Tag: warnors theater

Jethro Tull – Fresno, CA (03/18/94)

Jethro Tull
3/18/94
Warnors Theater
Fresno, CA

FOB, 8th Row, Right: Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D7
(Missing: Second Half Of ‘Thick As A Brick’ & All Of ‘Beggar’s Farm’ & ‘Sossity-You’re A Woman’, Because Of An Unplugged Microphone Cable.)

Transfer:
Otari DTR-8S >S/PDIF >Korg MR2000-S @ 16bit/48khz)

Mastering
Har-Bal 3.0 & iZotope RX6 advanced
Flying -M- (Feb. 2018)

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

Recorded, Audacity, FLAC, Tags, And Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr.

Transfer & Har-Bal / iZotope Post Production By Flying M.

(missing intro)

  1. My Sunday Feeling
  2. For A Thousand Mothers
  3. Living In The Past
  4. Bouree
  5. So Much Trouble
  6. With You There To Help Me
  7. In The Grip Of Stronger Stuff >
  8. The Whistler
  9. Farm On The Freeway
  10. Thick As A Brick (incomplete) (splice located at 41:42)
    xx. Beggar’s Farm (missing)
    xx. Sossity-You’re A Woman (missing)
  11. Songs From The Wood >
  12. Too Old To Rock And Roll >
  13. Heavy Horses >
  14. Songs From The Wood (reprise)
  15. Budapest
  16. Nameless Flute Meanderings* (instrumental)
  17. A Passion Play Extract >
  18. A New Day Yesterday
  19. Aqualung >
  20. Locomotive Breath
  21. band introductions and encore call
  22. Cross-Eyed Mary >
  23. Dharma For One
  24. Danube Waltz

*Title Announced By Ian

Ian Anderson – Lead Vocals, Flute
Andy Giddings – Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Doane Perry – Drums, Percussion
Dave Peg – Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
Martin Barre – Lead Guitar

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was my first Jethro Tull concert and I was impressed. This was also the first time that I had used a Sony D7 for recording a concert. As I remember, I borrowed this particular D7 from a taper in Florida that I met though DAT Heads online. I let him use my Nakamichi CM-300s to record a Grateful Dead show in exchange for the use of his D7.

My friend Dave got tickets up front on the right hand side in the old Warnors Theater in Fresno. My friend Tom gave me a ride to the show with his group, and that was an experience in itself! We took two cars and Tom followed his wife Jan who had some of her friends with her in her car. Tom ended up running a red light in Fresno because he didn’t want to lose Jan in city traffic. (This was before we all had cell phones.) His driving scared the hell out of me, as I was in the back seat trying to assemble my taping gear. I’m glad I went home with my friend Dave in his car after the show!

My cable that connects the mics to the deck came unplugged for about 13 minutes during the show before I noticed I had no levels so that was a bummer. I missed the very last part of Thick As A Brick, all of Beggar’s Farm, and Sossity. Otherwise the tape sounds pretty good. Musically I thought the show was very good. Ian played a good show. I really enjoyed seeing a show in the old Warnors Theater. It really is a neat place. Around the corner on a side street there was an even older, seedier theater, that I didn’t catch the name of. I think the Ramones were playing there that night, from what I remember seeing on the marquee. Thanks to Flying M for a fresh digital transfer and his post production fairy-dust magic!

A suggested disc break would be possibly between tracks 10 and 11, for those that still burn CDs.

Flying M Notes:
Recording starts just a tad late to get the musical introduction but it catches all of the first song.
Just a few minutes into “Thick As A Brick” the microphone cable becomes unplugged missing most of that song and the next 2.
Some applause clips from a couple different places were spliced together to create a false ending for that song and bridge the abrupt break.

Applause was tamed by removing the loudest clapping as well as muffling the who-hoo’s and close whistling.
These microphones don’t pick up low frequency real well so Har-Bal was used to re-shape the spectral balance.
Adding some bottom end while trying to retain the crystal clear highs these mics are so good at catching.
A light compression was used to increase the quieter parts by 3dB thus bringing out additional detail.
It also brings up those little handling noises that I then spent so much time removing for this.
-M-

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
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