Arthur Lee & Love
7/23/02
Bimbo’s 365 Club
San Francisco, CA
FOB: Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D8
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >S/PDIF >HHb CDR 800 PRO,
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.36
Recorded, Transferred, FLAC, Tags (via xACT 2.53), & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
3rd Row Center (Some Clipping)
–Disc One–
- Intro, banter and tuning-
- My Little Red Book
- Orange Skies
- Your Mind & We Belong Together
- Alone Again Or
- Everybody’s Gotta Live/Instant Karma
- My Flash On You
- The Red Telephone
- You Set The Scene
- Between Clark & Hilldale
–Disc Two–
- -banter-
- 7 & 7 Is
- Bummer In The Summer
- Andmoreagain
- Stephanie Knows Who
- A House Is Not A Motel
- The Daily Planet
- She Comes In Colors
- Singing Cowboy
OldNeumanntapr Notes;
This was the only time that I’ve ever seen Love with Arthur Lee. My friend Dave is a big fan and I went with him to San Francisco. This was also the only time that I’ve been to Bimbo’s 365 Club, in North Beach. I remember that there was no search getting in and I could have easily used my Neumanns. I played it safe because I wasn’t sure what to expect. Oh but the power of hindsight. There is some clipping distortion on this recording because it was so loud, and the Nyquist’s never handled loud SPLs very well. I purposely kept my levels a bit low because I knew that the mics tend to distort in loud environments, and it is a bit distracting. As I remember, Arthur Lee died a couple of years later.
When Dave drove me through San Francisco he took me to where Winterland once stood. There are now condos on the spot where so many bands once played, and so much history took place. I wish I could have seen shows at Winterland but I was in 8th grade when it closed down.
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Love seeing this! Arthur Lee/Love boots are a real rarity, so I appreciate you recording this and sharing it here. Also, I assume the photos in the cover art on your recordings are ones you took? If so, they are just as impressive as the recordings, really … are you able to get them with your phone?? Very cool!
Glad you liked it. The recording is mine, but the photo is not. I don’t even remember if I HAD a cell phone then, but if I did the camera quality would have been sub par. I search the internet for photos of the bands that I recorded for the covers. The exception would be the B.B. King show, where I did both the recording and the photos. That was too difficult to pull off so I just concentrated on recording shows after that. When I did shoot it was with old Nikon film cameras with pro lenses.
There were a few other shows that I also shot and recorded. Etta James, Jonny Lang, and Little Feat come to mind. Somewhere I have a photo of Etta James sticking her tongue out at me when she saw my big 300 f/2.8 Nikkor!
I still wish I could have used the Neumanns. They would have sounded much better.
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Way cool! Your artwork stands out, so you are indeed finding great photos. I was wondering how you could do both!!!
I’m a photographer and about to get a Nikon myself, after having been in the Pentax camp for a long time.
Good luck. I have shot Nikon since 1998 when I was working in the print-news industry. Back then it was all manual focus, manual exposure. Automatic TTL flash was the only automation that I used. I bought a Pentax MX new in 1979 and used it for years until I wore it out. I shot sports for the newspaper and I liked the Nikons because they had fast motor drives. The Nikons had titanium shutters whereas the Pentax that I had used a cloth shutter and it was a weak link, and wouldn’t hold up to a motor drive. So much has changed now in photography. Cameras today are basically a computer with a lens port.