Forgot to trim again- forward to 1 minute in. The shower of Slobberbone/Drams posts for Jess continues. 90 minute set with a lot of cool covers, including 2 uncle tupelo songs and the Merle Travis cover “Dark as a Dungeon”. Imagine seeing an hour-long set, and then seeing this one! That’s a lotta Slobberbone. We think that this show was taped by George “Lowdog” Savage, I’ll email him and let him know we uploaded this. Photo was pulled from Lance Davis’ Adios Lounge blog.
Recorded by: George “Lowdog” Savage(?) Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Transfer Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocal +2, Drums +1, Guitar +5
About 3 months ago, I posted a demo by this band. I had 2 demo tapes and there were some shared tracks between both but each one also had their own distinct songs too. No song titles.
Recorded by: The Band Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
It’s time for Patreon Voter’s Choice! And what a choice it is. There are no professionally shot videos of the 97s from (imho) their best era in the mid to late 90’s, except for this one… well, and the complete Austin City Limits which the band WANTED me to post and then was whacked by the PBS affiliate in Austin. So, the only one publicly available. This is when they were the best band on the planet- just absolutely ripping.
I commend Merge Radio for broadcasting this in the early days of the internet and to the person who captured this online- this was not easy to do back then! Sure, it is primitive and clunky by today’s standards (yes, that is an internet pause at 3:50), but I love this. Hope you do too.
Recorded by: Maggie(redmags) maybe? Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
In 2016 or so, I was helping Shandon Sahm downsize his collection as he prepared to move to Denmark. I bought some posters and some other stuff, and he told me that he would throw some rare CD’s in the package. This is one of those CD’s.
After digging into it a bit, it looks like this was released as a bootleg CD a while back. I don’t know if this is better quality than the boot as I don’t do bootlegs. It’s a really cool show with a 13th Floor Elevators cover. Thanks Shandon!
Well shoot, I have not posted this late for a while. I hope this one still gets noticed because it is PEAK Old 97s. I loved that 1997 tour, it was so much fun. This one come from Neil Werries collection, shot by NH. Neil shot an angle at the back of the venue. We COULD make this a multicam along with 3 or 4 of Neil’s other videos, if you can help us time stretch/match the angles. The problem with old analog gear is that they tend to drift apart from each other as the show progresses. If you are good at aligning audio to video, you can really help. Please reach out via the website or (my name) at hotmail.com. Last time I tried this, I got hacked and my old fb account was disabled. Let’s hope it goes better this time. Please reach out- we could use your help. Here is the list of analog multicams that need alignment: old 97s barleypalooza 6/1/97 Gourds barleypalooza 6/1/97 (one angle is already up on the channel) Old 97s- fitzgeralds 7/4/97 (2 angles) Silos- lexington ky 7/26/97 Silos- Louisville Ky 7/25/97 I think that’s all of them.
Recorded by: NH Video transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony EV-S2000- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video
Let’s mix it up today and post a couple of short clips from some of the archives people have sent me. The first one is a semi-obscure band called the Sutcliffes. I was trying to prep/align some analog camera angles of a Gourds 3 camera thing from this show, and I noticed that this was at the end of one of the tapes. I have heard of them because they played with Old 97s at times in the 90s, but I had never heard them. Discogs describes them as “Skiffle revival band from Dallas, Texas, founded in 1990.”, and they are not wrong. Their first album is even called Wall of Skiffle.
Recorded by: Neil Werries Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony EV-S2000- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Please read- request for help below. Here’s another collection that I let fall off the radar- Neil Werries sent me his Hi8 masters to digitize a couple years ago. He did a lot of great stuff in the late 90s/early 2000’2 in the alt.country/americana genre. I sent his tapes back right away, but the last thing I posted was in 2023. Sorry Neil! Why haven’t I posted this show yet? Well, he has a few shows that are multicamera but since both angles are filmed with analog equipment, it is not easy to time align the angles for edit. IF YOU ARE GOOD AT TIME STRETCH/ALIGNMENT AND YOU WANT TO HELP WITH THIS, please email me at shaynestacy@hotmail.com and I can let you know what’s up. Maybe someone will have some down time over the holidays and can help out. These are the multicamera shows that need alignment: this show (old 97s barleypalooza 6/1/97) Gourds barleypalooza 6/1/97 (one angle is already up on the channel) Old 97s- fitzgeralds 7/4/97 (2 angles) Silos- lexington ky 7/26/97 Silos- Louisville Ky 7/25/97 I think that’s all of them.
OK, on to this one. I happened to have a DAT clone of the soundboard of this show (not from Neil) so I figured that I would synch it up with one of the angles. Turned out alright. I love this era of the 97s, so it was nice to get at least 1 angle out there in good quality. It’s a pretty special show since Jon Rauhouse joined the band on pedal steel for a good portion of the show, playing a bunch of stuff off Too Far to Care 2 weeks before the album was released. Dayum. I might work to rebalance the audio in sections if someone signs up to align angles for edit- that pedal steel is WAY up in the mix.
Recorded by: Neil Werries Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Video transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony EV-S2000- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video Audio recorded by: ? (DAT Soundboard Clone) Audio/Video synch via Pluraleyes 4
For the middle of this long weekend, here is a nice quality show from Neil Werries- this is the first of THREE sets that the Gourds did at this fest, so I figured I would post them separately. I think there might be soundboard audio of this show floating around out there somewhere- if any of you old DAT traders have it (Mike Shiner, Michael Pemberton, etc), let me know! I know there is a board of the 97s.. I have that one.
Recorded by: Neil Werries Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell Workstation no enhancements needed.
I still have a lot of old 97s master videos to post, but I am waiting on audio from KN. It’s probably better to wait since I am working on an AI upscaling system- hopefully those old videos will work in 4k. Speaking of that, trying to find the right motherboard and memory to buy when you have an older (new in box) core i7 CPU is enough to make you crazy. I spent hours just now, trying to ensure everything is compatible and powerful enough to do the job. It shouldn’t be that hard. While we wait, here is a great apparently uncirculated video of the band playing sxsw in early 1997. Ken botches the start of The Other Shoe, which causes Rhett to screw up the vocals. They recover pretty well, but it is funny to watch. Oh, and Exene comes out and sings Four Leaf Clover to close the set!
Recorded by: ? Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: JVC HRS9800 w/tbc and Canopus ADVC300 Enhanced (brightness/contrast) in Adobe Premiere, Denoise via Neat Video
I posted this video from Neil Werries’ collection of master tapes a little over a year ago, back when he sent me his tapes to digitize and post. At the time, I put out a request to the universe- did any of my old taper friends/tape traders have a soundboard tape of the set? Erik Flannigan (mastermind behind the National’s “Juicy Sonic Magic” release) PM’d me last month and told me that he had a DAT clone of the show through the board! See? I knew if I put it out there and waited long enough, we would all be rewarded. Thanks Erik! Also a huge thanks to Derek Purtell, who synched the audio and video since pluraleyes barfed all over it.
Video recorded by: Neil Werries Video transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony EV-S2000- Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video Audio recorded by: ? (could be Mike Shiner or Bob Whitfield) DAT transfer by Erik. Audio/Video synch by Derek Purtell
