Styx - Live Columbus, Ohio 8mm May 25, 1977

8mm Film: Charles Miller
Transfer/Production: Analog Kid Audio Video
Restoration/Sync: http://www.genesismuseum.com

A big thank you to Charles for lending his films. If you have any 8mm concerts that need transfer, restoration, and syncing please contact us.

Longish clips (for 8mm): Put Me On, Lorelei, Mademoiselle, Fooling Yourself, Suite Madame Blue, Crystal Ball, Lady, Light Up, Come Sail Away, Midnight Ride, Miss America, Born for Adventure, and some great between song moments. This is Styx on the same bill as Uriah Heep, if you look closely you can see Uriah Heep's rainbow and Firefly logo behind the band.
Technical Details:

This is one of the best quality 8mm films I have worked on, and at times it really looks pro quality. It was scanned at 2k and then cleaned up with Artemis AI, and then I removed misc spots/dirt. I normally wouldn't do quite so much NR, but the image quality and definition was so amazing for 8mm that it totally worked, to my eyes anyway.

I didn't do any stabilization as it didn't really need it, and the image is very close to the stage, I didn't want to cut anything off for the very minor handheld camera issues. I then ffmpeg interpolated to 60fps for smooth motion which makes this film really astounding.

The audio was a bit of a bear as there are several good Styx recordings from this tour, but not many complete high quality recordings. They also changed their setlist and Put Me On was so rarely played, there is just one audio recording of it out there. So I ended up using 4 different shows to match this film (Chicago 77, Boston 77, Fresno 77, and Winterland 78) as no known Columbus 1977 audio exists. I tried to get the best quality and match for the tracks played, and then EQed them to sound reasonably similar so they worked well together. Some of the radio shows were dry so I added some reverb and compression. Styx is generally consistent on how they play their songs so the match is pretty good, but the guitarwork and vocal phrasing is never going to be exactly the same, so I could only match it reasonably well.

I have worked on hundreds of reels of 8mm, and this show is honestly some of the best footage that this tiny film standard can produce. Amazing job that Charles did some 40 years ago.

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