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Son Volt, Rusted Root, Blues Traveler MMW and More- HORDE Fest, PBS On Tour TV Show 7/97 VHS Master

I have been working for about the past month to get a new/improved VHS capture setup working, which would also decrease the number of computers from 5 to 4 out here. It has been quite an ordeal, but it looks like I got it dialed in as of today. I captured this one earlier in the week (just to see if the setup was working ok) so if there are any A/V synch issues, please let me know. I can’t watch this much jam band at once.
I taped this one for the 2 Son Volt songs from HORDE in Buffalo, but this includes a bunch of HORDE acts, recorded at various stops from the 1996 tour. Includes Me’Shell NdegéOcello and Son Volt from Buffalo NY 8/20/96; Medeski, Martin and Wood/Leftover Salmon from Phoenix 7/24/96; and Blues Traveler/Rusted Root from Chula Vista 7/26/96. Good people watching on this one- you can almost smell the patchouli through the screen.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC consumer VCR
Transfer equipment: JVC HRS9900U and Tevion High Speed DVD Maker+ into Virtualdub 1.9.11

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Son Volt- WXPN World Cafe, Philadelphia Pa 6/6/97 xfer from DAT FM Clone Complete Broadcast

I am pretty shocked that this hasn’t been posted to youtube yet. Son Volt in their prime, playing a 25 min set for World Cafe. Are all of these World Cafe shows syndicated and broadcast widely? Maybe they only did this one on WXPN. Anyway, sounds good and it is a nice performance. Typical interview, haha.

Recorded by: ? (mine is 2nd clone off master)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Son Volt: Thunderbird Theatre, Urbana Il 5/3/97 xfer from Hi8 Master Videotape Enhanced Uncle Tupelo

We have a new contributor to the Sac Music Archive- Neil Werries contacted me a couple of weeks ago. He filmed a bunch of great alt.country bands in the late 90s so expect a bunch of really great stuff over the next few months. He was also in an alt.country band called Elsah and you’ll be seeing them too down the road.
The reason why I picked this one to post first is due to the scarcity of Son Volt videos from the Straightaways tour. I know of only one, with very shaky camera work and distorted audio… so this is probably the best Son Volt 97 vid surfaced to date. Sounds pretty decent for stock camcorder audio too. Thanks, Neil!

Recorded by: Neil Werries
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony EV-S2000- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced (brightness/degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video

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Son Volt- Birch Hill Club, Old Bridge, NJ 5/11/96 xfer from DAT Clone complete show w/ Covers!

Sorry for the late On This date in history. Rough day.

Speaking of rough days, imagine playing this kickass show which includes a cover of “Love’s Gonna Live Here”, which has not been played much since the Coffee Creek days, then get hit with this review in the local paper. Damn, I guess it’s good that this was done back when the band probably never got wind of this. Yikes.

Out of the 200+ pre-2000 Son Volt shows on my list (I was trying to collect every show for a bit), I decided to post this because of that cover. It sounds pretty decent and is representative of the era. That reviewer needs to chill out. That’s just Jay.

Recorded by: Stacey Taylor I think. I got it from the taper and she did most/all of the northeast shows.
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Son Volt- KSCA Music Hall, Los Angeles Ca 3/26/96 xfer from DAT Master Jay Farrar live in studio

Here’s another Son Volt radio appearance from their March of 1996 tour- this one from KSCA. KSCA was the big commercial “adult alternative” station, and the interview reflects as much. They handle it pretty well.

Recorded by: Kevin Haynes and gifted to me
Equipment used: He had a TCD-D7 I think
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Son Volt- KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic 3/25/96 live in studio xfer from DAT Master Tape

Here’s a short one for you today, but it sounds really good. This happened a few months after I moved from L.A. back to Sacramento, so Kevin Haynes must have taped this for me and sent me the master tape. Thanks Kevin, wherever you are
Features a few songs acoustic and deliciously awkward interview

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

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Son Volt- Ziggy’s, Winston-Salem NC 2/29/96 xfer f/DAT Clone Complete Show Uncle Tupelo Jay Farrar

SMUD shut the power off at the Sac Music Archive for pretty much the entire day yesterday, so I am still playing catch-up with posts. This is LAST week’s Patreon voter’s choice- Patreon $10 and up members got to vote on a concert that took place on leap day- Feb 29. You know, to kinda close out the “on this date” project and complete the project by posting something from every date in a year.

Voters chose 2 shows- the vote was a tie. After some investigation, the Soul Asylum show that was voted in actually took place on 6/29, not 2/29 so that leaves this one. It’s a good one- this one is really nice quality. I loved this era of Son Volt- I saw 2 week-long runs in California around this time. One in December of 1995 and one in March of 1996, but none of my recordings are as nice as this one. Well done!

I have the taper of this show narrowed down to two people. I think it was Norwood, but it could have been Pemberton.

Recorded by: Michael Pemberton
Recording Equipment: Denon DTR-80P and Coresound Battery Box w/Bass Rolloff
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Son Volt- Slim's, San Francisco Ca 12/8/95 xfer from Master DAT Soundboard Rebalanced

OK, I lied yesterday. I have 2 more Slim’s posts. Here’s the first one.

My memory is fuzzy on this show. I can’t remember how I made it happen, but I did get permission to record this show through the board. I was almost always told “no” by SV. I think it was because Slim’s had a nice sound system.
One funny point about this show- SV’s notoriously grumpy (to me at least) soundman back then, Gary Scheppers, told me to squeeze behind him to plug into the board. He is a big guy, and I was deceptively big back then. We both got wedged in between the back wall of the booth and soundboard. flailing around trying to get unstuck. HAHA, it was funny. He moved to let me in after that.
I was plugged into the output of the cassette deck, which is why you hear the cut at 45min. It was for the tape flip.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Sony TCD-D3
Rebalance in Izotope (drums -5, bass +6)

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Son Volt- 9:30 Club, Washington DC 11/3/95 xfer f/1st gen audio tape Sony WMD6C Uncle Tupelo Farrar

Man, am I running behind today. Here is today’s On This Date in History.

I wish I could remember who I got this from. This was one of my very late cassette trades, at a time when I was a DAT snob and didn’t trade cassettes with hardly anyone. I was also trying to collect every.single.son volt show at the time. I finally gave up on that project in 1999 I think. There are still hundreds of Son Volt/Wilco tapes to digitize, so stay tuned.

I really liked the tapes the D6 made when it worked properly. There is 1 EQ band that needs to be dropped a bit and the low end boosted up and you usually have a nice result.

Recorded by: ? (send me a message if you know)
Recording Equipment: Sony WMD6C and sounds like an ECM909 or 939.
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Coffee Creek- Cicero’s, St. Louis Mo. 7/30/93 Audio Soundboard xfer from Band Archive

First and foremost- this is a MUST LISTEN if you are an Uncle Tupelo, WIlco, Son Volt, or classic country fan. Coffee Creek are Tweedy/Farrar/Heidorn(Uncle Tupelo), Brian Henneman(Bottle Rockets) doing classic country/rock covers! So great.

Back in the early 90s, I was friends with Tony Margherita & Bob Andrews who managed Uncle Tupelo, The Bottle Rockets and many more. I had followed UT around and filmed/audio recorded over 10 shows in the span of a couple of years, including the 2 final shows in St. Louis. Since the band was defunct (and Wilco was not the HUGE band they are today), Tony let my good friend Jim stop by and pick up “a few” cassettes in late 1994. Jim goes to the office and calls me:
J(whispering): Dude, there are like 50 tapes here. Do you have Coffee Creek?
Me: No
J: How about X(some other one)
Me: No. Just grab them all and I will sort them out.
So Jim grabs a box and shoves about 50 tapes in, and takes off. Bob and Tony were like :-O. Haha! Thanks guys.
I am shocked that these are not online yet.

Recorded by: Tony Marghertia(?)
Transferred by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: 1994 DAT transfer- Playback with consumer Aiwa belt drive deck (big regret)- Sony DTC690 using monster audio cables.
Equipment used: 2019 DAT to WAV transfer: Sony PCM-R500 — Audiophile 2496 card — WAV
Transfer Lineage: Band Archive Tape – My DAT (90 meter DAT in 32khz- big regret) – You

Photo courtesy of Michael Pemberton’s excellent factorybelt dot net site. Check it out!
Man, I wish I took pictures of the tapes.

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