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Red Krayola- Ciceros, St. Louis Mo 1/11/95 xfer from DAT Master Clone Soundboard Rebalanced Mayo T

Here’s something completely different to kick off your Monday. This one is from Jim Utz’ collection. Jim and I started trading tapes in 1986 have have remained good friends to this day. When I bought my DAT in 1991 and started recording some pretty nice board tapes, Jim invested in one as well and started taping around the St. Louis area. His home base was Cicero’s basement bar and he even released an official CD with songs from some of these recordings, called “The Basement Recordings – Live At Cicero’s”. It’s out of print, but there are copies available for $8 on discogs. Thanks Jim!
Anyway, the Red Krayola Wiki asked for this one to be digitized a while back and this flyer comes from their database of stuff.

Recorded by: Jim Utz
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8 (Bass +10, Guitar +6)

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Eagles- Riverport Amphitheater, St. Louis Mo 7/6/94 xfer from DAT soundboard clone 2nd set

If you saw my “About the Sac Music Archive” videos, I mentioned that when I started trading DATs in the early 90s, I was able to get some really rare and amazing audio. A lot of it has been officially released by now, but this On This Date in History project has helped me figure out what is still uncirculated, vs. being on youtube already or being officially released.
I don’t see this one out there, surprisingly. nice quality board tape from the Hell Freezes Over tour.

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

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Small Ball Paul- Bastille’s, St. Louis Mo 4/22/94 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape Cicero’s

For today’s On This Date in History, I had a few choices. I could have done the Amps from Gibson’s in Tempe, but that would have required a VHS transfer and that takes a lot of time. I could have posted my DAT soundboard master tape of Pavement at Great American Music Hall in 1994, but I am already posting audio today so this one it is. Yet another one from Jim Utz’ collection of VHS tapes I digitized years ago.
Small Ball Paul was a band from St. Louis who released a couple of demos and a 7″ on Faye Records (home of one of my all time favorites, Ditch Witch). They were then signed by a subsidiary of a major label (Thirsty Ear), put out 1 EP and 1 album produced by the legendary Lou Giordano, then called it a day.
This was recorded 1 week before I flew into St. Louis for Uncle Tupelo’s final 2 shows at Mississippi Nights.
One last thing- newspapers dot com shows this show at Cicero’s, and it sure looks like cicero’s. Did it change names?

Recorded by: ? (Jim, do you know?)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9911U into Canopus ADVC300

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Kurt Cobain Nirvana-NBC Nightly News 4/8/94 CNN Headline News 4/9/94 KMOU St Louis 4/10/94 1st g VHS

Man, I had a hard time finding something that had not been posted online for today’s On This Date in History. The last thing I would want to do is bum people out with Cobain death reports, especially in today’s environment.

Btw, the one really cool thing I have from April 9th was posted a few years back- a 1st gen tape of Danzig’s first show at City Gardens. If you are looking for something less depressing, check that one out.

Anyway, these come from a VHS tape that I got from Jim Utz, who taped them off TV. The tape had a bit of snow/noise so I did my best to clean it up a little.

Recorded by: Jim Utz
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Coffee Creek- Cicero’s, St. Louis Mo. 7/30/93 xfer f/band archive soundboard rebalance Uncle Tupelo

My long time friend Steve Brothers asked me about getting a wav file of the coffee creek shows, so I went ahead and gave it the full rebalance treatment.
Here is the text from my original(non-rebalanced) post:
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
(NEW) Rebalance in Izotope Rx8. I brought up guitar/bass/drums.

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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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Coffee Creek- Cicero’s, St. Louis Mo. 6/11/92 Audio Soundboard Uncle Tupelo country covers band archive transfer

Here is the most complete document of the legendary Coffee Creek- this show has a few cuts, but appears to be mostly complete. Coffee Creek were a side project of Uncle Tupelo (Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweddy, Mike Heidorn) plus Brian Henneman from the Bottle Rockets.

btw, I know that this ticket stub is for the other Coffee Creek show I posted (7/30/93). I should have used this image for that show, and the coffee cup (which I have been searching for, for many years) image for this show. Oh well. Both images from Michael Pemberton’s excellent factorybelt.net website.

Setlist:
Buckeroo (end)/ Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?/ Love’s Gonna Live Here/ Your Gentle Way Of Loving Me/ I Wanna Destroy You/ Sleeping Room/ Wallflower/ Is Anybody Going to San Antone/ You’re Still On My Mind/ Sing Me Back Home/ Powderfinger (has a cut)/ Atomic Power/ Wrote A Song For Everyone/ instrumental/ Back to the Country/ Wasted Days and Wasted Nights/ Blue Eyes/ Moonshiner (has a cut)/ Wasn’t Born to Follow/ A Good Year for the Roses/ Do Re Mi/ Thanks A Lot/ Are You Ready For the Country?/ Texas Me/ Mendocino/ Movin’ On/ Texas in the Rain (?)/ Turkey in the Straw/ She’s About A Mover/ Waltz Across Festus (sic)

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

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Dust Bowl Club- KDHX Live Acoustic in Studio, St. Louis Mo 9/14/91 Cassette Master xfer Uncle Tupelo

Here is the first of 3 posts today. Facebook folks get a bonus 4th one as well.
For today’s On This Date in History, let’s dive back into the Uncle Tupelo archives. This was one of the many tapes we got from Tony and Bob back in 1994, but then a better quality version popped up.
Michael from factory belt has the details:

“FM broadcast and pre-FM studio tape, from the late Doug Morris’ KDHX radio show “High Anxiety.” The only known recorded performance of the “The Dust Bowl Club” (Brian Henneman, Jay Farrar, and Tom Parr). A number of songs played are from a demo tape that Brian recorded with members of UT during the recording of Still Feel Gone. For quite some time, the only known tape of this show was recorded off the radio, with all of the between-song conversation edited out. More recently, Doug Morris’ pre-fm cassette of the show surfaced, though unfortunately Doug recorded over the last 30 minutes of his tape, meaning that the last 5 songs only exist from the FM tape.”

So, there are 2 versions. This better quality one and the one from the band’s archive that is more complete. I believe this one has both versions put together.

Recorded by: Doug Morris
Cassette to DAT Transfer by: Michael Pemberton (main part) and Shayne Stacy (last 5 songs)
DAT to wav transfer by: Shayne
DAT to Wav Transfer equipment (shayne): Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Uncle Tupelo- Mississippi Nights, St. Louis Mo 3/20/91 xfer from Band Archive cassette

This show isn’t quite as pristine quality as the other UT archive stuff I have been posting, but this is a very special show- it was UT’s first time headlining mississippi nights, which was a big deal. They were returning from an east coast tour, so this was a homecoming show.
They pulled out a bunch of gems in this set, including FreakScene (dino jr), Cortez (neil young), She’s About a Mover, I drink stag, and many more. What a celebration.

Setlist courtesy of factorybelt.net:
Postcard/ Flatness/ Punch Drunk/ No Depression/ D.Boon/ Nothing/ Outdone/ Train/ True To Life/ Gun/ Life Worth Livin’/ Screen Door/ Discarded/ Whiskey Bottle/ Freak Scene/ Graveyard Shift/ That Year/ Left in the Dark/ Before I Break/ There Was A Time/ No Matter What/ John Hardy/ Cortez the Killer (w/ Brian Henneman)/ Atomic Power/ Factory Belt/ Sin City/ Little Guitars/ Streets of Bakersfield/ She’s About a Mover (w/ Brian Henneman)/ I Drink Stag (w/ Brian Henneman)

Recorded by: Tony Margherita
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

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