Boo Boo | 1995-02-04 | Leftover Salmon

2:31:49
SBD
Taper:
Scott Bernstein
Transferrer:
Scott Bernstein
SHNID:
los1995-02-04.ecm959.sbd
Source:
Audience DAT + SBD DAT
Taper Notes:
View Notes* = w/"L.A. Woman" (The Doors) tease

I scrubbed about 35 loud nearby yells, whistles, and claps from the audience portion of this recording (1st 49 minutes of the show)

Acoustic Forum opened -- I don't believe that I taped them

Recorded, transferred (4/1/2012), tracked (9/26/2019), and mastered (12/18-21/2019), and posted (12/21/2019) by Scott Bernstein

Taper notes:
By request, for BARN202 I'm dipping back into my Leftover Salmon early days (last represented in my BARN series as release #22, posted on March 6, 2010 -- 9 years back)  -- this is my recording of the 3rd time I saw them (2nd time I taped them) at good old Wetlands.  This is a band REALLY on the upswing -- hungry, but feeling good, completely at the top of their game and with their original lineup before tragedy and other forces conspired to various lineup changes.  This show was an absolute blast -- showcasing every facet of their performing repertoire at the time -- the Polyethnic Cajun Slamgrass in full effect...with bluegrass, Cajun, reggae, a capella, blues, polka, rock, and everything inbetween.

This is also a marathon performance at 38 songs and just over 2 1/2 hours.

I recorded this show with my old Sony ECM-959 stereo microphone (2 1/2 years before I bought my Neumann TLM170s) on my trusty old Denon DTR-80p DAT deck (6 AA batteries); but for whatever reason, the DAT tape was unplayable beyond the 49th minute of the recording.  Thank goodness I did manage to get a dub of the soundboard source for the show (though I can't recall who I got it from) soon afterwards.  So the first part of this recording is my audience recording (EQ'd a bit to sweeten up the sound of a cheaper, but still solid microphone), and the rest is a straight soundboard source (both normalized to match each-others' volume).  While the soundboard recording is nice and crisp, you'll quickly see why I prefer the sound of audience recordings from good-sounding rooms (when you're in a good location) -- while the soundboard definitely has the edge in terms of clarity of vocals, cymbals, and some other instruments, the amount of bass guitar in the recording is greatly reduced, and you lose the live sound of the crowd reacting to the music.  (On the other hand, I don't generally have to scrub annoying claps, yells, whistles, etc. from a soundboard source.)

I saw and taped them at least a dozen times during the 1993-2008 period represented by my DAT recordings, so you'll surely hear more Leftover Salmon archival recordings from me in the future...

Enjoy!

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