Alone | 1989-03-31 | Blues Traveler

1:36:33

SBD

Transferrer:

Dave Mallick

SHNID:

bt1989-03-31.flac16

Source:

SBD>Cass(x)

Lineage:

Tascam DA-20>Microtrack 24/96>WAV>Sound Studio 4.2>xACT 2.15>FLAC

Taper Notes:

View Notes* with Roger Fox on flute

Recording notes:
- This is almost definitely an incomplete recording, but this is all that has ever circulated.
- The first song of each set cuts in, and a tape flip cuts out the very beginning of Mother Funker.
- There is a hum/buzz coming from the PA that is particularly audible between songs. I was not able to eliminate it without affecting the music, so I elected to leave it in.

Historical notes:

This show circulated for a very long time as the oldest show out there, dated April 1st, labeled Acme, then Acme Underground. However, John's commentary at the very beginning of this recording dates it to a day earlier, and another show gets the venue name right.  

John mentions his own birthday "the day before" - you can even hear a tiny snippet of John's lounge-singer-esque delivery of Happy Birthday after Bad To The Bone - it sounds like he's singing "[happy birthday] to us..." Since John's birthday is March 29th, that dates this show to the 31st. Further evidence of the venue can be heard at the end of the recently surfaced 3/26/89 show, when John and Bobby mention a show at Under Acme. Acme was the name of the restaurant upstairs from the venue, and in the late 80's/early 90's, the room was known as Under Acme - it didn't change to Acme Underground until the mid 90's.

Thanks to Eric for loaning me a definite upgrade to my hissy 4th-gen cassette, and enjoy a recording nearly 23 years in the making.