Big thanks to Angelo Bertini for telling me what to do on Patreon! While this video isn’t pristine quality, it seems to be the highest resolution out there. I can’t recall where I got this one- it might have been in a trade with Mike Pritchard. It seems that this was broadcast on community cable- there must be a better copy out there somewhere.
Recorded by: ?
TLDR version: Tape was damaged, gets better at 5-7min mark.
Collections post first today, and the On This Date is going to be late!
This one comes from my collection. I found this on Ebay years ago- I saw someone selling it and knew exactly what it was. The 9:30 club had a (somewhat legendary) semi professional video system with a Umatic camera and soundboard audio. A bunch of VHS copies hit trading circles back in the 80s of bands like Embrace, Government issue, etc.. so when this came up on Ebay, I wasn’t going to get outbid. Haha.
Then I went to play it on the other umatic machine I had and it would not play- the tape seemed completely damaged and victim of sticky shed syndrome (look it up), so I shelved it. Then, my friend Mark at FET Electronics fixed my good umatic machine and here it is. Would you look at that. Beautiful.
I need to contact the person who has the rest of these.
Recorded by: The 9:30 club
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony BVU-800 – Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter
Light Denoise in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
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