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:
- Intro
- Rock-a-Billy Christmas
- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
- Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer
- Talk
- You And Me And The Bottle Makes Three >
- I Wanna Be Like You
- Merry Christmas Baby
- Snow Miser And Heat Miser
- Minnie The Moocher
- Mr. Pinstripe Suit >
- King Of Swing
Disc II:
- Talk
- Christmastime In Tinseltown
- Frosty The Snowman
- We Three Kings
- Talk
- All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)
- ‘Zat You, Santa Claus?
- Run Rudolph Run
- Encore Break
- Walkin’ In A Winterland (encore)
- Why Me? (encore)
- 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.
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