For today’s On This Date in History: Here’s another one of those KCRW recordings that seems to have been too early for their online archive, and it also doesn’t seem to be on youtube. I got a CDR of this one from a guy who taped it with DAT off the radio. I don’t think it was my old friend Kevin Haynes- we had lost touch by then. Nice quality.
Recorded by: ?
CDR extract & prep: Shayne
For today’s On This Day in History, I have a short radio session from Wilco. Well actually, it is Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett from Wilco doing a couple songs in studio. This is great timing, as the Postcard From Hell group was just discussing favorite Wilco albums, and I would have to say this one- Summerteeth- is mine. I can’t stand to listen to anything after this one.
Jay Bennett R.I.P.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiphile 2496 card
Man, lots of audio this week. I’ll make it up with extra videos this weekend, including a really cool one tomorrow.
It was a choice between this and a Geraldine Fibbers DAT sbd from CBGB for today’s On This Date in History. I commented on the tape list that “JEFF ALIENATES THE CROWD (THEY OPENED FOR KENNY W.S.)” so I picked this one… but after listening again, I wouldn’t call it alienating. More like good-natured teasing. I was a bit too hyperbolic in my youth.
It’s a pretty nice mix, I didn’t need to do anything to fix it. I don’t recall where I got this one- it looks like the tape #s before this came from a trade with Steve Brothers, but all of those were from his master tape. Hmm.
PS: I know the image is from 2004. There are no photos/posters/anything from 1998 online.
Recorded by: ? (maybe Adam Roehlke?)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
For the last 25 years or so, I have been part of an online group of friends called Postcard from Hell (or Postcard for short). It started as a discussion board for Uncle Tupelo, but has become a network of a few hundred people who have now known each other forever. I am not too active on the list, more of a lurker, but I have met many people in person and made a lot of friends.
A few Postcarders went to Cancun for the Sky Blue Sky fest happening now. Postcarder Rob and his wife Crystal were in a very serious car accident down there- Rob is in ICU now. I can’t stop thinking about them and pulling for their well-being. Since they were there to see Wilco (and others), I thought I would start pulling some tapes from when I taped Wilco back in the mid-90s. Here they are at the Horde fest, with Black Crowes guesting on a couple of songs!
Please get better and come home soon, Rob and Crystal.
I don’t know if Rob is in any condition to listen to these, but I can do an all-Wilco week if it helps make the hospital stay better.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 into soundboard
Another Joel Gerson tape. I have a ton of Wilco H.O.R.D.E. board tapes that Joel’s friends taped. From what I remember, they are/were a couple and they went around to a lot of the horde shows and some non-horde Wilco shows in 1995. Look at my list for 2nd gen Wilco soundboards from 1995, that’s them.
The mix is decent, but the bass guitar drops out of the mix a few minutes in. I rebalanced it the best I could, but if I made the bass sound right for the last part, the mix would be ALL BASS for the first part. So I went in the middle of the too. So, a little too bassy to start and then not quite enough bass after the first few min. No time to cut it in half and rebalance both parts. If you really love this show and want a proper 2-part reblanace job, you can always “Tell Me What to Do” on the Patreon campaign…
Recorded by: Joe Gershon’s friends
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +7, Guitar +4.
When I mentioned yesterday that I had this video & my master dat tape that needed to be synched, I didn’t realize that it had already been done many years ago. I think that JEMS might have sent this DVD my way 10+ years ago.
The video was filmed by RG and I taped on DAT with Coresound mics for the audio track. This was probably one of the best quality tapes I got out of those mics- they were pretty bassy & muddy at times. There is a 4 minute audio cut where I didn’t realize my battery died and had to do a quick swap. I don’t miss the old battery pack days.
Recorded by: RG and Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Camcorder and Coresound battery box mics with bass rolloff into a Sony TCD-D3
Synch by JEMS (I think)
Back in the pre-internet days, getting information about shows(especially smaller ones at non traditional venues) was spotty. I once missed an Uncle Tupelo show while I was following them on tour because I didn’t know!
So on the way out of the Wilco show at the Whiskey the night before, someone handed me a flyer. Wilco were playing Rhino Records the next day- I had no idea! While taping this show, I learned that Wayne Kramer was playing a week later! I went to that, then lost contact with what was happening there. That’s how it was then- you must go regularly or you lose out.
This recording sounds really nice for the equipment used- some people have mistaken it for a soundboard. I just had my head about 6 inches from a speaker on one side, and the band was playing into my other ear.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony TCD-D3 DAT & Coresound battery box binaural mics w/bass rolloff.
It always amazes me when I search on youtube- so many obscure things are out there and posted 10 different ways, and then I check on something like this. You would think this would be common, but I only see 1 track from this session up there and with no lineage. Here’s the entire 40 minute thing.
May 1995 was a good time to be a Wilco fan in southern cal. They played 4 times in 48 hours- this is the first performance, then at the Whisky that night. They played the next day during the day- noon maybe? at Rhino Records in Westwood, and finally at Galaxy Concert Theater (now The Observatory) in Santa Ana. I was at all of them. Except for this one obviously.
I need to synch up my high quality DAT audio with RG’s video of the Rhino Records in store when I get time.
Recorded by: Kevin Haynes (thanks Kevin!)
Transfer by Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
First and foremost- this is a MUST LISTEN if you are an Uncle Tupelo, WIlco, Son Volt, or classic country fan. Coffee Creek are Tweedy/Farrar/Heidorn(Uncle Tupelo), Brian Henneman(Bottle Rockets) doing classic country/rock covers! So great.
Back in the early 90s, I was friends with Tony Margherita & Bob Andrews who managed Uncle Tupelo, The Bottle Rockets and many more. I had followed UT around and filmed/audio recorded over 10 shows in the span of a couple of years, including the 2 final shows in St. Louis. Since the band was defunct (and Wilco was not the HUGE band they are today), Tony let my good friend Jim stop by and pick up “a few” cassettes in late 1994. Jim goes to the office and calls me:
J(whispering): Dude, there are like 50 tapes here. Do you have Coffee Creek?
Me: No
J: How about X(some other one)
Me: No. Just grab them all and I will sort them out.
So Jim grabs a box and shoves about 50 tapes in, and takes off. Bob and Tony were like :-O. Haha! Thanks guys.
I am shocked that these are not online yet.
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
Photo courtesy of Michael Pemberton’s excellent factorybelt dot net site. Check it out!
Man, I wish I took pictures of the tapes.
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