Tag: cuesta college

Arlo Guthrie – San Luis Obispo, CA (10/23/98)

Arlo Guthrie
10/23/98
Cuesta College Auditorium
San Luis Obispo, CA

5th Row Center: Nyquist Omnis >SBM-1 >Sony TCD-D7
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o
CD Masters (HHb Gold) Extracted As One-Track WAV Files Via xACT 2.37 >Sound Forge Pro 10.0a [iZotope RX2 Advanced Plugin (Declick); Sony Wave Hammer Plugin (Lower Loud Screams, Whistles, And Laughter); Normalize] >Audacity (Track Splits) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.37

Recorded, Transferred, Audacity, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
Soundforge Pro, Sony Wave Hammer Post Production By Dennis Orr

Set I
Disc I:

  1. Chilling Of The Evening
  2. My Front Pages
  3. Arlo Story
  4. Ring Around The Rosy Rag
  5. Arlo Story
  6. Percy’s Song
  7. 1913 Massacre
  8. Arlo Story/Mooses Come Walking (Poem)
  9. Alice’s Restaurant

Set II
Disc II:

  1. Ocean Crossing
  2. When A Soldier Makes It Home
  3. Arlo Story
  4. Wake Up Dead
  5. Key To The Highway
  6. Arlo Story
  7. The Sinking Of The Reuben James
  8. Orphan Girl*
  9. Arlo Story
  10. The City Of New Orleans
  11. The Motorcycle Song
  12. This Land Is Your Land

Encore:

  1. Goodnight Irene

Arlo Guthrie – Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals
Abe Guthrie – Keyboards
Sara Guthrie – Lead Vocal*

OldNeumanntapr Notes-

The Cuesta College Auditorium was a neat old shoebox-type theater, built back during WWII on the old Cuesta campus which was part of the Camp San Luis California National Guard army base. (The New campus, built in the early 70s fronts Highway 1, the Pacific Coast Highway.) The auditorium looked like hell, with peeling paint and a leaky roof with a water-stained ceiling, but had really nice acoustics. Alas, it was deemed not worthy to retro-fit for earthquake standards, so it is slowing decaying and has been boarded up and condemned since the middle 2000s. It was sad, because Arlo remarked during the show how wonderful the sound was in the old theater. He said that they had played some brand new houses that didn’t sound half as good, and he implored the audience to try and preserve the old building. Sadly, that didn’t happen. I have recorded at the old auditorium a lot, and made my first recording there in the late 1980s when I was working part time for the Cuesta College Music Department while I was going to school. I gave a patch to my friend TaprRon at this Arlo show and he laughed, because it was the first time he’d gotten a patch at a stealth show! I got my ticket signed at this show, and My ex wife Nikki and I brought our daughter Lucy to see Arlo play. She was seven years old, and the last time that we saw Arlo, Nikki was pregnant with Lucy.

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Bela Fleck – San Luis Obispo, CA (04/10/01)

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
4/10/01
Cuesta College Auditorium
San Luis Obispo, CA

Neumann AK-40’s (x/y) >LC3 >KM-100’s >Beyer MV-100 >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

(Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged (Via xACT 2.53) & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)

Set I
Disc I:

  1. Imagine This
  2. Scratch And Sniff
  3. New Waltz
  4. Bil Mon
  5. Victor Wooten Solo
  6. Throwdown At The Hoedown

Set II

  1. Futureman Solo

Disc II:

  1. Sherpa
  2. Puffy (Is Free)
  3. Two Horny Blues
  4. A Moment So Close
  5. Béla Fleck Solo (Costa Brava, Classical)
  6. Bela Solo (Linus & Lucy, More Classical)

Encore:

  1. Throwdown At The Hoedown (Reprise)

OldNeumanntapr:
This was another Bela Fleck show at the old Cuesta College Auditorium, which was located on the old campus behind the creek and once a part of the National Guard army base. The theater was built back during World War II and had amazing acoustics and a lot of charm but was a real eyesore and was eventually deemed to be not worthy for earthquake retrofitting and was abandoned in the late 2000s. Again, because of the cramped spaces in the aisles, the theater would not allow microphone stands so I had to hand-hold the Neumanns on a T-Bar. After the show I got my ticket stub signed by Bela.

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Bela Fleck – San Luis Obispo, CA (05/10/98)

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
5/10/98
Cuesta College Auditorium
San Luis Obispo, CA

Nakamichi CM-300s w/CP-1 Cardioid Capsules (On T-Bar)->Sony TCD-D7,(7th Row Center)
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o,
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.35
FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.48
(Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)

Disc I:

  1. Intro
  2. Zenergy
  3. Labyrinth
  4. Almost 12
  5. Huckleberry Row
  6. My Life *
  7. Throwdown At The Hoedown
  8. Futureman Solo
  9. Big Country

Disc II:

  1. Commonality
  2. Communication (no lyrics)
  3. Flight Of The Cosmic Hippo
  4. Sleeping Dogs Lie (Bela Solo)
  5. Shanti ~
  6. Over The Wall ~

Encore:

  1. Sinister Minister

~ Acoustic tracks, Vic on Cello & Futch on percussion box

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
Taping was allowed at this show but I asked not to bring in my microphone stand, so the Nakamichi’s had to go on a T-Bar and be hand held throughout the show. The old Cuesta College Auditorium had such great acoustics, having been built on the old campus during World War Two.
Sadly, it was deemed not to be worth retrofitting for earthquake standards and is slowly falling into decay. I included a photo that i took of the building in 2018.

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