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John Hiatt – San Luis Obispo, CA (06/26/19)



John Hiatt (Acoustic)
June 26, 2019
Fremont Theater
San Luis Obispo, California

12th Row, Slightly Left Of Center: Neumann AK-40s >LC3 >KM-100s >Tascam DR-100mkII (24bit/48khz) w/Internal Preamp And Phantom Power.

iZotope RX6 advanced & Har-Bal 3.7 (prep by Flying -M-)

WAV >Audacity (Track Splits, Down Sample To 16 bit / 44.1khz) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.47

Recording, Audacity, FLAC, Tags, & Rear Cover Artwork Photo By OldNeumanntapr

Post Production Wizardry By Flying M

Disc I:

  1. Intro
  2. Lift Up Every Stone
  3. Real Fine Love
  4. The Open Road
  5. Aces Up Your Sleeve
  6. Perfectly Good Guitar
  7. Crossing Muddy Waters
  8. Cry Love
  9. Is Anybody There?
  10. Long Time Comin’
  11. Master Of Disaster
    [51:20]

Disc II:

  1. Icy Blue Heart
  2. Train To Birmingham
  3. Tennessee Plates
  4. Feels Like Rain
  5. Thing Called Love
  6. I’m In Asheville
  7. Memphis In The Meantime

Encore:

  1. Have A Little Faith In Me

[45:01]

John Hiatt -Vocals, Acoustic Guitars, Electric Piano

The Historic Fremont (Movie) Theater Was Built In 1942

OldNeumanntapr Notes-

The last time that John Hiatt played an acoustic show at the Fremont my first Tascam had an electronic convulsion and I lost most of the show except for two or three songs.

Hiatt is an amazing songwriter and performer and I always enjoy seeing him in concert.
The Fremont has really good acoustics with its curved interior walls.
My hat is off to Flying M for his uncanny ability to get the most out of my recordings with his vast computer processing knowledge.
This recording really shines and actually sounds better than my ears heard the show live!!!
I hope everybody enjoys this one.
I was pleased to hear ‘Memphis In The Meantime’ because for some reason I was humming it at home the night before while I was getting my recording gear ready!

Flying M Preparation Notes-

It was a good workout pulling the audience back and pushing the music forward.
Have gone from end to end 4 times and I keep finding little things to “fix” and it’s been a week now so it’s becoming OCD and I had to stop.
Must have made 500 little repairs removing background noises, some easier than others.

Equalized with Har-Bal to flatten the frequency response reducing the hump in the low mid-range and giving it a little more presence in the top and bottom end.
Resulted in a “fuller” sound with the vocals being brought up making the singing clearer.

The audience exploded between songs so the loudest claps, whistling and whoo-hooing were removed as much as I could.
Coughing sniffing, chatting, singing and other random noises were also removed or minimized.
Finally the applause segments were reduced by an additional 3dB and then the overall amplitude was increased by 12dB.

Acoustic shows are tough to prepare as so many small noises become distracting once the volume is increased as much as this was.
-M-

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

The Who – Philadelphia, PA (10/19/69)

The Who
1969-10-19 (Late Show)
Electric Factory
Philadelphia, PA, USA


Source: “Electric Factory” (Trystar TR-017)
Lineage: AUD -> ? -> Silver CD -> EAC Secure Mode -> WAV -> TLH -> FLAC (Level 8)

71 min audience recording

Setlist:

  1. Heaven And Hell (cuts in)
  2. I Can’t Explain
  3. Young Man Blues
  4. Summertime Blues
  5. Overture
  6. It’s A Boy
  7. 1921
  8. Amazing Journey
  9. Sparks
  10. The Acid Queen
  11. Pinball Wizard
  12. Do You Think It’s Alright?
  13. Fiddle About
  14. Tommy, Can You Hear Me?
  15. There’s A Doctor (cuts in)
  16. Go To The Mirror
  17. Smash The Mirror
  18. Miracle Cure
  19. Sally Simpson
  20. I’m Free
  21. Tommy’s Holiday Camp
  22. We’re Not Gonna Take It
  23. My Generation (cuts in)

Notes:
I used Adobe Audition CC 2018 to split 1921 and Amazing Journey into two tracks.
This is not a very common recording and is not the same gig as the soundboard as commonly thought (the soundboard is of the early show).
I’ve never seen this shared from silvers before, so I am sharing my rip.

Dead & Co. – Las Vegas, NV (05/16/24)

Dead & Company @ The Sphere: Dead Forever
Sphere
2024-05-16
Las Vegas, Nevada

Source:
B9 C31F > Schoeps Active Cables > Baby Nbox > Roland R-07

Lineage: SD > Wav > Reaper > Flac 24 Bit

  1. Crowd 1st Set Intro
  2. Feel Like a Stranger
  3. Lift Off
  4. Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodeloo
    05 Jack Straw
  5. Birdsong
  6. Me and MY Uncle
  7. Brown Eyed Women
  8. Cold Rain and Snow
  9. Crowd 2nd Set Intro
  10. Uncle Johns Band
  11. Help on the Way >
  12. Slipknot
  13. Franklin’s Tower
  14. He’s Gone
  15. Drums >
  16. Space Jam
  17. Standing on the Moon
  18. St. Stephen
  19. Hell in a Bucket
  20. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
  21. Touchdown: Music Never Stopped
  22. Not Fade Away

Band:
Bobby Weir – Rhythm Guitar, Lead Vocals
Mickey Hart – Percussion, Beam
John Mayer – Lead Guitar, Lead Vocals
Jeff Chimenti – Keys
Oteil Burbridge – Bass Guitar, Percussion, Vocals
Jay Lane – Drums

Bandits of Orgosolo (1961)

movie

Radiance Films is a relatively new company competing in the Boutique Blu-ray market. This was my first venture into what they are doing and I gotta say I liked it. The film is quite good – it is an Italian Neorealistic look at how someone might become a bandit. And the disk is beautiful with some nice extras. You can read my full review at Cinema Sentries.

The Rolling Stones – Vancouver, Canada (07/05/24)

The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds Tour
Friday July 5th, 2024
B.C. Place Stadium
777 Pacific Blvd.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Taper: LeifH [2024#14]
Source: CA-11 > A10
Transfer: PC via USB > RX9 > Wavepad > flac (8) via TLH

Setlist: 02:08:00
01 intro
02 Start Me Up
03 Let’s Spend the Night Together
04 Bitch
05 Angry
06 Street Fighting Man
07 Wild Horses
08 Mess It Up
09 Tumbling Dice
10 You Can’t Always Get What You Want
11 Tell Me Straight
12 Little T & A
13 Before They Make Me Run
14 Sympathy for the Devil
15 Honky Tonk Women
16 Midnight Rambler
17 Gimme Shelter
18 Paint it Black
19 Jumpin’ Jack Flash
-encore-
20 Sweet Sounds of Heaven
21 (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Had tickets for the 2020 gig, and then… you know…
Wasn’t going to bother attending this one for a variety of reasons. Death of Charlie Watts, tickets were even more expensive than the original booking, and general dislike (to put it lightly) of stadium shows, just to name a few.

Neil Young was due in town a couple weeks after this, but unfortunately cancelled. Had tickets to both shows booked at Deer Lake Park. The money was refunded right away (much unlike Stones 2020) and all of a sudden the Stones were in town. The day of the show I found a secondary market ticket for well below face value and ended up paying about the same price as one of those Neil Young tickets.

Met up with some pals before hand for a few pints. We entered the venue during the opening act, Ghost Hounds. As soon as I got to my seat, I remembered why I never go to these kind of shows. Brutal. Ghost Hounds didn’t do it for me, generic boring American rock music. I wonder how much their buy-on was for this tour… Anyway, I used their last few songs as a record-level check to make sure I was all set for the main attraction (included here as a bonus).

The setlist was fairly ideal for a first and likely only time seeing the Stones. The overall experience left something to be desired. I never felt like I was really there but rather experiencing the show second or third hand, as if I was watching TV from across the street through binoculars or something. I’ve felt more like I was at a show while peering over a festival fence from a distance.

After being treated and sanitized, the recording sounds 150x better than it did at the show. Plus you don’t have to sit on a harsh plastic chair and smell my neighbour’s cheap hotel fatty acid soap aroma. Sit back in your favourite seat or listen to it on the go.

Miles Davis – San Luis Obispo, CA (04/20/90)



Miles Davis
4/20/90
Main Gym
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA

10th Row Center:
Aiwa CM-30 Stereo Cardioid >Sony WM-D6C,
XLII Master >XLII Cass I >WAV >FLAC

XLII Master Transferred: Toshiba PC-X10 >Sony TC-153SD (Shortly After Show)
XLII Cass I Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >Tascam DR-100mkII (24/48),

WAV >iZotope RX3 Advanced v3.00.695 (declick) > Sound Forge Pro 10.0a (minor edits & normalize) >
WAV >Audacity (Amplify, Track Splits, Down Sample / Dither To 16 Bit/44.1) >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.35

Recorded, Transferred, Audacity, & FLAC’d By OldNeumanntapr
iZotope RX3 Advanced v3.00.695 (declick) > Sound Forge Pro 10.0a (minor edits & normalize) By Dennis Orr

  1. Perfect Way
  2. New Blues
  3. Hannibal
  4. The Senate-Me And You
  5. Human Nature
  6. In The Night
  7. Mr. Pastorius
  8. Tutu
  9. Jilli
  10. Time After Time
  11. Jo-Jo >Don’t Stop Me Now

Miles Davis – Trumpet, Synthesizer
Kenny Garrett – Alto Saxophone, Flute, Musical Director
Joe Foley McCreary – Electric Piccollo Bass, Vocals
Richard Patterson – Electric Bass, Vocals
Kei Akagi – Synthesizer
Erin Davis – Percussion
Ricky Wellman – Drums

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was my very first ‘stealth’ recording, and also the one and only time that I was able to see Miles Davis. My friend Mark is a big Miles fan, and he offered to buy me a ticket if I would record the show. Hey, works for me. 🙂
I remember that we rode to the show with his friend Jay, ‘Lucky’, from Lake Tahoe, and our friend Tim, who was another big music fan, as well as Carol Jo, the ‘Wood Nymph’ from KOTR FM in Cambria. We were 10th row center at the Main Gym at Cal Poly. The sound was pretty good, though Carol Jo talked a bunch to Mark starting midway through the show. At the time, I thought it would rude to tell Mark to have her shut the hell up, because I was getting the ticket for free, and because, not ever having done a stealth show before, I had no idea how much ambient noise the microphone would pick up. At that time I was used to only recording Grateful Dead concerts from the tapers section, with microphones on a stand above head level. I was holding the Aiwa CM-30 right in front of my face for this show, and there were a lot of quiet parts. Listening to the show now, I am remembering that the tape ran out and I missed the last part. (I only brought in one 90 minute cassette. The tape ends with the beginning of another song, but I left that as part of the previous song in the indexes.) The deal I made with Mark was that I would record the show and give him the master, but I copied it for myself after the show that night. The recording would have been much better, had it not been for Carol Jo’s talking, but it is what it is. This recording has really never been circulated, outside of a few friends here on the CA central coast. I’ve had the handbill for this show for years. It was hanging in the window of the liquor store where I worked in Cayucos, CA. I recorded Santana the next week at the same venue, the night of the Cal Poly/SLO Student Riots.

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

Pink Floyd – Foxborough, MA (05/18/94)

Pink Floyd
Foxboro Stadium
Foxborough, MA, USA
05/18/94

The Division Bell Tour
Welcome to Sunny Foxboro

Astronomy Domine
Learning to Fly
What Do You Want From Me
On the Turning Away
Take It Back
A Great Day for Freedom
Sorrow
Keep Talking
One of These Days
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
Breathe (In the Air)
Time
Breathe (Reprise)
High Hopes
The Great Gig in the Sky
Wish You Were Here
Us and Them
Money
Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2
Comfortably Numb

Encore:
Hey You
Run Like Hell