The Band
w/ Neil Young guesting on Helpless
1984-03-18
The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA

Unknown low gen. cassette source
Transfer: JVC tape deck > Edirol R-09 (16/44.1) > wav > Adobe Audition (normalization, tape-flip edits, fades i/o) > CDWave (tracking) > Flac(8)

1. Intro
2. Rag Mama Rag
3. Long Black Veil
4. The Shape I’m In
5. It Makes No Difference
6. Milk Cow Boogie
7. Mystery Train
8. King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
9. One More Shot
10. W.S. Walcott Medicine Show
11. You Don’t Know Me (partial,tape-flip)
12. Stage Fright
13. Caledonia
14. Chest Fever
15. The Weight
16. Java Blues
17. I Shall Be Released
18. Up On Cripple Creek
19. Ophelia
20. (I Don’t Want To) Hang Up My Rock & Roll Shoes
21. Helpless (w/Neil Young)
22. Willie & Handjive
23. Rivers of Babylon

Levon Helm – drums, vocals
Rik Danko – bass, vocals
Garth Hudson – keyboards, sax, accordion
Richard Manuel – keyboards, vocals

• The Cate brothers:
  Earl Cate – guitar
  Earnie Cate – keyboards
  Ron Eoff – bass
  Terry Cagle – drums.

The Band
October 8, 1986
The Catalyst
Santa Cruz, California

From the time period after Richard Manuel was gone but had not yet been replaced with other members.

Digital matrix mix from 4 channel cassette master – soundboard + microphones over stage. EX sound quality – check the samples to decide for yourself.

This is the first time this show has circulated with a time-aligned digital mix. Unfortunately a
bit is missing from when the cassette was changed, but otherwise it’s the complete set.

01 [2:40] intro
02 [3:41 The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show
03 [5:31] C.C. Rider
04 [5:53] The Battle Is Over But The War Goes On
05 [7:37] It Makes No Difference
06 [7:36] Caledonia
07 [5:03] Stage Fright
08 [4:35] The Weight//
09 [4:20] //Java Blues
10 [5:59] Up On Cripple Creek
11 [2:04] thanks and applause before encore

encore:

12 [6:02] Willie & The Hand Jive
13 [0:56] final thanks and applause

total: 61:57

Rick Danko – bass, vocals
Garth Hudson – keyboards, sax, accordion
Levon Helm – drums, vocals
Jim Weider – guitar

Yamaha MT44D 4 channel recorder (4 channels of 45 minutes per 90 min. tape in one direction
when sensor is on back of cassette) > Dolby C encoded Maxell XLII-S cassette master.

2 channels of monitor soundboard + 2 channels of Crown PZM microphones over stage.

Transfer: Yamaha MT44D (Dolby C decoded) > Macintosh with Echo Layla audio interface >
AIFF > Pro Tools (matrix mix, time alignment & tracking) >
AIFF > xACT (Flac level 8 files with sector boundaries verified).