Michael Franti and Spearhead Kate Buchanan Hall Humboldt State University Arcata, Ca 8/27/2002 SOURCE: SBD > Sony M-1 > Sony PCM 2300 > SB Audigy Platinum (spdif) > CDWAVE (44.1 khz 16 bit) > MKW > SHN [seekable] DISC #1 (76:31:11) Intro Every Single Soul What Happens Next People In The Middle Runfayalife Stay Human Never Too Late Feeling Free Everyone Deserves Music What I Be Pray For Grace DISC #2 (61:37:04) Soulshine In The Light Radioactive Solo Rock The Nation Crowd Noise Set 2 intro Love Invincible Yes I Will Words Bomb The World Sometimes Outro BAND: Michael Franti - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar Dave Shul - Electric Guitar Carl Young - Bass Mannas Itiene - Drums Bob Crawford - Keyboards * Radioactive - Human Beat Box *Bob Crawford fills in for Kevin Choice on this show. NOTES: Please share this show with all who seek it. Photos of this show are available at: http://www.purplesparkle.com/spearhead/Dan's%20Photo%20Archive/index.html For more live Spearhead visit: http://www.spearheadvibrations.com/ http://www.loveisdashit.com/ http://www.freakyandfree.com/ Love like your life depends on it.... Because it does. FLAWS: This is a beautiful recording with a few small exceptions: There is some amount of microphone static that shows up from 8:30-12 min, in Every Single Soul. TAPE AND TRANSFER: This show was taped off the SOUNDBOARD by Dan Kramer (tahoesparit) on his Sony M-1 DAT. Soundboard Mix by Tige. Transferred by Matt Ziegler (spearits@loveisdashit.com) Sony PCM 2300 DAT Digital out > S/PDIF in Audgy Soundblaster Platinum via CD WAVE at 44.1 khz 16 Bit Stereo > CDWAV > MKW > SHN [seekable] REVIEW: by Dan Kramer (tahoespearit) The sold out show, in a new venue, got started about 15-25 mins. late (Spearhead time) but to a jam packed, hyped crowd. Many people who didn't get tickets in time where outside the door to the venue dancin' just as hard as if they were in the show. The band cracked right into an unusaul opener, Every Single Soul. A good one to get Bob's (who is sitting in on keys this tour) fingers warmed up and in the groove for the night ahead! Didn't miss a beat going right into What Happens Next, with Radio and Bob playing off each other nicely. After a brief pause, Carl started laying down the thick Reggae bass line for People in the Middle which stoked the crowd as well as many fine smelling cigarettes! Caught a quick breath before jumping back into the groove with Runfayalife with Carl dropping bass into the Skintight Jam and Radio flowin' some freestyles for the new incoming class of freshmen. A decent transition into Stay Human. Then Dave and Carl had a chance to showcase some new toys (guitar and bass effects pedals) that they have recently purchased and boy was it worth the money by the sounds of it! Really giving them a fuller, more professional, bigger sound. Good Things To Come I'm Sure!!! Michael then takes time to speak with the crowd of students and tells how he enjoyed the day kickin' the soccerball around and then going over to the gym to shoot some hoops. He goes on to say that Radio found a nice patch of grass, in a bag, and layed down and enjoyed his day! Then he asks if there is anyone here that had their first day of college today. "Well, everyday of school is like this" Michael jokes. Then Dave starts in with the acoustic guitar line for the new fan favorite Never Too Late. Torwards the end of the song, Michael stops evreyone in the band except Manas on drums and gets the boom-boom-bap, boom-boom-bap rythm from Oueen's "We Will Rock You" going with two stomps from his feet and a clap. The band joins back in to end the song gently with the verse, "Hold to your children, let them know." Michael grabs his guitar and starts up Feelin' Free which is slowly becoming a long jammed out song with verse from other songs such as "Love Train" and "Exodus" incorperated within. Another short breather and than back into Michael leading off Everyone Deserves Music. Dave is really sounding nice adding his little fills and melodies on the electric guitar throughout the song. Michael says, "bring on the drums" as Carl thumps the bass line to What I Be. The crowd erupts as Michael sings, "If I were the seeds, I would give birth to redwood trees" (being in redwood country and all). The transition into Pray for Grace was as smooth as a baby's bottom and kept the crowd dancing hard. Manas drumrolls the band into Soulshine from there and then slows it down into another new song, In The Light. The new arrangement of this song and Dave's improving solos have really done it justice and promises to be another big hit! The band takes a break while Radio entertains everyone with his panflute, beatbox routine before the band gets back to Rock the Nation for the last song of the set! The bands leaves the stage for a couple of minutes before coming back out for an encore song or five! Dave slowly plays us back into the tunes with the openning riff to Love Invincible. Yes I Will followed smoothly as Michael add a verse from Bob Marley's "Sun Is Shinning" at the end of the song. Michael takes a second to promote the 4th annual 911 Power to the Peaceful concert coming up in a week and then plays Bomb the World before asking Dave for some guitar to finish the night with Sometimes. App\Http\Controllers\Api\FileDownloadController::download(): Return value must be of type string, none returned