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Screaming Trees
Capitol Theater
Olympia, WA
March 21, 1997
two camera audience shoot + soundboard masters to authored DVD
JEMS Archive

lineage: Master video and DAT tapes via unknown video capture/edit/authoring to DVD > Video_TS

Set List:

Halo of Ashes
Winter Song
Butterfly
All I Know
Witness
Sworn & Broken
Dying Days
Nearly Lost You
Gospel Plow
Julie Paradise
Bed of Roses
What Goes On (Velvet Underground cover)
Memory of a Free Festival (David Bowie cover, Lee sings?)

Video Source: two camera shoot on tripods (Canon cameras, model unknown)
Filmers: JEMS & friend
Duration: 1:06:14

Video Tracks:
MPEG-2 720 × 480
aspect ratio: 4:3
frame rate: 29.97 fps
DVD format: NTSC
Region 0
Authored with Menu
Data Size: 4.33 GB

Audio Tracks (soundboard with audience)
1) PCM stereo, 48 kHz, 1.54 Mbps
2) AC3 3/2, 48 kHz, 448 kbps

This is a project I wanted to get done for nearly a decade. In 1997, through the help of a friend, JEMS and said friend shot the Screaming Trees in Olympia with access to the soundboard. For the better part of 10 years this project sat as two distinct hi8 master tapes and a DAT from the board and the audience.

A couple of years ago a friend of another friend offered to do the authoring and the resulting DVD you see here that cuts back and forth between cameras synced to the sound.

As you can see from the attached screengrabs, the picture is dark as the show was not lit for video and had even less overhead light than the average club show. On the other hand it is clear and steady as she goes, so while not ideal, it is highly watchable and if you're a fan of the band there is plenty to see.

The soundboard sound source doesn't hurt either and the menu (a little cute to be sure) completes the package. At the end of the show, Lanegan leaves the stage but the band does one more song. Josh Homme from Kyuss (now Queens of the Stone Age) is the extra guitar player.

The Trees didn't tour much in support of Dust and I think this show comes towards the end of that road. I previously torrented the audio, and despite the darkish image, I can't imagine a fan of the band who would not want to see this. Beggars, after all, can't be choosers.

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