Joe Louis Walker (Acoustic)
2/18/95
Officer’s Club
Camp San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA
SLO Blues Society
Yamaha 16 Channel Soundboard >Tascam DA-30 16bit/44.1khz
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >S/PDIF >HHb CDR 800 PRO
Recorded, Transferred, Audacity Tracking, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
iZotope RX4 Post Production By Flying-M.
[October 2024 Remaster]
- Intro & stage announcements
-JLW solo- - Your Lyin’ Eyes
- Where Jesus Leads
- I’ll Get To Heaven On My Own
- Rebecca**
- Rainy Nights**
- Just To Be With You**
- Louisiana Blues**
- Talk To Your Daughter**
- Every Night, Every Day**
- King Bee**
- Dust My Broom**
-Encores-
- Going To Canada**
- Got To Find My Baby**
Joe Louis Walker – Acoustic Guitar And Vocals
Tom Rose – Acoustic Guitar**
OldNeumanntapr Notes
This was probably the best of the SLO Blues Society shows that I have ever recorded. For some reason the SLO Vets’ Hall was not available so the show was moved to the Officer’s Club at Camp San Luis Obispo, the CA National Guard Base, just outside of town on Highway 1. I seem to remember the club not allowing us to use the bar on site, but they didn’t mind if we brought our own alcohol. One of little Jack’s friends on the sound crew went into town and brought back an ice chest full of Corona which we made good use of. (I was on the sound crew for the SLO Blues Society and was lucky enough to have been able to plug various tape recorders into the board over the years. ‘Little Jack’ was a dwarf sound man who needed help moving sound equipment so I worked with him as a volunteer for most of the 1990s until he retired in the early 2000s. Jack was a Dead Head and understood the need for the archival of live music performances. His first Dead show was the closing of the Fillmore West in 1971.) The DA-30 is a huge beast of a studio deck and I had to hide it with a beach towel under the board because the venue and the Blues Society personnel was not wise to the recording. The vocal microphone had a bad connection and would pop occasionally, which pissed Joe Lois Walker off tremendously. He was supposed to do two sets, which was the standard SLO Blues Society fare in those days, but he was so disgusted that he left at the end of the first set. I’ve never released this show because of the microphone problems, but my hat is off to Flying M for working his magic on this one and fixing its problems. Also, I had asked Jack, the sound man, to give me a stereo mix before the set started but he forgot. Half way through the set he said, ‘Oh, you wanted a stereo mix’, and adjusted the pan pots before I could say ’No! Don’t change it in the middle!’ So, the recording starts off monaural and morphs to stereo half way through.
Flying M Notes;
What a beautiful recording!
A treat to listen to that is for sure.
The loud microphone pops are gone or tamed down to a reasonable level.
iZotope RX was made for repairing this sort of noise.
As it was I had to change the settings to almost no effect using the “attenuate unwanted signal” tool in iZotope RX.
Only used the tool below 300 Hz at the point where the noise happened, leaving some of the pop there but with less power behind it.
There are still 2 places where the “boom” gets really loud but not speaker blowing loud anymore.
A balance between your request to leave some of these microphone noises in and rescuing the recording.
Took two passes from end to end before I was satisfied.
I think the results are what you would have hoped for initially.
Glad to be able to repair this and make it something you can play loud without holding your breath waiting for the explosions.
-M-
used iZotope RX4 advanced for the repairs.
Do NOT Convert To MP3.
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