This is an extremely low res transfer of some random Frenchmen video clips. I could make these look a lot nicer if I got the source tapes.
The Frenchmen were:
Charles Albright, drums
Niki Ortiz, guitar, tambourine
Leon Levy, guitar, vocals
Amy Paris, bass, vocals
From Charles Albright’s collection
It’s odd- some of these things that I figured would be online and accessible just do not exist. It happens twice with these “On this date in history” posts over the long weekend. Here is the first.
First of all, this sounds like a live set- not an in studio session. I tried shazam’ing it and noting comes up, so it probably wasn’t officially released anywhere. All you pavement completists, tell me what this is, if it is indeed labeled incorrectly.
Speaking of Pavement, it looks like I might be getting some of my soundboard recordings on an official release. That’s pretty cool. I hope it materializes.
Oh, one last thing. I know that this photo is not time appropriate, but it is the only photo of the band with Steve Lamacq out there. The photo is from 2022, session from 1999.
Recorded by: Someone with a DAT recorder off the radio
CD rip and prep for upload: Shayne Stacy
For today’s “on this day in history” post, here is a band that I was totally mistaken about when I was a headbanging teenager. Metal was huge in my world when the Go-Go’s hit the big time, so I wrote them off as “lame new wave” and never gave them a chance. Fast forward about 13 years and Rodney on the Roq plays their new single “The World has Lost its Head” and I was floored. It was only then that I learned of their punk rock roots and dove into their old stuff with the release of the “in the valley” 2-CD set. Then they put out God Bless the Go Go’s which was amazing, and I became a late but lifelong fan.
This session is a great representation of the band’s fun interpersonal dynamic and how killer those harmonies are even in a live radio studio setting.
Photo from the Go Go’s instagram, from around the same time frame a week before this session.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
This tape did not sound good at all when I digitized it. I EQ’d most of the distortion out of the original tape but it also muted J’s vocals, and drums were low in the original tape anyway. I did a post-EQ Izotope job and I think it sounds not terrible.
I spent WAY too much time trying to figure out where the band played on 10/12/88. There was no flyer image or even a picture of the club online.. and then I found the facebook group for Leek UK club goers. They saved me- thank you!
From Jason Ross’ collection
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge 10
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocals +7, Drums +4
It’s 9:30 and we still have 2 posts to do tonight! Actually 3 since it is Mick Martin today.
This one is from Tony Philputt’s collection and it was on the same tape as those Billy Bragg clips. Sky TV was around from 1984-1990 according to Wikipedia so this is somewhere in that time frame. It’s a short interview with Peter Hook and Stephen Morris and some promo/live clips. I could not find this anywhere on YT.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Busy day, late post. This one is from Gary Shurtleff’s VHS tape that he got from me in trade back in the early 90s. My VHS of this is long gone, in the great divorce purge of 2002. Man, I wish I had those VHS tapes back. So many things that were never on Youtube and I thought was common. Ugh.
Anyway, this one was saved, albeit 1 gen higher than my old tape. My tape was not good quality, so this is mediocre at best. It doesn’t seem to be out there on the internet, so hopefully fans of the band can enjoy it still.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
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