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Mr. T Experience MTX- Starry Plough, Berkeley Ca. 12/10/17 LIVE Multicam

Here’s the headlining act from Aaron’s 50th Birthday Bash at the Starry Plough- MTX! It was so fun getting back to the starry plough- I had not been there since the early 2000’s. I think the last time was for a Slobberbone or Rhett Miller solo show. The staff was super nice and the sound person was cool. MTX were great as usual, I always feel so lucky to be able to see them as often as I do. Filmed with 2 Canon HFG30, 1 Canon HFG10, and 1 Gopro Hero5. SBD/Adience matrix courtesy of Jason Ellis, Edit Courtesy of Agelos. Thanks to Aaron for the invite, for the food & drink, and generosity in general. Enjoy!

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Canon HFG30, Cnaon HFG10, GoPro Hero5

Edited/Remixed By: Agelos

Additional help by: Jason Ellis

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Bye Bye Blackbirds- Starry Plough, Berkeley Ca. 12/10/17 Aaron Rubin’s 50th! LIVE Multicam

Next up at Aaron’s party is his current band, Bye Bye Blackbirds. These guys are an excellent power pop band- amazing vocals and harmonies. New album is called “Take Out the Poison” that just came out late last year. Filmed with 2 Canon HFG30, 1 Canon HFG10, and 1 Gopro Hero5. SBD/Adience matrix courtesy of Jason Ellis, Edit Courtesy of Agelos. Thanks to Aaron for the invite, for the food & drink, and generosity in general. Enjoy!

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Canon HFG30, Canon HFG10, GoPro Hero5

Edited/Remixed By: Agelos

Additional help by: Jason Ellis

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Krudwerk- Starry Plough, Berkeley Ca. 12/10/17 Aaron Rubin’s 50th! LIVE Multicam

So Aaron turned 50 and they threw a big party at Starry Plough in his honor. It was like an Aaron-fest! MTX, Bye Bye Blackbirds, and first up is The Mighty Krudwerk. Krudwerk includes Aaron’s son Ben Rubin and some of his schoolmates at 3 O’Clock Rock. They performed a set of many favorites and one really good original song. Aaron comes up to belt out vocals on one song as well. Filmed with 2 Canon HFG30, 1 Canon HFG10, and 1 Gopro Hero5. SBD/Adience matrix courtesy of Jason Ellis, Edit Courtesy of Agelos. Thanks to Aaron for the invite, for the food & drink, and generosity in general. Enjoy!

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Canon HFG30, Canon HFG10, GoPro Hero5

Edited/Remixed By: Agelos

Additional help by: Jason Ellis

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Slobberbone- Starry Plough, Berkeley Ca. 2/15/01 xfer from DV Master w/DAT Soundboard Audio Enhanced

Here is the last Slobberbone video I shot, and the last of the Jess tributes for a bit. I do have a lot more Slobberbone, so let me know if you want to see/hear it. I’m still so sad about this, he was so young. He was in his early 20’s in this video. Damn.
I had never posted this one because I knew that there was a bunch of work that needed to be done to make it good. Even with this, there is still another Schoeps audience source I could have brought in but I was having trouble getting it to synch as it was. Big thanks to Derek Purtell for the help in synching the audio to video.
I had this DV camera that had a really powerful zoom feature, so I overused it to the point of irritation. I hope it doesn’t bother you as much as it bothers me.
Lots of great shots of Jess shredding.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC DV Camera, Sony TCD-D7 through Soundboard
Video Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Audio Rebalance in Izotope Rx8 (bass +,2 Drums +3, Guitar +2.5)
Audio/Video Synch by Derek Purtell

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Slobberbone- Starry Plough, Berkeley Ca 11/5/00 xfer from DAT Master soundboard rebalanced

Here is one from the glory days of alt.country- when you could see bands like Slobberbone and Old 97s play every 3-6 months around here. I don’t know why I didn’t videotape this show- my camera might have been in the shop- but this DAT Soundboard sounds amazing. All I did to rebalance it was boost the snare a little bit, as it disappears from the mix for a while about midway through. I probably should have boosted the guitar a touch, but I like the full bassy sound.
If you are unfamiliar with the band, this is a good way to get acquainted. Awesome cover of Neil’s “Big Time” for the encore.
PS: I did video the show 3 months after this, plus DAT soundboard and schoeps audience. It’s on the (endless) to do list.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D8 into soundboard

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Forever Goldrush- Starry Plough, Berkeley Ca 11/5/00 xfer from DAT Soundboard Master

If you haven’t heard, Sacramento’s best Americana/Alt.country band is BACK after a long hiatus! I have been trying to get out and see them but it hasn’t worked out yet. We have TWO chances to see them perform this Saturday 4/30: In the afternoon at the Sac Natural Foods Co-op and at Old Ironsides that night. So happy they are back.
Here is a set from 21+ years ago, opening for Slobberbone at the Berkeley institution Starry Plough. Charles Twilling was mixing sound that night and he did an amazing job- this is the raw soundboard. I didn’t need to do a thing to it.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7 into soundboard
Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Rhett Miller- Starry Plough, Berkeley Ca 4/20/00 xfer from master 8mm tape complete show old 97’s

Here’s one that I filmed for today’s On This Date in History. There is better audio of this show as well- a soundboard tape- but I didn’t have time or permission to synch it up, so you get this. Maybe someday I will do a lossless capture and synch it up.
Man, I miss the Starry Plough. It has been years since I have seen a show there.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: I can’t remember. Might have been the Sony TR-81 still.
Transfer by Shayne using a Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire’d into Dell workstation – Windv

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Old 97s- Starry Plough, Berkeley Ca. 11/5/98 xfer from master video tape + Enhanced DAT Master Audio

Now that I have multiple amazing software programs to enhance and synch video and audio, I guess it is time to start taking some of my old master soundboard recordings and synching them up to my old master videos.
Here’s the first one. I was able to take the video and denoise it a bit. I did not mess with the lighting- Rhett is already overexposed a bit and Philip is a bit dark.. so not gonna mess with that. I took the master soundboard and boosted the hell out of bass and guitar, and drums a little bit.
TL/DR version: It will sound better about 5-10min in. The board mix takes some time to settle.

Old 97s at their peak, in one of their favorite clubs in the bay area. So awesome. I think this might have been their last time playing there.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Video equipment used: Sony TR-81 w/standard 8 videotape
Audio equipment used: Sony TCD-D7 DAT
Audio Xfer equipment: Sony PCMR500 & M-Audio Audiophile 2496 Card
Denoise in Adobe premiere elements w/Neat video
Mix rebalance in Izotope
Audio/Video alignment in PluralEyes

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