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Jay Farrar- Mississippi Nights, St. Louis Mo 11/13/04 f/master DV tape-DVD Uncle Tupelo Son Volt

Today’s On This Date in History comes from an old friend who passed away over 11 years ago now. Chris Constance was a friend of Uncle Tupelo and helped to contribute quite a few early videos of the band, and at least 1 of the pre-Uncle Tupelo band, then Primatives.

He was able to video Jay Farrar and Son Volt a few times in the mid-2000’s, and this is one of those shows. A full set of Jat and (thee) Mark Spencer at Mississippi Nights. This show happened right at the time that it was announced that Son Volt was reforming and releasing a new album (which became Okemah and the Melody of Riot).

Recorded by: Chris Constance
Extract from DVD & prep for upload by Shayne

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Son Volt- Slim's, San Francisco Ca 12/8/95 xfer from Master DAT Soundboard Rebalanced

OK, I lied yesterday. I have 2 more Slim’s posts. Here’s the first one.

My memory is fuzzy on this show. I can’t remember how I made it happen, but I did get permission to record this show through the board. I was almost always told “no” by SV. I think it was because Slim’s had a nice sound system.
One funny point about this show- SV’s notoriously grumpy (to me at least) soundman back then, Gary Scheppers, told me to squeeze behind him to plug into the board. He is a big guy, and I was deceptively big back then. We both got wedged in between the back wall of the booth and soundboard. flailing around trying to get unstuck. HAHA, it was funny. He moved to let me in after that.
I was plugged into the output of the cassette deck, which is why you hear the cut at 45min. It was for the tape flip.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Sony TCD-D3
Rebalance in Izotope (drums -5, bass +6)

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Son Volt- 9:30 Club, Washington DC 11/3/95 xfer f/1st gen audio tape Sony WMD6C Uncle Tupelo Farrar

Man, am I running behind today. Here is today’s On This Date in History.

I wish I could remember who I got this from. This was one of my very late cassette trades, at a time when I was a DAT snob and didn’t trade cassettes with hardly anyone. I was also trying to collect every.single.son volt show at the time. I finally gave up on that project in 1999 I think. There are still hundreds of Son Volt/Wilco tapes to digitize, so stay tuned.

I really liked the tapes the D6 made when it worked properly. There is 1 EQ band that needs to be dropped a bit and the low end boosted up and you usually have a nice result.

Recorded by: ? (send me a message if you know)
Recording Equipment: Sony WMD6C and sounds like an ECM909 or 939.
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Uncle Tupelo- Mississippi Nights, St. Louis Mo 5/1/94 xfer from master tape + matrix Audio!

This one has a story behind it. I burned all of my vacation in April, following Pavement around california and Arizona. I then get the call from Tony M- Jay decided to leave Uncle Tupelo, and they were playing 4 final shows. I booked my flight for the final 2 shows over the weekend. In fact, I went to the last show, then took a redeye home (no sleep) and went to work the next day. Crazy. Anyway, it was all worth it. The video turned out great as did my DAT soundboard. Audio matrixed (SBD + Michael Pemberton’s audience tape) by KN, and put all together by Jesse Hamm.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Edited/Remixed By: Jesse Hamm

Additional help by: Michael Pemberton

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Uncle Tupelo- Mississippi Nights, St. Louis Mo 4/30/94 xfer from Hi8 Master w/Soundboard Audio!

Hi Everyone! I checked youtube, and I am really surprised that this full show was not posted yet. Usually any old, popular master of mine is posted by some random youtuber and they get 100k views. 🙂 So this was an interesting time. I had burned all of my vacation time following Pavement around the southwest in early 1994 and was not planning to see UT until they toured California again. Then my good friend Jim Utz calls me and tells me that rumors are flying about a breakup. I called Tony M (back when he was accessible) and he confirmed it. So I flew to see that last 2 shows. I flew in after work on Friday, saw the shows Sat/Sun night, then flew back 1st thing Monday morning to get to work that day. This show turned out great. Everyone was buying me drinks so I got super hammered but you can’t really tell in my camera work. Enjoy!

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

 

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Uncle Tupelo- World Cafe Live in Studio, WXPN-FM, Philadelphia 4/94 Xfer from Band Archive Tape

This session took place less than a month before the band broke up. The exact date is unknown, but it was probably sometime around the first week of April.
Pre-FM soundboard.

Recorded by: Tony Marghertia(?)
Transferred by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: 1994 DAT transfer- Playback with consumer Aiwa belt drive deck (big regret)- Sony DTC690 using monster audio cables.
Equipment used: 2019 DAT to WAV transfer: Sony PCM-R500 — Audiophile 2496 card — WAV
Transfer Lineage: Band Archive Tape – My DAT (90 meter DAT in 32khz- big regret) – You

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Uncle Tupelo- KUSF Live in Studio San Francisco Ca 11/11/93 xfer f/1st gen audio tape Wilco Son Volt

I was going to post a Bloodloss video today (w/Mark Arm!) but the audio was so comically low on the DVD I had that it wasn’t even worth it. Need to re-transfer that VHS tape someday. Man, Mark has a thing for fronting classic Aussie garage/punk bands I suppose.

This one was taped by my old friend Tim McGinnis (R.I.P.). Dude was hilarious- back in the 90s, I was trading a LOT of tapes. I was probably trading with about 50 people at the same time. I heard that Tim said about me “Shayne is cool, but it kinda feels like dealing with the Walmart of traders”! Heyoo, c’mon. Maybe the costco of traders, but don’t lump me in with the Walton family. haha.

This one has a few songs live in studio and a short interview.

Recorded by: Tim McGinnis
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Uncle Tupelo- Slim's, San Francisco Ca. 11/11/93 Audio Only xfer from DAT Master Soundboard

I had 2 of my best concert experiences ever at Slim’s. One was the Donner Party video I posted the other day– so excited to see them, and knowing it was their one and only reunion show made it even more exciting.
The other one was this show. At this point, I had followed Uncle Tupelo for a week of shows through the midwest, for a run of shows in February of 2013 in california, and then this run in California. They would never let me plug into the soundboard. Luckily, Jake Roberts (early UT collector) secured permission ahead of time as part of a KZSU Stanford deal, so I was able to plug in as well.
The mix is excellent- no izotope required for this one. The soundman made a huge mistake and left the house music on during the first song of the set! I don’t think I ever saw that happen before or since.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCDD3
Xfer via Sony PCMR500/M-Audio audiophile 2496 card.

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Uncle Tupelo- Scotty’s, Bloomington Il 10/13/93 xfer f/Cassette-DAT Soundboard master Farrar Tweedy

Today’s On This Date in History is a major upgrade to an old, well-circulated show. I had a 5th(!) generation cassette copy of this back in tape trading days, but we (probably Steve Brothers or Michael Pemberton) was able to get the master tape bounced to DAT.

That provided a clean enough version of this to run through Izotope and get some decent results. The only issue that I hear is that the violin is WAY too loud. Otherwise, it turned out pretty good.

Recorded by: ?
DAT Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8- Bass +2, Guitar +6

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Uncle Tupelo- Bottleneck, Lawrence KS 10/8/93 xfer from band archive tape

The shower of UT archive shows continues! I am almost sure that this one is a 1st gen. I vaguely recall someone’s name and address being on the cassette J-card. Man, I should have taken pictures of the tapes.

Recorded by: ?
Transferred by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: 1994 DAT transfer- Playback with consumer Aiwa belt drive deck (big regret)- Sony DTC690 using monster audio cables.
Equipment used: 2019 DAT to WAV transfer: Sony PCM-R500 — Audiophile 2496 card — WAV
Transfer Lineage: Band Archive Tape – My DAT (90 meter DAT in 32khz- big regret) – You

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