KQED – “In a suburban backyard outside of Sacramento, I open the door to a giant shed, step inside and get smacked in the face by floor-to-ceiling shelves of music history. VHS tapes. Cassette tapes. Reel-to-reels. DATs. Other formats I don’t recognize, and can’t pronounce. Nearly 20,000 of them, all filled with live shows, demo recordings and concert footage. Down a narrow path through this obsolete physical media, I turn a corner to find Shayne Stacy, 57, sitting at a desk with three monitors and occasionally fiddling with a nearby U-matic machine, an out-of-date piece of video hardware used by TV stations. On the screen, viewed for the first time in 40 years, is a 1980s new wave band performing on a long-lost cable access show from the Central Valley. On any given day, this is where you’ll find Stacy, the founder of the nonprofit Sacramento Music Archive. Just a half-hour’s drive from Sutter’s Mill and its famous California discovery, Stacy tends methodically to his own goldmine: a mass of underground music from Sacramento, the Bay Area and beyond that he’s gradually digitizing and sharing with the world, including rare early footage of Nirvana, Metallica and Green Day. “You’d think it’s like this big rock and roll party in here. It’s like this. It’s very quiet, with me working at a keyboard,” Stacy says with a laugh…”