero full sets from this early out there.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TR-81 Camcorder, TCD-D7 DAT, Coresound Binaural Mics w/ Battery Box bass rolloff.
DAT EQ in Sony Soundforge 10
Audio/Video sync by Kingbean

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Poster Children- KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic, Santa Monica 4/14/95 xfer f/1st gen audio cassette

It was my turn in the rotation for an audio post from my collection and it’s been a while since I posted something from the batch of KCRW tapes I digitized for the station a year or so back.

I think this was during the time that ML was managing them. I think I saw him at the Troubadour when the band played there around this time.

Recorded by: I can’t remember
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett- Mccabe’s, Santa Monica Ca. 4/14/95 xfer from DAT Master Tape

Man, what an unbelievably brutal week. Work + the kids= no sleep and lots of stress. So I jumped through a bunch of hoops to go to see KEPI play with one of my all time favorite drummers- Roy MacDonald… and my car’s “check engine” light comes on. So, the night is trashed.

So instead, you get another new post to the archive. McCabe’s Guitar Shop is a magical place. They sell guitars up front, and the back room is an intimate performance room. They have hosted some huge artists there.

Wilco had released their first album “A.M.” 2 weeks before this show. Jeff & Jay came to McCabe’s to play this show, which is odd.- it was a one off show and they were back in L.A. a month later with a full band. This sounds way better than I remember.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7 & Coresound Binaural mics w/battery box bass rolloff

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