Here is the thing that took all day yesterday to digitize and process.
When I lived in L.A., I went to this festival. I don’t know why- it wasn’t like I was a mega fan of any one artist on the bill. I liked some, but not sure why I was there. It was held by Rhino Records and Ben & Jerry’s and had a who’s who of folk acts. I brought my DAT and I have already posted a few sets to the archive.
I met this guy in the audience with a small/low tripod and a shirt & hat that said “video crew”. I went up and introduced myself, since his gear looked nothing like the official professional stuff that was being used closer to the stage. Sure enough, he just wore a shirt and hat with Video Crew and walked right in with his stuff- he wasn’t part of the camera crew at the event. Man, that takes balls of steel to pull that off.
Anyway, this is only pt. 2 of the McGuinn performance, but I think this is all of the Petty footage. My pt1 VHS tape snapped and I need to repair it… Lots of great stuff on there, including the Kingsmen (spinal tap’s folk parody band). I did the entire pt2 VHS tape with a bunch of great stuff. I think it has Joni Mitchell’s performance (first in 20 years at the time)
Recorded by: ? (Gary Gallerie maybe)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (denoise)