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House of Freaks- Flood Zone, Richmond Va 2/10/95 xfer from DAT Clone Soundboard

I spent quite a bit of time making sure that today’s “on this day in history” post sounded good. The mix goes from all guitar, no vocals; to all drums, no guitar about 20min in. I had to split the show in 2 and perform 2 different rebalances in order to make it sound somewhat consistent.

It was the least I could do. This was House of Freaks’ last show ever. If you have never heard them, you are in for a treat. They were really great. Actually, this discogs overview sums it up well: “House of Freaks was a two-man band formed in Richmond, Virginia in the mid 1980s. Bryan Harvey played guitar and sang, and Johnny Hott played percussion. The band managed to achieve a remarkably full sound, mostly because of Hott’s inventive drumming and Harvey’s confident vocals and knack of playing bass lines on his guitar (cribbed from his many years as a bass player) while simultaneously playing a melody.” They also teamed up with Steve Wynn as part of a band called Gutterball.

I have tried to write something about Bryan and Kathryn and family regarding the tragedy in 2006, and I can’t do it. Rest in peace.

Recorded by: Marcus Winfree
DAT Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8:
1st 22min: Vocal +8.5, Drums +3, Guitar -2.
Rest of show: Vocal +4, Guitar +9

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Drive Like Jehu- Twisters, Richmond Va 6/6/94 xfer from DAT Soundboard Master Clone Live RFTC Reis

Here’s one that I wouldn’t have digitized for a long time, but Henry Owings asked for it. The tape is 30 years old, so unfortunately there are a couple of bursts of static/diginoise.
Believe it or not, this mix was even worse- I rebalanced this in Izotope rx7: Bass +8db, Guitar +6.5db… and there still isnt enough guitar in the mix! Oh well, I tried.

Recorded by: Marcus Winfree
Transfer by Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
rebalanced in Izotope rx7: Bass +8db, Guitar +6.5db

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Rocket from the Crypt- Twister’s, Richmond Va. 2/1/94 xfer from DAT Master Clone John Reis

As I am working through all of these trade requests, I get to pick and choose the shows that seem worthy of posting. This was one that I had low expectations about- usually a mid-90s audience recording is just meh. The performance and quality of this one is fantastic, so I figured I’d post it. I checked youtube and there isn’t much in the way of decent mid-90s audio from RFTC.

Recorded by: Marcus Winfree (I think)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Toad the Wet Sprocket- Trax, Charlottesville Va 11/14/91 xfer f/Cassette Master-DAT Soundboard

I digitized this one for you last night and this morning. It’s a decent soundboard tape but the guitars were distant. I was able to pull the guitars up a bit in Izotope, but they are still a little thin. Good listen anyway.

I think I got this one from Marcus Winfree. Before he moved to Austin, he was in the bay area and then Charlottesville for a bit. He has a bunch of great board tapes from the area in the mid-90s. He also got these cassette masters from someone there and bumped them to DAT.

Recorded by: ?
Cassette transfer by: Marcus Winfree
DAT transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +1, Guitar +8.

You know what, I am not real happy with that rebalance. Here is the raw board tape, without my interference.

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7 Seconds- The Boathouse, Norfolk Va. 7/27/88 xfer from unknown gen VHS tape

I’m trying to mix it up each day and provide a mix of audio and video. I love seeing 7 Seconds shows when they are on tour. I don’t know why, but the Sacramento shows they played over the past 10 years did not have the same crowd energy as these. This one is a lot of fun to watch- the crowd and the band are totally into it!
The guy who filmed this seems to have posted the Circle Jerks set from this night, but not the 7 Seconds portion. I wonder why. I will be forever bummed that the Circle Jerks did not give me permission to film that June 1988 show. This guy must have had connections!

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9811U and Canopus ADVC300

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Dinosaur Jr.- Rockitz, Richmond Va 9/20/87 xfer from 2nd gen audio cassette J Mascis Dinasaur

Collections post time- this one is from Anonymous’ collection. I am pretty sure that know who he got it from (Todd Goss), but I don’t know who taped it.

Check out that newspaper article- you know when the paper comically misspells your name that you are not quite a household name. Classic.

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

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Camper Van Beethoven- King’s Head Inn, Norfolk Va 8/11/86 xfer from 2nd gen soundboard cassette

it’s a LATE post from the collections today. I had posted a bunch of spoken word stuff from Anonymous’ collection so I decided to digitize some of the other tapes in his collection… 7 hours and 10gb later and I now have a few months worth of stuff to post.

This one isn’t great quality but it isn’t online or on archive dot org. I decided to put it up to recognize the CVB shows happening at The Fillmore this weekend. I have tickets but I am still waiting for a camera pass. Sigh.

The show starts out with some in-your-face violin from Jonathan during Abundance, then the mix settles down a bit. I tried to fix it in Izotope but I don’t know if I made it better or worse. Oh well.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +11, Drums +8, “other”(guitar/violin?) +5.

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