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Allman Brothers Band – Mountain View, CA (07/01/95)

Allman Brothers Band
July 1, 1995
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA

Nakamichi CM-300’s w/CP-1 Cardioid Capsules >Sony TCD-D7 (16bit/48kHz)
SEC 204, Row A, Seat 10
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o,
Tayio Uden CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.28, Tags Via xACT 2.43

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Disc I:

  1. Statesboro Blues
  2. Midnight Rider
  3. You Don’t Love Me
  4. Blue Sky
  5. What’s Done Is Done
  6. Soulshine
  7. The Same Thing
  8. Dreams
  9. End Of The Line
  10. Stormy Monday

Disc II:

  1. Back Where It All Begins
  2. Hoochie Coochie Man
  3. No One To Run With
  4. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed >
  5. Drums >
    xx. Bass >
    xx. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed

Encore:

  1. One Way Out
  2. Whipping Post

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
My fourth Allman Brothers Band show, and my second ABB show at Shoreline. This time we were in the reserved section rather than on the lawn and the crowd was a little bit better behaved. (At least this show I didn’t have people purposely coming up to my microphones and trying to scream into them!) I still didn’t have an external microphone preamp yet and the internal pre on the D7 was kind of finicky. Fortunately the Nakamichi’s didn’t require phantom power. It was nice to be able to bring in a microphone stand, as opposed to the ’92 show when I had to duct tape my microphone brace to the steel cables that separate the reserved from the general admission section. I believe Rusted Root opened this year. I do remember that I was not that impressed with them and did not record their set.

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Allman Brothers Band – Mountain View, CA (07/24/92)

Allman Brothers Band
7/24/92
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA

Nakamichi CM-300’s w/CP-4 Shotgun Capsules >Sony WM-D6C

Audience Master (Maxell XLIIS), front & center of lawn on T-bar duct taped to steel cables >CDR >FLAC
XLIIS Cassette Master Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO,
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.35 >FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.43

(Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)

Disc I

  1. Don’t Want You No More >
  2. It’s Not My Cross To Bear
  3. Statesboro Blues
  4. Blue Sky
  5. Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’
  6. Nobody Knows
  7. Black Hearted Woman
  8. Seven Turns
  9. Midnight Rider
  10. Southbound
  11. Melissa
  12. Pony Boy

Disc II

  1. Hoochie Coochie Man
  2. Get On With Your Life
  3. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
  4. Revival

Encore:

  1. One Way Out
  2. Whipping Post

OldNeumanntaper Notes:
This was a show I almost didn’t go to. As I remember, one of my coworkers had tickets that they couldn’t use, but I had to drive to Sacramento to pick them up. I left early that morning with my friend Jim Burns and we drove to Sac from Morro Bay, up I-5. I didn’t know until we got there that they were only lawn tickets. (I could have bought those at the show!) I was thinking that they were reserved seats, but,,, they were free. It just took a lot of gas to get there. When we finally got to Shoreline the security staff would not allow us entry with the recording gear. We had to wait until the Allman’s bus arrived and have them inform them that tape recorders were in fact OK. Thanks to Kirk West! (While we were waiting, I sent Jimmy in with my blanket and had him grab a spot front and center of the lawn, right up against the fence that separates the general admission area from the reserved sections.) Once I got inside I duct taped my microphone brace to the steel cables, about six feet high, because they would not allow microphone stands inside the amphitheatre.

Luckily I had the CP4 shotgun capsules for my Nakamichi CM-300s, because the crowd was really loud and unruly. I was the only taper up front on the lawn that night. Another guy came in at the last minute and patched into my D6 with a Marantz, either a 420 or 430, but my microphones were the only ones I could see anywhere. I actually had people walk up to where we were set up and cup their hands and scream up toward the mics, trying to ruin the recording. They looked at me and just laughed! I was not happy, but there was nothing I could do about it. I just hate people who deliberately try to ruin someone else’s time, in this case; my recording. I thought that the tape would certainly be a disaster, but fortunately the CP4 capsules have excellent side rejection so the screams were greatly attenuated. I remember another taper I met at a Jerry show once who said that crowd noise on a recording was, ‘All part of the show’ and there was no use worrying about it, but in this case I thought it was a little excessive.

I didn’t get home until two or three am and accidentally left my ticket stub on the dash of the car. By the time I went outside the next day the sun had turned the Bass ticket stub black. Oh well, at least I have the recording.

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Allman Brothers Band – Mountain View, CA (08/01/99)

Allman Brothers Band
Aug 1,1999
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA

*Neumann AK-40’s (x/y) >LC3->KM-100’s >Beyer MV-100 >Tascam DA-P1,
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o,
Taiyo Uden CD Masters >WAV Via xACT 2.35 >Audacity (Minor Edits, Minor Selective Compression [To Repair Wind Noise] >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.44

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

*SEC 202, Row H (Some Minor Wind Noise / Distortion during first couple of songs.

Disc I:

  1. True Gravity
  2. Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More
  3. You Don’t Love Me
  4. Good Times (Don’t Fade Away)
  5. Midnight Rider
  6. Good Clean Fun
  7. Blue Sky
  8. End Of The Line

Disc II:

  1. Seven Turns*
  2. Melissa*
  3. J.J.’s Alley
  4. Trouble No More
  5. Stormy Monday**
  6. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed >***
  7. Bass Jam >In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
  8. Revival

Encore:

  1. No One To Run With

*acoustic
**w/Susan Tedeschi on guitar and vocals
***w/Martin Fierro on saxophone

Susan Tedeschi Opened

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was my third Allman Brothers Band recording at Shoreline, and at least by now the venue staff was clued into tapers and let us bring microphone stands into the venue. Whereas the Dead had a designated tapers section, the Allman Brothers would let you record wherever your seat was. This was both good and bad, because even though you could record from up front if you had the ticket, you were still at the mercy of the crowd around you. It’s why they say ‘safety in numbers’. In the tapers section you could be helped by like-minded individuals who all had the common goal of recording, but the Allman Brothers tapers were scattered hither and yon and your neighbors could make or break your recording. At least I was able to run my microphone capsules on the stand with the active cables so they took up as little room as possible. I remember people yelling to security about tapers with larger mics that were obscuring their view and they made them lower their stands. I think this was the only time that I was able to see Martin Fierro play. He added so much to Jerry Garcia’s funk band ‘Legion Of Mary’. I loved his playing.

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Don Henley – Mountain View, CA (10/11/92)

Don Henley
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, California
Sunday October 11, 1992

Recorded By OldNeumanntapr from lawn repeater stacks, left side
2 Nakamichi CM-300s w/CP-2 Omnis > Sony WM-D6C using Maxell UDXLIIS cassettes
Transferred: Sony TC-D5M > Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48khz)

Mastered by Flying -M- (January 2021)
Har-Bal 3.0 & iZotope RX 8 advanced > CD Wave > Korg Aqua (16-44) > TLH (flac level 8)

Billed as “Healing The Sacred Hoop – The Next 500 Years”
A benefit for the International Indian Treaty Council
Sunday’s show also featured performances by Bonnie Raitt, Todd Rundgren, Little Feat, Ry Cooder & David Lindley, Cris Williamson, and Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman

  1. The End Of The Innocence
  2. Reason To Believe
  3. Sweetheart Like You
  4. Best Of My Love
  5. What’s Goin’ On
  6. Same Girl
  7. Chief Joseph
  8. Lonely Weekends
  9. What A Wonderful World
    Encore:
  10. The Heart Of The Matter
    [52:36]

Recorded By OldNeumanntapr From Lawn Repeater Stacks, Left Side
Nakamichi CM-300s w/CP-2 Omnis > Sony WM-D6C Cassette Master
XLIIS Master Transferred: Sony TC-D5M > Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48khz)

Mastered by Flying -M- (January 2021)
Har-Bal 3.0 & iZotope RX 8 advanced > CD Wave > Korg Aqua (16-44) > TLH (flac level 8)

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
These performances were Bill Graham’s last big festival that he was working on before he died the previous year. I’m sorry that he never lived to actually see them performed. On the surface it seemed these benefit concerts were held to commemorate the 500 year anniversary of Columbus ‘discovering’ the new world. 1492-1992. Actually, it was more to open people’s eyes to the suffering and misery that the Native American people have endured during that 500 year history. One of the Native American speakers between sets commented, “Why do we celebrate Columbus? He was LOST!!” Santana headlined on Saturday and Bonnie Raitt headlined on Sunday. Saturday was billed as ‘The Good Road Concert” and Sunday was billed as ‘Healing The Sacred Hoop’. I remember that between songs, Bonnie remarked that there were a bunch of young girls trying to get into John Lee Hooker’s dressing room. “That’s what I call ‘Healing The Sacred Hoop'”, she said. They were awesome shows. Some of the sets were kind of quiet and have more crowd noise on the recordings than I would have liked. I’m kind of amazed that there are not more recordings of these shows out there. I recorded both days up on the lawn with Nakamichi CM-300s with CP-2 omni capsules->Sony WM-D6C. The music went on from about 3pm to around midnight, so bringing in enough blank tape was a major problem. Another big problem was that since the shows started so early in the afternoon it was nearly impossible to hide recording equipment in broad daylight. I rode up to the shows with my friends Dave and Brian and it wasn’t until I was putting my equipment together in the back seat of the car that I discovered that I had the CP-2 omni capsules on the mics instead of the CP-1 cardioid caps. I was really upset because the omnis add a lot more crowd noise because they lack the side and real isolation that the cardioids have. I had been recording a band in a bar back home the night before and we did a matrix mix with a feed off of the soundboard plus the two CM-300 omnis that were hung from the ceiling.

I got everything in OK on Saturday but Sunday I had a problem. (This saga became one of my best ever taping stories in the years to come!) Because it was kind of cold at night I had brought extra clothing to both stay warm and conceal equipment. I had taken a long-sleeved flannel shirt and wrapped up the mics and knotted the sleeves together. I hid the D6 and cables and a couple of tapes with an ace bandage wrapped around my crotch and had no other option but to put the mics at the bottom of a backpack with misc. crap on top of it. I looked for a line with a security guy that seemed to be doing a minimum of searching and had Dave and Brian go through the turnstiles ahead of me. At the last second a supervisor took over my line just as I stepped up to the search. My heart kind of did a double beat but I hoped for the best. I always relied on the old magician’s sleight-of-hand trick of showing them what you wanted them to see while at the same time distracting them from what you wanted to hide. While my friends went through the turnstiles the supervisor was rummaging around in my bag and felt the mics wrapped up in the shirt. “What’s This?,” he wanted to know and stopped the line. I had to think fast as he was trying but could not untie the knots on the shirt. “It’s a beer bottle,” says I, after the other guy had already torn my ticket. He pulled me out of line and, yelled at me,”You can’t bring that in here!” I stepped out of line and said that I’d get rid of it. Meanwhile, Dave looked back and saw what was going on. I put my hand up in the air palm up and he tossed the car keys to me over the top of the turnstiles. I went back to his car, opened the trunk, and took out two blank cassettes from under my ace bandage and left them in the car. I unwrapped the mics and shoved them down next to the tape deck under the ace bandage and hoped for better luck! When I went back I picked a different line and got through without a problem. The usher at the gate did a double take when he saw that the ticket had been torn already and then signed off on the back by the supervisor. He asked me about it and I said, with my best ‘dumb-guy’ look, that they had found a beer bottle on me and made me go and get rid of it. What did he say? You guessed it! “You can’t bring that in here!!!!” Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dave found me inside as I was making my way to the lawn and asked me about it as I gave him back his keys. I told him I had to lighten the load a bit and had to leave some tape behind. “I guess I just won’t tape Don Henley,” I said. “Oh you’ve Got to tape Henley,” he said. Later on, about 5 minutes before Henley came on stage, I looked up to see Dave drop two blank tapes in my lap. “How in the hell did you get Those??” I asked. He said that he had gotten cold and asked the people at the gate if he could go out and get his sweatshirt! Naturally, he had another thought in mind as well. I laughed and shook my head. That’s my story and I’m sticken’ to it! That’s the closest I’ve ever come to getting caught taping.

Once night fell, I could get the mics up higher and make a better recording, but in broad daylight I had no other choice but to sit on the ground under the repeater towers and build a little pile of clothing on top of my backpack. I hid the mics in the sleeves on the shirt and ran the mic cables back to the backpack where the D6 was. I need to transfer these cassettes to CDR. Some will sound better than others.

The music was pretty good. I couldn’t see much of the stage, especially in the daytime, because the view screens were not on. I remember that the Hooker / Cooder set and the Lindley / Cooder set was kind of quiet. Those sets have more crowd noise on them, plus the omni caps sure didn’t help matters. It would have been nice to have the shotguns but they are a little noticeable!

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Thanks go out to Professor Goody for verifying the pitch on this recording.
Jewel box artwork by ethiessen and it looks so nice, a million thanks for the beautiful covers.

Finally, thanks to OldNeumanntapr for trusting me with his recording and waiting forever for me to finish this.

For historical reference only and not intended for resale or any commercial use

Enjoy…
-M- (January 2021)

FLYING M PRODUCTIONS

Bridge School Benefit – Mountain View, CA (10/18/98)

Bridge School Benefit
10/18/98
Shoreline Amphitheater
Mountain View, CA

SEC 203, Row P, Seat 22
Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D7
DAT Master Transfered: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o,
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.28
FLAC >WAV >Audacity (De-Amplify Countless Close-Proximity Hand Claps, Various Crowd-Noise Reduction, Minor Edits & Fades) >Fix SBEs >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

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

Disc I:
Neil Young:

  1. Looking Forward
  2. I Am A Child

The Eels: (not recorded except for:)

  1. Novocaine For The Soul

Pete Droge/Mike McCready: (not recorded)

Jonathan Richman: (not recorded)

The Wallflowers:

  1. Three Marlenas
  2. One Headlight
  3. Don’t Cry No Tears (Neil Young* Cover)
  4. 6th Avenue Heartache
  5. Invisible City
  6. Heroes (David Bowie Cover)

The Barenaked Ladies:

  1. Old Apartment
  2. Straw Hat And Old Dirty Hank
  3. My Fly Was Undone
  4. It’s All Been Done
  5. Jane
  6. One Week
  7. Brian Wilson
  8. If I Had A Million Dollars >
  9. Memories >
    The Medley

Disc II:
Sarah McLachlan:

  1. Adia
  2. Possession
  3. Elsewhere
  4. I Love You
  5. Angel
  6. Ice Cream
  7. The Path Of Thorns
  8. Building A Mystery (cuts)

Neil Young:

  1. From Hank To Hendrix
  2. Distant Camera
  3. Horseshoe Man
  4. After The Gold Rush
  5. Expecting To Fly
  6. Powderfinger
  7. Ambulance Blues

Disc III:
R.E.M.:

  1. Losing My Religion
  2. New Test Leper
  3. Country Feedback (w/Neil Young)
  4. Daysleeper
  5. At My Most Beautiful
  6. Electrolite
  7. Everybody Hurts
  8. Man On The Moon

Disc IV:
Phish:

  1. Hello My Baby
  2. Billy Breathes
  3. Piper
  4. Roggae
  5. Loving Cup (Rolling Stones Cover)
  6. Albuquerque (Neil Young Cover)
  7. The Old Home Place (Dillards Cover)
  8. Guyute
  9. Brian And Robert
  10. Sad Lisa (Cat Stevens Cover) w/Sarah McLachlan

Neil Young & Cast:

  1. Four Strong Winds
  2. I Shall Be Released

*Not Recorded (except for ’Novocaine Of The Soul’

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was the last Bridge School Benefit that I recorded, and the first with the custom hat-loaded Nyquist Omnis. We had a seat this time, as compared to the first two years in 1991 and 1992 when I froze my behind off up on the lawn. Shoreline can get cold for the Bridge shows, especially because they are always in October or November. I had seen The Barenaked Ladies before, in Avila Beach, and I knew they were good and funny as well. I hadn’t ever seen The Wallflowers, R.E.M., Sarah McLachlan, or Phish before so that was a treat. I really liked the acoustic Phish show, much more than when I saw them play electric. They really seemed to be having fun during their set. I really enjoyed hearing Sarah and Phish sing the Cat Steven’s song ‘Sad Lisa’. I noticed that when REM played there was someone recording with large diaphragm microphones, which could have been AKG 414s. I’ve never seen that source circulate before however. My friends Dave and Brian were with me, and my ex-wife Nikki, at this show. I think Dave had a single seat down in the 100 sections, but Brian was seated next to me on my right. At the end of the Phish show I turned to Brian and said, “I was waiting for you to say, There’s that scruffy guy with the hat again”, which is what he said, referring to Neil Young, at a previous Bridge School Benefit.

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Bridge School Benefit – Mountain View, CA (11/06/93)

Bridge School Benefit
11/6/93
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA

Nakamichi CM-300’s w/CP-1s >Sony WM-D6C Cassette Master >CDR,
(Recorded/Transferred By OldNeumanntapr) SEC 204, Row S, Seat #11
Cass Master (XLIIS) Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o,
CD Masters > Audacity (Minor Edits) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53
Audacity, FLAC, Tags, + Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Disc I:
–Neil Young–

  1. Sugar Mountain
  2. Mother Earth

–Melissa Etheridge–
Come To My Window (Not Recorded)

  1. You Can Sleep While I Drive
  2. Bring Me Some Water
  3. Piece Of My Heart

–Warren Zevon–

  1. The Lakes Of Pontchartrain
  2. Searching For A Heart
  3. Splendid Isolation (w/ Neil Young)
  4. Tenderness On The Block
  5. Frank & Jesse James -tape flip—
  6. //Werewolves of London.

–Heart–
NOT RECORDED

Disc II:
–Sammy Hagar & Eddie Van Halen–

  1. This Is Love
  2. Love Comes Walkin’ In
  3. Right Now
  4. Best Of Both Worlds

–Bonnie Raitt–

  1. The Road’s My Middle Name
  2. Nobody’s Girl
  3. Angel from Montgomery
  4. Down In Mississippi (JB Lenoir cover)
  5. Kokomo Blues:
    Write Me A Few Of Your Lines
  6. Thing Called Love
  7. Love Has No Pride (w/Graham Nash)

Disc III:
–Neil Young–

  1. Stranger In Paradise
  2. After The Goldrush
  3. I’ll Always Be A Part Of You (Train Of Love)

–Simon & Garfunkel–

  1. The Boxer
  2. America
  3. Homeward Bound
  4. Mrs Robinson
  5. Scarborough Fair
  6. Feeling Groovy
  7. Bridge Over Troubled Waters
  8. Sound Of Silence (Eddie Van Halen guitar solo)
  9. Rockin’ in the Free World

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was the third Bridge show in a row that I recorded. This year we had reserved seats in SEC 204. It was nice having a place to sit but I think recording off the repeaters gave a better sound to the recording (Unless you were blessed to have SEC 100 series seats.) I love hearing Neil acoustic, and especially with other guest musicians. This was the only time I’d ever seen Warren Zevon, or Melissa Etheridge. I don’t remember why I elected not to record Heart. Maybe I was trying to conserve tape? I don’t know. I don’t personally care for the band Van Halen, but it was nice to see Eddie playing acoustic. I like Sammy’s acoustic playing a lot. I had first heard him play acoustic on a recording of the ’89 Bridge show. Those tapes were the catalyst that made me want to see and record a Bridge show for myself. I love recording Bonnie Raitt, and have enjoyed her music ever since I recorded her opening for the Dead on NYE in ’89, but Simon and Garfunkel was the reason I was there that night. My ex wife Nikki and I had listened to a LOT of Simon and Garfunkel albums when we were first married in 1984. That set was like a dream come true, because I never thought I would get to see them reunite.

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Bridge School Benefit – Mountain View, CA (11/02/91)

Bridge School Benefit
11/02/91
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA
Bridge School Benefit #5

Nakamichi CM-300’s w/CP-1s >Sony WM-D6C Cassette Master (Lawn) >CDR >FLAC
XLIIS Masters Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o
CD Masters >Audacity (Minor Edits: Remove Tape Flips, Loud Hand Claps, And Cable Noise) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.47

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
2016 Remaster!

Sonic Youth Set NOT Recorded!

Disc I:
Neil Young w/ Nicolette Larson:

  1. Forever Young

Larry Keegan w/ Gene LaFond:

  1. Ain’t Got The Blues
  2. Wheelchair Blues

Intro by Neil Young
John Lee Hooker w/ Roy Rogers:

  1. Crawlin’ Kingsnake
  2. Hobo Blues
  3. Ride Johnny Ride

Don Henley:

  1. The End Of The Innocence
  2. River
  3. Heart Of The Matter
  4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
  5. Best Of My Love

Disc II:
Nils Lofgren:

  1. Blue Skies
  2. Sticks And Stones
  3. Big Tears Fall
  4. Believe (w/ Neil Young)
  5. Just A Little

Intro by Neil Young
Tracy Chapman:

  1. Crossroads
  2. Bang Bang Bang
  3. Mountains Of Things
  4. Short Supply
  5. The Love That You Had
  6. Amazing Grace (dedicated to Bill Graham)

Disc III:
Willie Nelson:

  1. Valentine
  2. Times Slip Away
  3. Crazy
  4. Night Life
  5. Mamas, Don’t Let Your Baby Grow Up To Be Cowboy
  6. On The Road Again
  7. Blue Eyes Cryin’ In The Rain

Neil Young w/ The Stray Gators:

  1. Long May You Run
  2. Birds
  3. Harvest Moon
  4. From Hank To Hendrix
  5. Comes A Time

Finale:
Neil Young w/ The Stray Gators (all)

  1. Forever Young
  2. Greensleeves (a tribute to Bill Graham) Outro

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
This was my first Bridge School Benefit and I was so glad to be there. I’ve seen/recorded four Bridge School Benefits and this one was my favorite. I don’t know if it was the band line up, or because it my first Bridge show, or if it was because of Bill Graham’s recent passing, but there was a lot of energy in the air. I really wanted to record a Bridge show, after having obtained 1st generation cassettes of the 1989 show. I believe that this is the first time that I recorded Neil Young. My friends Dave, Brian, and Rick met up with my ex wife and me at the show. They had reserved seats, while I wanted to be near the repeater speakers on the lawn to record. Dave told me that, though there was a pat down search getting into Shoreline, they would allow you to bring in food. I had the idea to take a small box of saltine crackers and hollow it out. I cut down the cellophane wrappers and only left about 15 crackers in each wrapper. My D6 fit perfectly inside the box, and I left it open with the remaining crackers exposed. We brought in a small tupperware of sliced cheese and cold cuts, and some sealed bottled water. I had a canvas bag with a solid sturdy bottom to hold everything. I took the microphones and custom XLR >RCA shortened cables and used a velcro Ace Bandage to conceal them on my body. Fortunately, being November, we had heavy coats that further concealed the gear. (It was really cold up on that lawn in November!) I opened the bag when we went through security, being careful to not let the gate people notice the added weight of the recorder inside, and we went in without a hitch. I ran the Nakamichi microphones in a Levi jacket, with holes sewn into the front two pockets so the capsules would protrude. I used hollowed out 35 mm film can lids to go over the microphone bodies to keep them from falling through the bottom of the pockets. As long as I stood near the repeater speakers it worked really well. I also had long hair that I wore down to further conceal the microphones. The recorder went into a hip pack so I was totally self contained. This was a really emotional weekend, with the recent death of Bill Graham. Tracy Chapman dedicated ‘Amazing Grace’ to Bill during her set. Nils Lofgren, who played the most touching set of any Bridge set I ever saw, made repeated references to Bill and told a story of getting caught by Graham trying to sneak into the Fillmore East. Nils Lofgren’s song ‘Big Tears Fall’ was very powerful. Nils asked the crowd if there were any parents in the crowd, and I remember thinking of our daughter Lucy, who was born in May of ’91 and was at home with Nikki’s folks while we went to the shows. I had just recorded two very emotional Grateful Dead shows at the Oakland Coliseum on October 27 and October 31. The 10/27/91 show was the first Dead show after Bill’s helicopter crash, (They opened with Bill’s favorite Dead song ’Sugar Magnolia’), and the Halloween show featured Ken Kesey as a special guest. After the Bridge School Benefit show, Nikki and I drove my ’67 VW camper bus to Atherton where we parked in front of my friend Karl’s friend’s parent’s house. Sunday morning we got up early and drove to Golden Gate Park to record the Bill Graham Benefit, which was another emotional all day event. It was billed as ‘Laughter, Love, And Music’. It was quite the weekend. I heard later that Dave, who didn’t stay overnight to see the Sunday Bill Graham memorial concert, ran out of gas driving his friends home in the middle of the night near Santa Margarita, CA.

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David Bowie – Mountain View, CA (10/19-20/96)

David Bowie
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA
10/19-20/96

Bridge School Benefit

10/19/96

Tracklist:
01 – Aladdin Sane
02 – The Jean Genie
03 – I’m A Hog For You Baby
04 – I Can’t Read
05 – The Man Who Sold The World
06 – Heroes
07 – Let’s Dance

10/20/96

Tracklist:
01 – Aladdin Sane
02 – The Jean Genie
03 – You And I And George
04 – I Can’t Read
05 – The Man Who Sold The World
06 – China Girl
07 – Heroes
08 – White Light White Heat

Tom Waits – Mountain View, CA (10/27-28/07)

Tom Waits
10-27-2007 & 10-28-2007
Shoreline Ampitheatre, Mountain View, USA

source: Schoeps > Nbox > Edirol R-09 at 16bit/44.1k
transfer: Soundforge> flac
Lower Section, Middle both days

This contains Tom waits set for both
10-27-2007 & 10-28-2007
The sound is good.

Tom Waits 10-27-2007 (36:34)

  1. Way down in the hole
  2. Cold, cold ground
  3. Little Drop of Poison
  4. The part you throw away
  5. God’s away on business
  6. Day after Tomorrow
  7. What keeps mankind alive
    08 (story: I bought the dying breath of Henry Ford on eBay. I also bought parrot diapers, though I don’t own a parrot. Yet. I also bought a cheese sandwich with the image of the Virgin Mary)
    09 Diamond in your mind

Tom Waits 10-28-2007 (37:25)
01 Way down in the hole
02 Cold, cold ground
03 Little drop of poison
04 The part you throw away
05 Godís away on business
06 The day after tomorrow
07 What keeps mankind alive
08 (a story about the guy in a speakeasy whoís only job is to swallow the dice in the event of a raid)
09 Diamond in your mind

Various Artists – Mountain View, CA (10/28/95)

Bridge Benefit
10-28-1995
Mountain View, CA
Shoreline Amphitheater

–Neil Young–
Comes A Time
Needle And The Damage Done
Heart Of Gold

–Beck–
Pay No Mind
Sleeping Bag
John Hardy
Hollow Log
One Foot In The Grave
Rowboat
Asshole
It’s All In Your Mind

–Emmylou Harris & Daniel Lanois–
Orphan Girl
May This Be Love
Sweet Old World
You Don’t Miss Your Water
Jesus Wash Away My Troubles – How Far Am I From Canaan?
The Maker

–Bruce Springsteen–
Seeds
Adam Raised A Cain
Sinola Cowboys
Point Blank
Don’t Want No More Of This Army Life
This Hard Land
The Ghost Of Tom Joad
Down By The River (w/ Neil)

–The Pretenders & The Duke String Quartet–
Sense Of Purpose
Back On The Chain Gang
Private Life
Kid
2000 Miles
Hymn To Her
Needle And The Damage Done
Brass In Pocket

–Hootie And The Blowfish–
Hannah Jane
Running From An Angel
Fool
Before The Heartache Rolls In
Let It Breathe
When I’m Lonely
Be The One

–Neil Young & Crazy Horse–
Pocahontas
Look Out For My Love
Cortez The Killer
Powderfinger
Tonight’s The Night
Rockin’ In The Free World