Tag: california polytechnic state university

B.B. King – San Luis Obispo, CA (03/05/01)

B.B. King
3/5/01
Christopher Cohan Center
Cal Poly University
San Luis Obispo, CA

5th Row Center:
Neumann AK-40’s (x/y) >LC3 >KM-100’s >Beyer MV-100 >Sony SBM-1 >Sony TCD-D7
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o,
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.35

FLAC >WAV >Audacity (De-Amplify Close-Proximity Hand Claps Track By Track) >FLAC + Tags Via xACT 2.53 [August 2024 Remaster]

Recorded, Transferred, Audacity, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork Photo + Layout By OldNeumanntapr

Disc I:

  1. Blues Band #1
  2. Blues Band #2
  3. B.B. King Introduction Jam
  4. Let The Good Times Roll
  5. I’ll Survive
  6. Bad Case Of Love
  7. Piece Of Mind
  8. Caledonia

Disc II:

  1. All Over Again (Instrumental)
  2. Early In The Morning
  3. Just Like A Woman
  4. You Are My Sunshine
  5. How Blue Can You Get
  6. Three O’Clock Blues
  7. Key To The Highway
  8. Thrill Is Gone
  9. I Know
  10. You’ve Got To Love Somebody
  11. Guess Who
  12. Making Love Is Good For You >
  • Band Introductions
  1. Fanfare Outro

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
As I write these notes, early in the morning of May 15, 2015, I’m remembering my one and only time recording the ‘King Of The Blues’, after now just reading of his passing. I’m glad I was able to record this show, at the Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center at Cal Poly. This was a difficult show because I attempted to both record and photograph from the 5th row. (You can hear the shutter of my Nikon FM on the recording.) This was the last time I attempted to do both at the same show, as it was just too difficult. Enjoy!

[August 2024. I just finished going through this show track by track and lowering the levels of the obnoxious close-proximity hand claps in Audacity. I think it makes for a much better listening experience, especially with headphones. There are some that I might of missed, and I didn’t even try to remove the noise of the shutter clicking from my Nikon FM, (Oh the joys of recording and doing photos at the same time!), but as I used to say in college; ‘It was Late, and I was TIRED!’]

Photos:
Nikkor 85 f/1.4 w/Black Body Nikon FM. 1/125th @ f/2 (Fuji 1,600 Print Film)
Shot From 5th Row Center.

He was quite the show man. RIP B.B.!

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
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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.
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Jethro Tull – San Luis Obispo, CA (10/04/99)

Jethro Tull
10/4/99
Christopher Cohan Center, Performing Arts Center
Cal Poly State University
San Luis Obispo, CA

7th Row Center: Neumann AK-40’s (x/y) >LC3 >KM-100’s >Beyer MV-100 >Sony TCD-D7
DAT Master transferred: Tascam DA-P1 >S/PDIF coax >HHb CDR 800 PRO
CD Master Extracted With xACT 2.24 >WAV >FLAC (Level 8), FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.53

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC, Tags, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Disc I:

  1. Steel Monkey
  2. For A Thousand Mothers
  3. Serenade To A Cuckoo
  4. Spiral
  5. Nothing Is Easy
  6. Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square
  7. Fatman
  8. AWOL >
  9. A New Day Yesterday
  10. Instrumental
  11. Dot Com

Disc II:

  1. Bouree
  2. Hunting Girl
  3. Hunt By Numbers
  4. My God
  5. Passion Jig >
    Locomotive Breath

Encore:

  1. Aqualung >
  2. Living In The Past >
  3. Cheerio

The Cal Poly Performing Arts Center is a great place to see a show. The acoustics are wonderful and the venue is not too big (1,300 capacity), so it’s very intimate. I was 7th row center for this show and the recording sounds really nice. This was my second Tull show and I thought the band was very tight. I worked the load out on this show afterwards and I never worked so hard in my life!!! It took about four of us to load a 55ft semi trailer with all of Tull’s equipment. That was the only time I ever worked at the PAC because it was back breaking work! (This was my first and last time working as a stage hand for the Performing Arts Center. I quit right after this show because I realized that all they wanted was grunt work.) I remember Tull’s road manager, in his English accent, barking out instructions like,’Flip this one end to end my pretties and stack in there on that one.’ Over and over again!! None of the crew knew that I had recorded the show and then run the gear out to my car and locked it away before joining the other ‘grunts’ and loading the truck. I still have the backstage pass, not that I was able to make use of it during the show because I was sitting like a stone in the audience!

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Miles Davis – San Luis Obispo, CA (04/20/90)



Miles Davis
4/20/90
Main Gym
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA

10th Row Center:
Aiwa CM-30 Stereo Cardioid >Sony WM-D6C,
XLII Master >XLII Cass I >WAV >FLAC

XLII Master Transferred: Toshiba PC-X10 >Sony TC-153SD (Shortly After Show)
XLII Cass I Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >Tascam DR-100mkII (24/48),

WAV >iZotope RX3 Advanced v3.00.695 (declick) > Sound Forge Pro 10.0a (minor edits & normalize) >
WAV >Audacity (Amplify, Track Splits, Down Sample / Dither To 16 Bit/44.1) >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.35

Recorded, Transferred, Audacity, & FLAC’d By OldNeumanntapr
iZotope RX3 Advanced v3.00.695 (declick) > Sound Forge Pro 10.0a (minor edits & normalize) By Dennis Orr

  1. Perfect Way
  2. New Blues
  3. Hannibal
  4. The Senate-Me And You
  5. Human Nature
  6. In The Night
  7. Mr. Pastorius
  8. Tutu
  9. Jilli
  10. Time After Time
  11. Jo-Jo >Don’t Stop Me Now

Miles Davis – Trumpet, Synthesizer
Kenny Garrett – Alto Saxophone, Flute, Musical Director
Joe Foley McCreary – Electric Piccollo Bass, Vocals
Richard Patterson – Electric Bass, Vocals
Kei Akagi – Synthesizer
Erin Davis – Percussion
Ricky Wellman – Drums

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was my very first ‘stealth’ recording, and also the one and only time that I was able to see Miles Davis. My friend Mark is a big Miles fan, and he offered to buy me a ticket if I would record the show. Hey, works for me. 🙂
I remember that we rode to the show with his friend Jay, ‘Lucky’, from Lake Tahoe, and our friend Tim, who was another big music fan, as well as Carol Jo, the ‘Wood Nymph’ from KOTR FM in Cambria. We were 10th row center at the Main Gym at Cal Poly. The sound was pretty good, though Carol Jo talked a bunch to Mark starting midway through the show. At the time, I thought it would rude to tell Mark to have her shut the hell up, because I was getting the ticket for free, and because, not ever having done a stealth show before, I had no idea how much ambient noise the microphone would pick up. At that time I was used to only recording Grateful Dead concerts from the tapers section, with microphones on a stand above head level. I was holding the Aiwa CM-30 right in front of my face for this show, and there were a lot of quiet parts. Listening to the show now, I am remembering that the tape ran out and I missed the last part. (I only brought in one 90 minute cassette. The tape ends with the beginning of another song, but I left that as part of the previous song in the indexes.) The deal I made with Mark was that I would record the show and give him the master, but I copied it for myself after the show that night. The recording would have been much better, had it not been for Carol Jo’s talking, but it is what it is. This recording has really never been circulated, outside of a few friends here on the CA central coast. I’ve had the handbill for this show for years. It was hanging in the window of the liquor store where I worked in Cayucos, CA. I recorded Santana the next week at the same venue, the night of the Cal Poly/SLO Student Riots.

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
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