Halfway to the Moon | 2014-08-03 | Phish

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8.43 / 50 ratings
SHNID:
1776
Taper Notes:
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8-3-2014  
Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park  
Alpharetta, GA  

Source: Church Audio CA-11 (cards) > Church Audio CA-9200 > Sony PCM-M10 (24/48) > Micro SD Card  
Location: FOB/DFC/Clipped to hat of Orlando's Human Mic Stand (~6'4" high)  
Transfer: dBpoweramp > Audacity (Normalizing/Fades) > CD Wave (Tracking) > Trader's Little Helper > Flac 16 (Level 8)  
Recorded & Transferred by mccordo  

Set I  
1. Intro/Crowd  
2. My Soul >  
3. Bathtub Gin  
4. 555  
5. Pebbles and Marbles  
6. The Line  
7. Vultures  
8. Fast Enough For You  
9. Back on the Train  
10. Taste  
11. Gumbo  
12. Halfway to the Moon  
13. Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan >  
14. Suzy Greenberg  
15. Outro/Crowd  

Set II  
1. Intro/Crowd  
2. Chalk Dust Torture >  
3. Scents and Subtle Sounds >  
4. Twist >  
5. Fuego >  
6. The Wedge  
7. Light >  
8. Harry Hood >  
9. First Tube  
(Encore)  
10. Crowd  
11. Fluffhead  
12. Outro/Crowd  

Notes:  
So I woke up the morning of this sold-out show a 7 hour drive away in Orlando with no ticket and nobody to ride with. After loading up my taping gear and a small bag, I took off Sunday morning for ATL. After a pit stop at Sweetwater Brewing for a 420 fresh from the tap, I pulled up to the parking lot and finally got a space in the shuttle lot. A couple of trips up and down Shakedown with a finger in the air netted me nothing, so I decided to head towards the box office. Five minutes after politely declining an offer of a ticket for $175, a group asked me if I was looking for a ticket because the guy behind them had one. Lo and behold I got a PTBM pit ticket for face value and headed right in. [Many thanks to the guy who sold me that ticket!!!] No problems with security after telling them I had strictly audio gear in my bag despite not having a taper ticket. Since I wasn't sure where my ticket would be when I got there, I brought my undercover set of mics figuring I would just record whatever I could and not worry about a stand, clamps, etc. I found a spot almost dead center of the floor, front to back and left to right. By the time the first set started, I had been displaced about 8' right and 5' back from true center, but was still in good positioning.  Setbreak let me get a little closer to dead center so I was only a couple of feet off. As a result of being on the floor with hat-mounted mics, the music is very much to the front, but so is the talking. You'll hear conversations of and clapping from the people around me; sometimes silly questions or comments were directed to me. At one point during Bathtub Gin, a glowstick hit my left mic; I left it on the recording. What you hear on tape is what I heard at the show. Enjoy...I know I did!