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Betty Davis – Le Castellet, France (07/25/76)

Betty Davis
“Riviera ’76 Festival Jazz-Rock”, Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France
Audience Recording (Sivad)
July 25, 1976 (Approximately 11:00pm)

Lineage (Sivad): Audience Recording (Sivad) > 2 UHER dynamic mics > Nakamichi 550 Portable Cassette Recorder > TDK Tape > TASCAM > Cassette Deck >
Vaio Soundcard 😦 > Audacity > HD

Additional Lineage to the above (RatedX): CD Wave > TLH Flac Level 8

Betty Davis – Vocals
Larry Johnson – Bass, Vocals
Fred Mills – Keyboards, Vocals
Carlos Morales – Lead Guitar, Vocals
Semmie ìNickeyî Neal, jr. – Drums

According to the MC Introductions: Betty davis dedicated this show to Miles Davis.

01 French MC Intro From The Stage :27
02 Instrumental ? 3:18
03 Nasty Gal 4:31
04 Dedicated To The Press 3:40
05 The Lone Ranger 9:46
06 He Was A Big Freak 5:49
07 Talkin Trash 9:23
08 Steppin In Her I. Miller Shoes 5:21
09 Instrumental ? 2:09
10 Shut Off The Light (w/Applause) 5:15

Total Time: 49.39

Note:

  • Thank you Sivad (Original Taper) on following through with my request and providing me with this show.
  • I originally received this show from Sivad as a single wave file therefore CD Wave was use to split the tracks.
  • I’m not an expert so keep that in mind when hearing the tracking specially between (05 and 06 + 09 and 10), Betty goes from one song to the next a la Miles Davis.
  • For the purist: Besides the tracking nothing else was done to the original received wave file. I leave it to the experts to remaster as they wish.
  • I can’t make the title of track: 02 and 09. I believe they are just instrumental, after careful listening to her albums none of theses appeared.
  • There seems to be a fade out after Track 08. before track 09 maybe the result of a tape flip. I do not know if any music is missing between these two.
  • From the liner notes of “Is it Love Or Desire ” this show is believe to be one of the last if not the last time the band played together.
  • Part of this show (Radio Broadcast) is still available on Dime thanks to acidhangover for the re-seed: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=336120
  • In the above referenced torrent (comments section) fellow Dimer Stonethecrow provide us with an unreleased picture of this show (Thank you)
    published on a now dead French revue : “Musiq” December 2007. I have included that picture in this torrent.
  • In the above referenced torrent (comments section) Sivad comment the following:

” A bit of first-hand information on this one, as I’ve been lucky enough to attend this three-day outdoor event that was held at the Paul Ricard racetrack in Le Castellet (south of France) where, if I remember well, the previous week-end legendary Canadian driver Gilles Villeneuve on Ferrari had won the French Formula One Grand Prix. The festival was called ìRiviera ’76î and the main reason for me to get there was that Miles had to play the ‘ony European concert’ of that year. Of course, he didn’t show up ‘cos he had just begun his infamous five-year sabbatical, but nobody knew it at that time, not even Miles himself, I believe. The stage announcer said that, because of a sudden illness Miles couldn’t be there and he sent his former wife to replace him. I only knew vaguely about Betty Davis, but that night (July 1st, 1976) all of us found out what a blast she was!

For the chronicle, other artists who performed at the festival were: John McLaughlin’s Shakti, Airto Moreira (solo performance), Pat Martino (terrific), Tony Williams & Lenny White (with Brian Auger) Larry Coryell, Joe Cocker (who was too drunk to sing, sadly), Stuff (in my view one of the greatest bands of all time), The Crusaders, Joe Beck and some other I can’t remember now. As for the Betty Davis recording posted here (http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=336120),
it is not the complete set. I recorded with my trusty Nakamichi 550 the main acts, and at least half a dozen cassettes of that event still survive, Betty Davis included. One day I hope to find the time to make digital transfers of all the stuff I have recorded in the old days and put some of it on the web for all to share.”

In is above comments Sivad talks of the show being July 1st 1976 but when he sent me the file he mention the show to July 25, 1976 wich is probably right since the festival was held between July 23rd and July 26th.

As Sivad said in his e-mail exchange with me: “Considering it’s an open-air audience recording vintage 1976, I don’t think it could sound any better than this, particularly because the equipment I used was top shelf.
If you close your eyes it’s almost like being there: I had no wind shields on the mics, hence in some spots you can even feel the French riviera’s evening breeze!”

Sivad & RatedX: August 21st 2011

Ben Folds – Saratoga, CA (08/24/05)

Ben Folds
08/24/05
Mountain Winery
Saratoga, CA

Boxing
The Ascent of Stan
The last Polka
Gracie
All U Can Eat
Bastard
Gone
(Band Intro)
Jesusland
You To Thank
Careless Whisper (w/ Rufus Wainwright)*
Landed
(Banter)
Bitches Ain’t Shit**
Brick
Army
Philosophy
(Three Part Harmony Practice)
Not The Same

 
 *George Micheal Cover
**Dr. Dre Cover

(Odd Men Out Tour)

Original source notes:

ransfer: USB > Sony SonicStage V3.0 > WavMerge 2.1 >
Adobe Audition 1.0 (Normalize @98%) > CDWAVE Editor > Flac Frontend > FLAC > You
Taped/Transfered by: Danielle Hashem

New Lineage

Converted to WAV many years ago. I don’t remember how, probably via iTunes. Burned that to CDR, again years ago.

Ripped CDR to WAV file via iTunes then converted to FLAC with xACT. This was in April 2020.

Ben Folds – Urbana, IL (04/05/04)

Ben Folds
April 5, 2004
Univ. of Illinois – Foellinger Auditorium
Urbana, IL

Taper: Mark Makdad
Source: Shure SM81s > ART Technologies Tube Preamps > IBM T30 Thinkpad > SHN

REMASTERED VERSION

Remastered with taper’s permission by Jon Freeland
Path: Spark XL [C4 > Q6 > TC Denoise > L2] AIFF > xACT > SHN

Concerted to FLAC and tagged by the Midnight Cafe using xACT on March 18, 2020.

  1. Cooler Than You
  2. Zak and Sara
  3. Silver Street
  4. One Down
  5. All You Can Eat
  6. Polka/Hardee’s
  7. Rent a Cop
  8. Late
  9. Best Imitation
  10. Freebird/Rock This Bitch
  11. Careless Whisper *
  12. Philosophy > Misirlou ^ > Chopsticks $
  13. Sentimental
  14. Kate
  15. The Luckiest
  16. Army
  17. One Angry Dwarf and 2000 Solemn Faces
  18. Ultimate Sacrifice
  19. Champagne Supernova %
  20. Rockin’ the Suburbs
  21. Song for the Dumped @
  22. Hava Nagila/Eddie Walker
  23. Not the Same
  • Wham
    ^ Dick Dale
    $ Liz Phair
    % Oasis
    @ major key w/ bass

Recompiled by Jon Freeland 6-3-04.
Thanks to Mark Makdad for recording such an excellent show.
Thanks also to dmaster of toritraders.com for reorganizing and etree-ifying the setlist and files.

My Fair Lady (1964)

cover

My wife and I honeymooned in a little town in Ontario called Stratford. Like its namesake in England, the birthplace of Shakespeare, Stratford had three major theaters. They put on world-class productions. We saw several shows while we were there and had a wonderful time.

The best production was My Fair Lady. I had never seen any production of that show, not even the movie. It was magical. Even the costumes got a standing ovation.

I’ve seen the movie several times since and just love it. This past February I got to see it in the movie theater with my wife and it brought back all the feelings.

You can read my review here.

B.B. King – Oakland, CA (11/09/69)

B.B. King
Oakland Coliseum
Oakland, CA
November 9, 1969
The Late Show

Source: Reel to Reel [Mono] Audience Master > Wav > EAC > TLH [sector boundary aligned] > Flac (Level 8)

kingrue upload #332

45 years ago today !!

The quality is really good considering the size of the venue.
Opening for the Rolling Stones on this tour.
Track 2 is something I’ve never heard anywhere before and I’ve heard a lot of BB.
In fact this entire recording is unique and wasn’t really played like this again after this tour.
This is a valuable piece of history and insight to BB’s past.
I just wish more was recorded, but I’ll take this 15 minutes.
I suggest all blues fans get a copy of this.

01 Instrumental
02 You’re Choking Me
03 Instrumental

Total TIme = 15:03 min

Enjoy

George

Arlo Guthrie – San Luis Obispo, CA (10/23/98)

Arlo Guthrie
10/23/98
Cuesta College Auditorium
San Luis Obispo, CA

5th Row Center: Nyquist Omnis >SBM-1 >Sony TCD-D7
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o
CD Masters (HHb Gold) Extracted As One-Track WAV Files Via xACT 2.37 >Sound Forge Pro 10.0a [iZotope RX2 Advanced Plugin (Declick); Sony Wave Hammer Plugin (Lower Loud Screams, Whistles, And Laughter); Normalize] >Audacity (Track Splits) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.37

Recorded, Transferred, Audacity, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
Soundforge Pro, Sony Wave Hammer Post Production By Dennis Orr

Set I
Disc I:

  1. Chilling Of The Evening
  2. My Front Pages
  3. Arlo Story
  4. Ring Around The Rosy Rag
  5. Arlo Story
  6. Percy’s Song
  7. 1913 Massacre
  8. Arlo Story/Mooses Come Walking (Poem)
  9. Alice’s Restaurant

Set II
Disc II:

  1. Ocean Crossing
  2. When A Soldier Makes It Home
  3. Arlo Story
  4. Wake Up Dead
  5. Key To The Highway
  6. Arlo Story
  7. The Sinking Of The Reuben James
  8. Orphan Girl*
  9. Arlo Story
  10. The City Of New Orleans
  11. The Motorcycle Song
  12. This Land Is Your Land

Encore:

  1. Goodnight Irene

Arlo Guthrie – Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals
Abe Guthrie – Keyboards
Sara Guthrie – Lead Vocal*

OldNeumanntapr Notes-

The Cuesta College Auditorium was a neat old shoebox-type theater, built back during WWII on the old Cuesta campus which was part of the Camp San Luis California National Guard army base. (The New campus, built in the early 70s fronts Highway 1, the Pacific Coast Highway.) The auditorium looked like hell, with peeling paint and a leaky roof with a water-stained ceiling, but had really nice acoustics. Alas, it was deemed not worthy to retro-fit for earthquake standards, so it is slowing decaying and has been boarded up and condemned since the middle 2000s. It was sad, because Arlo remarked during the show how wonderful the sound was in the old theater. He said that they had played some brand new houses that didn’t sound half as good, and he implored the audience to try and preserve the old building. Sadly, that didn’t happen. I have recorded at the old auditorium a lot, and made my first recording there in the late 1980s when I was working part time for the Cuesta College Music Department while I was going to school. I gave a patch to my friend TaprRon at this Arlo show and he laughed, because it was the first time he’d gotten a patch at a stealth show! I got my ticket signed at this show, and My ex wife Nikki and I brought our daughter Lucy to see Arlo play. She was seven years old, and the last time that we saw Arlo, Nikki was pregnant with Lucy.

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

Arlo Guthrie – Ventura, CA (03/23/91)

Arlo Guthrie
3/23/91
Ventura Theater
Ventura, CA

1st Row, Left-Side Balcony: Nakamichi CM-300 CP-1’s >Sony WM-D6C,
XLIIS Cassette Master Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO,
Tayio Uden CD Masters Extracted To One-Track WAV Files >Audacity (Track Splits, Minor Edits, Amplify, & Normalize) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Disc I:

  1. Chilling Of The Evening
  2. I Ain’t Got No Home
  3. When The Ship Comes In
  4. The Motorcycle Song
  5. Darkest Hour
  6. Coming Into Los Angeles
  7. Keep The Dream Alive
  8. Wake Up Dead

Disc II:

  1. Oklahoma Nights
  2. Gabriel’s Mother’s Highway Ballad #16
  3. When A Soldier Makes It Home
  4. City Of New Orleans
  5. Amazing Grace
  6. All Over The World
  7. Can’t Help Falling In Love
  8. Highway In The Wind

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
This was the first time that I had seen / recorded Arlo and I was stoked to finally get to see him. My ex wife Nikki was six months pregnant with our daughter Lucy. I had her take my Sony D6 in for me with an ace bandage under her skirt, and I took the microphones, cables and blank tapes. I remember that there was a search going in and one person was stopped because they had an 110 Instamatic camera, and the bouncer made them take it back to their car. They tried to say that there was only a few frames left on the roll but the bouncer wasn’t buying it. We sailed in without a hitch because NO One wants to frisk a pregnant woman! The Ventura Theater was built in the late 1920s in the architecture of Spanish Colonial Revival, and first opened in 1928. It’s a really cool old theater and makes for a great place to see a live show. The seats were taken out years ago on the floor and that level, in three tiers, was converted to a dinner theater. The best seats are up front, but it’s also the riskiest place in which to record from. I recorded this show from the front row of the balcony. It’s a little boomy up there, but far safer for recording. You can actually hear the fan in the spotlight during the quiet parts. There were two spotlights in the balcony and I was sitting about three seats to the left of one of them, on the left side. The last time I have been to the Ventura Theater (The new owners modified the name to the Majestic Ventura Theater in the early to mid 90s) was to record John Prine in 1999. I have been told that the balcony is now closed off permanently and a sound wall was built between the back of the floor section and the bar area, which is under the balcony. This was possibly to improve the sound in the front part of the theater. I ran the Nakamichi microphones in a modified Levi jacket. I had holes sewn into the bottom of each front pocket, so only the capsule/wind screens would protrude from the jacket. I had long hair that I would wear down, to hide the mics from view, and used shortened XLR >RCA cables to connect to my recorder which I kept in a small hip pack. I wish I could have used the CP-4 shotgun capsules but that would have been far more noticeable, at least to the spotlight operator. My friend Jim used to tape his stereo mic to the top of the railing at the front of the balcony and drape his coat partially over the top. Whatever works, I guess. I liked the set list, and got to hear both The Motorcycle Song and The City Of New Orleans, so I was happy. Arlo told some great stories, as usual, and he talked a bit about the Gulf War. He said that he wanted to write a song about it but ‘it kept changing’. I was able to get my ticket signed after the show. Tape flips have been edited in Audacity. There was one after the sixth song on the first disc, and one in the middle of ‘Amazing Grace’.

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

Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead – Washington, D.C. (07/07/86)

Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead
7/7/86
Robert F. Kennedy Stadium
Washington, DC



01 – Unchain My Heart
02 – Positively 4th Street
03 – Clean-Cut Kid
04 – Emotionally Yours
05 – Shot Of Love
06 – We Had It All
07 – Masters Of War
08 – Straight Into Darkness
09 – Think About Me
10 – The Waiting
11 – Breakdown
12 – To Ramona
13 – One Too Many Mornings
14 – It Ain’t Me Babe
15 – I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know
16 – I’m Movin’ On
17 – Band Of The Hand
18 – When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
19 – Just Like A Woman
20 – Ballad Of A Thin Man
21 – Even The Losers
22 – Spike, 23 – She’s About A Mover
24 – Refugee
25 – Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
26 – Seeing The Real You At Last
27 – Across The Borderline
28 – I And I
29 – Like A Rolling Stone
30 – In The Garden
31 – Blowin’ In The Wind
32 – Shake A Hand
33- Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

Grateful Dead

–Set 1–
01 – Ramble on Rose
02 – New Minglewood Blues
03 – It Must Have Been the Roses
04 – It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue*
05 – Desolation Row*

–Set 2–
06 – Box Of Rain ->
07 – Playin’ in the Band ->
08 – Terrapin Station ->
09 – Drums ->
10 – Space ->
11 – The Other One ->
12 – Wharf Rat ->
13 – Around & Around ->
14 – Good Lovin’

–Encore–
15 – Satisfaction

*w/ Bob Dylan