Jackson Browne – Kansas City, KS (11/10/76)

Jackson Browne
Memorial Hall
Kansas City, KS
November 10, 1976

Transfer: .wav file > Peak Pro 6 (pitch adjustment) > iZotope RX / ozone 5 (mastered) > Peak Pro 6 (post production) > xACT 2.39 > FLAC

01 The Fuse
02 Farther On
03 Rock Me On The Water
04 For Everyman
05 The Only Child
06 Fountain Of Sorrow
07 I Thought I Was A Child
08 For A Dancer
09 Walking Slow
10 The Road And The Sky
11 Sit Down Servant
12 Before The Deluge
13 The Pretender

Known Faults:
-For A Dancer: splice

This appears to be a very lightly circulated recording, it’s a fine capture close to the stage.

There were a number of issues to deal with, the most severe was the pitch being extremely slow and requiring a whopping +110 cents adjustment to correct.

In addition, the frequency spectrum was very limited and leaned heavily towards the low end but I am pleased with how the mastering turned out making this a solid listen and a nice addition to the available recordings for a great tour.

It is possible it’s missing a song or two, though it plays continuous and there doesn’t seem to be any glaring cuts, “Late For The Sky” in particular appears to have been played often on this tour. There are a lot of partial setlists on line for the tour so it’s difficult to get a sense of what the “standard” setlist was for each night. It is confirmed as Kansas City due to a city name check by Jackson during the show.

Big thanks to MR for the transfer and the .wav file out of his collection.

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Grateful Dead & Sting- Las Vegas, NV (05/15/93)

Grateful Dead w/Sting Opener
5-15-93
Sam Boyd Silver Bowl
Las Vegas, Nv.

Sting
01. Sting intro
02. Tea in The Sahara ->
03. Consider Me Gone
04. Walking On The Moon
05. If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
06. Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven)
07. A Day In The Life
08. Fields Of Gold
09. Synchronicity II
10. Roxanne
11. Englishman In New York
12. King Of Pain
13. When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What’s Still Around
14. Every Breath You Take

Grateful Dead

Disc 1
t01 Picasso Moon,
t02 Peggy-O,
t03 The Same Thing,
t04 Tennessee Jed,
t05 Broken Arrow,
t06 Bird Song

Disc 2
t01 Here Comes Sunshine >
t02 Playing In The Band >
t03 Crazy Fingers >
t04 Playing In The Band (reprise) >
t05 Drums >

Disc 3
t01 Space >
t02 All Along The Watchtower >
t03 Days Between >
t04 One More Saturday Night
t05 E: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

Fleetwood Mac – Buffalo, NY (05/15/03)

Fleetwood Mac
20030515
Buffalo, NY
HSBC Center

Source: Soundboard
Lineage:
Quality: 10
Comments: Outstanding quality
Notes:

  • w/ drum solo Set 1:
  1. The Chain 05:48
  2. Dreams 04:30
  3. Eyes Of The World 04:15
  4. Peacekeeper 04:28
  5. Second Hand News 03:28
  6. Say You Will 04:13
  7. Never Going Back Again 03:09
  8. Rhiannon 05:34
  9. Come 09:50
  10. Gypsy 04:50
  11. Big Love 03:27
  12. Landslide 04:12
  13. Say Goodbye 04:46
  14. What’s The World Coming To 04:35
  15. Beautiful Child 06:08
  16. Gold Dust Women 06:00
  17. I’m So Afraid 08:36
  18. Silver Springs 05:42
  19. Tusk 05:06
  20. Stand Back 05:35
  21. Go Your Own Way 06:45
    Encore:
  22. World Turning 09:38 *
  23. band introductions 01:39
  24. Don’t Stop 04:42
  25. Goodbye Baby 05:40
    __
    02:12:36

Bruce Hornsby & Bela Fleck – Danbury, CT (08/21/99)

Bruce Hornsby & Bela Fleck
8/21/99
Ives Concert Park – Danbury, CT

Transfer: Neumann KMR-82i > Sonosax SX-M2 > DA-P1
Transfer: Tascam DA-30 MKII > Tascam DR-680 > Audacity > WAV > Traders Little Helper > FLAC
Taped by David Keller
Transferred & Seeded by Bill Graves

  1. Charles Ives Sonata >
  2. Western Skyline >
  3. When I Paint My Masterpiece >
  4. Western Skyline
  5. Cheeseballs in Cowtown
  6. Crown of Jewels
  7. White-Wheeled Limousine
  8. Across the River >
  9. I Know You Rider
  10. Talk of the Town >
  11. Hot ‘Lanta >
  12. Big Boss Man >
  13. Dixie Chicken
  14. Instrumental
  15. Every Little Kiss
  16. Tangled up in Blue >
  17. Jam >
  18. Tangled Up in Blue
  19. China Doll
  20. In the Wee Small Hours
  21. Valley Road

~ Encore ~

  1. Crowd / Banter
  2. Mandolin Rain >
  3. Fortunate Son
  4. King of the Hill

Huge thanks to David Keller for the use of his archives

This show is a Boiler in the Basement Installment –
http://boilerinthebasementmusic.wordpress.com/

The Friday Night Horror Movie: Mr. Vampire (1985)

mr vampire poster

My pneumonia is subsiding, but definitely not fully gone. I’d say I’m up about 80 percent on that front. But you may recall when I first started getting sick I complained about having done something to my hip. Well, that is back with a vengeance. I don’t know what I’ve done to it, but it hurt like crazy anytime I stand up and try to walk.

Getting is old is not fun, my friends.

I’m in no shape to write a long review tonight, but since I missed last week’s Friday Night Horror and haven’t written much since then I wanted to talk a little bit about this movie.

I actually started Smile 2 this evening. Got about halfway through then got hungry. When I had finished my meal, my daughter had snuck into my room to watch something of her own. My wife was downstairs and she doesn’t like horror movies so after a bit we landed on this, a rather silly and not very scary horror movie.

Mr. Vampire is the first in what you might call the Hopping Vampire genre of Hong Kong cinema (I previously reviewed a later film in the genre, Encouter of the Spooky Kind (1980). The hopping vampires are actually Jiangshi, which come from traditional Chinese folklore and are something like a mix between vampires and zombies. Or so says Wikipedia anyway.

This film follows a Taoist priest and his two inept assistants who battle a super strong vampire, a couple of other vampires that he’s recently turned and eventually a succubus type ghost.

As you might suspect from that description it is a very silly movie. There are lots of broad jokes, goofy physical humor, and some pretty good kung fu action. It is, perhaps, a little too silly for my particular senses, but ultimately it won me over in its sheer entertainment value.

My wife seemed to enjoy it too. Definitely recommended when you are looking for something different.

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – San Luis Obispo, CA (04/01/16)

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Fremont Theater
San Luis Obispo, CA
April 1, 2016

Recorded & Tagged By OldNeumanntapr
4th Row, Left: Neumann AK-40s (ORTF in Hat) >LC3 >KM-100s >Beyer MV-100 >Sony PCM-M10 (24bit/48khz) >Audacity (16bit/48khz) FLAC

Post Production by Flying -M-
iZotope RX4 advanced > Har-Bal 3.0 > CD Wav > TLH

FLAC Tags Redone Via xACT 2.37 Due To Misspellings, And New FFP Files & Checksums Added.

Disc 1

  1. Introduction by Corey from Good Medicine Presents
  2. Zig Zaggity Woop Woop
  3. Simple Songs
  4. Digga Digga Do
  5. The Jitters
  6. [interlude] Scotty talks to the crowd
  7. Save My Soul
  8. Mr. Pinstripe Suit
  9. Hey Now
  10. Reefer Man

Disc 2

  1. Minnie The Moocher
  2. Jumpin’ Jack
  3. I Wan’na Be Like You
  4. You Know You’re Wrong
  5. Big Time Operator
  6. You Me And The Bottle Makes Three Tonight
  7. Go Daddy-O
  8. encore call
  9. Why Me
  10. So Long Fair Well Good Bye

Scotty Morris – lead vocals and guitar
Kurt Sodergren – drums and percussion
Dirk Shumaker – double bass and vocals
Andy Rowley – baritone saxophone and vocals
Glen “The Kid” Marhevka – trumpet
Karl Hunter – saxophones and clarinet
Joshua Levy – piano, arranger
Tony Bonsera – trumpet
Alex “Crazy Legs” Henderson – trombone

The Tipsy Gypsies Opened
The Historic Fremont (Movie) Theater Was Built In 1942

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
The show was awesome and we were 4th row on the left.
Everything went really well and I was able to set levels right on the money.
Genéte, who is a Huge BBVD fan, took photos with her iPhone and actually got some pretty good results. After the show she bought a poster and waited in line so all of the band could sign it.
She had a Great time and was really happy that she went.

I had thought that I would be directly in front of the left PA stack, but when we got into the theater I saw that they had hung the PA cabinets closer together than I would have imagined, so I was actually a little left and off axis from the left stack.
The opening band, which I didn’t record (they were a local SLO County band) sounded like there was a bump in the frequency response. Fortunately, BBVD sounded really good and there was no hint of that previous anomaly.

I only had One obnoxious clapper to my left, either behind me or further down my own row. (I made sure that Genéte was quiet, no easy feat.) 😉

We were so close to the stage that I could hear the horns onstage as well as being amplified through the PA. Fortunately we had really lucked out when we made or seating decisions, because we were on the left and so was the horn section! The piano and stand up bass were on the right, and Scotty, the lead singer was in the center.

The last time I saw these guys was when they played a free show at the Paso Robles Mid-State Fair in 2001. I had never heard of them but Genéte was really into them and I remember being impressed with their sound.

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

Flying M notes:
never heard this band before, wow.
A very nice sounding recording and I found the guy you wanted “erased”.
His hand was cupped creating a very loud finger snapping sound.
Verses a more petite slapping of 4 fingers on a palm which makes more of a tick (try it yourself).

Kind of addictive once you get used to hearing your tapes without loud claps.
If it only didn’t take sooooo long to do.
As normal when I went back the third time I found even more of that guy.
I wonder how many times an enthusiastic clapper “claps’ during an hour and a half concert?
Well that’s how many repairs this has, times maybe 2 (to include other neighbors).

Har-Bal uses an interesting form of equalization called harmonic balancing.
The theory is to balance the power across the frequency spectrum and you get additional clarity.
OK I am real new at this and it is not a simple procedure to get it right.
You might enjoy the added shimmer and increased volume.
The hidden music buried in the quiet spots are louder now adding more detail.
No limiting but more like riding the volume knob up and down.
So the quiet places are not as quiet.
An old studio trick.

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – San Luis Obispo, CA (11/27/24)

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
11/27/24
Christopher Cohan Center
Cal Poly University
San Luis Obispo, CA

‘Holiday Extravazanza’

6th Row, Just ROC;
Neumann AK 40s >LC3 >KM100s* >Beyer MV-100 >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)
(-10db pads engaged)*

Prep: Har-Bal 3.7 & iZotope Rx8 advanced (Flying -M-)

WAV >Audacity (Track Splits, Down Sample To 16bit/44.1kHz) Fix SBEs >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

Recorded, Audacity, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Photo / Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
Additional Band Photos By Taper’s Wife

Disc I:

  1. Intro
  2. Rock-a-Billy Christmas
  3. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
  4. Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer
  5. Talk
  6. You And Me And The Bottle Makes Three >
  7. I Wanna Be Like You
  8. Merry Christmas Baby
  9. Snow Miser And Heat Miser
  10. Minnie The Moocher
  11. Mr. Pinstripe Suit >
  12. King Of Swing

Disc II:

  1. Talk
  2. Christmastime In Tinseltown
  3. Frosty The Snowman
  4. We Three Kings
  5. Talk
  6. All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)
  7. ‘Zat You, Santa Claus?
  8. Run Rudolph Run
  9. Encore Break
  10. Walkin’ In A Winterland (encore)
  11. Why Me? (encore)
  12. Go Daddy-O! (encore)

Scotty Morris – lead vocals and guitar
Kurt Sodergren – drums and percussion
Dirk Shumaker – double bass and vocals
Andy Rowley – baritone saxophone and vocals
Glen “The Kid” Marhevka – trumpet
Karl Hunter – saxophones and clarinet
Joshua Levy – piano, arranger
Tony Bonsera – trumpet
Alex “Crazy Legs” Henderson – trombone

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
My wife is a huge Big Bad Voodoo Daddy fan, and when she told me that she was buying tickets for the Holiday Extravaganza I told her that I would be sure to do my best to see that it was archived. The Christopher Cohan Center is a beautiful performing arts theater on the Cal Poly university campus and it seats around 1,300 people and has curved interior walls to reduce audio standing waves. The acoustics are perfect, and we were upfront in the sixth row, almost center. Because of the close proximity to the stage I was getting a lot of direct sound from the horns which blended perfectly with the overhead PA vocals and the piano, bass, etc.
I hadn’t seen, or recorded, BBVD since the Fremont Theater show in SLO in 2016 so I was psyched to see them again. They are such an awesome big band with all the horns, and Scotty really steers the ship as the band leader and lead vocalist. I thought it was funny when Scotty told the crowd between songs that the biggest request that they received for the Holiday Extravaganza was to ‘Please don’t play just holiday music!’ Too funny! I was relieved to hear this because in the car on the way up I told my wife that I really wanted to hear Big Bad Voodoo Daddy classics like ‘Mr. Pinstripe Suit’, and she assured me that it would be, ‘Just Holiday songs’. All I can say now is ‘Nay’!!!! 😉 I loved hearing the band ‘swing’ through the holiday classics and the fact that they played some of their own classics was icing on the cake! I also really enjoyed hearing Scotty’s humorous stories, like when he thought that he had been pickpocketed by Santa, or when his young daughter requested her favorite holiday song. ‘All I want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth’ and he agreed to do it for her.

Thanks so much to Flying M for his post production ‘Fairy Dust’ that he does with his mad scientist computer programs. This recording really shines now because of his work.

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

No Country For Old Men 4KUHD is the New Blu-ray Pick of the Week

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I’m a little late with this. I assume pretty much all of you follow my other blog and have heard my tales of illness and woe. Short end of it is I have pneumonia. I’m on the recovery end of it, but it was a rough go of it there for a bit.

The weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas are always bountiful with new releases and this week is no exception. The Coen Brothers are one of my favorite directors and No Country for Old Men is one of my favorite films of theirs. The Criterion Collection is releasing a 4K UHD disc this week so naturally it is my pick, but there are lots of other cool things coming out too which you can read about in my article over at Cinema Sentries.

Various Artists – Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol., 9 – May Your Songs Always Be Sung

Various Artists
Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan: May Your Songs Always Be Sung (Vol. 9)

Putting together this series, the biggest challenge has been finding covers of songs other than “the hits.” Perhaps you can never have too many versions of “All Along the Watchtower,” “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” and “Like a Rolling Stone,” but it can be even more rewarding to hear a new interpretation of a lesser known or rarely performed song, like Maria McKee’s version of “New Pony” or Tom Russell doing “Seven Curses” (both featured on NSD Vol. 6). So this time out I’ve decided to include only songs not featured on previous volumes of this project.

The highlight for me is Lou Reed’s solo rendition of “Foot of Pride.” Lou butchered this tune at Dylan’s 30th anniversary concert; here, without a band to confuse his sketchy sense of rhythm, he conquers it. I’ve never really gotten this song–“Like the lion tears the flesh off of a man/ So can a woman who passes herself off as a male” has to be the weirdest opening couplet in Dylan’s canon–but this version makes me a believer.

Thanks to all the folks who’ve sent me suggestions and files, as well as the tapers, the original uploaders, and especially the performers and composer. Pdiamond and dsgtrane have been kind enough to create great artwork for the first eight volumes, and hopefully one or both of them or someone else will do the same for this one. Due to the many different sources, I am not including lineages. I have done nothing to the original files but normalize the levels and fade in and out on each track (using Cool Edit). Enjoy!

01 Wiggle Wiggle – John Wesley Harding (5-25-91, The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA)
02 The Man in Me – Cracker (4-29-05,Twilight Criterium Music Fest, Athens, GA)
03 Disease of Conceit – The Waterboys (11-3-89, Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA)
04 Foot of Pride – Lou Reed (6-8-93, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland)
05 Well Well Well – Ben Harper (8-2-05, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN)
06 Man in the Long Black Coat – Joan Osborne (5-4-96, Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA)
07 I Threw it All Away – Elvis Costello (10-14-84, Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA)
08 If You See Her Say Hello – Jeff Buckley (8-13-92, Knitting Factory, New York, NY)
09 Simple Twist of Fate – Elliot Murphy (3-16-04, Kulturzentrum Cobra, Solingen, Germany)
10 Abandoned Love – Chuck Prophet (4-16-05, King Tut’s, Glasgow, Scotland)
11 Tears of Rage – Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett (1-31-03, Grand Lido Braco Resort, Jamaica)
12 Lord Protect My Child – Susan Tedeschi with the Persuasions (10-28-06, Nokia Theater at Times Square, New York, NY)
13 Ballad of Hollis Brown – Stephen Stills (7-25-95, Hard Rock Cafe and Casino, Las Vegas, NV)
14 The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll – Christy Moore (11-12-06, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, England)
15 With God on Our Side – Buddy Miller (5-4-03 Rhythm & Roots Festival, Kilkenny, Ireland)
16 Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands – Robyn Hitchcock (3-26-05, Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ)