Category: Dan HIcks

John Mayall & Dan Hicks – Pozo, CA (10/11/98)




Dan Hicks And His Acoustic Warriors
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
10/11/98
Pozo Saloon
Pozo, CA



John Mayall Info

FOB; Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D7
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o,
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.39

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC, Tags (Via xACT 2.53) & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Disc I:

  1. Out Of Our System (1)(2)
  2. Mayall Intro >I’m A Sucker For Love
  3. Dead City
  4. band intros
  5. A Hard Road
  6. Oh Pretty Woman
  7. Jacksboro Highway (2)
  8. Maydell
  9. I Don’t Mind

Disc II:

  1. One In A Million
  2. Hideaway (3)
  3. Padlock On The Blues
  4. Room To Move

Encore:

  1. Ain’t No Brakeman

Comment
John Mayall – Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar, And Harmonica
Buddy Whittington – Guitar And Vocals
John Poulos – Bass
Joe Yuele – Drums

(1) Band Only
(2) Buddy – Lead Vocals
(3) with many teases

Dan Hicks And The Acoustic Warriors, And Iron Butterfly Opened (Middle Billed)

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
I recorded several shows at the old Pozo Saloon, which is a 100-year old former stage coach stop miles in the country east of Santa Margarita. In the early days of concerts there, the ‘stage’ was nothing more than the back porch of the saloon, but by this show the promoters had built a larger stage back that sat in the back pasture behind the saloon. There were several large trees that obscured site lines when the stage was on the back porch so to get a good spot to see the bands you had to get there early and get upfront.

This was the show that Dan Hicks and the Acoustic Warriors opened. I was always asking Bill, the house soundman, for permission to record from the board, and he always gave me the same answer. ‘They’ll NEVER go for it.’ When I asked him to please ask Dan Hicks, Bill came back shocked and said, ‘He said yes!’ So, I have a board recording through Bill’s Panasonic SC-3700 DAT of the Dan Hicks opener, but I had to stealth record the other sets in the audience.

I was using the Nyquist hat for all my stealth shows in the 1990s, before i purchased my Neumann microphones. The Nyquist’s were custom-loaded capsules in a baseball-type hat, built by an out of work electrical engineer in Denver. They had pretty good sound but lacked decent bass response, and had a tendency to distort if the PA was really loud. A few of my recordings with this set up have extreme brick-walling and could not be salvaged, so I learned to keep the levels down in those situations.

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
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Dan Hicks Info:

Digital Soundboard; Panasonic SV-3700
Master DAT Transferred: Tascam DA-P1 >S/PDIF >HHb CDR 800 PRO
Master CD >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.37 Tags Via xACT 2.53

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC, Tags, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

01. Up! Up! Up!
02. Hummin’ To Myself
03. Topsy > Swing 42
04. Peach Pickin’ Time In Georgia
05. Long Come A Viper
06. Ukulele Lady
07. Caravan > Four Brothers
08. I Scare Myself
09. How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away
10. Four Or Five Times
11. Strike It While It’s Hot
12. The Buzzard Was Their Friend
13. The Simple Life

4:13. Fits On One Disc.

Dan Hicks And The Acoustic Warriors, Followed By Iron Butterfly, Opened For John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers.

OldNeumanntapr Notes-

My friend Bill Gaines, the soundman, was amazed that Dan Hicks agreed to a board patch. I would ask Bill time and time again to ask the band if I could patch in. He would always look at me like I was an idiot, but I told him that it never hurts to ask. Bill came back from backstage and looked shocked. He told me that Dan said yes, so I used Bill’s Panasonic SV-3700 DAT recorder because it was already plugged in to the effects rack, and left my D7 and microphones in my bag and ready for John Mayall’s set. I’ve seen a lot of shows at the old Pozo Saloon. It is a 100 + year-old Stage stop out in the middle of Nowhere, about 16 miles from Santa Margarita. The shows are always outdoors on the lawn in the back of the saloon. In later years they built a big stage in the pasture out back, but in the old days the shows were held on the back porch of the saloon. Supposedly, when Bruce Springsteen wanted to meet with Clarence Clemons, Bruce suggested the Pozo Saloon because it was midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The story I heard was that they sat and talked for hours and not a soul recognized them!

RIP Dan Hicks (Feb. 2016)