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1994
6/12/94
Big Fat Funky Booty
4:35
Scotch and Water Blues
4:50
You Let Your Heart Go To Fast
4:28
Hungry Hamed's
6:13
Off My Line
5:46
Biscuit Head
5:03
More Than Meets The Ear
4:20
Jimmy Olsen's Blues
7:38
Bags If Dirt
4:52
Set 2 Introduction
0:31
Uranium Century
3:52
Cleopatra's Cat
4:39
Hambone
5:04
Someday All This Will Be Road
4:41
At This Hour
4:40
Laraby's Gang
3:29
What Time Is It?
6:52
Mary Jane
5:16
Indifference
5:06
Breakfast In Bed
2:36
Refrigerator Car
5:59
Sweet Widow
11:53
Yo Baby (cut in the middle)
7:06
Beasts In The Woods
7:06
Prey To Bears
7:38
Turn It Upside Down
4:18
FIN
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Taper: David Landsberger
2:18:31
Rating:
10.00 / 1 rating
Taper:
David Landsberger
Transferrer:
David Landsberger
SHNID:
spin1994-06-12.flac16
Source:
AKG C1000s->Sony TCD-D7
Lineage:
Fostex D5->Creative Nomad JB3->Cool Edit Pro->CD-Wave->FLAC
Taper Notes:
View NotesThis was the first of 2 nights at The Bottom Line to celibrate the release of their second studio album, Turn It Upside Down. As a result, this show has many songs that were written for Turn It Upside Down. As these newer songs were never played again after Eric left the band in August of 1994, this is one of the few recordings with that material. And I must say that the sound quality of this recording is really quite nice. There was a cut in Yo Baby. I trimmed out the silence in that track (sorry about that, folks) This show also had the first Breakfast in Bed since February 12th, 1992 (second one ever.)
Taper: Scott Bernstein / Eliot Byron
2:20:14
Taper:
Scott Bernstein / Eliot Byron
Transferrer:
Scott Bernstein
SHNID:
spin1994-06-12
Source:
FOB audience
Lineage:
Original master recording: Schoeps CMC54 -> Apogee AD-1000 -> Sony D10 Pro II -> (digital patch) Denon DTR-80p (master@16/48) DAT Transfer: Sony R500 -> Sound Devices 722 (digital transfer @ 24/48) Tracked in CDWave 1.98 Light mastering in Adobe Audition and Spectralayers 11 to remove 2 balloon pops and 1 burst of loud feedback.
Taper Notes:
View NotesTurn It Upside Down Album Release Party night 1 - PA Mix problem (prob with the kick drum mic or a blown out stage monitor) during the first part of Scotch and Water Blues - Chris’ vocals are very low for the first half of More Than Meets the Ear Hambone played by request -- Chris says "Did somebody say Hambone?" Could be their only show since PFOK was released where they didn't play either of Little Miss Can't Be Wrong or Two Princes Very wide stereo image with Eric’s guitar on the right and Mark’s bass on the left Chris points out that “We never played here back in the old days. I guess these are the old days.” The Bottom Line closed on 1/22/2004 Eric makes reference to a Knicks game early on and then later on someone announces that the Knicks lost, and Chris suggests to Eric that he play "Indifference" for the crowd that doesn't seem to care much that The Knicks lost. Taper notes: For BARN270 & 271, I flash back 31+ years to June of 1994 -- The Spin Doctors had just completed their meteoric rise -- from 1991's release of "Pocket Full of Kryptonite" to videos and ubiquitous radio hits and MTV airplay...the band was on a rocket ship ride up the charts and the size of the live performance venues. In February of 1994, they played a secret hometown NYC show at the tiny meatpacking district club, The Cooler...went into the studio to record their next album, and produced "Turn It Upside Down". To celebrate the release of the album, the band scheduled 2 nights at the legendary very intimate venue, The Bottom Line (famous for being the locale where many famous concert broadcasts and live albums originated from -- from Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Billy Joel, Laura Nyro, Jorma Kaukonen, etc.) -- which, as Chris mentions from the stage, the bad had never previously performed at during their ascendancy. The first night was a full on 2 set show from them (at the time, they were mostly playing single set shows) which was sprinkled with standards from their then-current playlist, tracks from the forthcoming album, very deep cuts, and even several fan-requested songs that surely weren't on the setlist. This was an audience full of their longtime biggest fans and they knew the deep cuts to call for. Also of note, this is likely the only show since they had their breakout radio hits that did not feature Two Princes OR Little Miss Can't Be Wrong (which the longterm fans did not exactly need to hear). The band tipped their hand very early -- performing the very very deep rarity "Scotch and Water Blues" as the 2nd song in the show, and proceeded to fill the first set with several of the new tracks "You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast" (not bad -- obviously an attempt to ride the wave of their radio hits), "More Than Meets the Ear" (holds up excellently in this live rendition, though the band seems to have quickly forgotten it after the subsequent '94 tour), "Biscuit Head" (fun, but pretty terrible) -- with classic rockers "Bags of Dirt" and "Off My Line" tossed in. The band returned after setbreak with the amazing (and rarely performed and now long forgotten) original "Uranium Century" (whose lyrics are nearly impossible to decipher), followed by the very very tame (compared to previous live performances) album arrangement of "Cleopatra's Cat" -- still a great song, but now lacking the extended jam before the final verse. After this, Chris starts taking requests from the crowd, and I can distinctly recall several friends and I yelling for the down and dirty "Hambone" (a very rare song then, and also seemingly forgotten now), and Chris complying. Again, liberally sampling tracks from the new album (Someday All This Will Be Road, At This Hour, Laraby's Gang, Mary Jane, and the ripping, but also LONG forgotten "Beasts in the Woods") threaded with really really deep cuts like "Breakfast in Bed" (known to have been performed only 3 times before this night), a poignant take on their deep (and awesome) "Sweet Window", another signature deep cut in the fun "Yo Baby"...and finally the double encore set of super rarities: "Prey to Bears" and the song that provided the title to the album but was not included, "Turn It Upside Down". All in all, a top notch night for the band and the old time fans -- a solid preview of the new album, deep rarely heard cuts, and some real jams in a very intimate venue. Not bad for the first night of a 2 night run. I am aware that my friend David Landsberger's excellent recording has been posted here on The Internet Archive for a decade or so. Given that this was 3 years before I would buy my own microphones, I was patched out of taping legend Eliot Byron's rig which consisted of a pair of Scheops mics and an incredibly high quality Apogee pre-amp and A>D converter -- and we were set up in the same location, so this recording sounds to me to be a decent upgrade over David's AKG-C10000 recording. I hope you enjoy my upgrade of this historic show -- and the next night as well. Recorded by Scott Bernstein, patched out of Eliot Byron. Transferred 5/7/2020. Tracked 10/27-29/2025. Posted 11/7/2025. 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