Medeski, Martin, & Wood

1) October 16th, 1999
Sao Paulo, Brazil @ Free Jazz Festival
41 minutes
Pro Shot > ? > VHS (unknown gen.) > miniDV > panasonic standalone dvd recorder in flexible record mode

Start / Stop* >
Partido Alto >
ITAHTLMJ
The Lover >
Think
Last Chance

*Partido tease in middle


2) August 10th, 2000
Hyannis, MA @ Cape Cod Melody Tent
40 minutes
audience tripod shot > ? > VHS? > DVDR >  panasonic standalone dvd recorder in flexible record mode

3) March 10th, 2007
Sunrise, FL @ Languerado Music Festival
18 minutes
audience handheld shot > ? > VHS? > DVDR >  panasonic standalone dvd recorder in flexible record mode

VIDEO: NTSC 9558kbps
AUDIO: AC3

Info:
A trader in Brazil sent me the 10-16-99 on VHS, he was having a hard time getting it to transfer.. besides the fact that it had very bad tracking in parts, it appeared to have a copyright signal underneath that, whenever the tracking got bad enough to drop out to a blue screen, caused the dvd recorder to stop recording.
My solution: record the vhs tape to a minidv deck. Every time it dropped out to blue screen and sent out the copyright signal to the deck, I just fast forwarded the vhs a bit and started recording again. This worked for the most part but it was almost not worth the trouble. I was able to salvage only 41 minutes of the 52 minute video. There are tracking problems and dropouts, but it's the absolute best that could be done, I even tried running it through a time base correcter, but that didnt help either. (I work at a small video production shop...)
All it all, it's a very underrepresented period (video-wise) in the bands history...
The other 2 clips came from a DVD that I recieved in a trade (which also contained 4-24-98 boston set two audience recording, not great quality, audience tripod balcony, bad audio, but with dj logic. I may do an audio sync on that eventually...)

-RandyB 8-19-07