Jackson Browne & Friends – Santa Barbara, CA (09/15/99)

Jackson Browne
Bonnie Raitt
Shawn Colvin
Bruce Hornsby
David Lindley & Wally Ingram
9/15/99
Santa Barbara County Bowl
Santa Barbara, CA

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Neumann AK-40’s (x/y) >LC3 >KM-100’s >Beyer MV100 >Sony TCD-D7

DAT >CD Transferred Via Tascam DA-P1 >S/PDIF Coax >HHb CDR 800 PRO.
CD Masters Transferred With xACT 2.24 >WAV >FLAC
FLAC >WAV >Audacity (De-Amplify Countless Close-Proximity Hand Claps, Reduce Crowd Noise Hoots & Hollers, Repair Two Minor Left-Channel Dropouts, Minor Edits, Fades) Fix SBEs >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

(Recorded, Transferred, Audacity Post, FLAC, Tags, + Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)

18th Row, Left

Disc I:

  1. Old Coot From Tennessee
  2. Bon Temps Roulet
  3. Well Well Well
  4. Catfood Sandwiches
  5. Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies
  6. Everywhere I Go
  7. Down The Road Tonight
  8. You And The Mona Lisa
  9. Dimming Of The Day
  10. Thing Called Love
  11. Shotgun Down The Avalanche
  12. Lost Soul
  13. The Barricades Of Heaven
  14. World in Motion

Disc II:

  1. I Believe I Am in Love With You
  2. Nick Of Time
  3. Band Intros
  4. The Facts About Jimmy
  5. Sunny Came Home
  6. A Night On The Town
  7. Bright Baby Blues
  8. Something To Talk About
  9. Diamond In The Rough
  10. I Can’t Make You Love Me
  11. The Pretender
  12. Just the Way It Is (Prelude)

Disc III:

  1. Just The Way It Is
  2. Love Sneaking Up On You
  3. Running On Empty
  4. Valley Road
  5. Polaroids
    [Medley]:
  6. (Just My Imagination) >
  7. (Too Busy Thinking ‘Bout My Baby) >
  8. (Reunited)
  9. Mercury Blues
  10. Load Out/Stay
  11. The End Of The Innocent

Encore:

  1. Black Muddy River

Oldneumanntapr Notes-
This was a fun show. David Lindley & Wally Ingram played four songs to open the show, and it just rolled on from there. Instead of separate sets from each artist, they would all play together and swap lead vocals. The show ran about 3.5 hours! The Santa Barbara County Bowl is a very intimate place to see shows, as it’s small (3,000 capacity) and nestled in the hills of Santa Barbara. The security is really tight there, and it took three of us to bring in my recording equipment. The security staff at the bowl, from what I’ve been told, are all off-duty SB County Sheriffs deputies, and they DO have the authority to arrest people on the spot, as apposed to most venue security who will either confiscate your batteries and blanks, or kick you out of the venue if you are caught taping.

It was difficult to record, not only because of the ever-present security staff, but also because the show started durning daylight hours. I wanted to record David Lindley & Wally Ingram, as they opened the show, but it’s really hard to stealth record in broad daylight.

I had a problem at the time with my Beyer MV100 microphone preamp because of a loose XLR input jack, so I had two channel drop outs on this recording that I had to repair. I later had the jack re-soldered, which fixed the problem. While I was at it, I also went in and reduced the over enthusiastic crowd noise wherever I could. I think it made a big difference.

During one song someone seated near me was trying to get everyone to stand and I didn’t want to comply so there is a brief moment of talking from this guy that I couldn’t completely remove. ‘Don’t you want to stand up?’ NO.

I remember that one of my friend Dave’s friends, a lady that I think worked at KOTR FM in Cambria (Not Carol Jo, who talked all the way through my Miles Davis Cal Poly recording in 1990), sat next to me while Dave was up front in a closer row. She dropped my binoculars onto the concrete floor, which I could have done without, but I think they didn’t come away with any damage.

I think mine is one of the better recordings from this mini tour, with only the final show at the Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington, that maybe a little better. That show was uploaded without any recording lineage, which is a pet peeve of mine, so I was unable to tell what gear was used to make the recording.

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