Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians- 9:30 Club, Washington DC 3/28/86 Xfer f/Umatic Master w/Sbd Audio

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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