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Today In History
June 5th
1 show
1 tape
Years
2010
2 shows
3 tapes
2002
1 show
1 tape
2001
22 shows
24 tapes
2000
1
PlaybackListensHours
48h215m
7d00m
30d124m
25 shows
26 tapes
1999
1
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d00m
30d123m
12 shows
12 tapes
1998
11
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d00m
30d111
4 shows
5 tapes
1999
2/28/99
Soundcheck: band chatter
0:25
Soundcheck: What A Mess
6:20
Backscratch
14:52
Canvas
11:37
Tides
7:31
What A Mess
15:16
Miracle Theme
19:48
Call It Nine
12:07
FIN
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Sources
Taper: Scott Bernstein
1:27:56
Rating:
10.00 / 1 rating
Taper:
Scott Bernstein
Transferrer:
Scott Bernstein
SHNID:
mo1999-02-28
Source:
On Stage Mics -> DAT
Lineage:
Original master DAT recording: Neumann TLM-170 (omnis, split on stage) -> Sonosax SX-M1 -> Tascam DA-P1(master tape@16 bit/48khz) DAT playback: Sony R500 -> Sound Devices 722 digital input (@24/48) Mastered: Soundforge Pro 13.0 - *All file manipulation in Soundforge done at 24 bits*. File processed in Soundforge for channel balance/volume normalization; volume normalization; 24 -> 16 bit dither using POW-r Dither with POW-r #3 noise shaping. Tracked in CDWav. Tagged in Tag&Rename 3.9.15
Taper Notes:
View NotesRecorded by Scott Bernstein and Bill Mulvey. Transferred (5/17/2020), mastered (3/8/2021), tracked (7/15-16/2021), and posted (7/17/2021) by Scott Bernstein Taper notes: This BARN series entry is posted as request for someone (Johnny Kuckens) who's a very big fan of the band who managed to track me down over Facebook Messenger in Feb 2021 and has patiently, but politely and persistently been requesting that I get out more of my Miracle Orchestra master recordings (of which I have around a dozen) which do not circulate. I did manage to get out one MO recording previously (way back as the 87th entry in my BARN archival series) over *10* years ago (5/26/2011) -- mostly because it was part of a great night at Wetlands on 6/5/1999 that featured a sit-in from the legendary Oteil Burbridge. Taking it back even more, this is my recording of the very first time I saw this band. To recap: at this time, the guys in the band were all young and students at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. They had a gig in the "lounge" of the Wetlands (which, at some point around 1998, they started booking bands to play downstairs in the basement while the main act was playing upstairs. These were always up-and-coming bands because there wasn't a separate charge to see the music in the lounge -- not sure how they'd do that anyway becuase the bathrooms were in the basement!), and while I didn't see ANY of their gig in the basement that night, they were giving away some free cassettes upstairs at the end of the night. So I grabbed one. At the time, I was living on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and it was a long cab ride back home. So my buddy Bill "The Genius" Mulvey who also lived in the neighborhood hopped in the cab with me, and we asked the taxi driver (who happened to have a cassette player in his car -- most cars still did back then...) to pop in the tape so we could check it out -- and it was AWESOME! We loved it -- so much so that even when it was over (it must have been a 15 minute demo tape), we started back at the beginning and listened again! At that point, we vowed to see them the next time they came to town, and any time we could in the future. So sure enough, this gig was the next time they came to NYC. While this gig was at the semi-prestigious downtown jazz club The Knitting Factory (in its second incarnation, on Leonard Street in SoHo) -- the actual gig was in a room called "The AlterKnit Stage". It wasn't the "main stage" of the club -- it was a room that they opened in the basement which was enclosed (with a door) and fully seated. It must have held about 75 people. It was next to another small room called "The Tap Bar" which was also in the basement and also fully seated, but the tap bar was not enclosed. We showed up early, got set up and taped the soundcheck by splitting my microphones right on stage, and ran this recording. We were impressed! What a killer band. Guys with a lot of jazz chops (in particular, Garrett Sayers, who had studied his Jaco Pastorious well -- he's now the bassist for The Motet; drummer Bill Carbone -- who played like he had many more than 2 arms and is now the drummer for Max Creek but spent some time playing with Melvin Sparks in the interim; Jared Sims who's now the Director of Jazz Studies at West Virginia University. Geoff Scott, guitarist and vocalist, seems to have fallen off the face of the Earth, unfortunately) who could also find a danceable groove and work it hard. Some of these songs are long and complex with a lot of different sections and tempos. As far as I can tell, they broke up in 2002, but I did manage to see and record them 14 times in that 3 year time frame. So this makes 2 down and 12 to go. Sorry it took me 10 years between my last M/O recording and this one! :) I think you'll enjoy the in-your-face natural sound of this recording (because I recorded this with my mics onstage, the crowd is distant, but that's not a bad thing! And you can hear the band talking quietly amongst themselves at times), and the music -- DIG IT! Enjoy! Follow me on Twitter to track my postings of FREE live music and concert photography: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/scott_bernstein" rel="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="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Scott-Bernsteins-Live-Music-Photos-Page/166706713365451</a>