Man, we have been hitting Jason Ross’ collection A LOT for these On This Date in History posts. Things must get busy with shows in the summer in the northern midwest part of the USA, because there are a lot of shows he filmed during this time. This is another one that will benefit from a lossless transfer and brightening/denoise on day. I’ll get to it eventually. Guitarist Jason Gnewikow went on to form The Promise Ring.
Recorded by: Jason Ross Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: One of the JVCs (HR-S9800/9911U) firewire into Dell workstation
Jason Ross sent me a lot of his master VHS tapes a few years back and I digitized them soon after I received them. I didn’t post many at the time and once I started posting them, I would do a quick check to see if it was already posted. If it was, I wouldn’t bother putting up a duplicate post. This “On This Date in History” project has me taking a closer look at these. The one that was uploaded years ago is in 240p and you can’t see much. I went ahead and did a fresh transfer on the good setup- this one should be much clearer/better! Thanks Jason! I still find it amusing that punk bands would play on a farm in Wisconsin.
Recorded by: Jason Ross Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
I wasn’t planning on posting 2 videos from Jason Ross’ collection today but that is just kinda how it worked out. I was moving Jason’s collection recently and I found a TON of great stuff filmed by him and by the Byrne brothers in the Chicago area along with a lot of other potentially rare stuff. Expect lots of fun!
Ground Round were Adam Labelle (Potatomen/Sewer Trout Experience); Gabe Meline (Tilt, KQED editor, curator of the Disturbing the Peace exhibit and the guy who had the Green Day Santa Rosa Tape!), and Josh Clem on drums.
This one was dark as well so I did what I could in Adobe and Neat video.
Recorded by: Jason Ross 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
Quincy Punx was a Minneapolis punk band that started in 1990 with a long history. See discogs for the novel-length writeup if you dare. They “headlined” the Ground Round show that I posted a couple weeks back.
This one was dark as well so I did my best with Adobe and Neat video to brighten it up a bit. The light behind the drummer was the primary light source in the venue.
Recorded by: Jason Ross 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
This was a typical board mix- lots of vocals, drums were noticeably higher than the guitar. I was able to take Izotope rx and drop the vocals, boost the guitars/bass and it came out pretty nice! The mix fluctuates but it evens out a few minutes in.
Recorded by: Jason Ross Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon & M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card. Enhanced with Izotope rx.
Yet another one from Jason Ross’ collection of VHS tapes. I only did a small percentage of his collection, but they all seem to be on the right days for the On This Date project.
I attempted to research who the band is.. and there are a LOT of bands called the Crooks! Man, what an ordeal. I think that this is The Crooks who released 1 7″ record on the Def Wisconsin label and had the following members: Bass – Eric P “Gabby” Drums – Neil P. Guitar – Aric M “Mighty Boy”, L.P. “Gulvin” Vocals – Duanne K
The audio on this is very low. This was done before I knew how to boost audio in Vegas/Premiere. Sorry. Turn it up.
Recorded by: ? Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: JVC HR-S series VCR – Canopus ADVC300
Here is one from Jason Ross’ collection and I have to admit that I have never heard of the band. I tried to look them up and there isn’t much out there- it looks like a band named The Insignificant who was active at this time released 2 7″s on Vandal Children Records. There is 1 2-song live video of a band with the name playing in Reno in 1994. That’s it. No band member names, nothing else that I can find.
So if that is really them, they sure got around on 2 7″ releases. Hopefully Jason or another of the Midwest/east coast punk historians (kelsey, tom) can shed some light.
Recorded by: Anthony Vanderzen Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: JVC HR-S9911U and Canopus ADVC300
I have no information on this band at all. Nothing on discogs, nothing on newspapers.com.. nothing. Hopefully Jason Ross can chime in, since this video comes from his collection.
The image for the facebook post is just a shot of Appleton, Wi. That’s all I got.
Recorded by: ? Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: JVC HR-S 9xxx series VCR, Canopus ADVC300 firewire into Dell workstation
Since everyone seemed happy to see the Schlong post yesterday, here is some more Schlong. This one was filmed at a basement show. I feel for the filmer- there is no good place to film, so he/she had to film around people. Not bad considering the circumstances. People in the front sit down after about 10-15min which helps with the view. This is another one that was digitized for the Turn it Around documentary, years ago. More goodness from Jason Ross’ collection PS: Check about 20min into the show- that guy filming had a SMALL camera for the time. My Aiwa CV-88 was about twice as big. Imagine lugging that to a show.
Recorded by: ? Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: JVC HRS9911U and Canopus ADVC300
Here come a few days of uncle tupelo tapes from their archive. This is an acoustic performance which is nice quality- lots of stuff from the march 16-20 release which is rare. Also rare is the cover of Neil Young’s “motion pictures” as an encore.
Setlist courtesy of factorybelt.net: Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down (flawed)/ True To Life/ No Depression/ Watch Me Fall/ Shaky Ground/ Atomic Power/ Whiskey Bottle/ Wait Up/ Wipe the Clock/ I Wish My Baby Was Born/ Do Re Mi/ Life Worth Livin’/ I Wanna Be Your Dog/ Still Be Around/ Warfare/ Moonshiner/ Grindstone/ Sin City/ Motion Pictures
Soundboard recording. All acoustic set at a folk festival. Brian Henneman sat in for the entire set. First known version of “Moving Pictures” by Neil Young.
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
