Melvin Seal's JGB w/ Steve Kimock
June 15, 2007
River Theater, Guerneville, CA

Set One Disc One

1 I Second That Emotion
2 Breadbox
3 Money Honey
4 Dear Prudence
5 Let It Rock
6 Mystery Train

Set Two Disc Two
1 Tore Up
2 That's What Love Will Make You Do
3 Don't Let Go
4 Gomorrah
5 Sisters And Brothers
6 Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

Melvin Seals Keyboards (vocals on TWLWMYD), Stu Allen Guitar and Vocals, Marty Holland Bass, Pete Philis drums*, Steve Kimock guitar*, Judith Coleman and Mary Holland backing vocals

Pete Philis replaced usual drummer Sam Howard, who was unavailable for this gig.  Pete plays in MindX with Marty, JGB's bassist.
Steve Kimock's first time sitting in with JGB, and he played the whole show.  Set up on left side of stage next to Melvin's keyboards.

Lineage: Neumann U89i’s > Lunatech V3 (Thanks to James Welborn for the patch) > Sony M1 DAT.
Transfer: DAT > CDWave (Capture) > Soundforge (levels, eq (notes below), fades) > CDWave (tracking, conversion to FLAC)
Transfered and torrented and uploaded by PeterT

Notes: Love the River Theater, great scene with incredible light show all night long... two opening bands played late, JGB didn't come on until nearly midnight, and played till 3 AM!  This night was a benefit for "Peace In Medicine", relating to a local medical marijuana club, I believe: http://www.peaceinmedicine.org/

Love the River Theater, but hate that they set up their PA stacks right on the dance floor, well below the level of the rest of the club - it made for a muddy mix all night long.  Furthermore, the bass was very boomy the for the first two songs, then way quiet for the rest of the show.  Therefore, I made the following EQ adjustments in Soundforge 4.5, after comparing notes with James:  For the first two songs, I dropped the bass floor by 3 dB below 120 Hz, and applied a 2.2 db gain (2 dB wide) at 14,000 hz., since the P.A. was on the floor.  For the rest of the show, I applied a 1.2 db gain at 75Hz (2 db width), 1.3 db gain (2 dB wide) at 144 Hz, and the same 2.2 db gain at 14,000 hz.  I hope you like the sound, I think the music has much more room to breath after the adjustments.

I know there are a few other recordings of this show.  Please feel welcome to torrent them or upload them to the Live Music Archive.   Enjoy! - PeterT

