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June 8th
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Years
2011
2 shows
2 tapes
2010
2 shows
3 tapes
2009
2 shows
2 tapes
2008
4 shows
4 tapes
2007
4 shows
4 tapes
2004
7 shows
7 tapes
2003
13 shows
13 tapes
2002
3 shows
3 tapes
2001
5 shows
5 tapes
2000
3 shows
4 tapes
1999
8 shows
9 tapes
1998
8 shows
8 tapes
1997
5 shows
6 tapes
1996
1 show
1 tape
1995
1 show
1 tape
1997
1/11/97
Minor Swing
3:27
Pachysandra
3:30
banter - band intros
0:29
Some Funky Grass
5:22
Southwind
3:14
banter - sign our mailing list
1:06
Hubbleville
6:49
banter - original material
0:29
Time Reel
3:42
Crazy Creek
3:37
banter - junk in the mail
0:44
Touch and Go
12:26
Sunday Driver
4:09
banter - frist time to NYC
0:44
Monkey Wrench
6:49
banter - thanking Wetlands
0:41
Lonesome Fiddle Blues
2:53
Abdul's
4:00
banter - thanks
0:58
Blackberry Blossom
4:30
FIN
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Taper: Scott Bernstein & Pete Costello
1:09:39
Taper:
Scott Bernstein & Pete Costello
Transferrer:
Scott Bernstein
SHNID:
gsb1997-01-11
Source:
Audience
Lineage:
Original Master Recording: Schoeps CMC54 -> Sonosax SX-M2 -> Tascam DA-P1 (@16/48) Transfer: DAT Master playback on Sony R500 -> Sound Devices 722 digital input (@24/48) Mastering: Spectralayers Pro 12 unmix function. Wiped out constant crowd chatter from the "vocals" channel and then mixed the channels back to stereo. Small volume fixes to compensate for some recording level changes on the master in Adobe Audition 2026. Tracked in CDWave 1.98
Taper Notes:
View NotesTotal time: 69:40 Gordon Stone - banjo Doug Perkins - guitar Andy Cotton - bass Opening set for Strangefolk. Gordon also played with Strangefolk on banjo and pedal steel guitar for the entirety of their first set Recorded by Scott Bernstein & Pete Costello. Transferred (6/9/2012), tracked (12/10/2019), mastered (2/13-23/2026), tagged and posted (2/24/2026) by Scott Bernstein. Follow me on Twitter to track my postings of FREE live music and concert photography: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/scott_bernstein" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.twitter.com/scott_bernstein</a> Or become a "fan" on Facebook here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Scott-Bernsteins-Live-Music-Photos-Page/166706713365451" rel="ugc nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Scott-Bernsteins-Live-Music-Photos-Page/166706713365451</a> Taper notes: For BARN274, I bring you something completely different -- a super tasty and very jazzy set from progressive banjo player Gordon Stone. An Vermont-based innovative banjo player who was not constrained by tradition (though he could play in traditional style), he was most famous for playing on Phish's albums "A Picture of Nectar" and "Rift". File Gordon in the vein of genre-bending banjoists like Bela Fleck and Tony Trischka. This was the first of 5 times that I got to see him, and as you can tell, I enjoyed it so much that I went to see him every chance that I could (though he really did not perform outside of VT for many years). Unfortunately, Gordon passed away on 7/9/2010. Of special note here is bassist Andy Cotton -- his Jaco Pastorius-like bass playing is a great fit and a breath of fresh air playing hybrid bluegrass/jazz. This is another recording that I took up several times over the years (2012, 2019) but put away because the Wetlands audience for this set (opening for 2 sets of Strangfolk) was rude and talked through this entire set. Well, fast forward to 2026 and we have software like Specralayers which can unmix a recording into its component instruments. Well it made quick work of the chatty crowd thanks to the fact that it separates out the vocals into their own channel -- and the fact that this band had no vocals made it really easy to wipe away all of that crowd chatter (though there were a couple of times it misidentified some high pitched bass plucks as vocals and I had to mix them back into the proper channel -- so it isn't foolproof yet). Perhaps one of these days I will also get the Strangefolk recording transferred and posted for you all so that you can hear how great Gordon sounded with them on pedal steel. This is from the time just before I purchased my Neumann TLM170s (I would go on to buy them in July 1997), so I was patched out of a pair of Scheops that Pete Costello had borrowed from someone... Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this uncirculated recording from deep in my archives -- from an amazing musician who there are (sadly) too few circulating recordings of. Enjoy!