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Mike Blanchard and Vinny Montoya- Morgans Mill, Woodland 1/23/26 Californios Tattooed Love Dogs Sdbd

We have a NEW contributor to the Sac Music Archive! Scott Schiller and Chuck (Jonemery) Dodds have started to record the excellent Morgan’s Mill shows in Woodland. I really appreciate them- these guys do a weekly segment on the Sac Music Archive on their KDRT show called “That California Sound” on Monday evenings, so they have been supporting us for a while.

Mike Blanchard and Vinny Montoya played the Mill last weekend. These 2 guys have been playing together for over 30 years- first in the Tattooed Love Dogs in the 1990s, then in Mike Blanchard and the Californios more recently.

Recorded by: Scott Schiller
Sound by: Chuck Dodds
I did nothin’ to this one but create the video file and upload.

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Kevin Seconds and Alex Walker- Morgan’s Mill, Woodland Ca 1/16/26 Digital Soundboard Master

It’s time for another collections post from new contributor Scott Schiller. Scott and Jonemery (Chuck) Dodds are promoting a new series of shows in the Davis/Woodland area. It looks like they started at Morgan’s Mill in Woodland and they are now doing some stuff at Watermelon Music in Davis, but I saw another show at the Mill in March. Go follow left of the dial promotions if that is your jam, as the kids say.

This show took place about a month ago with Kevin and Alex. Almost 2 hours of song swaps and stories. It’s a bit dynamic, so turn it up.

Recorded by: Scott Schiller
Prep for upload by Shayne

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Strange Party- The Stag, Woodland Ca. 11/11/17 Multicam with Rode Audio Sacramento Horror Punk

Thanks to my friend Agelos for helping with a bunch of multicamera edits of our amazing local bands. I don’t think it is a secret that The Strange Party were one of my favorites. Here’s yet another video of them- this one from the same show as the Red Pills that I posted the other day.
I screwed up and let my battery die so the audio is cut between the “good mic” and the stock mic on the other camera. Thanks to Agelos for the audio splice work!

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Canon HFG30 w/Rode Videomic Pro Stereo, Canon HFG10, Gopro Hero 4 silver.
Edit: Tromster

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The Strange Party- The Stag Bar, Woodland Ca. 5/12/17 Part 1 Canon HFG30 Rode VPS nic

After the captain 9’s set, I hit I-5 and got to the STrange Party show just in time. The Stag is such a unique venue. It does not have your usual rock crowd. Everyone in town shows up. This time around, I saw 2 bikers, an elderly woman (70+?), and a bunch of locals at the bar. Always a unique vibe at the stag. So I really wanted to catch Strange Party with Lys on drums, so I was glad this show was a late one. What a set. With the addition of the new bass player, Justin has switched to guitar which has taken the band to a whole new level.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

Equipment Used: Canon HFG30, Rode Video Pro Stereo Mic

 

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The Strange Party- The Stag, Woodland Ca. 10/28/16 Pt. 1

After the Drowning Adam show, I took off and headed to Woodland to see one of my favorite local bands, The Strange Party. I had never been to the stag and wow, what a place. It was “Dead Guy Ale” promotion night where you could get refills for $3 and people were extremely drunk. The place is about 100 feet long and 15 feet wide, so you got to know your neighbors well. Also had a fun discussion with Cory about the old metal days. I guess he now knows better than to start a conversation about that! Ha ha. Strange Party sounded great and they are going into the studio today to record a proper album at Earthtone. Did you hear that, Matt Bennett?

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

 

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Cro-mags: One Voice Fest, Plainfield Station, Woodland Ca. 10/5/13 Digital Audio Master DPA4061 Mics

Good news regarding yesterday’s video- Jakobe from the Deathryders and Matt from the Cafe have given us multitrack stubs to mix… so you will be getting a MUCH better sounding video soon! Thanks guys!
In keeping with the “I can’t believe I screwed up the video” theme, here is one of my greatest video f*ckups of all time. The band got to the fest super late- well after their posted start time. As they were scrambling to get set up, I asked if I could video and they gave me the OK. I did a 1 camera from the audience and it looked amazing. I was going to have it synched with this audio source, when I accidentally deleted it from the hard drive and the memory card and I could not recover it. So we only have audio. Sounds really good- enjoy.
This kind of crap never happened in the analog days. Grr.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-M10, DPA 4061 mics, MMA6000 preamp

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Barbara Manning & Champion- Stag Bar, Woodland Ca 10/18/08 Matrix Audio Master-CDR Complete SF Seals

I was going to digitize a Government Issue cassette for today’s On This Date in History, and then I saw this one. Big thanks to Anonymous for getting out to Woodland to record this show- I was newly married at the time and had a conflict and had to miss the show.

This show is special for 2 reasons, IMHO. First, The Stag is a tough place to get a good sounding tape. The bar is like a long wide hallway with a bar at the front, and about a 15x15ft floor area in the back for bands to play. The ceilings seem to be at least 20ft high back there. The PA is small. All of those factors usually mean that it isn’t gonna sound good in there. Anonymous made a big effort to make this as good as possible. He put mics on stage in front of the band and recorded the vocals through the soundboard, which was all that was mic’d into the board.
Second, this is the only time I ever heard of Barbara playing live with her band at the time, Champion. They had a great songs and a good guitar player, but they broke up shortly after this.

Also, this is probably the best quality you’re gonna get from the Stag.

Recorded by: Anonymous
Equipment used: Beyerdynamic MC930 x2(on stage), R44 through soundboard.

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Avengers- Plainfield Station, Woodland Ca. 8/13/06 xfer from DV Master Enahcned w DAT Audio Punk

This was my first time to this venue. I drove on the backroads of woodland for what seemed like forever in the dark and you come up on one small building among the ag fields. What a bizarre but cool place to have a venue/show. I have not heard of any shows there for a long time- does anyone know if they still have them?
This was also my first time seeing the Avengers. I had been a fan for many years, but missed the Scavengers gilman show in 99. I was too young to see them the first time around.
My memory is playing tricks on me- I thought that I had been on the left side of the venue but this looks like I filmed it dead center. The DAT audio sounds really nice after a few minutes. Good main set, and then the band gets called back for an unexpected 10min encore. Good stuff.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Consumer Aiwa DV camcorder, Sony TCD-D7 DAT and Coresound binaural mics with battery box bass rolloff
Enhanced with neat video
Audio/Video synch with pluraleyes

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