Neil Young & Booker T & The MGs – Portland, OR (09/06/93)

Neil Young w/Booker T & The MGs
9/6/93
The Meadows, Portland, OR.

FOB: DSM-6P’s >Sony TCD-D3 DAT
DAT I Transferred: Sony TCD-D8 >Tascam DR-100mkII Via Analog i/o

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

Disc I:

  1. Mr. Soul
  2. The Loner
  3. Southern Man
  4. Helpless
  5. Like A Hurricane
  6. Motorcycle Mama
  7. Love To Burn
  8. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
  9. Harvest Moon*

Disc II:

  1. The Needle And The Damage Done*
  2. Heart Of Gold*
  3. Powderfinger
  4. Live To Ride
  5. Down By The River
  6. band intros
  7. (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay
  8. All Along The Watchtower
  9. Rockin’ In The Free World

Neil Young With Booker T. & The M.G’s –
Steve Cropper – Guitar
Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn – Bass
Jim Keltner – Drums
Annie Stocking – Harmony Vox
Booker T. Jones – Organ, Synthesizer, Harmony Vox
Neil Young – Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Vox
Astrid Young – Harmony Vox

Special Guests (2nd Encore Only) –
Eddie Vedder – Vox;
Possibly Other Members Of Pearl Jam.

*Acoustic

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
This was a show that my friend Jason, from Portland Oregon, recorded. Jason was one of the first tapers that I knew, along with my friend John Lech, who made the transition to DAT. There is a touch of distortion in places but overall it’s a really nice recording and is very clear.

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

Neil Young – Louisville, KY (03/04/83)

Neil Young
3/4/83
Louisville Convention Center,
Louisville, KY

Unknown Audience

TDK AD 60 Cassette Transferred Via Sony TC-D5M >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)
WAV >Audacity (Amplify By 3.69db, Index Tracks, Downsample To 16 Bit / 44.1kHz) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53 By OldNeumanntapr (+ front cover artwork)

  1. The Old Laughing Lady
  2. Comes A Time
  3. Don’t Let It Bring You Down
  4. Down By The River
  5. Soul Of A Woman
  6. Are There Anymore Real Cowboys?
  7. Old Man (tape flip, no music lost)
  8. talk
  9. California Sunset
  10. Helpless
  11. Dance, Dance, Dance
  12. Heart Of Gold
  13. Don’t Be Denied

Neil Young, Solo

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
I’ve had this cassette since 1987 and got it from my friend Tim Harris. It was only marked ‘Neil Young Louisville’, so I had to search through Setlists.fm to match up the setlist with a date. It’s not a bad recording, and is clear and up-front sounding, though there is some talking from the taper in a few places. I was really surprised that no one at etree had it in their collection. Neil mentioned taking an intermission at the end of the recording, but apparently he ended the show early because of the flu and there was a riot, described in the following newspaper report:

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Flu-stricken musician Neil Young ended his concert early Friday night and passed out in his dressing room while fans jeered and threw chairs. Three people were arrested.

Police said there were no injuries.
Those taken into custody were charged with inciting a riot, wanton endangerment, criminal mischief and criminal attempted assault.

Police restored ordered in about an hour at the state-owned Commonwealth Convention Center, where about 5,500 people paid $10.50 and $12.50 for the concert.

Dr. Richard Greathouse of Louisville, a pediatrician and elected Jefferson County coroner, announced to the crowd that Young had become ill and was unable to continue the performance.

The announcement prompted jeers by the crowd. Some people threw cups of beer and tossed chairs. Police estimated damage at the downtown convention hall at $1,000.

A spokesman for Sunshine Productions, the agency that booked the concert, said Young has been suffering from the flu for several days.

‘He’s very sick,’ Sunshine spokesman Steve Cohen said. ‘The rigors of the road are not an easy thing and an illness doesn’t make it any better.’

Cohen said the concert probably would be rescheduled. He promised a prompt announcement on tickets for those who had attended the abbreviated concert.

Neil Young – Los Angeles, CA (08/19/89)

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

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. 😉