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Son Volt- Harlow’s, Sacramento Ca. 9/21/23 Schoeps Audience Master full Trace album

I am not usually speedy in posting recent shows- I am still working on video from March of this year… but this show was so good and this is one of the best sounding recordings that these new (to me) schoeps mics have produced.
My good friend Anonymous also recorded the show and was in a better spot for recording, so there is probably an even better recording- I had a busy night so I slid in about 10 minutes before Son Volt started.
The Doug Sahm songs were excellent – I bought the album but have not had a chance to listen to it, but Mark Spencer’s Augie Myers parts were spot-on. Nice!
Unexpected highlight for me was “Too Early”. Man, it had been a LONG time since I heard that song and I forgot how much I loved it.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder

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Son Volt- Harlow’s, Sacramento Ca. 10/13/19 Live Audio DPA 4061 Mics

This was as last-minute of a decision as it gets. My kids had no nap last Sunday, so I was able to bolt out of the house at 8pm to the show. I got to Harlow’s, geared up in the bathroom, got a beer and the band started as I was walking away from the bar. Perfect timing! Quality improves after about 15min so stay with it.
Show was surprisingly packed. SV had not played here since 1996, so I guess that might be why.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: DPA 4061 mics, Chuch audio preamp, Sony M10 digital audio recorder.
Photo by John Shaban

 

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Son Volt- Great American Music Hall, San Francisco 5/3/17 Part 1 Canon HFG30 Rode VPS mic

Here’s the first 25min or so of the Son Volt set from Wednesday in SF. Brian McKenna & I had dinner seats and it was a great place to video from. Unfortunately, GAMH security put a stop to the filming fun early on. They let me film Belly last year, but Son Volt is anti-video, I guess. He said only “their guy” could video. Awww, I used to be their guy 25 years ago. I guess my Guy card expired. It all turned out for the best anyway. I was audio taping as well and it does not sound great in the balcony. Once they stopped the filming, I went downstairs to the floor and the recording sounds good! Not only that, I did not see any guys from the Schoeps Club at the show. I guess they were at okkervil river or willie nelson. It was a surprise that my recording may be the best of the night. Anyway, enjoy.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Canon HFG30, Rode Video Pro Stereo Mic

 

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Son Volt- Mound City Music Fest All Star Jam Mississippi Nights, St. Louis Mo 12/11/04 DV Master-DVD

Today’s On this Date in History is a pretty cool one. My old friend Chris Constance (R.I.P.) knew the guys in Uncle Tupelo since the OLD days, back when Jay and Jeff were in the Primatives. For a stretch in 2004/5, Chris had some great access to film the band. This is one of the videos he did. He also did the main set but I cannot find the DVD of that one. If anyone has the main set, please rech out- I would appreciate it!

According to Chris post of a portion of this, this was Son Volt + Bottle Rockets + Anders Parker + Richard Buckner for the all-star jam. Not sure if they or others came in and out. Pretty damn cool.

Recorded by: Chris Constance (Pants Elderly)

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Jay Farrar- Mississippi Nights, St. Louis Mo 11/13/04 f/master DV tape-DVD Uncle Tupelo Son Volt

Today’s On This Date in History comes from an old friend who passed away over 11 years ago now. Chris Constance was a friend of Uncle Tupelo and helped to contribute quite a few early videos of the band, and at least 1 of the pre-Uncle Tupelo band, then Primatives.

He was able to video Jay Farrar and Son Volt a few times in the mid-2000’s, and this is one of those shows. A full set of Jat and (thee) Mark Spencer at Mississippi Nights. This show happened right at the time that it was announced that Son Volt was reforming and releasing a new album (which became Okemah and the Melody of Riot).

Recorded by: Chris Constance
Extract from DVD & prep for upload by Shayne

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Son Volt- Loppen, Christiana, Copenhagen Denmark 11/18/98 SONY D5 Master & 2 ECM-150 MICS-DAT Clone

I realize that I have been posting a lot of Son Volt/Uncle Tupelo stuff lately, but there are an absolute ton of shows to be posted. There are 216 Son Volt entries on the tape list, over 100 Uncle Tupelo and a ton of Wilco through the Summerteeth era. So you are gonna get a lot of them since the collection has a lot..

This one was recorded with the gold standard of portable (but still huge) cassette decks- the Sony D5. The mics used are not too bad either. Recording is nice and clear- I didn’t do anything to this one, just kept it flat. The cassette master tape was bounced to DAT and my tape is a clone of that DAT.

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

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Son Volt- 3rd and Lindsley, Nashville Tn 9/27/98 xfer f/ DAT Soundboard-FM Clone Uncle Tupelo Farrar

Let’s do a Son Volt show for today’s On this Date in History. This one was a local Nashville radio FM broadcast. the mix isn’t perfect and it has the typical FM over compression so I don’t think that a rebalance would sound good either. It’s like, what do I do with this thing. Hahah. So here it is in all of its raw glory.

Son Volt were unf*ckwithable in this era. One of the all time greats.

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

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Son Volt- Cites 97 KTCZ Interview and Live Acoustic in-Studio, Minneapolis Mn 8/4/97 Master tape-DAT

Here’s a nice On This Date to start your week- nice and mellow. I love when the enthusiastic interviewer tries to get Jay to recount his favorite moment from the previous day’s show. Sir, do you even know who you are talking to? LOL. Boquist came to the rescue on that one and Jay was more talkative than usual.

Sounds great, I think I got this from Mark Janovec. He was/is THE MAN for all things uncle tupelo related in mpls.

Recorded by: Not sure, it’s tape master-DAT(mark’s prob)-DAT(mine)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Son Volt- Fillmore, San Francisco Ca 7/25/97 xfer f/ DAT Master Clone Live Jay Farrar Uncle Tupelo

I had an old friend request this to be digitized, so I figured that I’d add it to the archive. The funny part is that I took vacation and followed son volt from Arizona through southern cal, but did not tape this show. One day, those shows will be posted as well. I borrowed Kurt Vogel’s schoeps for that run, so they sound pretty good.
Side note- how do you like those DAT covers? I graduated from the old Typewritten covers to this in 1997. Classic.

Recorded by: Kurt Vogel?
Equipment used: Portable DAT and Schoeps CMC-64 mics, Aerco preamp
Digitized by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCMR500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Son Volt- Belly Up Tavern, Solana Beach Ca 7/20/97 xfer f/DAT Schoeps Master Full Show Uncle Tupelo

And finally, here is today’s On This Date in History. I borrowed my old friend Kurt Vogel’s Schoeps microphones and followed Son Volt through Arizona and Southern California in 1997. This one is probably the best sounding of all of them. Huge thanks to Kurt for letting me use them.


This one did have some issues- one channel was cutting out pretty badly so I went through and corrected that when needed. Most of this is a stereo recording, some is a 2 channel mono deal.


The recording was really clear, but it was lacking in guitar and vocals, so I worked it up in Izotope to a level where I am happy with it now.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: SCHOEPS CMC-64 MICS, AERCO PREAMP, Sony TCD-D7 DAT
Channel correction in Sony Sound Forge 10
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8- Vocals +6, Guitar +4.

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