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Old 97s- Starry Plough, Berkeley Ca. 8/8/97 Direct xfer from 8mm Master Tape!

Here’s a video of the Old 97s in their prime- back when Rhett was nerdy and he beat his acoustic guitar so badly that it caused an arm injury. The unique aspect of this show is that Philip Peeples is not on drums- he had an inner ear infection so former manager Mike Schwidler is doing the honors (and does quite well). The show itself is a drunken party- they are playing a pub- and the atmosphere is loose and fun. In fact, Rhett drops a lollipop out of his mouth and kicks it from the stage mid-song.. and nails someone in the front row! It was funny. Enjoy! Filmed with a Sony TR-81 camera.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Sony TR-81

 

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Penelope Houston- Starry Plough, Berkeley Ca 1/4/92 DAT Audience master Nakamichi CM300

One of the downsides of having one of the early portable DAT machines was that they were plagued with issues. Sometimes the rechargeable battery packs would just conk out early in the middle of a set, and other times, the deck would just die completely and I would need to send it back to Sony for repair. This probably happened 5 times over the life of the TCD-D3. So, if you see gaps in DAT recordings from me, you know why.
Anyway, something happened here and I did not get the full set, which is a shame because this show sounds much better than the October 91 show I posted last week. Oh well, happy to have captured the 29 minutes here. Good stuff!

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 and Nakamichi CM-300 mic
Transfer Equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Penelope Houston- Starry Plough, Berkeley Ca 10/19/91 DAT Master Tape xfer Nakamichi CM300 Avengers

This was a memorable night. Craig Hilmer was in town fromt he midwest. We had traded tapes for years but this was the first time we met face to face. The Bernat brothers came up from San Diego for the occasion as well. We were trying to figure out what to do for the night. I was lobbying to see Penelope at Starry Plough because both the artist and venue are awesome, and the Bernats were trying to persuade Craig to go to Beat Farmers at Slim’s. We decided on Penelope. I had a few too many pints and crashed on Craig’s hotel room floor. I woke up the next day extremely hung over and drove home while the Oakland hills were on fire. Very surreal.
Penelope played 2 sets, almost 2 hours of music and no repeats. Great stuff!

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3, Nakamichi CM-300 mic

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Movie Stars- Starry Plough, Berkeley Ca. 3/30/90 Part 1. Direct xfer from master tape!

My favorite movie stars shows were the ones where they played 2 sets in a night, because they would pull out some killer covers along with deep cuts of their own excellent material. Combine that with one of the greatest venues in California, and you have this- one of my favorite shows of theirs.Around 2 hours of fun! Recorded with the old Aiwa CV80 and a Sony ECM909 velcro’d to the top.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Aiwa CV80, Sony ECM909

 

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Camper Van Beethoven- Starry Plough, Berkeley Ca 7/5/86 xfer from band archive cassette

Since a lot of focus was on Black Sabbath’s day long festival, I figured that I would wait until it was over, and also post something non-metal for today’s on this date in history. This one will do.
Jonathan loaned me his tapes back in the late 90s (thank you) and I “digitized” them my lining my Nakamichi deck into a new (at the time) philips CD recorder- the high end CDR-880! That thing cost a LOT of money at the time, but it did a nice job recording CD’s. We had this trick where we would insert one of the expensive CD recorder CD’s, let it read it and then pull the disc tray out and replace the disc with a standard CDR, which was about 10 times cheaper!
This show took place a few months before I discovered the band. I would have loved to see them at Starry Plough. I did get to see them at Pappy and Harriets, so that is a close approximation.
This tape had some harsh and slightly distorted high end. I did my best to EQ it out while keeping the crispness of the highs intact. It does have an odd swirly high end sound now.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi CR5A into Philips CDR880 CD recorder

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