David Lindley & Wally Ingram – Santa Barbara, CA (12/04/98)

David Lindley & Wally Ingram
12/04/98
Lobero Theatre
Santa Barbara, CA


(Sings Like Hell Series)

[Feb 2016 REMASTER]

6th Row DEAD Center:
Neumann KM-184’s (ORTF On T-Bar) >Custom XLRs >PSC Phantom Supplies >Sony TCD-D7

Master DAT Transferred: Sony PCM-R500 >S/PDIF >Tascam HD-P2 (16 Bit/48khz) >
WAV >Sound Forge Pro 10.0a [iZotope RX2 Advanced (Declick); Minor Edits, & Normalize] >
WAV >Audacity (Track Splits, Downsample To 16 Bit 44.1k) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.37

Recorded, Audacity, FLAC’d, Tagged, And Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
Master DAT Transferred By Terry Watts
Soundforge Post Production By Dennis Orr

  1. Peggy Jones Intro
  2. Opening Story
  3. Old Coot From Tennessee
  4. Catfood Sandwiches
  5. The Meatman
  6. Do You Want My Job?
  7. Tijuana
  8. Well Well Well w/Drum Solo
  9. I Am A Patriot
  10. Ain’t No Way
  11. New Minglewood Blues >.45 Pistol Blues
  12. Pay Bo Diddley

Encore-

  1. Leave Home Girl
  2. Quarter Of A Man

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
This was a stealth show that I recorded with my Neumann KM-184s, that I ended up selling soon after to purchase the Neumann SKM-140 set with active cables. It was just too difficult to stealth record with the KM-184s and their bulky XLR cables. In those days I had really long hair, which I would wear down to cover the microphones. I ran the KM-184s on a T-Bar that I held in front of my head. I remember this show well. I always enjoyed David Lindley’s stories between songs. This was also the show that I saw Jackson Browne outside in the courtyard before the show. I didn’t want Jackson to see the recording gear that I had so I walked around him on my way into the theatre.

(Feb. 2016 ONT Notes- This is a complete remaster, starting with a fresh digital transfer of the master DAT by Terry Watts, and following with additional post processing by Dennis Orr. Thanks to both of you! I think it sounds better than the previous version. This version has no CD generation, so split into discs as you see fit.)

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
Enjoy! Share freely, don’t sell, play nice, don’t run with scissors, etc. 😉

4 thoughts on “David Lindley & Wally Ingram – Santa Barbara, CA (12/04/98)”

  1. This is one of my favorite Lindley shows. I was sweating bullets with those big pro mics on the T-Bar but fortunately my long hair covered them. This was the first show with the new KM 184s, (which are identical sounding to the KM 140s but lack the ability to use active cables to reduce the size of the mics that are visable.) The Lobero is an awesome place to see, and record, live music. The acoustics are great and the room is relatively small. I always like Lindley’s humorous stories.

    Enjoy!

    ONT-

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  2. Dear Mat and ONT,

    Thank you Mat for posting these shows that ONT recorded!
    ONT, 1.) thank you for recording these shows and 2.) thank you for sharing them with Mat who shares them with us!

    I’m a huge Lindley fan as well as a longtime Deadhead. I’m also a HUGE Jackson Browne fan, so any other JB recordings would be welcomed- I have a ton in my collection, many still on cassette tape from when I collected tapes in the 80’s and 90’s. I was very excited about the Lois Capp benefit shows you posted awhile back as I didn’t have those before!
    I befriended David Lindley in the early 90’s at a show in Charlotte, NC. I was a college student at the time, madly into JB and after a decade of playing guitar decided to take up lap steel after discovering Lindley’s lap steel playing on the Late For The Sky album some years earlier. I was heading home to Boston the following weekend for fall break and told Lindley I had tickets to his House of Blues gig in Cambridge with Hani Naser. I also had mentioned my lifelong dream of getting a lap steel lesson from Lindley. David said – “come early to the show and bring your steel!” I did, and the rest was history. That was the beginning of a 20+ year friendship with David that changed my life. Whenever he’d roll though Boston or the New England area I’d bring my lap steel and we’d hang out and jam after (and/or before) his shows. He was extremely kind and generous to me with his time especially. I ended up moving to California in 2019 and got to see him one last time at MCCabes in April or May of ‘19. He got to meet my fiancé at that show which meant a lot. I was devastated when he died as I had been trying to contact him to no avail (he would always email me back) Then I learned that he had been ill and in and out of the hospital.
    I am extremely grateful for the time that I did get to spend with him, and for all the little tricks that he taught me during our lapsteel lessons. He was a fun guy- just as cool and laid-back offstage as he was on stage.
    Anyhow, I thought I would share the story with you guys. I figured if anyone would appreciate it, you guys would!
    Another time I will tell you about meeting Joe Perry, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page at a later House of Blues Lindley show! I mean I couldn’t make this stuff up if I wanted to! 😵‍💫🤪🙌😄

    best,

    Cate aka Lapsteelcate

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  4. That IS amazing. I’d met Lindley a few times, but I always knew that he didn’t condone audio tapers and was quite rabid about it in years past but softened a little as time went on. At least he finally understood the difference between tapers and bootleggers.

    I first Saw Lindley with Hani Naser at Loco Ranchero in San Luis Obispo, and got thrown our in the second set for trying to record with my friend Gene’s Sony TCD-D10 DAT. The NP-22H NiCad batteries were getting old by this point in 1993 and I had no choice but to plug the AC power cord into the wall. Loco had walls painted black and there was a plasma globe by the wall near an AC receptacle that I knew about so watched the 1st set with my friend s Dave and Brian and then hid out in a stall in the men’s room beween the early and late shows. Once they let people in for the late show I just wandered out. I figured that if I got caught recording it would be during the late show and I didn’t pay for that one anyway….

    As it turned out, I would have gotten away with it but my friend Little Jack, the dwarf sound man that I worked with for the SLO Blues Society shows, was drunk and saw me and in a loud voice said, ‘Hey that’s not cool to be taping!’ Of course Lindley’s road manager heard and tried to force me to give him the DAT. At that time DAT blanks were going for about $15 each and I had just started recording and there was only a few minutes on the tape and I refused, so he threatened to call the cops. I told him to stick it and I left.

    I didn’t get my own DAT portable until 1995. I guess I could have played it safe and recorded with my D6 but the DAT recorder sounded SO MUCH better. I was always into the highest sound quality.

    Lindley was actually the reason that I started going by OldNeumanntapr (It’s not that I USE Old Neumanns… I’m Old…and I use Neumanns) 😉

    I was recording Lindley a lot and wanted some anonymity.

    I have more Jackson Browne recordings. Be looking for them in the future at the Midnight Cafe. 🙂

    My friend John Hoover in St. Louis is a HUGE Jackson Browne collector, and has the most JB of anyone on etree. I’m sure he would love to make your acquaintance

    I’d love to hear your stories.

    ONT-.

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