Tag: 1990

Grateful Dead – Berlin, Germany (10/20/90)

Grateful Dead
October 20, 1990
Internationales Congress Centrum
Berlin, Germany

–Set 1–
101-d1t01 – Tuning
102-d1t02 – Jack Straw
103-d1t03 – Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo>
104-d1t04 – Walkin’ Blues
105-d1t05 – Friend of the Devil
106-d1t06 – Black Throated Wind
107-d1t07 – Jack-A-Roe
108-d1t08 – When I Paint My Masterpiece
109-d1t09 – Let It Grow >
110-d1t10 – Jam >
111-d1t11 – Box of Rain

–Set 2–
201-d2t01 – Tuning
202-d2t02 – Eyes of the World >
203-d2t03 – Samson & Delilah
204-d2t04 – Ship of Fools
205-d2t05 – Dark Star >
206-d2t06 – Drums >
207-d3t01 – Space >
208-d3t02 – Dark Star >
209-d3t03 – Throwing Stones >
210-d3t04 – Not Fade Away >
211-d3t05 – NFA chant >

–Encore–
212-d3t06 – One More Saturday Night

Santana – San Luis Obispo, CA (04/28/90)

Santana
4/28/90
Mott Gym
Cal Poly University
San Luis Obispo, CA

8th Row Center
(Recorded, Transferred, Mastered, FLAC’d, Tagged (xACT 2.53) & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr) [Files Tagged, & Artwork Added 10/2024]

Aiwa CM-30 Stereo Cardioid >Sony WM-D6C (w/Dolby B) [TDK MA 110]
TDK MA-110 Master Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >Tascam DR-100mkII (24/48) w/Dolby B Engaged,
Right Channel Only transferred Through Y Cable To Duplicate Into Two Mono Tracks. WAV >Audacity (Split ‘Stereo’ Track To Mono, Added 30 Milliseconds Of Silence To The Beginning Of Left ‘Pseudo-Stereo’ Track to Approximate The Effect Of Stereo, [See Further Notes Below As To Why This Was Done], Track Splits, Minor Edits, Down Sample / Dither To 16 Bit 44.1k

xx. Spirits Dancing In The Flesh*
xx. Somewhere In Heaven*
xx. It’s A Jungle Out There*
xx. Soweto (Africa Libre)*
xx. Batuka/ No One To Depend On*
xx. Gypsy Woman*
xx. Mother Earth*

  1. Blues For Salvador**
  2. Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen
  3. Oye Como Va
  4. We Don’t Have To Wait
  5. Savor (Percussion Solo)
  6. Choose
  7. She’s Not There
  8. Soul Sacrifice
  9. Europa
  10. Keep On Running/Band Intros

Encore:

  1. Somewhere In Heaven
  2. Peace On Earth

*Not Recorded
**Only last 90 seconds recorded

54.41 – Edit point between side A and side B.

OldNeumanntapr Notes; [2015]
I remember this one well. It was only my second stealth show, the first being Miles Davis at Mott Gym at Cal Poly the week before. I had some minor problems, the first being that I accidentally left my pause button engaged for the first part of the show. When I was getting ready for what I thought would be the first flip, I happened to feel the pause button was still pressed in when I touched the deck. I was pissed, after having checked levels repeatedly. (They looked great, in the dark.)

Another problem was that the CM-30 that I had used had a low level rumble in the right channel. There was something amiss in the microphone’s electronics on that channel, and I later replaced it with another CM-30. As D6 owners will no doubt remember, the D6 recorders had a one-knob level control and had only one row of LEDs for the meter, which would show the highest channel. The recorders were not adjusted at the factory and usually had one channel higher or lower than the other. I eventually had mine calibrated by a tech, but in 1990 I had only had it about a year and a half so it was still unbalanced. Being that I was running metal tape, I wanted to push the levels a bit more than normal. Unfortunately, the left channel was too hot and suffered from some distortion. The right channel, recorded at a little lower level, was better, though the right channel was the bad channel on that particular Aiwa CM-30. (During the quiet parts you can hear the low level rumble in the mic, but fortunately at this show there were not that many quiet parts and we were up front in the 8th row. I wish I would have had better mics, but I hadn’t yet bought the Nakamichi CM-300s. That wouldn’t happen until summer of ’90.

So, I transferred the tape with my D5 to my Tascam DR-100mkII, engaging the Dolby B circuits on playback, and used a Y cable to duplicate the undistorted right channel into dual mono. Then I took it into Audacity and added 30 milliseconds of silence to the start of the left (psuedo-stereo) channel to approximate the sound of a stereo delay. It actually doesn’t sound half bad.

I can’t believe that the 25 anniversary of this show was last Tuesday. The night that Santana played was the night of the infamous Cal Poly / San Luis Obispo student riots, and was what caused Poly Royal, the university’s open house celebration, to be cancelled after 50 years. It was quite a shock to see all the police in riot gear swarming around the Cal Poly campus after the show. We were dumfounded, until we saw the news later. Stupid drunk college kids rioting over nothing.

This recording is most likely the only one from this show, though as always mileage may vary and you can never say never or only. Still, I’ve never seen another one. It actually doesn’t sound half bad. I was able to get rid of the distortion from the left channel and by adding the 30 milliseconds of delay (Thanks for the tip Dennis!) it sounds a lot better than a flat monaural recording would. Still, I can’t do anything about the missing first part of the show. At least I came away with something. (About a minute after the tape starts you can hear my friend Tim lean in and say, ‘Did you bring the weed in? I should have brought some in. Everyone’s smoking’ Too funny!)

I never traded this show before, because of the flaws, so it is uncirculated. I think it sounds a lot better now after doing the work in Audacity. I found out that BOTH of the posted set lists to this show (Setlists.com and Santana’s own website) were incorrect. With a little help from my friends I was able to identify the missing tracks. Of course, I have no way of accurately knowing if the first half of the show’s previously posted set list is correct, as my tape recorder was not running for that portion.

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

10,000 Maniacs – New York, NY (10/23/90)

10,000 Maniacs
Beacon Theatre
New York City, NY
October 23, 1990
(Two Of Us Master Series Volume 222)

Recording: Shure Mic > Sony WM-D6C

Transfer: Master tapes > Nakamichi DR-01 (azimuth adjusted) > USB Sound Devices > Audacity > iZotope RX / ozone 9 (mastered) > xACT 2.50 > FLAC

01 Maddox Table
02 Eat For Two
03 Whatís The Matter Here?
04 City Of Angels
05 A Campfire Song
06 Headstrong
07 Cherry Tree
08 Dust Bowl
09 Everyone A Puzzle Lover
10 Cotton Alley
11 Heís A-1 In The Army (And Heís A-1 In My Heart)
12 Gun Shy
13 Poor De Chirico
14 The Latin One
15 Scorpio Rising
16 Daktari
17 Like The Weather
18 Hey Jack Kerouac
19 Donít Talk
20 Trouble Me
21 Poison In The Well
22 Tension
23 My Mother The War
24 Among The Americans
25 Where My Soul Never Dies
26 Planned Obsolescence
27 Where My Soul Never Dies (Reprise)

Known Faults:
-Maddox Table: joined in progress
-The Latin One: start cut
-My Mother The War: end slightly cut

Between 1983 and 2002 there were not any tapers more active than the “Two Of Us”. For the better part of two decades they taped over 250 artists with an array being taped multiple times.

If you collect Springsteen then you are already familiar with some of their work, “fmcleanboots” has posted a half dozen or so of their “Tunnel Of Love” tour shows but has decided to pass the baton.

What you don’t know is their passion was not just for Springsteen but for music and that passion runs deep. It is astonishing how many artists they taped.

They followed tours taping club shows, theater shows, arena shows, big artists, mid-level artists and local artists.

If they were following a tour and the tour had an off night they’d see who else was playing that night to tape. Always focused on enjoyment of the show as the priority,
tickets were for the most part acquired outside of the venue as they worked to obtain the best possible seats, continually trading up until the correct seats were acquired.

The results of this were the captures are uniformly excellent but on occasion the start of the show was sacrificed as a trade-off for the seats.

The heavy lifting was done by the Sony WM-D6C and an external Shure Mic before moving to DAT for the last couple of years. None of their masters have ever been circulated and
have been safely stored for the past three to four decades in a climate controlled environment. Tapes transferred so far are in pristine condition.

Though we may do some mini releases of a series of shows in order for one portion of a tour for the most part shows will not be released in order, there are just too many of them.

This will be a very exciting series and we hope along the way we upgrade existing circulating audio and offer up shows that do not have any circulating audio, enjoy the ride, this is definitely not a dark ride.

10,000 Maniacs
Beacon Theatre
New York City, NY
October 23, 1990

This is recorder 2 for Natalie and company’s 1990 stop at the Beacon Theatre and our third 10,000 Maniacs show in the series. Another wonder performance from the group, a little bit of the Beacon reverb but highly listenable throughout.

As always thanks to Goody for his continuing support of this and all our other historic releases ensuring we are running in the correct pitch.

A big thanks as always to “Two Of Us”, their dedication to capturing all these legendary performers and shows many heard hear for the first time, the HOURS and HOURS spent waiting in line, traveling, money on tickets as well as trusting me to be the caretaker of their life’s work, our little community is indebted to you both. Also, a big thank you to my friend “fmcleanboots” for putting me in touch and laying the groundwork that has resulted in all these great releases…we’ve barely scratched the surface. The amount of completely uncirculated shows they taped and continue to get into my hands for release is staggering.

And as always thanks to Goody for his continuing support of this and all our other historic releases ensuring we are running in the correct pitch.

Van Morrison – Torino, Italy (01/22/90)

Van Morrison
01/22/90 (Mon) 
Teatro Colosseo – Torino, Italy

CD 1:
Parchman Farm(GF)
Funny How Time Slips Away (GF)
I Will Be There
Whenever God Shines His Light
It’s All In The Game > Make It Real One More Time
Cleaning Windows
Orangefield
Tore Down a la Rimbaud
When Will I Ever Learn To Live In God
Beautiful Vision
Dweller on the Threshold
Cat’s Eyes(GF), Yeh Yeh(GF)
Wonderful Remark

CD 2
Into The Mystic
She Gives Me Religion
Full Force Gale
Summertime In England
Star of the County Down
Moondance > Fever
Northern Muse (Solid Ground) > When Heart Is Open
In The Garden
Buona Sera

Lineup: Ritchie Buckley, Dave Early, Georgie Fame, Steve Gregory, Bernie Holland, Neil Drinkwater, Brian Odgers, Haji Ahkba – trumpet

Robert Earl Keen – Berkeley, CA (06/29/90)

Robert Earl Keen – Solo Acoustic Performance
Freight & Salvage, Berkeley CA
June 29, 1990

01 Rollin’ By
02 Mariano
03 Sonora’s Death Row
04 Maria
05 Road Goes On Forever
06 Blow You Away
07 It’s the Little Things
08 Low Down Lonely Fool
09 Let Me in the Night
10 Jennifer Johnson and Me
11 Love’s a Word I Never Throw Around
12 Leaving Tennessee
13 Five Pound Bass
14 Going Down in Style
15 Front Porch Song
16 No Kinda Dancer
17 Copenhagen

01 I’m The Man Around Here
02 I Would Change My Life
03 I’ll Go Downtown
04 Crazy Cowboy Dream
05 Sing One For Sister
06 Bluegrass Widow
07 Dead Kitty Bean
08 Swerving in My Lane

Source : Soundboard
Transfer From Master Cassettes

Grateful Dead – Sacramento, CA (06/09/90)

Grateful Dead
06/09/90
Cal Expo Amphitheater,
Sacramento, CA

OTS; Nakamichi CM-300s x3; Two CP-4 Shotgun Capsules + One CP-3 Super Omni Mixed With Radio Shack Mixer >Aiwa HD-X1 DAT >Sony WM-D6C (Patch) [TDK MA110s]

MA110 Masters Transferred Via Denon DR-M12HR Cassette Deck >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)

WAV >Audacity (Amplify, Track Splits, Balance Chanel Levels, Minor Edits [Tape Flips], Fades) >Fix SBEs >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

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

Set I
Disc I:

  1. Tuning
  2. Let The Good Times Roll
  3. Feel Like A Stranger
  4. Peggy-O
  5. Me & My Uncle >
  6. Mexicali Blues
  7. Loser
  8. When I Paint My Masterpiece
  9. Loose Lucy
  10. Cassidy >
  11. Don’t Ease Me In

Set II
Disc II:

  1. Victim Or The Crime >
  2. Touch Of Grey >
  3. Looks Like Rain >
  4. Terrapin Station >
  5. Drums >
  6. Space >

Disc III:

  1. Dear Mr. Fantasy >
  2. Hey Jude >
  3. All Along The Watchtower >
  4. Stella Blue >
  5. Turn On Your Lovelight

Encore:

  1. Black Muddy River

Jerry Garcia – Guitar
Bob Weir – Guitar
Brent Mydland – Keyboards
Phil Lesh – Bass
Bill Kreutzmann – Drums
Mickey Hart – Drums

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was the last time that I have been to Cal Expo to see the Dead, or any other band for that matter. I patched my Sony WM-D6C out of my friend John Lech’s Aiwa DAT and ended up buying his Nakamichi CM 300 microphones later in 1990 when he sold them to buy smaller stealth mics. Cal Expo was a nice smaller outdoor amphitheater and the first time I saw the Dead there was in May of 1986, the weekend that the Chernobyl radiation cloud passed over northern California. (Funny the things that you remember.) the 1986 Cal Expo shows were my very first attempt at recording the Dead and those tapes were a dismal failure, between the rain, the acid, and the mismatched hand-help microphones and boom box that I was trying to record with. Harkening back to a Monty Python quote from ‘The Holy Grail’,…”I Got Better!”

We camped at Folsom Lake, just east of Sacramento in the foothills, on Saturday night. My friend Tim Harris and his group were there so we joined their camp site.

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

Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (12/30/90)

Grateful Dead
12/30/90
Oakland Coliseum Arena
Oakland, CA

Set I
Disc I:

  1. Tuning
  2. Bertha
  3. Feel Like A Stranger
  4. Candyman
  5. Me & My Uncle >
  6. Maggie’s Farm
  7. High Time
  8. Memphis Blues
  9. Tennessee Jed
  10. Valley Road

Set II
Disc II:

  1. Tuning
  2. Mississippi Half Step
  3. Looks Like Rain
  4. Crazy Fingers >
  5. Playin’ In The Band >
  6. Drums >

Disc III:

  1. Space >
  2. Terrapin Station
  3. Sugar Magnolia

Encore:

  1. U.S. Blues

OTS, SEC 112; Nakamichi CM-300 CP-4 Shotgun Capsules >Sony TC-153SD [SA-X100]

SA-X100 Masters Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.25

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By Oldneumanntapr

OldNeumanntapr Notes”

This was the first and last time that I ever was present to record all four shows of the Grateful Dead NYE run, and the last time that I used my Sony TC-153SD cassette portable to master a show. I still miss Brent terribly, but I thought that Bruce Hornsby did a great job adding color to the band with tunes like ‘Valley Road’, to close out the first set. I remember experimenting with different microphone set ups on that run. I think I ran a different combo for the first couple of nights, but for the cavernous Oakland Coliseum, I thought that two Nakamichi CM-300 shotguns sounded best from the tapers section. It would be another eight years until I was able to upgrade to Neumann microphones so at the time, my CM-300×3 set was the best I had available. I still miss that trek to Oakland every December that we used to make to catch the New Years shows. Man was it cold and windy! Every time I hear Traffic’s ‘Rock And Roll Stew’, I think of tearing down my recording equipment after a Dead show in Oakland. Healy used to play that song for the house music after the show.

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

Grateful Dead – Sacramento, CA (06/10/90)

Grateful Dead
06/10/90
Cal Expo Amphitheater
Sacramento, CA

Set I
Disc I:

  1. Tuning
  2. Bertha
  3. Jack Straw
  4. Phil refutes rumor
  5. Dire Wolf
  6. Wang Dang Doodle
  7. Row Jimmy
  8. Picasso Moon
  9. Tennessee Jed >
  10. Promised Land

Set II
Disc II:

  1. Tuning
  2. Box Of Rain >
  3. Eyes Of The World >
  4. Playing In The Band >
  5. Crazy Fingers >
  6. Playing In The Band Reprise >
  7. Drums >

Disc III:

  1. Space >
  2. Gimme Some Lovin’ >
  3. Standing On The Moon >
  4. Throwing Stones >
  5. Not Fade Away

Encore:

  1. The Last Time

OTS; Nakamichi CM-300s x3; Two CP-4 Shotgun Capsules + One CP-3 Super Omni Mixed With Radio Shack Mixer >Aiwa HD-X1 DAT >Sony WM-D6C (Patch) [TDK MA110s]

MA110 Masters Transferred Via Denon DR-M12HR Cassette Deck >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)

WAV >Audacity (Amplify, Track Splits, Balance Channel Levels, Minor Edits [Tape Flips], Fades, Downsample To 16bit/44.1kHz) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53 [August 2024]

(Audience Cassette Master Recorded, Transferred, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)

Phil announces that rumors of him leaving the band “are a bullshit lie” after Jack Straw

Jerry Garcia – Guitar
Bob Weir – Guitar
Brent Mydland – Keyboards
Phil Lesh – Bass
Bill Kreutzmann – Drums
Mickey Hart – Drums

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was my ‘Last Time’ recording the Dead at Cal Expo. It was a really long drive from San Luis Obispo County, but I really enjoyed that venue. For these shows I elected to patch my Sony WM-D6C into my friend John’s Nakamichi CM300x3 rig, which I ended up buying from him later that year when he decided to purchase a set of Audio Technica AT-853a stealth microphones.

We camped at Folsom Lake, just east of Sacramento in the foothills, on Saturday night. My friend Tim Harris and his group were there so we joined their camp site.

This was the show where I met Bear Owsley. He came into the tapers section and borrowed a cable from my friend John, and John turned to me and said, “Do you know who this IS? This is Bear!” I said hi to him and he gave me a dirty look when I asked if he had any ‘samples’! I remember that he was really short, and that he had a little leather case of some of the Grateful Dead-related jewelry that he had made and was selling.

This was the last show that I was able to see Brent, as he overdosed later in the sumner of 1990. I was on a camping trip in Colorado when another deadhead told me it happened, when I was in Leadville. I was devastated. He was so talented in both his playing and his singing. I wanted to put his photo on the cover of this show as a tribute. I included two clippings that I saved from the SF Chronicle about Brent’s death.

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

Allman Brothers Band – Savannah, GA (06/30/90)

Allman Brothers Band
6/30/90
Johnny Mercer Theater
Savannah Civic Center
Savannah GA

Soundboard; 3rd Gen Cassette [XLII]

Trade Cassettes Transferred Via Denon DR-M12HR >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)
WAV >Audacity (Balance Channel Levels, Amplify, Track Splits, Down Sample To 16bit/44.1kHz, Minor Edits [Tape Flips] & Fades) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53 [Sept 2024]

Transferred, Audacity Post Production, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

    Disc 1:

  1. Intro Jam
  2. Don’t Want You No More >
  3. Ain’t My Cross To Bear
  4. Statesboro Blues
  5. Blue Sky
  6. Low Down Dirty Mean
  7. Seven Turns
  8. Midnight Rider
  9. Loaded Dice (tape flip)
  10. Good Clean Fun
  11. It Ain’t Over Yet
  12. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
  13. band intros

    Disc 2:

  1. One Way Out
  2. Blues Ain’t Nothin’ (tape flip)
  3. Gambler’s Roll
  4. Shine It On
  5. Dreams
  6. Ramblin’ Man

    Disc 3:

  1. True Gravity (tape flip)
        Encore:
  2. Jessica
  3. Whipping Post

band line up:
Gregg Allman – keyboards, vocals
Dickey Betts – lead guitar, vocals
Warren Haynes – guitar
Johnny Neel – piano
Allan Woody – bass
Butch Trucks – drums
Jai Jonny Johnson – drums

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
This was one of the last cassette trades that I did in the early 90s before I made the switch to DAT. This show, and the Allman Brothers Band soundboard from 11/25/75 Civic Center Providence, RI, both came from a gentleman in the south, I believe in Georgia.
The XLII cassettes sat in my cassette collection for 30 years or so before I pulled them out for transfer. I don’t think I ever did anything with these tapes and I certainly never shared them until now. Once I switched to DAT I kind of forgot about my cassette collection. Thanks to Dave for the use of the Denon cassette deck so I could do the transfers.

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

Bob Dylan – Hannibal, MO (09/02/90)

Bob Dylan
September 2, 1990
Riverfront Theater
Hannibal, Missouri

AUD Master Cassette [taped by LTC, unknown equipment]>DAT(clones)>CD>EAC>WAV>Soundforge 6.0>CD Wave>FLAC

CD 1 [45:02.25]

01 Absolutely Sweet Marie [05:13.68]
02 Tomorrow Is A Long Time [04:46.17]
03 I Want You [04:59.69]
04 Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again [06:38.18]
05 Masters Of War [04:23.74]
06 Man Of Peace [04:34.45]
07 Man Of Constant Sorrow [03:26.08]
08 Trail Of The Buffalo [06:55.70]
09 Mama, You Been On My Mind [04:03.31] %

CD 2 [42:50.10]

01 Boots Of Spanish Leather [05:14.28]
02 Pledging My Time [03:28.67]
03 Man In The Long Black Coat [03:59.74]
04 Silvio [03:31.01]
05 In The Garden [04:56.22]
06 I Shall Be Released [03:53.73]
07 Like A Rolling Stone [07:26.03]
08 The Times They Are A-Changin’ [04:50.28]
09 Highway 61 Revisited [05:29.14]

Bob Dylan – vocal, guitar, harmonica
G.E.Smith – guitar & background vocal
Miles Joseph – guitar
Tony Garnier – bass
Christopher Parker – drums

Sound man was arrested before the show for “unnecessary noise” during the support act!
First four songs were played via the musicians monitors only (info from Olof’s page).

As a result, the sound is far from great on those songs, with many hecklers around our fearless taper who are
yelling towards the stage. Shouting does not stop when the PA is finally turned on … rather strange experience.

I did not harm the sound of the recording in any way other than pitch correction.
This is most likely the same recording as LB-0165.
% indicates a break in the master tape.
d1t01 first 12 seconds (introduction) patched from an inferior unknown generation alternate master.
d2t01 is incomplete on the master, so I crossfaded the start from that same
alternate master @ 1:10 for the sake of completeness, hope that’s okay.