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Uncle Tupelo- Tonder Festival, Tonder Denmark. 8/27/93 xfer from band archive tape

Here is another really cool show from the UT archive. The soundboard mix starts off a bit shaky, but fills out nicely.

Setlist
Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down/ Grindstone/ True to Life/ Chickamagua/ Watch Me Fall/ Give Back the Key to My Heart/ Anodyne/ The Long Cut/ Slate/ Atomic Power/ New Madrid/ Sandusky/ No Depression/ Acuff-Rose/ Steal the Crumbs/ Fifteen Keys/ We’ve Been Had/ Willin’

Recorded by: Tony Margherita?
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- Roskilde Festival, Denmark 7/3/93 Complete Show Soundboard xfer from band archive

I am posting these in the same order as I digitized them back in 1994. This one is the full Roskilde 93 set through the soundboard. There is also a shorter FM radio broadcast.

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- Rhythm Cafe, Santa Ana Ca 2/27/93 Acoustic set DAT Master opening for Johnny Cash

Did I ever tell you about the time that I saw Uncle Tupelo play a 22 minute opening set for Johnny Cash? It was at this club called Rhythm Cafe in Santa Ana, which then became Galaxy Concert Theater and is now The Observatory.I was seated at a table with 3 other people. Luckily, the table was at the front of one of the levels that the club has, and I was in the front seat of the table.. so I could just put my mic on the wall, pointing at the stage. Sounds pretty damned good.
This was before Johnny Cash had released anything on American Recordings, so only the old die-hard fans from the early days were at the show. Still a good crowd, but they were a bit older (I think the average age was about 60) and they did not know what to think of UT’s aggressive style, even though UT were playing an acoustic set. Sounds like they won some people over.
PS: They started abruptly, so I hit record and it took me about 30 seconds to pull the mic out and set it up. So the 1st 30 seconds isn’t so great.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 and Nakamichi CM-300 mic
Transfer equipment: Sony PCMR500 and M-Audio Adiophile 2496 card

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Uncle Tupelo- Bogart’s, Long Beach Ca. 2/25/93 xfer from Hi8 master Videotape enhanced Wilco Farrar

Haha, I have had this one on my desk for over a month because I thought I needed to synch DAT audio with the video. It turns out that I forgot my DAT rig that night. I remember now- I was too worried to turn around and get the gear, because I was afraid of missing the show. It turns out that I got there WAY too early and ended up waiting forever for the show to start. Oh well.
Ken Coomer breaks a snare drum during the set and it takes forever to get it replaced.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TR-81 camcorder
Enhanced(denoise only) via Adobe Premiere/Neat Video

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Uncle Tupelo- Thirsty Ear, Left of the Dial 1993 Audio xfer from band archive tape

Many of the Uncle Tupelo archive tapes were unlabeled, or labeled vaguely. UT fans were able to ID many dates for shows that were not labeled at all, but this one remains a mystery. There does not seem to be a radio show called Thirsty Ear or Left of the Dial, but this sounds like an in-studio performance. 2 songs only.

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- Melkweg, Amsterdam Holland 12/10/92 Acoustic Sbd from band archive

Here’s another show from the UT archive. Man, this one sounds great. This is from a short run of shows they did, opening for Sugar.
Setlist: Whiskey Bottle/ No Depression/ Watch Me Fall/ Moonshiner/ Grindstone/ Weary Blues from Waiting

Recorded by: Tony Margherita(?)
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- Blue Note, Columbia Mo. 11/13/92 Xfer from Hi8 Master tape!

This was the last show I saw of the week long run in 1992. 5 shows in 6 nights. I was going to try to go to Kansas City the next day, but that would have been a long drive there, then driving through the night with no sleep to make my flight in Chicago. By the time I got to Columbia, I was pretty tired. I went to the “liquor and guns” store made famous by lyrics in “Whiskey Bottle”… and did not even realize it until well after the fact. D’oh! I got to the club late and it was packed. So packed that I could not get close and I could not set up my tripod. I ended up using my tripod as a folded up monopod-like thing. It turned out ok, except some people kept getting in the way of the filming.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Sony TR-81

 

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Uncle Tupelo- Blue Note, Columbia Mo. 11/13/92 xfer f/ Hi8 Master Video Tape w/ DAT Audio Live

Here is the last UT show from the November of 1992 run that I taped. I was supposed to go to Kansas City the next night and then drive 12 hours straight through the night to catch my plane in Chicago, but my body told me that wasn’t going to happen. I went to the Didjits show with Jim Utz instead.
Anyway, I got to Columbia in the early afternoon and tried to find a liquor store for some beer. I saw this place with the sign “Liquor Guns and Ammo”, so I went in and saw that they only had lousy beer, so I bailed. It didn’t even occur to me until years later the store I was in was probably the same one described in UT’s song “Whiskey Bottle”. Duh.
I conked out before the show and got there a little late. I get in the club and it is PACKED. Like, sold out packed… and I am late and I have no place to film. I had to wedge myself between some people and use my tripod like a monopod- hanging it over the railing on the balcony a bit to get a clear shot. I think it still turned out pretty good. The only downside of that approach was the DAT recording. I could not tend to the DAT so the battery dies during the last song, so you get crappy stock camera audio for that one.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TR-81, Sony TCD-D3 DAT w/Nakamichi CM300 mic.
Enhanced (degrain) via Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Audio/Video synch via pluraleyes.

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Uncle Tupelo- The Bottleneck, Lawrence KS 11/12/92 xfer from Hi8 master video w/ DAT Audio Live Enh

Oh man, preparing this was a pain in the ass of epic proportions. I will put a screenshot of most, but not all of the working files in the FB comment if you want a good laugh. This one probably had the most dramatic improvement over the original, once enhanced.
I somehow stopped the camera at about 22 minutes, which caused the audio/video synch to misalign. I have no recollection of what happened at that 22min mark, but you can see the camera being moved around, and you can even see Gary Scheppers at work in the soundbooth.
This was the most unique set of the entire tour. The band had a bunch of equipment break/broken strings, so they started pulling out the covers at about 50 minutes… Doug Sahm and more.
My recollection of this show was getting there super late because I spent the day with Jim Utz, getting gas about 45min outside of Lawrence and thinking it was kinda odd that NOBODY was around… until I drove back through there during the day and noticed that it was the shittiest part of kansas city ever. My only other memory from this city is going to a mexican food place that was a total hole in the wall- in a steel building in the middle of nowhere- and this group was having a party and they kept giving me shots of tequila.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TR-81 camcorder w/ Hi8ME tape; Audio recorded with YCD-D3 DAT and Nakamichi CM-300 mic
Brighten/contrast adjustment and video denoise with Adobe Premierer Elements/Neat Video
Audio/Video synch with Pluraleyes

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Uncle Tupelo- Mabel’s, Champaign Il. 11/11/92 xfer from Hi8 Master!

This was my 3rd stop on that November 92 tour, following UT through the Midwest. I remember 2 things about that day- it was SUPER foggy. Fog like this does not exist in California. It was amazing I found my way to a hotel. The second was that I ate at a Mongolian BBQ place for dinner where an old toothless man had a stick that he used to cook the food in front of me. The stick was half gone due to overuse- meaning that I (or someone) may have been eating splinters. Yum. This video sounds really good. I am a bit shocked that the stock mic in the TR-81 performed so well.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Sony TR-81

 

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