Tag: ventura

Furthur Festival – Ventura, CA (08/01/96)

Furthur Festival
August 1 1996
Ventura Fairgrounds
Ventura, CA

FOB: Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D7 (16bit/48khz)
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-P1 >S/PDIF >HHb CDR 800 PRO (16bit/44.1khz)*

CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.41**

*HHb CDR 800 Changed Sampling Rate Automatically During Digital Transfer.

**WAV >Audacity (Final Track Of Disc I [Happy Birthday To Jerry] Was Extended With A Patch From Disc II Track I To Make One Complete Track. Track I Disc II Was Deleted And Subsequent Tracks Renumbered.)

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Amended Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
Recorded 40ft In Front Of Left PA Stack.

Missing: Opening Hot Tuna Electric Set, Last Few Songs Of Bruce Hornsby’s Set, And Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box Set

Disc I:

(Los Lobos)

  1. Peace
  2. Shakin’ Shakin’ Shakes
  3. Will The Wolf Survive?
  4. Revolution
  5. Cinnamon Girl
  6. Maricela
  7. Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio
  8. Let’s Say Goodnight*
  9. Mas Y Mas
  10. Bertha^
  • – w/ Harvey Sorgen On Rubboard
    ^ – w/ Pete Sears On Keyboards

(Alvin Youngblood Hart)

  1. Pony Blues
  2. Them Fair Weather Friends
  3. Joe Friday
  4. Gallows Pole
  5. Big Mama’s Door
  6. Flying Karamazov Brothers wish Jerry Happy Birthday

Disc II:

(Bruce Hornsby)

  1. Black Muddy River
  2. Spider Fingers >
    xx. Tighten Up >
    (Tempus Fugit)
  3. Night On The Town
  4. Western Skyline >
  5. Iko Iko
  6. What A Time >
    –. Jacob’s Ladder
  7. Mandolin Rain//
    xx. That Would Be Something > (missing)
    xx. Another Day (missing)

(Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box)
xx. Missing

(Hot Tuna Acoustic)

  1. I Am The Light Of This World
  2. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning
  3. How Long Blues*
  4. Let Us Get Together Right Down Here*
  5. That’ll Never Happen No More*
  • – w/ Hornsby’s Horn Section: Bobby Reed – Saxophone, Steve Berlin – Saxophone

Disc III:

(Ratdog)

  1. Walking Blues
  2. Wang Dang Doodle *
  3. Eternity
  4. Blackbird
  5. Looks Like Rain +
  6. Juke
  7. It’s All Over Now
  8. I Need A Miracle
  9. The Winners >
  10. Bass / Jam >
  11. Turn On Your Lovelight

Disc IV

(Encores)

  1. Playin’ In The Band *** >
  2. Proud Mary *** >
  3. One Way Out *** >
  4. Knockin’ On Heavens Door ***

*-with Cindy Wasserman (Vocals); +-with Bruce Hornsby (Keys)
**-with Hornsby, Los Lobos, Hot Tuna, Mickey Hart, etc….

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
I was hoping for a board patch for the Furthur Festival, because I had heard from other tapers that they were allowing limited board access. (The bands would only allow board patches from Hot Tuna and Los Lobos, and occasionally by Bruce Hornsby, so the other bands were audience or nothing.) Unfortunately I got there late because of traffic and missed my opportunity to plug in because they were only giving access to a certain number of tapers. So, I had no choice but to record the festival up front and hope for a copy of the board tape later. (I had already missed the opening Hot Tuna set.) As it was, I met Jeff Lester at this show, who was fortunate enough to have plugged in with his TCD-D3, and he sent me a copy later of the Hot Tuna and Los Lobos sets. I had brought two 60 meter DAT blanks with me but ran out of tape on the 1st DAT and missed the end of the Hornsby set, and I didn’t notice this until just after the set. I also missed all of Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box because I wanted to conserve my second DAT blank. I like the Ventura Fairgrounds. I taped the Dead there in ’87 and actually had tickets for the ’86 show and drove all the way down before I found out that they were cancelled because of Jerry’s coma. I was there for Jerry in ’92 and ’94. I forgot a cable at the ’92 show and wasn’t able to record with my deck and I met some other tapers there and got a copy later, but I pulled a good one in ’94.

One think I always thought was cool about the beach right next to the fairgrounds is that when the waves would wash in, they would roll the cannon-ball sized rocks around and make a really surreal noise. (It was even better sounding if you were…partaking in party favors.) 🙂

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Arlo Guthrie – Ventura, CA (03/23/91)

Arlo Guthrie
3/23/91
Ventura Theater
Ventura, CA

1st Row, Left-Side Balcony: Nakamichi CM-300 CP-1’s >Sony WM-D6C,
XLIIS Cassette Master Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO,
Tayio Uden CD Masters Extracted To One-Track WAV Files >Audacity (Track Splits, Minor Edits, Amplify, & Normalize) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

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

Disc I:

  1. Chilling Of The Evening
  2. I Ain’t Got No Home
  3. When The Ship Comes In
  4. The Motorcycle Song
  5. Darkest Hour
  6. Coming Into Los Angeles
  7. Keep The Dream Alive
  8. Wake Up Dead

Disc II:

  1. Oklahoma Nights
  2. Gabriel’s Mother’s Highway Ballad #16
  3. When A Soldier Makes It Home
  4. City Of New Orleans
  5. Amazing Grace
  6. All Over The World
  7. Can’t Help Falling In Love
  8. Highway In The Wind

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
This was the first time that I had seen / recorded Arlo and I was stoked to finally get to see him. My ex wife Nikki was six months pregnant with our daughter Lucy. I had her take my Sony D6 in for me with an ace bandage under her skirt, and I took the microphones, cables and blank tapes. I remember that there was a search going in and one person was stopped because they had an 110 Instamatic camera, and the bouncer made them take it back to their car. They tried to say that there was only a few frames left on the roll but the bouncer wasn’t buying it. We sailed in without a hitch because NO One wants to frisk a pregnant woman! The Ventura Theater was built in the late 1920s in the architecture of Spanish Colonial Revival, and first opened in 1928. It’s a really cool old theater and makes for a great place to see a live show. The seats were taken out years ago on the floor and that level, in three tiers, was converted to a dinner theater. The best seats are up front, but it’s also the riskiest place in which to record from. I recorded this show from the front row of the balcony. It’s a little boomy up there, but far safer for recording. You can actually hear the fan in the spotlight during the quiet parts. There were two spotlights in the balcony and I was sitting about three seats to the left of one of them, on the left side. The last time I have been to the Ventura Theater (The new owners modified the name to the Majestic Ventura Theater in the early to mid 90s) was to record John Prine in 1999. I have been told that the balcony is now closed off permanently and a sound wall was built between the back of the floor section and the bar area, which is under the balcony. This was possibly to improve the sound in the front part of the theater. I ran the Nakamichi microphones in a modified Levi jacket. I had holes sewn into the bottom of each front pocket, so only the capsule/wind screens would protrude from the jacket. I had long hair that I would wear down, to hide the mics from view, and used shortened XLR >RCA cables to connect to my recorder which I kept in a small hip pack. I wish I could have used the CP-4 shotgun capsules but that would have been far more noticeable, at least to the spotlight operator. My friend Jim used to tape his stereo mic to the top of the railing at the front of the balcony and drape his coat partially over the top. Whatever works, I guess. I liked the set list, and got to hear both The Motorcycle Song and The City Of New Orleans, so I was happy. Arlo told some great stories, as usual, and he talked a bit about the Gulf War. He said that he wanted to write a song about it but ‘it kept changing’. I was able to get my ticket signed after the show. Tape flips have been edited in Audacity. There was one after the sixth song on the first disc, and one in the middle of ‘Amazing Grace’.

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Gregg Allman – Ventura, CA (05/27/99)

Gregg Allman & Friends
5/27/99
Majestic Ventura Theater
Ventura, 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,
CD Masters (HHb Gold Discs) >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.28

FOB, 2nd Tier, Center Table. Microphones On 10ft Stand

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

Set I

  1. Hot ‘Lanta
  2. I’m No Angel
  3. Slip Away
  4. Rendezvous With The Blues
  5. Midnight Rider
  6. Love The Poison
  7. These Days
  8. I’ve Been Hurt Real Bad
  9. House Of Blues

Set II

  1. Demons
  2. Born Under A Bad Sign
  3. Just Before The Bullets Fly
  4. Back To Daytona
  5. Melissa
  6. Whipping Post
  7. Trouble No More
  8. Please Call Home

OldNeumanntapr Notes:

This ‘review’ I had originally posted to DAT-Heads soon after the show in 1999

Just back from Greg Allman and Friends at the Ventura Theatre.
The theatre people gave me the usual run around even though I had a print
out of the ABB web page which stated the taping policy. I finally went
directly to Robert, the manager, who is a friend of a friend of mine.
He was cool and said he didn’t mind but someone would have to personally
ask the road manager. I relayed this to one of the security people outside
who came back 5 minutes later with a long face and said, ‘sorry dude. You
can’t’. I told him that Robert had already given his OK but they would
have to talk with the road manager. This guy then said he would go back
and ask again. I figured I was just going to get the run around so I
walked down the street and found an open side door near back stage. The
road manager was outside talking to this same security kid. I walked up
and smiled and the security guy looked at me then looked at the road
manager and said, ‘oh yeah. One other thing. You can answer this guy’s
question. You Don’t allow recording do you?’ He asked expecting the answer
no. ‘Sure. Audio, no video’ was his response.

I thanked him and went to go in. The door people were a little alarmed at
my mic stand and wanted to know what it was. All the tables on the floor
were reserved for dinner except for 4 seats on the center table, second
tier. Myself and another taper sat down. He had already paid for dinner, I
hadn’t. Immediately the floor manager was all over me telling me I
couldn’t set up here because it was for dinner people only, blah blah
blah. So I had to pay the $20 on the spot for dinner but got to keep my
killer FOB center location. Right where I wanted to be anyway.

Moral to the story is it helped having the printout of the web page but it
also helped more being able to go right to the manager. But still I had to
work to get my gear inside because I basically had to ask the band’s road
manager myself. I couldn’t believe I was the only stand in the room!
I was expecting more tapers in Ventura. Especially since it was so close
to LA.

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Blues Traveler – Ventura, CA (05/23/92)

Blues Traveler
May 23rd, 1992
Ventura Theatre
Ventura, CA

Master:
Aiwa CM-30 Stereo Cardioid >Sony WM-D6C >Cass(m)
Front Row, Left; Balcony

Conversion:
Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO Standalone >CD

Extraction:
CD >xACT 1.69 (cdparanoia) >AIFF >xACT 1.69 >FLAC
by Dave Mallick

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC Tags, & Front-Cover Artwork By Oldneumanntapr

Disc 1 [77:35.51]

  1. Intro                         [03:07.48]
  2. M//ulling It Over             [07:10.70]
  3. Optimistic Thought            [04:00.49]
  4. Out Of My Hands >             [04:12.31]
  5. Should I Stay Or Should I Go? [08:52.59]
  6. All In The Groove             [07:05.34]
  7. Ivory Tusk/                   [06:53.16]
  8. American Way                  [06:36.14]
  9. Trina Magna                   [08:15.40]
  10. Gotta Get Mean >              [04:24.42]
  11. Gloria >                      [14:52.59]
  12. Gotta Get Mean/               [02:03.39]

Disc 2 [65:48.43]

  1. 100 Years                     [06:11.11]
  2. Manhattan Bridge              [07:13.31]
  3. Sweet Pain                    [10:46.30]
  4. Sweet Talking Hip//pie        [19:49.26]
  5. Dropping Some NYC >           [02:46.07]
  6. As We Wonder                  [04:50.34]
  7. NY Prophesie                  [07:06.14]
  8. But Anyway (encore)          [07:05.40]

Notes:

  • Brief skip forward in d1t02. Tape flip at 18:00 of d2t04.
  • Single slashes denote tape flips or stoppages where no music
      is missing.

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
This was the first time that I had seen Blues Traveler. I didn’t know that they allowed recording. I guess I should have asked for a board patch but instead I ran up to the balcony to get a front row spot. The Nakamichi CM-300s probably would have sounded better but for some reason I chose to go with the little Aiwa stereo mic. It was a pretty good show and I still have the t-shirt! The recording is OK but would have sounded better with the CM-300s. I added it to etree because I noticed that this date wasn’t listed at all in the master list. Thanks to Dave Mallick for the help with the set list.