John Prine
03/10/96
The Catalyst
Santa Cruz, CA

Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D7
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO,
Tayio-Uden CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.37
FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.53

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

Disc I:
xx Spanish Pipedream*

1. Six O’Clock News**
2. Fish And Whistle
3. Picture Show
4. You Got Gold
5. All The Best
6. New Train
7. Ain’t Hurtin’ Nobody
8. This Love Is Real
9. Angel From Montgomery
10. Bruised Orange (Chain Of Sorrows)
11. Dear Abby
12. Donald And Lydia
13. Souvenirs
14. Big Old Goofy World
15. Space Monkey
16. That’s The Way The World Goes ‘Round

Disc II:

1. Sam Stone
2. Everything Is Cool
3. Leave The Lights On
4. Quit Hollerin’ At Me
5. Band Intros
6. Sins Of Memphisto
7. Humidity Built The Snowman
8. Lake Marie
9. Hello In There
10. Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness
11. Please Don’t Bury Me
12. Daddy’s Little Pumpkin
13. Illegal Smile
14. Paradise

John Prine – Guitars And Vocals
Jason Wilbur – Mandolin, Electric Guitar, And Slide Guitar
Dave Jacques – Electric And Stand Up Acoustic Bass
Ed Goss – Drums, Percussion, Piano, And Organ
Phil Parlapiano – Piano, Organ, Mandolin, And Accordion
Larry Crane – Guitar

*Missing
** Beginning Cuts

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
This was my first John Prine recording. I got a ride to the show with my friends Dave and Brian, and for some reason (probably because of Dave) we got there late and the show had already started. Santa Cruz is about two and a half hours north of San Luis Obispo County, so we had a bit of a drive. I made my way onto the floor as best as I could but Prine had already played ‘Spanish Pipedream’ and was part of the way into ‘Six O:Clock News’ before I was able to start recording. There is some crowd noise on this recording but overall it’s not too bad. I just wish I would have been able to get the complete show recorded. I had never seen John Prine before and loved his music. He is such a gifted storyteller. I still remember thinking it was funny during ‘The Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness’ when John sang, ‘You come home late and you come home curly..’, the guy near me exclaimed ‘Curly!’. It’s on the tape. Too funny. I recorded John’s show about six months later at Cuesta College and got a little better recording. The Catalyst was a fun venue. It’s an old bowling alley that was converted to a club and the stage is very high. There is a balcony on each side which is where I would have rather been, but they fill up fast. This, I think, was my second Catalyst show, with the first being Dick Dale in January of ’95.

DO NOT Convert To MP3!
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Tim Reynolds
1998 March 26
The Catalyst
Santa Cruz, CA

Source: Dan Sisler’s rig; Neumann KM184’s (ORTF 18″ Spread) >Lunatec 316 >Zefiro inBox @ 44.1kHz >Tascam DA-P1 > [My] Sony TCD-D7 master (Patched).

Left Balcony, Third Table Back From Stage.
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO,
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.35
FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.53

Sony TCD-D7 Master Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front Cover Artwork by OldNeumanntapr

276 MB, 55:00

~ One set ~

01.  2:47  Open Jam >
02.  3:32  Jam >
03.  7:28  Jam >
04.  3:23  Jam >
05.  3:47  Jam >
06.  3:33  Jam >
07.  6:30  Jam >
08.  8:01  Jam >
09.  8:01  Jam * > Ohio *
10.  7:53  Jam *

• with Warren Haynes

Opened for Gov’t Mule.

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
(This set is tracked as one long jam, with several themes interspersed.)
This was my first Gov’t Mule show. The plastic clamps on my microphone stand broke as I was setting up, but I was able to patch into Dan’s KM-184’s. The etree listing is wrong however. They list a Lunatec V2 mic preamp when it was actually a Lunatec 316 studio model that Dan had rigged to run off of a car battery. He brought a hand truck into the show with all of his gear in anvil cases. Dan was first in line and I was right behind him. Wow! I patched my D7 into his DA-P1. I was so impressed with the sound of the Neumanns that I sold my Nakamichi’s and bought a set of Neumanns later that year! We were up in the left balcony and Dan had his KM-184s spread about a foot and a half in an OFTF pattern. This recording SHINES, especially during the acoustic opening set with Tim Reynolds and Warren. (I was Mesmerized by Tim’s playing, with all the electronic effects and sampling.)

The Catalyst has two balconies on either side of the stage, and I think the balconies sound much better than the floor does. This is the show that my buddy Jack, the dwarf, left the show with some woman he met and I never saw him again for the rest of the night. I waited until 3 am in Santa Cruz and he never showed up, so I left. At 6 am when I had just gotten home my phone rang and it was him, drunk, saying, “Where are you?” He took a bus home the following day and was mad at me but hey, I waited until 3 am. What was I going to do? He gave me gas for years about leaving him in Santa Cruz. I looked for him EVERYWHERE, and remember looking for him out in the back of the Catalyst and there was a taper who I saw give Warren Haynes a DAT tape case. He looked confused and opened it up, and inside was a bomber joint!

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
Enjoy! Share freely, don’t sell, play nice, don’t run with scissors, etc. 😉

Gov’t Mule
The Catalyst
Santa Cruz, CA
03/26/98

Source: Dan Sisler’s rig; Neumann KM184’s (ORTF 18″ Spread) >Lunatec 316 >Zefiro inBox @ 44.1kHz >Tascam DA-P1 > [My] Sony TCD-D7 master (Patched).

Left Balcony, Third Table Back From Stage.
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO,
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.35
FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.53

Sony TCD-D7 Master Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front Cover Artwork by OldNeumanntapr

Disc 1 (Electric)
01. John The Revelator >
02. Thelonius Beck
03. Thorazine Shuffle
04. Don’t Step On The Grass, Sam
05. Painted Silver Light >
06. Birth Of The Mule
07. Larger Than Life
08. Towering Fool >
09. She Said > Tomorrow Never Knows Jam

Disc 2 (Acoustic)
01. 1. Raven Black Night
02. I Shall Return
03. The Eleven +# > Afro Blue + > (Electric) Pygmy Twylyte >
04. Blind Man In The Dark
05. Smokestack Lighting

Encore:
06. Red House

+ = w/ Tim Reynolds
# = 1st time played

OldNeumanntapr Notes:

This was my first Gov’t Mule show. The plastic clamps on my microphone stand broke as I was setting up, but I was able to patch into Dan’s KM-184’s. The etree listing is wrong however. They list a Lunatec V2 mic preamp when it was actually a Lunatec 316 studio model that Dan had rigged to run off of a car battery. He brought a hand truck into the show with all of his gear in anvil cases. Dan was first in line and I was right behind him. Wow! I patched my D7 into his DA-P1. I was so impressed with the sound of the Neumanns that I sold my Nakamichi’s and bought a set of Neumanns later that year! We were up in the left balcony and Dan had his KM-184s spread about a foot and a half in an OFTF pattern. This recording SHINES, especially during the acoustic opening set with Tim Reynolds and Warren. The Catalyst has two balconies on either side of the stage, and I think the balconies sound much better than the floor does. This is the show that my buddy Jack, the dwarf, left the show with some woman he met and I never saw him again for the rest of the night. I waited until 3 am in Santa Cruz and he never showed up, so I left. At 6 am when I had just gotten home my phone rang and it was him, drunk, saying, “Where are you?” He took a bus home the following day and was mad at me but hey, I waited until 3 am. What was I going to do? He gave me gas for years about leaving him in Santa Cruz. I looked for him EVERYWHERE, and remember looking for him out in the back of the Catalyst and there was a taper who I saw give Warren Haynes a DAT tape case. He looked confused and opened it up, and inside was a bomber joint!

Do NOT Convert To MP3. Enjoy! Share freely, don’t sell, play nice, don’t run with scissors, etc. 😉

Hot Tuna
Dec. 8 1994
The Catalyst
Santa Cruz, CA

FOB: Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D7
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o,
Tayio-Uden CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.35
(Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged (via xACT 2.53), & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)
Recorded 2nd Table, Right Side.

Set I
Disc I:

1. Never Happen No More
2. Serpent Of Dreams
3. I’ll Be Alright Someday
4. Death Don’t Have No Mercy
5. Do Not Go Gentle
6. Let Us Get Together
7. Candy Man
8. Embryonic Journey
9. Sea Child
10. Stop Breaking Down
11. Cross Roads

Disc II:

1. Ode To Billy Dean
2. Funky #7

Set II

3. Hesitation Blues*
4. I See The Light*
5. How Long Blues*
6. Third Week In The Chelsea*
7. 99 Year Blues*
8. Ice Age*

Disc III:

1. Trouble In Mind*
2. San Francisco Bay Blues*
3. Water Song*
4. AK-47
5. Hit Single #1
6. Crying Time
7. Big Fish
8. Junkies On Angel Dust
9. It’s Just My Way
10. Walkin’ Blues

*Acoustic

w/Michael Falzarano, Pete Sears, And Harvey Sorgen

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was a show that I went to with my friend Dave, and my friend Linda from work. I drove my ’91 F150 from SLO Country to Santa Cruz and back, after the show. I bought a Hot Tuna T shirt that was blue tie died with a Hot Tuna logo that I had for years until it finally disintegrated from too much use. I remember that this show I saw Jorma sitting at the bar in the Catalyst when we came in, and considered briefly asking him for recording privileges, but elected instead to go stealth. In the 80s and very early 90s Jorma, and Hot Tuna, were very taping friendly, but that changed later on. I believe that it’s always better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission, especially if permission is not granted! I remember that I sent this recording to Mike at ‘TunaBase’ years later because he didn’t have a recording from this show. Always glad to help! 🙂

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Dick Dale
January 14, 1995
The Catalyst,
Santa Cruz, CA

Source: Nakamichi CM-300 CP-1’s > Sony WM-D6C (XLII)
Transfer: XLII cassette master > Sony TC-D5M > HHb CDR 800 PRO > CDR > xACT 1.73 (AIFF >WAV >FLAC Level 8) FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.53

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC, Tags, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
Location: FOB, left side

Disc One:

1. Shredded Heat
2. Trail Of Tears
3. Ghost Riders In The Sky >
4. Hot Links: Caterpillar Crawl / Rumble
5. Misirlou
6. Taco Wagon >
7. Take It Or Leave It
8. Bandito
9. Let’s Go Trippin’
10. Maria Elena
11. The Eliminator

Disc Two:

12. Gypsy Fire
13. Calling Up Spirits
14. The Wedge > Hey Bo Diddley > The Wedge >
15. The Long Ride >
16. Fever
17. Nitro >
18. Esparanza

Encore:

19. Surf Beat > Peter Gunn > Misirlou (Reprise)

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was my first Dick Dale show, and my friends Dave and Brian and myself drove almost three hours in the pouring rain to Santa Cruz in my ’91 F150 regular cab pick up. Yeah, it was a bit cramped on the bench seat. I really wanted to see ‘The King Of The Surf Guitar’ live, because I had heard so many stories from my dad about seeing Dick Dale & The Del Tones at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa in 1961/62. My dad and his surfer friends used to go see Dick Dale and do the ‘Surfer Stomp’ in the old ballroom, which dated back to the big-band era of the 1930s and 40s. He said that at high tide, the surf from the Pacific Ocean would wash right up to the front steps of the ballroom and you would get your feet wet when entering. He told me that the city would not allow concerts without patrons wearing ties, so there was a big can filled with ties in the lobby and they wold ‘loan’ you one upon entry and you would have to return it when you left. My dad said that Dick would play a right-handed guitar upside down and backwards, and also play each instrument in the band one at a time.

Dick Dale started playing in 1955 in Southern California and started what would one day be called ‘Heavy Metal’. He played with guitar strings that were as big as bridge cables and would shred a guitar pic in a song or two. He mostly played Southern California and did not tour until the early to mid 90s, and had a resurgence because of the fact that Quinton Tarantino used ‘Misirlou’ in the movie ‘Pulp Fiction’. (Which to this date I’ve never seen).

There is a minor sound level adjustment in “Shredded Heat.” “Maria Elena” and “The Eliminator” both cut in. There is a gap at the end of “Fever.” And “Nitro” cuts in after the spoken introduction.

Please support the artist by buying his official releases and merch.

Dick Dale – guitar, vocals
Ron Eglit – bass
David Haynes – drums

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).