I thought this was one that I digitized from Jeff Melendez’ collection of minidiscs, but it ended up being something I must have gotten from DIME or someplace similar. I am surprised this one isn’t online- there are some pretty low quality cellphone videos and a website with a bunch of great (but low res) photos from the show, so this might be one of the best documents from the show. It was a warmup show for their european tour and you could only win tickets to get in. Glad at least some of it got documented.
Recorded by: ? CDR extract & prep for upload: Shayne Stacy
Late post from the collections today, but it is a short one. This one comes from Arica Pelino’s videotapes. She likes her stuff to be posted on weekdays, so you get a surprise weekday video! It’s only 2min and 35 seconds long. If the Roxy was anything like when I lived in L.A., they probably shut her down. I remember filming the San Diego and Coach House shows of Luna’s July 1994 tour with full permission, so I swagger up to the door at the roxy. Security Dick: “what’s that?” Me: “A video camera. I have full permission from the band (smile)” SD: (no smile) “We don’t care. Take it back to the car. It’s not coming in here tonight” So, I took it to the car and snuck the DAT in and audio taped. Jerks.
Anyway, The Enemies are playing for the first time in a long time… maybe since I saw them at Gilman, opening for Green Day in 2015. I can’t tell since setlist.fm has multiple bands named “enemies” all commingled. They are playing with the Subhumans, Scene Killers (Jesse Townley’s first US show in years) and Tension Span (Noah Landis from Christ on Parade’s great new thing). Buy a ticket soon if you want to go.
Recorded by: Arica Pelino Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (denoise)
Here’s a late post today. Another one from Steve Rogers’ collection- a band who was on the American Recordings roster in the mid-90s. We think this is from the Roxy.
Recorded by: Stave Rogers Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into workstation Denoise in adobe premiere elements/Neat Video
I am part of a northwest music facebook group, and I heard that Bill Rieflin passed away. I did not know who he was, so I looked him up… WOW. He was not only the drummer for many of my favorite bands (he was in SO MANY BANDS), but he was unbelievably talented. I tend to focus on drums a lot when listening to music, which is probably due to my cousin Tony Schwartz being a drummer in my formative years. I did not even realize that he was the drummer in this incarnation of The Swans that I saw until I looked up the band member timeline… and I recall that the drummer kicked ass. So this was at the Roxy, who were a complete pain in the ass about taping. I had to smuggle the gear into the club, and then hide the DAT deck in my pocket (mics on eyeglasses). I set the levels at a “reasonable level” (levels used for Foo Fighters a couple weeks earlier at the same club… I check the deck about 15min in and the levels were PEGGED! Shit. In my haste to change levels without being seen, I unplug the mics. So I lose about 1-2min of the show. So in summary, it was f*cking LOUD, is not great for the 1st 15min or so.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony TCDD7 & Coresound mics w/battery box and bass rolloff
I saw/taped the Foo Fighters twice over the course of 10 weeks in 1995, and I’ve never seen them since. Nothing against them, I just never felt compelled to go to another show. The odd thing about this show is that I remember standing somewhere that was as close to the PA Mains as possible, and it still sounds a little distant. It doesn’t sound bad, I am just picky I guess. Oh well, I tried. The show features a very early performance of My Hero- Dave mentions that they wrote it last week. After plowing through some setlists, it looks like this was the 3rd time it was played.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony TCD-D7 and coresound binaulrals with battery box bass rolloff Transfer Equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Here is another uncirculated DAT clone from Kevin Haynes’ collection of masters. When I lived in L.A., I was at home often with young kids so Kevin would hit a lot of the indie/alternative shows and tape them with his gear. This one sounds really clear, but it was lacking on the low end. I tried to EQ it a bit so it at least had a little bottom.
Recorded by: Kevin Haynes Recording Equipment: Sony TCD-D7 and ECM737? mic. Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Transfer equipment: Sony PCMR500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card EQ in sony soundforge 10
Today was one of the busiest days I have had in months. I am finally getting the On This Date in History post out late. This one has a story. I videotaped a few early Luna shows. Looks like 3 of them in 1992 and 2 in 1994. Well, it SHOULD have been 3 in 1994… I get to the club with my video bag and let them know that I have permission from Luna to video the show. Guys at the door sneered at me, then proceed to tell me that they don’t care what the band says. You are not bringing that camera in. So I had to put my $900 (1992$) camera back in the car and hope it was there when I got back. As a grand F*ck You to the bouncers, I snuck my DAT and a Nakamichi CM300 mic in anyway and audio taped the show. Because that was bullshit. Recording sounds great, but there was no bass and very low vocals. I fixed it up in Izotope Rx8 so you can actually hear Dean and Justin. Cuts in on the first song. I had some mic issues
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Recording Equipment: Sony TCD-D3 and Nakamichi CM-300 mic Transfer Equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocals +6
In 1994, I was lucky enough to tape 8 Pavement shows through the soundboard with my DAT recorder. Huge thanks to Scott and Remko for making it happen. This was the first show I did in a 5 show run in April of 1994. I drove from L.A. over to Phoenix on Wednesday, then Hollywood the next night, then 3 sets in San Francisco over the weekend. Then I flew to the Midwest the next weekend to film Uncle Tupelo’s last shows ever. I would say that was a pretty productive 2 weeks.
Anyway, this one was the weakest mix of the 1994 shows. It starts off with the guitar too low in the mix, then you hear the guitar zooming in and out of the mix for a bit from 6-12 minute mark. By the 15 minute mark, it stabilizes. My rebalance is focused on the set from 15 minutes on- there are short parts where the guitar or bass is WAY too loud before that. FYI.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 into soundboard Transfer equipment: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card Rebalance in Izotope RX8: Bass +1, Guitar +5.
I hope everyone is enjoying the super bowl. I missed the first qtr to watch the Kings lose. Here is another one from that stack of VHS tapes. I try to keep away from posting unknown lineage tapes that are clearly suffering from generation loss.. but this one has never surfaced online (that I am aware of), this is my favorite era of CVB, and this is a pretty unique show. Keith Morris comes onstage to sing Wasted with the band. That could not have been easy for Keith, CVB does the song at about half speed compared to the Circle Jerks version. Also, how did this guy get the OK to video at The Roxy? I tried ONCE in the 3 years I lived in L.A., and was told no video and they don’t care who gave permission. I hope a better copy surfaces of this one someday.
Recorded by: ? Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (denoise)
