Allman Brothers Band
7/24/92
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA

Nakamichi CM-300’s w/CP-4 Shotgun Capsules >Sony WM-D6C

Audience Master (Maxell XLIIS), front & center of lawn on T-bar duct taped to steel cables >CDR >FLAC
XLIIS Cassette Master Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO,
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.35 >FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.43

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

Disc I

1. Don’t Want You No More >
2. It’s Not My Cross To Bear
3. Statesboro Blues
4. Blue Sky
5. Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’
6. Nobody Knows
7. Black Hearted Woman
8. Seven Turns
9. Midnight Rider
10. Southbound
11. Melissa
12. Pony Boy

Disc II

1. Hoochie Coochie Man
2. Get On With Your Life
3. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
4. Revival

Encore:

5. One Way Out
6. Whipping Post

OldNeumanntaper Notes:
This was a show I almost didn’t go to. As I remember, one of my coworkers had tickets that they couldn’t use, but I had to drive to Sacramento to pick them up. I left early that morning with my friend Jim Burns and we drove to Sac from Morro Bay, up I-5. I didn’t know until we got there that they were only lawn tickets. (I could have bought those at the show!) I was thinking that they were reserved seats, but,,, they were free. It just took a lot of gas to get there. When we finally got to Shoreline the security staff would not allow us entry with the recording gear. We had to wait until the Allman’s bus arrived and have them inform them that tape recorders were in fact OK. Thanks to Kirk West! (While we were waiting, I sent Jimmy in with my blanket and had him grab a spot front and center of the lawn, right up against the fence that separates the general admission area from the reserved sections.) Once I got inside I duct taped my microphone brace to the steel cables, about six feet high, because they would not allow microphone stands inside the amphitheatre.

Luckily I had the CP4 shotgun capsules for my Nakamichi CM-300s, because the crowd was really loud and unruly. I was the only taper up front on the lawn that night. Another guy came in at the last minute and patched into my D6 with a Marantz, either a 420 or 430, but my microphones were the only ones I could see anywhere. I actually had people walk up to where we were set up and cup their hands and scream up toward the mics, trying to ruin the recording. They looked at me and just laughed! I was not happy, but there was nothing I could do about it. I just hate people who deliberately try to ruin someone else’s time, in this case; my recording. I thought that the tape would certainly be a disaster, but fortunately the CP4 capsules have excellent side rejection so the screams were greatly attenuated. I remember another taper I met at a Jerry show once who said that crowd noise on a recording was, ‘All part of the show’ and there was no use worrying about it, but in this case I thought it was a little excessive.

I didn’t get home until two or three am and accidentally left my ticket stub on the dash of the car. By the time I went outside the next day the sun had turned the Bass ticket stub black. Oh well, at least I have the recording.

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
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Allman Brothers Band
Aug 1,1999
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA

*Neumann AK-40’s (x/y) >LC3->KM-100’s >Beyer MV-100 >Tascam DA-P1,
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o,
Taiyo Uden CD Masters >WAV Via xACT 2.35 >Audacity (Minor Edits, Minor Selective Compression [To Repair Wind Noise] >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.44

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

*SEC 202, Row H (Some Minor Wind Noise / Distortion during first couple of songs.

Disc I:

1. True Gravity
2. Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More
3. You Don’t Love Me
4. Good Times (Don’t Fade Away)
5. Midnight Rider
6. Good Clean Fun
7. Blue Sky
8. End Of The Line

Disc II:

1. Seven Turns*
2. Melissa*
3. J.J.’s Alley
4. Trouble No More
5. Stormy Monday**
6. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed >***
7. Bass Jam >In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
8. Revival

Encore:

9. No One To Run With

*acoustic
**w/Susan Tedeschi on guitar and vocals
***w/Martin Fierro on saxophone

Susan Tedeschi Opened

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was my third Allman Brothers Band recording at Shoreline, and at least by now the venue staff was clued into tapers and let us bring microphone stands into the venue. Whereas the Dead had a designated tapers section, the Allman Brothers would let you record wherever your seat was. This was both good and bad, because even though you could record from up front if you had the ticket, you were still at the mercy of the crowd around you. It’s why they say ‘safety in numbers’. In the tapers section you could be helped by like-minded individuals who all had the common goal of recording, but the Allman Brothers tapers were scattered hither and yon and your neighbors could make or break your recording. At least I was able to run my microphone capsules on the stand with the active cables so they took up as little room as possible. I remember people yelling to security about tapers with larger mics that were obscuring their view and they made them lower their stands. I think this was the only time that I was able to see Martin Fierro play. He added so much to Jerry Garcia’s funk band ‘Legion Of Mary’. I loved his playing.

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