Allman Brothers Band – Mountain View, CA (07/24/92)

Allman Brothers Band
7/24/92
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA

Nakamichi CM-300’s w/CP-4 Shotgun Capsules >Sony WM-D6C

Audience Master (Maxell XLIIS), front & center of lawn on T-bar duct taped to steel cables >CDR >FLAC
XLIIS Cassette Master Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO,
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.35 >FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.43

(Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)

Disc I

1. Don’t Want You No More >
2. It’s Not My Cross To Bear
3. Statesboro Blues
4. Blue Sky
5. Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’
6. Nobody Knows
7. Black Hearted Woman
8. Seven Turns
9. Midnight Rider
10. Southbound
11. Melissa
12. Pony Boy

Disc II

1. Hoochie Coochie Man
2. Get On With Your Life
3. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
4. Revival

Encore:

5. One Way Out
6. Whipping Post

OldNeumanntaper Notes:
This was a show I almost didn’t go to. As I remember, one of my coworkers had tickets that they couldn’t use, but I had to drive to Sacramento to pick them up. I left early that morning with my friend Jim Burns and we drove to Sac from Morro Bay, up I-5. I didn’t know until we got there that they were only lawn tickets. (I could have bought those at the show!) I was thinking that they were reserved seats, but,,, they were free. It just took a lot of gas to get there. When we finally got to Shoreline the security staff would not allow us entry with the recording gear. We had to wait until the Allman’s bus arrived and have them inform them that tape recorders were in fact OK. Thanks to Kirk West! (While we were waiting, I sent Jimmy in with my blanket and had him grab a spot front and center of the lawn, right up against the fence that separates the general admission area from the reserved sections.) Once I got inside I duct taped my microphone brace to the steel cables, about six feet high, because they would not allow microphone stands inside the amphitheatre.

Luckily I had the CP4 shotgun capsules for my Nakamichi CM-300s, because the crowd was really loud and unruly. I was the only taper up front on the lawn that night. Another guy came in at the last minute and patched into my D6 with a Marantz, either a 420 or 430, but my microphones were the only ones I could see anywhere. I actually had people walk up to where we were set up and cup their hands and scream up toward the mics, trying to ruin the recording. They looked at me and just laughed! I was not happy, but there was nothing I could do about it. I just hate people who deliberately try to ruin someone else’s time, in this case; my recording. I thought that the tape would certainly be a disaster, but fortunately the CP4 capsules have excellent side rejection so the screams were greatly attenuated. I remember another taper I met at a Jerry show once who said that crowd noise on a recording was, ‘All part of the show’ and there was no use worrying about it, but in this case I thought it was a little excessive.

I didn’t get home until two or three am and accidentally left my ticket stub on the dash of the car. By the time I went outside the next day the sun had turned the Bass ticket stub black. Oh well, at least I have the recording.

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