BOTTLE ROCKETS
March 3, 1995
Cicero's Basement Bar, St. Louis, MO

Source: Soundboard (plugged into headphone jack) > Denon DTR-80P (DAT 16/48)
Transfer: Master DAT > Tascam DA-20 > M-Audio Audiophile USB > PC > Audacity > Izotope RX7 (edits, normalization) > CD Wave Editor (tracking) > FLAC (level 8)

taped and transferred by mrpember, live mix by Michael Prater

This is a 16/48 recording

01- introduction / soundcheck
02- Idiotâ€™s Revenge
03- Iâ€™ll Be Cominâ€™ Around
04- Gas Girl
05- Pot of Gold
06- Sin City [Flying Burrito Brothers cover]
07- Streets of Baltimore (w/ Richard Byrne) [Bobby Bare, Gram Parsons, written by Glaser / Howard]
08- Every Kinda Everything
09- Indianapolis
10- Welfare Music
11- Gas Girl (reprise, tease)
12- Hey Moon
13- $1,000 Car
14- Kerosene
15- Radar Gun
16- Act Naturally [Buck Owens cover]
17- My Heart Skips a Beat [Buck Owens cover]
18- Lonely Cowboy
19- ?
20- Black Water [Doobie Brothers cover]
21- I Wanna Come Home
22- Wave That Flag
23- Movinâ€™ On [Merle Haggard cover]
24- Trailer Mama
25- If Walls Could Talk
26- Early in the Morning
27- Folsom Prison Blues (w/ Freddie Friction) [Johnny Cash cover]
28- Truck Drivin' Man (Give It All I Can)
29- Get Down
30- Misery and Gin [Merle Haggard cover]
31- Gravity Fails
32- (Is Anybody Going to) San Antone? [Doug Sahm cover]
33- Coffee Monkey

Total time: 1:49:55

LINEUP

Brian Henneman: acoustic guitar, vocals
Tom Parr: acoustic guitar, vocals
Tom V. Ray: bass
Mark Ortmann: percussion, vocals

Richard Byrne: vocals on track 07
Freddie Friction: vocals and spoons on track 27, spoons on track 28

NOTES

All acoustic set which was a rarity at the time, the first night of a two-night stand at Cicero's. If you are looking for a tight, well-curated set from the Bottle Rockets...this is not the show for you. If you want to hear an insanely fun, beer-soaked show with no written setlist, lots of off-the-cuff covers, and tons of audience interaction / requests, then here you go. This was the first time I ever saw them headline, and I have never had a better time at a show. Me and my friends' requests and comments are very audible throughout.

I'm pretty sure this was the night I met St. Louis taper Steve Brothers. Cicero's had just made some changes to their soundboard, as a result neither one of us had the proper cable to patch in. Sound engineer Michael Prater offered a headphone jack and we gratefully accepted. The only real impact is that you can hear him talking to the band on occasion, and during the first song you can hear him isolate each channel to make sure things were working. There was also some distortion during the first 30 minutes that was a problem with the PA and had nothing to do with how the show was recorded, I tried to fix some of those moments in Izotope with mixed results (they all sound better than they did).

Long live Brian Henneman and the Bottle Rockets.

mrpember, March 3 2021