Neil Young
Solo w/ Frank Sampedro and Ben Keith
+ David Crosby & Graham Nash on one song.
1989-08-19
Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA

01. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)
02. Rockin’ In The Free World
03. Sugar Mountain
04. Helpless
05. Pocahontas
06. Crime In The City
07. This Old House (w/false start)
08. Too Far Gone
09. Roll Another Number
10. This Note’s For You
11. The Needle And The Damage Done
12. No More
13. After The Gold Rush
14. Heart Of Gold
15. Ohio (w/ David Crosby & Graham Nash)
16. Rockin’ In The Free World
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17. Powderfinger

Tour: 1989 A Solo Acoustic Evening – US Tour with Ben Keith and Frank Sampedro
Band: Solo with Frank Sampedro and Ben Keith
Neil Young – vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, harmonica
Frank Sampedro – guitar, mandolin, vocals
Ben Keith – dobro, keyboards, vocals

Source 1:

Source: Unknown gen. analog tape
Transfer: JVC tape deck > Edirol R-09 > Adobe Audition (level adjustments, edits, fades) > CDWave (tracking) > flac(8)

Note: Very low levels on the first part of the tape causing lots of hiss after the level adjustments. It gets better in the second part.

Source 2:

Sony ECM-909 Stereo Cardioid >Sony WM-D3 >Cassette 1 >WAV >FLAC XLII Cass I
Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >Tascam DR-100mkII (24/48) WAV >Sound Forge Pro 10.0a (Minor Edits & Normalize) >[Sony Wave Hammer (Lower Crowd Screams)] > iZotope RX3 Advanced v3.00.695 (Declick) >Audacity (Track Splits, Down Sample/Dither To 16 Bit/44.1k) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.37

Master Recorded By John Lech
Cass I Transfer, Audacity, FLAC, Amended Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Soundforge Pro, Sony Wave Hammer By Dennis Orr January 2016
Cassette Transfer Tracks speed adjusted with Audacity -7.570%
As tags were stripped during speed adjustment, retagged using winamp flac level 8 and checksum with traderslittlehelper
Speed adjustment, retag, reflac and checksum by arfarf Crowd Noise / Distortion Between Songs. Music Sounds Good But Crowd Is Noisy. If It Wasn’t For The Distorted Crowd Noise Between Songs The Quality Rating Would Be Higher.

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
My friend John Lech recorded this Neil Young acoustic show. I met John when he patched into me at the Sunday, August 6th 1989, Cal Expo Grateful Dead show. John had his WM-D3 then but soon upgraded to an Aiwa HD-X1 DAT portable, and finally to a Panasonic SV-255. This was one of the first tapes I received from him in trade, and I believe it was one of the first stealth concerts that he recorded. Unfortunately, his levels were really high and the crowd noise is really loud! I’ve never seen another recording from this night. I remember that John said that the security was really tight at this show and he was lucky to get his gear inside. I just wish the crowd wouldn’t have been so vocal, and distorted. At one point Neil comments about the ‘Tree People’, the folks who watch the show from the trees that surround the Greek Theatre. He said that when he played the Greek 20 years before, in 1969, with Crosby Stills and Nash that people were in the trees then too. He said that some of those people today have big houses, and some are homeless, and that he was glad that he was still here. (Neil Diamond also commented on the ‘tree people’ at the Greek on his 1971 ‘Hot August Night’ LP.) David Crosby and Graham Nash join Neil for ‘Ohio’. Thanks to Dennis Orr for trying to work his post production magic on this one, but I think it might be ‘Too Far Gone’. 😉

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