Allman Brothers Band
8/5/96
Grandstands
California Mid-State Fair
Paso Robles, CA
SEC. 5, Row B, Seat #4 (2nd Row, Left)
Nakamichi CM-300 CP-2 Omnis >Sony TCD-D7 (Stealth)
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o,
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.35 >FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.53
(Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)
Disc I
- Statesboro Blues (fades in)
- Midnight Rider
- Blue Sky
- You Don’t Love Me (fades in)
- What’s Done Is Done
- Worried Down With The Blues
- True Gravity >
Disc II
- Drums >
- Bass Solo >True Gravity
- The Same Thing
- Dreams
- End Of The Line
- One Way Out
OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was a stealth recording because the fairgrounds would NOT allow a recording to be made, even though the band allowed it. I purchased tickets that were directly under the left PA stack, as the crowds at the fair shows are usually drunk and unruly. This was the night that Dickey went to the hospital midway through the set so the band had to improvise with lots of long drawn out jams. You got the feeling the band was really flying by the seat of their pants after Dickey was taken away. It was like, ‘OK guys, NOW what do we do?’ The show must go on! I believe that my recording was the only one made that night. I’ve never seen another source for this show, and most of the tapers were still in Colorado for the ABB Red Rocks shows that had just taken place the previous weekend. As usual, the Mid State Fair crowds were drunk and obnoxious. (I wanted to be as close to the PA stacks as possible!) I used the omni capsules because I had the microphones hidden in a Levi jacket with just the capsules protruding from the front pockets, and they were pointing straight up. (There was really no way to ‘aim’ them’ so proximity to the PA was key.) This was my standard stealth set up at the time. The jacket had holes sewn into the bottom of the front pockets and I used hollowed out 35mm film can lids that went around the microphone bodies to keep the weight of the microphones from falling through the pockets. Custom shortened XLR >RCA cables were used to link with a standard RCA >Mini Y cable that ran into the mic input on my D7.
Do NOT Convert To MP3.
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