Recorded by Tom Zappas.
Promoting the new album “Grew Up Down”.
Tag: Tower Records
Metallica – Tower Records Parking Lot, Sacramento, CA 6-4-96
Go figure. I punch in Sacramento in the search area on my youtube channel and a Metallica show is the first thing to pop up. Really enjoyed the experience of filming these rare flatbed truck gigs.
What a cool day this was. Metallica planned to perform LIVE 3 shows in one day to promote the upcoming release of the LOAD record in 3 different tower records parking lots…3pm San Jose, 6pm Concord, 9pm Sacramento. Since I lived in Concord that one excited me the most. But since the city of Concord would not issue the permits the band were only able to pull off San Jose and Sacramento which were both filmed. MFTMON was next to me shooting as well.
Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff
Equipment Used: Sony ?
Matthew Sweet- Tower Records, Chicago Il. 8/24/95 Live in-store Audio Only WXRT-FM xfer from master
After 8.5 hours straight of meetings today, I finally get a break.
I kinda blew my wad on the cool archival video stuff early this week, so you get audio for a few days. Man, I love Matthew Sweet. He always seems to get lumped into the “90s alternative” bucket of bands, but all I hear is a great songwriter. Killer power pop.
This is an in-store concert broadcast broadcast on WXRT in Chicago, who were probably the best station in the country for live broadcasts back then. I hope they are still relevant, and didn’t go the route of KROQ.
Recorded by: Paul Galis (I think) off radio onto cassette, transferred to my DAT.
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer equipment: Sony PCMR500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496
The Muffs- Tower Records, Woodland Hills Ca 5/4/95 xfer from 1st gen VHS tape Kim Shattuck Live in-store
For those of you following along, I do one “on this date” post and one collections post- which is an audio/video from my or someone’s collection I am curating. Yesterday, there was no collections post for the first time in over a year. Why? I was invited to go up to Portland and video 2 Grandaddy shows at Revolution Hall (Thanks Shawn). Between the crappy hotel wifi and me being so busy, I was only able to get an On This Date post out, after midnight. So, consider this yesterday’s collections post from Scott Hamilton’s collection. Thanks for sending these tapes my way, Scott!
This one was pretty difficult to work up. The band was playing in front of sunlit windows, so every time the camera moved the light exposure changed dramatically. I did my best with it- I pushed the brightness/exposure/contrast as much as I could so you can at least see shadowed Kim at its darkest, without it looking stupidly overexposed when the camera would correct itself.
Man, it’s fun finding stuff like this after so long.
Recorded by: A young girl who got a ride to the show from her mom (that’s all we got)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (brightness/exposure/contrast/denoise)
Fem 2 Fem- Tower Records, Hollywood 5/25/94 xfer from master video tape live
Here is one that I debated posting, and had actually deleted it from YT a couple years ago… but I noticed that there is a small but loyal following of the group online and there is nothing too offensive here (there is nudity), so up it goes.
Recorded by: Prefer not to disclose
Recording equipment: Sony TR-81 with stock mic
Transfer by Shayne Stacy
Richie Havens- Tower Records, Anaheim Ca. 6/5/93 xfer from DAT Master Live Acoustic
One nice thing about living in L.A. was the sheer volume of promotional appearances by artists. There were constant in-store performances and special showcases unavailable anywhere else. These usually took place in L.A./Hollywood during my working hours, so I missed out on just about all of them… but this was one in Anaheim (close to home) in the early evening.
Richie was in town as a promo for the Troubadours of folk fest at UCLA. I went to the fest and taped, but a lot of it wasn’t great. I do have 1st gen video to transfer one day. He played the instore solo acoustic with no P.A. I was obnoxiously up front in full view with a namamichi CM300 shotgun mic pointing at him. It sounds pretty good, but since there was no P.A., the crowd applause in between songs was so loud that it blew up the recording. I just went ahead and edited the between-song applause out for everyone’s comfort. Trust me, you don’t wanna hear it.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 DAT and Nakamichi CM-300 mic
Volume boost and crwd edits in Sony Soundforge 10
Young Fresh Fellows- Tower Records, Tokyo Japan 2/21/93 xfer from DAT Master Clone
On This Day in History- we have a pretty nice quality in-store performance from the Young Fresh Fellows in Japan. I am pretty sure that my old friend Saki Honma recorded this one- she is/was a huge Uncle Tupelo fam, even flying in from Japan to see their last shows. I have not been in contact with her for over 25 years.. I wonder how she is doing..
Recorded by: Saki Honma
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card