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Avacado Sundae – San Luis Obispo, CA (05/14/93)

Avocado Sundae
5/14/93
SLO Brewing Company
San Luis Obispo, CA

Yamaha 16 Channel Soundboard; Sony TC-D5M Cassette Master
Cassette Master Transferred: Sony TC-D5M (Original Record Deck) >Tascam DR-100mkII (16/44.1)
WAV >Audacity (Track Splits, Minor Edits) >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.37

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

Need Set List!!!

Members:
Pete Delaney – Guitar
Bill Burke – Keyboards
Rich Mahan – Bass
Neil Gegna – Drums

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
This was the first of 46 SLO Brew shows that I would record throughout the next twenty three and a half years. From 1988 to 2001 the bands played upstairs at SLO Brew next to the restaurant. In mid 2001 the stage was enlarged and moved downstairs and the capacity was increased to 457 people. It was still a nice intimate setting, but larger than what it used to be upstairs. I have never seen this band before, or since. My friend little Jack used to do sound at SLO Brewing Company back in the early 90s. This was before Kip became the house sound man, as Kip was still doing sound at Loco Ranchero up on the hill across town where KSBY TV Channel 6 is now. I helped Jack on occasion with the load in/out and set up/tear down of sound equipment at various local venues. I recorded Avocado Sundae through Jack’s 16 channel Yamaha mixer board with my Sony D5. The board was old, and was taken from a club in Los Angeles that had been town down. It had dust in the sliders because it was stored in a barn and we used to use it out doors in the summertime to do blues concerts, but it had great analog sound. I had jack give me a stereo output for this show and I think it sounds good. Avocado Sundae is a good California psychedelic jam band, based in Fairfax. I was surprised that there wasn’t any other Avocado Sundae shows on etree. I tried to reach out to the band to get them a copy (and to get a set list for the show) but I don’t do the Facebook thing and that seems to be the only way to get a hold of them. Someone please make sure they hear this recording. I took the band member’s names off of Facebook and correlated them with the onstage band intros to match up the musicians with the instruments, but I wasn’t certain about who did the respective vocals, so I left that blank.

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The Brothers Comatose – San Luis Obispo, CA (02/02/17)

The Brothers Comatose
2/2/17
Fremont Theater
San Luis Obispo, CA

Soundboard / Audience Matrix; Approx. 70/30 % Split
Behringer X32 Digital Soundboard >Canare Star Quad XLR + Neumann KM-140s (ORTF) >XLR >Lunatec V2 (+30db) >Mackie 402-VLZ4 >XLR Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48khz)

WAV >Audacity (Amplify, Track Splits, Minor Edits, Down Sample / Dither To 16bit/44.1khz)
Fix SBEs >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

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

  1. Intro (Korie Newman From Good Medicine Presents)
  2. Brothers
  3. Angeline
  4. Modern Day Sinners
  5. Pie For Breakfast
  6. 120 East
  7. The Ballad Of Tommy Decker
  8. Dead Flowers
  9. City Painted Gold
  10. The Van Jam
  11. Tops Of The Trees
  12. Stick Shifts And Safety Belts
  13. Get Me Home*
  14. Hurricane
  15. Yohio**
  16. To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
  17. Trippin’ On Down (w/Bass Jam Intro) > ***
  18. Pennies Are Money Too
  19. Morning Time****
  20. Knoxville Foxhole
  21. Strings
  22. Feels Like The Devil
  23. The Way The West Was Won
  24. Y’all Come

Encore:

  1. The Scout
  2. Blister In The Sun

Ben Morrison – Guitar, Vocals
Alex Morrison – Banjo, Vocals
Gio Benedetti – Bass
Philip Brezina – Fiddle
Ryan Avellone – Mandolin, Guitar

http://www.thebrotherscomatose.com

*New Song
**Bass, Banjo, & Guitar only
***Big Black Bra thrown onstage
***w/Laura Lewis on vocals

The Historic Fremont (Movie) Theater Was Built In 1942

Support Acts:
Bear Market Riot
The Shawn Clark Band

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
This was a fun show, but I was crushed to have to deal with an equipment failure that almost cost me the recording. The Fremont is an old Art-Deco-styled movie theater dating back to WWII. It has a capacity of just under 1000 and is very ornate, with lots of neon and a high marquee outside. Inside it has a Huge old-fashion lobby and tapestries on the walls. The ceiling of the theater is festooned with an inset of what looks to me like a bird’s head and beak. The inside of the theater has curved walls and the room has great acoustics. I’ve been seeing movies in that theater now for almost 40 years and it’s a favorite.

The doors opened at 7 pm and I arrived at 5:30 pm and went in through the back door, having already been pre-approved for recording privileges from the band through Todd Newman, of Good Medicine Presents. Kip, the house soundman who I have known since 1992 when he was at Loco Ranchero, knew I was coming and helped me out with power and a board patch from his Behringer X32 digital soundboard. I was able to run my Canare 25ft XLR cables from the board across the right aisle (taped down) and I set up in the last row of the theater. I set the stand up next to me and stacked all my gear on the inside chair. I had to also tape down the power cables from the Mackie mixer and the AC power supply for the Tascam, and patch everything together.

I ran a SBD/AUD matrix with the Neumann KM-140s >Lunatec V2 (30db gain), and monitored with my Sennheiser 770 headphones.

I ran an approx. 70/30 % split, with the ambient mics turned up just enough to catch some crowd and the sound of the room. The audience mics gave a nice reverb and made the recording a bit more three dimensional, because you can hear the interaction between the band and the crowd, and also hear a little of the room acoustics.

I normally do not record openers, but the two opening bands sounded really good in sound check. The first was two guys on acoustic guitars, and the second band was a five piece with guitar, banjo, stand up double bass, fiddle, and drums. Really good sound. I was impressed being that they were two local bands. I decided to record them, if for nothing else but to dial in the mix so everything would be set for the headliners. I also thought it would be nice to maybe add two other bands to the Live Music Archive on Archive.org.

When I went to switch CF flash cards to get ready for the start of the Brothers Comatose set, my Tascam flashed a message that said my 4 gig card was corrupted. I tried it several times, and even turned the power off and on but no luck. It kept saying ‘Change Card’.

So, I had no choice but to reformat the first card and erase the two opening sets I’d just recorded. I was so bummed, as I had told both bands that I could get them a copy of their sets later. As it was, I had JUST enough room for the headliner, because the first card was only 2 gigs. I think I had four minutes to spare at the end of the set!

A real bummer that a $10 card almost prevented me from recording the show. It had worked perfectly on the last recording that I had done. Luckily I had brought two cards with me!

This was my third Brothers Comatose show and they never fail to put on a good performance. I love recording them, and I love recording in the Fremont. I’ve been waiting for a while to get to do a SBD/AUD matrix in that room and this was a great chance to do so. A HUGE thanks to The Brothers Comatose for allowing live recording. Thanks also to Todd and Korie Newmann from Good Medicine Presents, and thanks to Kip Stork for his help with the board patch.
(Someone threw a big black bra onstage during ‘Trippin’ On Down’. I saw something fly through the air and Ben picked it up in the middle of the song and put it on his head. The other band members took turns clowning around with it for a while. Too funny!) This was a late night for me. I wasn’t expecting two opening bands but it was a really fun show and I was glad I was there. I had a pizza at Woodstocks at midnight and was home by almost 1 am. Yawn. I was dead at work on Friday, but it was worth it.

The Brothers Comatose – San Luis Obispo, CA (06/10/16)

The Brothers Comatose
June 10, 2016
Tap It Brewing Company,
San Luis Obispo, CA

Behringer X32 Digital Soundboard + Neumann KM-140s (ORTF) >Canare Star Quads >Lunatec V2 (+30db) >Mackie 402-VLZ4 >XLR >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48khz)

WAV >Audacity (Amplify, Track Splits, Minor Edits, Down Sample / Dither To 16bit/44.1khz) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.37

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

  1. Intro (Corey From Good Medicine Presents)
  2. Trippin’ On Down
  3. To Be Young
  4. Pie For Breakfast *
  5. Modern Day Sinners
  6. Angeline
  7. The Ballad Of Tommy Decker
  8. Tops Of The Trees
  9. The Van Jam
  10. 120 East
  11. Yohio
  12. Knoxville Foxhole **
  13. Morning Time ***
  14. Brothers
  15. Strings
  16. Stick Shift And Safety Belts
  17. The Way The West Was Won
  18. Pennies Are Money Too #
  19. Feels Like The Devil

Encore:

  1. The Scout
  2. Unplugged Break
  3. Blister In The Sun #*

Moonshiner Collective Opened

*Gio’s Bass Cable Got Unplugged Midway Through Song
*** w/Mary Woodard, Guest Vocalist

#Instrumental w/Dan Cimo On Fiddle From ‘Moonshiner Collective’

#*Performed Unplugged At Lip Of Stage.

http://www.thebrotherscomatose.com/

Ben Morrison – Guitar, Vocals
Alex Morrison – Banjo, Vocals
Gio Benedetti – Bass
Philip Brezina – Fiddle
Ryan Avellone – Mandolin, Guitar**

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
I was really impressed with last year’s Brothers Comatose show at SLO Brew and was determined to record them once again. Since SLO Brew closed down in December of 2015, Todd of ‘Good Medicine Presents’ has been promoting concerts at various local venues including Tap It Brewing Company, where this show took place. (I’m going to miss SLO Brew, but they are building new office buildings on the entire block.) I’d never been to Tap It before, but knew it was out by the airport. However, I didn’t know that the concert area was outdoors! When I’d asked Corey, Todd’s wife, at the recent Los Lobos concert if Tap It Brewing Company was a good room to record in she said that it was a ‘great room’. So on arrival, it was a little disconcerting to find that I would be recording outdoors with NO windscreens for my Neumanns! There was a little bit of a breeze blowing while I was setting up and I knew that my plans for a matrix recording was in serious jeopardy. (This was my first show with my new Mackie mixer. Yay! No more borrowing gear from Bill Gaines Audio!) Fortunately, Chad (the Brothers Comatose Soundman) let me use the windscreens from the Rode microphones that he had set up to record with. I tried to patch his Zoom recorder into my rig but had some problems, so he elected to let me record. Thanks so much Chad for the use of the windscreens! One thing I didn’t take into account was the fact that the machinery used for the brewery of the production of beer was directly next to the soundboard area, on the other side of a fence. Periodically, a loud hissing noise could be heard, most likely a pressure relief valve that would blow off steam from the beer tanks. When this occurred I tried to drop the levels on the audience microphones, but it can still be heard. I asked Kip about it and he laughed and said that it, ‘Goes off all night.’ Oh joy.

The Brothers Comatose has a new CD out and they played a couple of the new songs. They are a very high energy acoustic band and once again did not disappoint! Thanks guys for allowing live recording and the sharing of your music. I enjoyed the new songs and still love the old favorites like ‘Pie For Breakfast’, though this rendition was marred when Gio’s bass cable because unplugged and he was forced to use his voice to mimic the missing bass.
Thanks to Todd and Corey from ‘Good Medicine Presents’, thanks to house soundman Kip Stork for his ever present help, and Chad from ‘The Brothers Comatose’. Thanks to the band for putting on a great show. Go see their live shows and support the band by buying their merchandise!

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Brokedown in Bakersfield – San Luis Obispo, CA (04/05/12)

Brokedown In Bakersfield
04/05/12
SLO Brewing Company
San Luis Obispo, CA

FOB: Neumann KM-140’s (ORTF/DFC) >Beyer MV-100 >Tascam DA-P1

(Recorded, Processed, FLAC’d, Tagged And Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)
Digital Audience Master, Microphone Cross Bar Hung From Front, Center, Ceiling Post. 7 ft From Stage, 8 ft High.

Master DAT >Tascam DA-P1 >HHb 800 >CDR >xACT 2.15 > FLAC >Tags Via xACT 2.53

Disc I:

  1. //California Cottonfields
  2. Cash On The Barrelhead
  3. My Baby’s Gone
  4. Workin’ Man Blues
  5. D-I-V-O-R-C-E
  6. You’re Still On My Mind
  7. Sing A Sad Song
  8. Unforgetaboutable
  9. Together Again
  10. Hello Trouble
  11. Women’s Prison
  12. Silver Threads And Golden Needles

Disc II:

  1. Silver Wings
  2. Stick With Me
  3. Where I Parked My Mind
  4. Mama Tried
  5. Squeaky Wheel
  6. Walkin’ After Midnight
  7. Fist City
  8. Okie From Muskogee
  9. Six Days On The Road
  10. Swinging Doors
  11. Luxury Liner

Tim Bluhm
Nicki Bluhm
Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz
Scott Law
Steve Adams
Dave Brogan

Haskins, Clarke, And Koenig Opened

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was a band that I saw advertised at SLO Brew and I jumped at the chance to see, and record them. They are made up of members from the band ‘Mother Hips’ and feature the sound of music from the California San Joaquin Valley, Bakersfield in particular. The fact that they allowed recording was icing on the cake! I lost the first minute of the opener because my old Tascam DA-P1 had a hiccup and refused to go into record mode for a bit.

Asleep at the Wheel – San Luis Obispo, CA (03/11/00)

Asleep At The Wheel
3/11/00
Recreation Center
California State Polytechnic University
San Luis Obispo, CA

FOB: (8th Row Center), Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D7 DAT Master
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o
CD Master >WAV >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.37

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

  1. Cherokee Maiden
  2. Route 66
  3. Roly Poly
  4. Goin’ Away Party
  5. Big Ball’s In Cowtown
  6. Red River Valley
  7. Jumpin’ At The Woodside
  8. Georgia On My Mind
  9. House Of Blue Lights

Opened for Bob Dylan. You can download his set here.

OldNeumanntapr Notes-

This was the first time that I’d seen/recorded Asleep At The Wheel. They put on a good show and were a good opening act. This show has been traded individually a couple of times but never uploaded.

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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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Crosby, Nash & Jackson Browne – San Luis Obispo, CA (02/15/98)

David Crosby
Graham Nash
Jackson Browne
Benefit for Lois Capps
Calpoly Performing Arts Center
San Luis Obispo, CA
1998-02-15

Disc 1

Crosby & Nash

  1. Guinnevere
  2. Taken It All
  3. Carry Me
  4. Marguerita
  5. Delta
  6. Rusty & Blue
  7. I Used to be a King
  8. Time is the Final Currency
  9. Heatland
  10. Lost Another One
  11. Deja Vu
  12. Long Time Gone

Disc 2

Jackson Browne

  1. Intro
  2. I’m Alive
  3. The Barricades of Heaven
  4. In The Shape of a Heart
  5. World in Motion
  6. The Next Voice You Hear
  7. For a Dancer
  8. Cocaine
  9. Crow on the Cradle
  10. Lives in the Balance
  11. Jamaica, say you will
  12. Rock me on the Water
  13. Alive in the World
  14. Teach Your Children

Track 9 With Graham Nash
Track 10-13 With Crosby & Nash

Jefferson Airplane – San Luis Obispo, CA (05/19/67)

Jefferson Airplane
May 19, 1967
Cal Poly Gym
San Luis Obispo, CA

Source: DAT (Master Soundboard Reel > Unknown > DAT)
Transfer: DA20mkII>DIO-2448>Cool Edit>CDWav>TLH (2010-08-04)

01. (cuts in) The Other Side Of This Life
02. Let’s Get Together
03. She Has Funny Cars
04. White Rabbit
05. Let Me In
06. Today
07. Young Girl Sunday Blues (cuts out)
08. Somebody To Love
09. Start of set II tuning
10. The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil
11. Tobacco Road
12. Runnin’ Round This World
13. This Is My Life
14. (cuts in) Jam
15. Won’t You Try / Saturday Afternoon
16. Come Back Baby
17. White Rabbit (spliced)
18. It’s No Secret (cuts out)

Bob Dylan – San Luis Obispo, CA (03/11/00)

Bob Dylan
March 11, 2000
California State Polytechnic University
Recreation Center
San Luis Obispo, California

01. I Am The Man, Thomas
02. Song To Woody
03. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
04. Tangled Up In Blue
05. This World Can’t Stand Long
06. Dignity
07. Country Pie
08. Tell Me That It Isn’t True
09. Things Have Changed
10. Not Dark Yet
11. Highway 61 Revisited

encore 1
12. Love Sick
13. Like A Rolling Stone
14. It Ain’t Me, Babe

encore 2
15. Not Fade Away
16. Blowin’ In The Wind

total time: 90:50.09

Bob Dylan – vocals, guitar, harp
Larry Campbell – guitar, vocals
David Kemper – drums
Charlie Sexton – guitar, vocals
Tony Garnier – bass

FOB: (8th Row Center), Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D7 DAT Master, DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-P1 >S/PDIF >HHb CDR 800 PRO, CD Masters >WAV >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.37 Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Asleep At The Wheel opened, you can download their set here.

OldNeumanntapr Notes- This was the second time that I saw Bob, but only the first time that I had recorded him. The first Dylan concert I saw was in 1986 at the Paso Robles Mid-State Fair when he played with Tom Petty. I only had my Sony TC-153SD at the time and knew I could never get it past security, especially in the daylight. The Cal Poly Rec Center is a general admission venue, and it’s kind of a strange set up. The bleachers are on either side of the stage, at a 90 degree angle. There is a small section of open floor in front of the stage, with the soundboard in the rear. The building is not that deep, but really wide, with most of the seating on either side of the stage. I was approximately 8th row for this show, counting heads from the stage. I remember that there was three separate searches to get into the venue, and a friend of my friend Dave turned to me once we got inside and said, ‘Gee it’s too bad that you couldn’t get your tape recorder in through all that security.’ I just smiled and said, ‘Don’t worry about it. Everything is cool.’ I thought the show was good, though I didn’t know a lot of the songs. Bob’s repertoire is huge, and I’m not familiar with a lot of his material. Asleep At The Wheel opened, and I recorded them also. I hope everyone enjoys this one. My recording has been traded a few times and seeded once before on TTD.

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