Blues Traveler – Monterey, CA (05/29/93)

Blues Traveler
May 29th, 1993
Laguna Seca Daze
Laguna Seca Recreation Area
Monterey, CA

Master:
FOB: Nakamichi CM-300/cp4’s + Sony Quartz-Lock FM Tuner (Mixed w/Boss
BX-4)>Sony TC-D5M >cass(m)

Conversion:
XLIIS Cassette Master >CDR Via: Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO Standalone CD Recorder, CD >xACT 1.69 >FLAC

Recorded, Transferred, & Tagged (Via xACT 2.53) By OldNeumanntapr.
FLAC By Dave Mallick

  1. Alone > [13:14.66]
  2. Optimistic Thought [04:03.67]
  3. Love & Greed [05:36.57]
  4. Dropping Some NYC [03:22.35]
  5. Out Of My Hands [04:09.08]
  6. Go Outside & Drive [12:24.29]
  7. Crash Burn [03:18.21]
  8. Slow Change [08:18.44]
  9. Spinning Spiraling Machine [06:20.08]
  10. NY Prophesie [05:48.58]
  11. What’s For Breakfast [03:56.16]
  12. But Anyway [07:29.26]
    Total: [78:02.60]

Notes:

  • Due to the live matrixing of the two sources, there is a
    noticeable delay/echo, especially during vocals and quieter
    parts.
  • Tape flip between tracks 7 and 8. No music lost.

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
I was one of the first cars into the parking lot that morning, but the ‘Powers That Be’ wouldn’t let us into the gates of the show with our recording equipment until the Allman Brothers arrived and announced to them that taping was indeed OK. Fortunately, my friend Jim’s girlfriend went in while we waited outside and took a blanket in to reserve a spot. (We could have been a lot closer to the stage if security would have just let us in when we got there.) I remember that we missed the first one or two opening sets because of the miscommunication with the recording policy, and Blues Traveler was the first set that I ran tape for that day. Someone mentioned to us that they were doing a low-power FM broadcast off the board, but it was mono, so I set up my little Sony SRF-M30 quartz locked FM walkman and mixed the Nakamichi CM-300 shotguns with the FM signal. It was hard to monitor the sound at the show, and I didn’t realize that there was a big delay in the sound coming off the PA stacks as opposed to the FM feed. I still think that it sounds better than just the audience mics all by themselves. I still have the poster for this show!

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Bob Dylan – Washington, DC (07/06/86)

BOB DYLAN
RFK Stadium, Washington, DC
July 6, 1986

That Lucky Old Sun
Liberated Sir Oliver bootleg

CD 1:

  1. So Long, Good Luck And Goodbye
  2. Positively 4th Street
  3. Clean Cut Kid
  4. I’ll Remember You
  5. Shot Of Love
  6. That Lucky Old Sun
  7. Masters Of War
  8. To Ramona
  9. One Too Many Mornings
  10. It Ain’t Me Babe
  11. I Forgot More Than You Will Ever Know
  12. Band Of The Hand
  13. When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
  14. Lonesome Town
  15. Ballad Of A Thin Man

CD 2:

  1. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
  2. Seeing The Real You At Last
  3. Across The Boaderline
  4. I And I
  5. Like A Rolling Stone
  6. In The Garden
  7. Blowin’ In The Wind
  8. Uranium Rock
  9. Knockin’ On Heavens Door

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers:
Tom Petty – guitar; Mike Campbell – guitar;
Benmont Tench – keyboards;
Howie Epstein – bass; Stan Lynch – drums;

The Queens Of Rhythm:
Carolyn Dennis, Queen Esther Marrow, Madelyn Quebec, Louise Bethune – vocals

Allman Brothers Band – Mountain View, CA (07/24/92)

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:

  1. One Way Out
  2. 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.

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Leo Kottke – Santa Barbara, CA (09/17/17)

Leo Kottke
9/17/17
Lobero Theatre
Santa Barbara, CA

11th Row DEAD Center:
Neumann AK 40s (ORTF) >LC3 >KM100s >Beyer MV-100 >Tascam DR-100mkII (24bit/48khz)

WAV >iZotope RX6 Advanced & Har-Bal 3.0 >

WAV >Audacity (Track Splits, Down Sample / Dither To 16bit/44.1khz) >FLAC (Level 8) Plus Tags Via xACT 2.41

Recorded, Audacity, FLAC, & Tags By OldNeumanntapr
iZotope / Har-Bal Post Production By Flying M

Disc I:

  1. Intro
  2. From Pizza Towers To Defeat
  3. Pamela Brown
  4. Ojo
  5. Homer & Jethro Story
  6. Last Steam Engine Train
  7. Four Cents
  8. Julie’s House
  9. Disko (Island) / Callus Story
  10. Disco
  11. Staging Story
  12. Living In The Country
  13. Diner / Stink Story

Disc II:

  1. Then
  2. The Brain Of The Purple Mountain
  3. Tuning / Carnival Story
  4. Unknown
  5. Oddball
  6. Wonderland By Night
  7. Unknown (New Song, Aborted)

Encore:

  1. Intro To Rings / Snakes Story
  2. Rings

Leo Kottke Solo Acoustic – Six & 12 String Guitars, Vocals

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
I’m still kicking myself that it took so many years for me to discover Leo Kottke. I’d heard of him for a long time but never took the time to seek out his music. I even had the chance to see / record him not too far from home in 2011 or 2012. When I finally did listen to one of his recordings I was instantly hooked. I’d never heard anything quite like his playing before. I noticed right away that in addition to being a virtuoso guitar player he was a superb story teller. Another taper / collector summed it up really well. “Leo is a very funny comedian who just happens to be a virtuoso guitarist!” I couldn’t have said it better myself. This is the second time that I have seen him, the first being also at the Lobero Theatre in November of 2014. I think one of the reasons I collect so many of his live shows is to hear the meandering, nonsensical, funny stories that he tells! Leo tried a new instrumental at the end of the set but abandoned it partway through when he couldn’t get it to work. He said, “I used to say that I play everything that I can remember, but I guess I can’t say that anymore.” He said that what made it worse was that it was a new song, and he couldn’t remember how it went. There was another song in the set that I couldn’t place. Leo usually plays instrumentals, which can be hard to identify, but this track had lyrics and I still couldn’t uncover anything on it when I Googled the words. Hopefully someone else can give it a name. This was a quiet acoustic show. It was so quiet that the microphones picked up the sounds of my breathing, even though I was conscious that it might happen. There’s really no way to get around that, and still be alive to record the show! Thanks, as always, for Flying M’s awesome work in post production!

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The Friday Night Horror Movie: Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000)

poster

Talk about a case of a sequel being better than the original. I watched Vampire Hunter D a few weeks ago and thought it was awful. There were interesting story ideas, cool characters, and deep mythology hidden within a terribly written and animated film. This sequel, made some fifteen years later improves upon everything in every way.

The basics of the story are essentially the same. This one opens up the mythology a little bit and adds some characters, but it is still Vampire Hunter D trying to rescue a beautiful maiden from a vampire.

In this version, set in the far future, vampires have essentially ruled the world for centuries, but they are slowly dying out. Or rather they are slowly being killed by vampire hunters. Most of these are humans, mercenaries looking for big paydays and a bit of danger. But D is a dhampir – half human half vampire.

The girl, Charlotte (Wendy Lee) is taken from her home by Meier Link (John Rafter Lee) a vampire of nobility. Her family pays D (Andy Philpot) a hefty downpayment (with promises of much more if he succeeds) for rescuing her.

They’ve also paid The Marcus Brothers, a motley crew of hunters to do the same. They mostly consist of the same type of characters you get in any film with mercenaries – rough-and-tumble dudes who are good with specific weapons and get smart-assed with their dialogue. There is one lady Leila (Pamela Segal) and a bedridden psychic who can psychically leave his body and do severe damage to his enemies with his mind.

Leila gets the most screen time and she is the most interesting. The rest of her crew immediately take a disliking to D as they see him as competition. But Leila forms a friendship of sorts with him. He rescues her then she rescues him and they form a bond.

There are monsters, including a shapeshifter and a werewolf, they must battle but those scenes are short, and the fights are finished fairly quickly. It is as if the film understands that the monsters might be fun to watch for a minute, but it is the characters that are going to create fans.

The story is mostly good, though it borrows heavily from other stories and periodically drags. It is still lightyears above what they did in the first film.

The animation is gorgeous. The film wanders from a desolate desert to a great forest and we spend the third act in an enormous gothic castle. All of it is rendered beautifully. The characters are well-drawn and the action flows like the best live-action movies do.

It is astonishing how much better this film is than the original. Highly recommended.

Allman Brothers Band – Mountain View, CA (08/01/99)

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:

  1. 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.

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Talking Heads – Rotterdam, The Netherlands (12/11/80)

TALKING HEADS
The Ahoy
Rotterdam
Netherlands
December 11, 1980

Partial Show – Disc Time 51:50

01 Warning Sign
02 Stay Hungry
03 Cities
04 band introductions
05 I Zimbra
06 Drugs
07 Once in a Lifetime (fades out) > radio announcement
08 Houses in Motion
09 Born Under Punches
10 Cross Eyed and Painless (fades out)

Source: Dutch FM Broadcast > ? > Cassette.

Transfer: Cassette > Sony TC-D5M > Realtek AC97 > Soundforge >
CD-Wave > TLH v.1.0.0.72 (for SBE-OK, FLAC compression and
checksums) > FLAC > dimeadozen, November 2006.

Notes: Once in a Lifetime fades out after only two minutes.
There’s some minor tape damage audible during Houses in Motion,
around track time 4:25 > 4:35. Cross Eyed and Painless fades
out on the final notes. Otherwise, a great recording…ENJOY!

Amanda Shires – San Luis Obispo, CA (05/09/13)

Amanda Shires
May 9 2013
SLO Brewing Co.
San Luis Obispo, CA

FOB: Neumann KM-140s (ORTF) >25 ft XLRs >Beyer MV-100 >Tascam DR-100mkII (24bit/48hz)

Master WAV >Audacity (Amplify, Normalize, Track Splits, Minor Edits) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.37

Microphone Cross Bar Bungeed To Front Center Ceiling Post, 8 Ft From Stage Center, 9.5 Ft High

(Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged (Via xACT 2.53) & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)

  1. Kudzu
  2. Swimmer, Dreams Don’t Keep
  3. Kept Watch Like Doves
  4. The Garden Song
  5. Bulletproof
  6. Devastate *
  7. If I
  8. Lovesick I Remain

*(new song abandoned-noisy audience?)-chat about being stoned listening to Carol King

Solo Acoustic
Amanda Shires – Acoustic Guitar, Vocals

Opened For Todd Snider, you can find his set here.

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
This was the very first recording that I made with my, at that time, brand new Tascam DR-100mkII. I was recording Amanda’s set mostly just to get a feel for the new deck, and to practice a little with it before Todd Snider came out.

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