Los Lobos
6/16/00
Camp San Marcos
Santa Ynez Valley, CA

Live Oak Music Festival

In-House Digital FM Broadcast From Board >Sony SRF-M30 FM Walkman >Tascam DA-P1 Master
Master DAT Transferred Tascam DA-30 >S/PDIF >HHb CDR 800 PRO

CD >WAV Via xACT 2.37 >Fix SBEs >FLAC

Recorded in the crowd, less than 100 feet from board transmitter.
The signal was broadcast by the venue for attendees to listen on their radios in the campground, etc.

[Recorded, Transferred, FLAC, & Tags (xACT 2.53) by OldNeumanntapr]
Unknown Cover Artwork

Total time 96:08
523 MB

Disc 1 (46:44)

1. (Announcer / Crowd) 1:22
2. Arizona Skies > Borinquen Patria Mia 7:16
3. One Time, One Night 9:14
4. Canto Veracruz > (lost child announcement) > Canto Veracruz 4:05
5. Colas 2:02
6. El Canelo 4:24
7. La Bamba 6:13
8. Los Ojos de Pancha 3:09
9. Las Amarillas 4:32
10. La Pistola y El Corazon 4:23

Disc 2 (49:23)

1. El Rey 4:32
2. Soy Mexico Americano 2:56
3. I Got To Let You Know 4:41
4. The Neighborhood 7:28
5. Evangeline 3:01
6. Wicked Rain 7:05
7. Oye Como Va 6:06
8. Mas y Mas 8:50
9. Cinnamon Girl 4:40

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OldNeumanntapr Notes-
I drove all the way down to the Live Oak Music Festival, an annual event in the Santa Ynez Valley north of Santa Barbara, and I had hoped to get a board patch. I had met Louie, the Los Lobos sound man, at the Avila Beach concert the previous year and he was very gracious to tapers. I was in the process of plugging into the board and got shut down by security! They were NOT nice about it either, and threatened to call the police and have me arrested! Louie threw up his hands and shrugged his shoulders. Even though it was OK with the band and OK with him it was apparently NOT OK with the venue management. I was not happy with the venue staff and I vowed to never return to the Live Oak Music Festival if this is how they treat tapers of open-taping bands. Luckily I had brought a portable quartz-lock FM tuner as a backup because I had heard that Live Oak always broadcasted their signal on a low-power FM transmitter. (The San Luis Obispo public radio station KCBX is a sponsor of the event every year.) I didn’t bring my Neumanns because the Live Oak Festival is out in the dirt under the oak trees at Camp San Marcos campground on Hwy 154 and it is a real dust bowl. I recorded the show through the FM walkman into my Tascam DA-P1 and got a good, if mono, FM signal right off the board. The only problem was that the broadcast was interrupted twice with a ‘lost child’ report. I didn’t realize this until I got home and listened to the recording. Los Lobos played a lot of interesting Mexican tunes that I had never heard before so it was definitely a good show to have recorded. It was at night and there were a lot of bugs flying around the stage lights. One of the band members commented between songs that he’d swallowed one of them! Live Oak is a three-day show, held every year in June, and includes camping. The tickets are kind of pricey but you get to see a lot of bands play. I remember thinking that it would be nice to park on the road side and try to see if I could pick up the FM signal in my truck! I never went back to try to see if this would work but it’s a good idea.

I don’t know who did the cover artwork, but I think I pulled it off of the internet. Gee, I guess my shows do get around! 😉

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