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Yonder Mountain String Band
Today In History
June 11th
Years
2026
361
PlaybackListensHours
48h414
7d9810
30d36140
7 shows
7 tapes
2025
20
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d319m
30d202
29 shows
50 tapes
2024
90
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d00m
30d907
27 shows
39 tapes
2023
16 shows
25 tapes
2022
25
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d00m
30d252
28 shows
45 tapes
2021
15 shows
18 tapes
2020
5
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d225m
30d540m
14 shows
17 tapes
2019
15
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d00m
30d151
20 shows
35 tapes
2018
3
PlaybackListensHours
48h855m
7d00m
30d312m
27 shows
42 tapes
2017
21
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d322m
30d214
28 shows
47 tapes
2016
21
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d00m
30d213
32 shows
51 tapes
2015
44
PlaybackListensHours
48h647m
7d163
30d445
35 shows
51 tapes
2014
47
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d00m
30d475
46 shows
90 tapes
2013
152
PlaybackListensHours
48h1060m
7d15m
30d15215
54 shows
99 tapes
2012
282
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d121
30d28230
59 shows
96 tapes
2011
173
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d273
30d17318
62 shows
110 tapes
2010
592
PlaybackListensHours
48h666
7d17717
30d59253
54 shows
87 tapes
2009
277
PlaybackListensHours
48h633m
7d282
30d27727
64 shows
135 tapes
2008
232
PlaybackListensHours
48h959m
7d384
30d23221
79 shows
123 tapes
2007
675
PlaybackListensHours
48h646
7d807
30d67561
83 shows
130 tapes
2006
2.1k
PlaybackListensHours
48h17215
7d26423
30d2.1k200
80 shows
148 tapes
2005
759
PlaybackListensHours
48h242
7d11111
30d75975
73 shows
122 tapes
2004
1.4k
PlaybackListensHours
48h12211
7d60552
30d1.4k121
72 shows
102 tapes
2003
623
PlaybackListensHours
48h131
7d23721
30d62358
86 shows
129 tapes
2002
1.2k
PlaybackListensHours
48h373
7d13613
30d1.2k111
96 shows
121 tapes
2001
722
PlaybackListensHours
48h162
7d15914
30d72262
89 shows
115 tapes
2000
762
PlaybackListensHours
48h16618
7d14913
30d76267
85 shows
98 tapes
1999
163
PlaybackListensHours
48h322
7d484
30d16314
36 shows
39 tapes
1998
73
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d1054m
30d736
4 shows
4 tapes
1996
33
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d39m
30d332
1 show
1 tape
1999
Sources
Taper: Tom Reid
2:38:12
Rating:
10.00 / 2 ratings
Taper:
Tom Reid
Transferrer:
Pastor Tim
SHNID:
ymsb1999-10-12.flac16
Source:
Audio Technica AT-851 mics (hypercardioid) > Sony SBM-1 > D8
Lineage:
DATm > Tascam DA-20mkII > Audiophile 2496/HD > Sound Forge 6.0 (edits, fades, level adjusts, norm'd to -16dB) > CD Wave Editor (track splits) > flac frontend
Taper Notes:
View Notes* unplugged and offstage Scheduled to open for Smokin'Grass. When they didn't show up, YMSB played non-stop for about 2.5 hours. There was a DAT tape change between "Keep On Going" & "Blue Moon of KY," but no music was lost. "Just say no to crack." -- Jeff, on the intermittent PA problems SUPPORT THESE FINE MUSICIANS BY GOING OUT & BUYING A FEW OF THEIR CD'S! It's the least you can do for the people who support your taping & trading habits. Besides, all their releases ROCK! ; ^{ ) } =>+ http://www.yondermountain.com ============================================================= THE STORY BEHIND THE TAPE Tom Reid writes of the night: Wilbert's used to be the best club in Cleveland. It was an odd little blues joint squeezed between the old bricks of a narrow factory basement atop the hill leading into the Flats, with exactly three tables facing the front of the stage. Along with weekly gigs by Robert Lockwood Jr. (Robert Johnson's stepson and Cleveland's pipeline to the delta), bluegrass and jambands would periodically turn up. Zero played a legendary show in the room, and the Austin Lounge Lizards twice displayed their full comic genius there. But sometime last summer promoter Mike Miller ran afoul of the landlord in a dispute about whether he needed to pay the rent for several consecutive months and, just in time to escape eviction, Miller moved the operation to a more spacious room on the third floor of a trendy brewpub across from the baseball diamond. One of the first acts he booked there was Smokin' Grass. But they didn't show up. I think the opener was given a choice of whether to play their hour for the sparse crowd. Some outfit called the Yonder Mountain String Band. Never heard of 'em, but with a name like that they've gotta be good, right? The very title seemed to imply both a sense of humor about, and a healthy respect for, traditional hillbilly music of the Appalachians. A pretty apt moniker, as it turned out. They played. Oh, how they played! Non-stop for nearly three hours they laid it out for about fifty of us gathered around. YMSB showed themselves to be first and foremost a bluegrass band, pure as a mountain stream and steeped in tradition without so much as an electric bass. But they jam pretty hard. Most bluegrass bands don't play 'Little Maggie' for 20 minutes or bop through a Peter Tosh number in the middle of one of their own. Or cover an Ozzy Osborne song at all. The group played the last half-hour off-stage amidst the tables without amplification "to let you hear what the music is supposed to sound like." We came home and listened to the tapes for days, trying to get a grip on this curious new and different sound that yet somehow harkened back to something old and familiar. Tom's final note to tapers: Always tape a band if they'll let you, even if you've never heard of them, because they might be brilliant like these guys. See Tom's complete Jambands.com review at: http://www.jambands.com/apr00/monthly/cdreviews.html#cd13 ============================================================= "Thank you for taping tonight. It means so much to have folks come to these shows and tape this stuff. It's like the biggest flattery... it just means a lot. It's very neat. I have a very young strong childhood connection with seeing a sea-full of tape-stands at many, many, many, many Grateful Dead shows. So, to think that someone would actually come and tape our music is very, very flattering... a great compliment to give to any group of musicians. So spread it around!" -- Jeff Austin, during the off-stage portion HUG YOUR LOCAL TAPER!!! (Tom, thanks for your great patience in loaning these masters...) "Ah never mind, just erase that part..." (chuckle...)