Tag: central park

Counting Crows – New York, NY (09/03/09)

Counting Crows
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Augustana
Emmy Rossum
AKA “The Saturday Night Rebel Rockers Traveling Circus & Medicine Show”
Central Park Summerstage
New York, NY
9/3/2009

Neumann TLM170(FOB cardoids center, in sweet spot)->Sound Devices 722 (@24/96)

FLAC File processing in SoundForge Audio Studio 9.0c (Peak Level Normalize to 0db; resample to 44.1 with interpolation accuracy 4, anti-alias filter; 24->16 bit highpass triangular dither with high pass contour noise shaping); Tracked in CDWav.

Set 1

  1. intro
  2. Caravan (Van Morrison) +
  3. Hello Bonjour -> *
  4. A Murder Of One ^
  5. A Long December ^
  6. Hanging Tree ^
  7. Omaha ^%
  8. intro to…
  9. Goin’ Back To Georgia (Nanci Griffith) ^$
  10. intro to…
  11. Sweet Virginia (Rolling Stones) %^$
  12. Stars And Boulevards %
  13. Meet You There %
  14. Boston %
  15. intro to…
  16. (You’ve Gotta Walk And) Don’t Look Back -> (The Temptations, made famous by Peter Tosh and Mick Jagger) *%^
  17. Casey Jones (1 chorus + guitar solo) -> *%^ (Grateful Dead)
  18. (You’ve Gotta Walk And) Don’t Look Back -> *%^# (The Temptations, made famous by Peter Tosh and Mick Jagger)
  19. Everybody Ona Move (w/”Billie Jean” jams) -> *
  20. All I Want Is You -> *#
  21. Good Love -> #*
  22. Rude Boys Back In Town -> *#
  23. Tainted Love -> (Soft Cell) *
  24. All I Want Is You *#
  25. The Sound Of Sunshine *^
  26. I Got Love For You *
  27. Delta Lady (Leon Russell) +

Set 2

  1. intro to…
  2. Another Horsedreamer’s Blues (w/Carl Young [Spearhead bassist] on sax) ^
  3. Catapult ^
  4. Hard Candy ^
  5. Mr. Jones ^
  6. Good Times ^
  7. Have You Seen Me Lately ^
  8. A Little Bit Of Riddim *#
  9. Yell Fire! #
  10. banter about the Ryman #
  11. Say Hey (I Love You) #
  12. Just Like A Woman -> (Bob Dylan) %@
  13. Dust %
  14. Twenty Years %
  15. intro to…
  16. Fire %@
  17. intro to…
  18. Angel From Montgomery (John Prine) $@
  19. intro to…
  20. Why Should You Come When I Call? -> ^*
  21. Hanginaround ^
  22. Cecilia (Simon and Garfunkel) +
  23. Redemption Song #
  24. Hey World (Remote Control) *
  25. Raise a Ruckus Tonight -> %
  26. The Rain King -> ^%
  27. With A Little Help From My Friends -> (The Beatles) +
  28. The Rain King +
  29. This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie)
  30. band intros
  31. outro music

Total time: 3:30:07

  • = everyone
  • = Michael Franti & Spearhead
    ^ = Counting Crows
    % = Augustana
    $ = w/Emmy Rossum on vocals
  • = w/Cherine Anderson on vocals

@ = w/Adam Duritz on vocals

Notes: The sound mix in the venue (in addition to being at a suprisingly low volume, even for Central Park Summerstage) was fair for this show. Yes there were a TON of people coming on and off the stage at all times, but that’s no excuse for muddy bass, muddy acoustic guitars, thin sounding organ, and drums that sometimes were WAY too loud. Amazingly this recording sounds really good [maybe even better than it sounded to my ears in the venue] (it starts out kinda iffy but improves as the show goes on), but I never felt like the mix was nearly as good as it could have been. I had been warned that even though Counting Crows allow open taping the venue tries to push you to the back, so I ran just above head height for most of the night (hence the random but luckily infrequent crowd chatter), but slowly slowly raised the stand as the night went on, so by the end I was running at a nice height above peoples’ heads. Wish the setlist could have had a few less Augustana songs and a few more Counting Crows songs, but what can you do? On the other hand, Michael Franti and Spearhead are always a treat, and the freewheeling nature of the interband jamming and large amount of cool covers makes up for it.

Enjoy this massive show!

Recorded, mastered, and tracked by Scott Bernstein (Originally posted 9/10/2009)
Tagging, setlist corrections, and new MD5 file generated 3/9/2023

(One day I will dig out the master files and post a 24 bit remaster!)

The Band – New York, NY (08/08/95)

The Band
August 8th 1995
“Summerstage” Central Park NYC

AUD:DAT>CD>EAC>FLAC
DAT to CD via Tascam DA302>Tascam CDRW700

  1. The Shape Im In
  2. Sweet Home Chicago
  3. Remedy
  4. Blind Willie McTell
  5. WS Walcott’s Medicine Show
  6. It Makes No Difference
  7. Rag Mama Rag
  8. One More Shot
  9. Caledonia Mission
  10. Crazy Mama
  11. Stage Fright
  12. The Weight
  13. Stuff You Gotta Watch
  14. Up On Cripple Creek

encore:

  1. Life Is A Carnival
  2. I Don’t Want To Hang Up My Rock & Roll Shoes

Talking Heads – New York, NY (08/27/80)


Talking Heads
(with Adrian Belew)
Heads are gonna roll in the Big Apple
Central Park
New York City, N.Y.
(part of the Dr. Pepper Concert Series)
August 27, 1980

performance quality: A-
recording quality: B
source: 1st generation audience tape
runtime: about 65 minutes
setlist:
1: radio announcer stage introduction
2: psycho killer
3: warning sign
4: stay hungry
5: cities
6: band introductions
7: I zimbra
8: once in a lifetime
9: houses in motion
10: born under punches
11: crosseyed and painless
12: life during wartime (removed from this posting, , released on “the name of this band is TH”)
13: take me to the river
14: the great curve


comments:
I previously posted this show neglecting to delete a released track, causing it to be banned. I am sorry for that and am reposting with the one (and thankfully only) released track removed this time. A high energy outdoor Talking Heads summer show in the Big Apple. It’s a nice recording, not too much crowd noise and a little better deck and mikes were used for this, than the L.A. one that’s going up (after it gets a new transfer, I was all set to post it then found out it’s offspeed.) as a seperate companion to this, a sort of Heads in the West and East U.S.A. of this fine tour they did in late 80 and early 81 with Adrian Belew. This one is a little shorter show, even before removing the released track, (I think this is otherwise complete except a few seconds missed at the end of 1 song, I think it’s track 9- houses), they’re both nice concerts. This one has both my favorite songs of this or any Talking Heads tour, and hot versions of both, Crosseyed and Painless and Born Under Punches. (no crosseyed in LA, even though it’s a full 80 minute show). I am not certain that this is an almost complete show, but I think it is. For those of you who may think New York City is far north enough to be refreshingly cool for an August concert in Central Park- uh, usually not. I don’t know how hot it was this day, but with 10 million people and almost as many cars, planes and busses driving around, summer in NYC can get quite uncomfortable (although compared to a summer in Texas the weather and air probably seems refreshing) and a concert by the TH would likely not be their usual 80-90 minute set in those conditions. This sounds like a summer concert, a hot weather concert and a hot concert. Not just a
few good songs, they all sounded well played and it was a good setlist.

Do not sell this recording.
(not even for a pallet of punctured Dr. Peppers)
Trade freely and losslessly.

Peter Gabriel – New York, NY (07/07/80)

Peter Gabriel
July 7, 1980
The Dr Pepper Central Park Music Festival
Wollman Rink
New York, NY
USA
The Lostbrook Tape Series – Volume 98

Some concert venues evoke memories of an entire era. When I think of summertime concerts in the 1970’s, Wollman Rink is such a place for me. I have vivid memories of waiting all day in the hot sun on lines that snaked their way along the walking paths of Central Park. Meeting like-minded people who wanted to sit close to the stage was part of the experience. I have no idea why I sat in the cheap seats this day since all the tickets were inexpensive to begin with. The orchestra must have been sold out, but it worked out for the best. The sound
was crisp and clear where I sat, Gabriel was magnificent, and the tape is one of my best. I’ll never forget the blood red sunset reflecting off the boulders outside the rink as the crowd chanted along with “Biko.” This was my last concert at Wollman Rink, and, sadly, the only one I ever recorded there. When the festival moved to Pier 84 the next year, I didn’t follow. For me, it was one more sign that an era had ended.

Recording Equipment: Internal Mic>Sanyo M2533 Tape Deck>(2)Maxell UDXLII 90>Alesis TapeLinkUSB> Audacity>WAV

Taper: Lostbrook
Mastering: CQ
Artwork: ethiessen1

01 Intruder (8:41)
02 Start>I Don’t Remember (7:02)
03 Solsbury Hill (5:23)
04 Family Snapshot>Milgram’s 37 (12:40)
05 Modern Love (4:37)
06 Not One Of Us (6:37)
07 Lead A Normal Life (4:52)
08 Moribund The Burgermeister (6:31)
09 Mother Of Violence (4:38)
10 Humdrum (5:07)
11 Bully For You>Band Intros (7:04)
12 And Through The Wire (4:54)
13 I Go Swimming (5:00)
14 Biko (9:25)
15 On The Air (6:22)
16 DIY (5:35)
17 Here Comes The Flood (3:21)

Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie – New York, NY (07/25/75)

Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie
July 25, 1975
Wollman Rink; Central Park
New York City, N. Y.

mastered & transfered by Jerry Moore
8th row, right of center: Audience master (mics? > Sony TCD153)> cd
transfer: Wavelab > flac

Michael Row…
Ooh Lordy
Derry Down
Cayawagine
Listen Here Mama
On a Monday
My Creole Belle
Where Have all the Flowers Gone
Bushwa Blues
Kisses Sweeter than Wine
Victor Jara
Patriots’ Dreams
Guamtanamera
La Revolution
Week on Rag
City of New Orleans
My Golden River
This Is Your Land
Wellonay the World Go
Al
Cop in Town
Anytime
Photography
Tarantella
Jig
In Massachusetts
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Lonesome Valley
Wiena Wet
The Lie
Motorsickle Song
Ukelele Lady
Bring Back 1899
If I Had a Hammer
Amazing Grace
Bye Bye My Roseanna
Jacob’s Ladder

Mark Knopfler – New York, NY (07/23/08)

Mark Knopfler
07/23/08
Rumsey Playfield
Central Park
New York, NY

Cannibals
Why Aye Man
What It Is
Sailing To Philadelphia
True Love Will Never Fade
Fish And The Bird
Hill Farmer’s Blues
Romeo And Juliet
Sultans Of Swing
Song For Sonny Liston
Band Introductions
Marbletown
Speedway At Nazareth
Telegraph Road

Encore:
Brothers In Arms
So Far Away
Going Home

Recorded by: Scott Brown
Source: DPA (B&K) 4023s (in hat) > Sound Devices 722 @ 24 bit, 96khz
722 > Apple MacBook Pro > Spark Xl 2.8.2 (tracking, normalize, resample to 44.1khz) > Sample Manager 3.1.2 (dither to 16 bit using MBIT+) > xACT 1.65 > flac
Location: about 20-30 feet from stage, dead center

notes:
-Mark went on a few minutes before 8PM, and I missed the first minute of Cannibals. I spliced in Dan Molda’s Audio Technica U853-C > Nady CBM-40T > Denecke PS-2 > Edirol R-09HR (24/96) source for the Intro track and the first minute or so of Cannibals.
-This is a 16 bit, 44.1khz recording for CD. The original 24 bit, 96khz recording exists in flac format.

compiled by scott brown on 7/27/2008