New Mastersounds
House Of Blues Parish
New Orleans, LA
5/2/2008

Original master recording:  Neumann TLM-170 (subcardoids at lip of stage) -> Apogee AD1000 -> Teac DAP20 (@16 bit/48 khz)

Transfer: Sony R500->Sound Devices 722

Mastered: Soundforge Pro 10.0b - *All file manipulation in Soundforge done at 24 bits*. Volume normalization, sample rate conversion 48khz to 44.1khz using iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter, then dithered back to 16 bits using using iZotope MBIT+ with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings. Tracked in CDWav.

Set 1:
1.  tuning, banter - dedication for you
2.  Hole In The Bag
3.  Carrot Juice
4.  banter - the ghost in the house of blues
5.  Thermal Bad
6.  33 (A Fine Year To Die)
7.  banter - rather hot
8.  All I Want (Right Now)
9.  banter - the band asks for more light on stage but nobody complies
10. 102% -> Give Me A Minute Part 2 ->
11. 6 Underground
12. 6 Underground (dub jam)
13. Coming Up Roses
14. banter - a strategy
15. Turn This Thing Around
16. banter - 15 minutes

Set 2:
1.  banter - British timekeeping, 15 minutes on the dot
2.  Baby Bouncer
3.  Fast Man
4.  The Land Of Nod
5.  In The Middle
6.  banter - pasty-faced english boys
7.  Miracles
8.  Hey Fela!
9.  Idris
10. banter - The Mastersounds like shots onstage, inviting Kevin O'Day
11. Ain't It Funky Now*
12. banter - only got the job because of my looks
13. Can't Hold Me Down
14. Jam (inspired by Can't Hold Me Down)
15. banter - thanks for letting us mess about
16. So Many Pies
17. Nervous +
18. One Note Brown (x)
19. thanks

* = w/Kevin O'Day replacing Simon on drums
+ = w/Adam Deitch steps in on drums @ 9:00, Nigel Hall on keys, singing lyrics to "Shining Star" at around 12:50 + Sam Kininger on alto sax
x = my 3 hour DAT ran out of space right in the last few seconds of the song.  I put in a 2nd DAT just in time to get the last few notes and the good nights....

Recorded, Transferred, Mastered, and Tracked by Scott Bernstein (5/19-22/2010).


Taper notes:
Finally I've had time to put out another BARN series, #50 -- New Mastersounds, one of my favorite newer bands, at a very late night Jazzfest show at the tiny House Of Blues Parish in New Orleans.  Wow this is hot, long one -- it was a 2AM show that probably started closer to 3, and spilled over a 3 hour tape (not including the setbreak).  This was one of those "back at the hotel room just around daybreak" Jazzfest nights.

Luckily I got hipped to this band at High Sierra Music Festival in 2005 and have been on the New Mastersounds train since then.  This is a bunch of British guys who have defintiely dined on a steady diet of American funk and jazz grooves that came around in the 1970s.  Any number of their tunes could easily be mistaken for tunes on some of the early Meters records!

Enjoy!

Scott

A rundown of my previous BARN archival releases (all can be found on archive.org except as noted):
BARN1 - Col Bruce Hampton and the Code Talkers at Bret & Joyce's wedding 9/17/2005
BARN2 - Col Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit (w/guest Warren Haynes for all of set 2) Wetlands 11/20/1993
BARN3 - moe. Wetlands 7/8/1995
BARN4 - Dan Bern Bottom Line 7/31/1998 (late show)
BARN5 - moe. Birch Hill 10/31/1996
BARN6 - moe. Maxwells 1/20/1996
BARN7 - Dan Bern Central Park Summerstage 9/19/1997
BARN8 - Dan Bern, Bottom Line 8/1/1998
BARN9 - moe. Bayou 4/5/1997
BARN10 - moe. Irving Plaza 4/4/1997
BARN11 - moe. AKA 9/7/1995
BARN12 - Yolk AKA 9/7/1995
BARN13 - Robert Walter/Johnny Vidacovich/James Singleton/Donald Harrison Preservation Hall 4/30/08
BARN14 - Phish Las Vegas, NV 10/31/1998 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN15 - Phish Great Went @ Loring AFB, Limestone, ME 8/16/1997 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN16 - Phish Great Went @ Loring AFB, Limestone, ME 8/17/1997 (on bt.etree.org), includes orchestra set - by request
BARN17 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/4/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN18 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/6/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN19 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/7/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN20 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/5/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN21 - God Street Wine, Irving Plaza, NYC 6/24/1993
BARN22 - Leftover Salmon, Wetlands, NYC 10/1/1994
BARN23 - Anders Osborne, Manny's Carwash, NYC 11/5/1997
BARN24 - Anders Osborne, Manny's Carwash, NYC 11/6/1997
BARN25 - moe. Pool Party, Morganville, NJ 6/2/1996
BARN26 - Widespread Panic, Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ 11/7/1992 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN27 - Stew, The Turning Point, Piermont, NY 4/6/2003 (on bt.etree.org. dimeadozen.org)
BARN28 - Stew, Joe's Pub, New York, NY 5/22/2003 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN29 - Percy Hill, Lion's Den, NYC 3/16/1996
BARN30 - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Irving Plaza, 8/3/1995
BARN31 - Percy Hill, Wetlands, NYC 6/8/1996
BARN32 - Bad Livers, Mercury Lounge, NYC, 11/15/1999 (opening for Leftover Salmon)
BARN33 - Bad Livers, Mercury Lounge, NYC, 11/16/1999 (opening for Leftover Salmon)
BARN34 - G. Love And Special Sauce, Central Park Summerstage, NYC 6/18/1995
BARN35 - The Band, The Great Lawn, Central Park, NYC 5/16/1993 (on dimeadozen.org)
BARN36 - The Band, Mountain Stage Radio broadcast, Charleston, WV, recorded 4/4/1996 (on dimeadozen.org)
*** Start of New Orelans Jazzfest Appreciation mini-series (note that BARN13 technically belongs in this series) ***
BARN37 - Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Tipitina's, New Orleans, LA, 5/5/2008
BARN38 - Steve Kimock Band, Tipitina's, New Orleans, LA, 5/6/2001 (2AM show)
BARN39 - The Funky Meters, Tipitina's, New Orleans, LA, 5/6/2001 (11PM show) (on bt.etree.org)
BARN40 - Anders Osborne, Tower Records instore, New Orleans, LA, 5/7/2001 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN41 - Joe Krown Trio w/Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Russell Batiste + special guest Mike Gordon, Tipitina's, New Orleans, 5/5/2008
BARN42 - Russell Batiste and Friends, The Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans, 5/1/2008 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN43 - Global Noize, The Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans, 5/1/2008 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN44 - Deep Banana Blackout, The Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans, LA 5/6/2000
BARN45 - Bela Fleck And The Flecktones, The Saenger Theater, New Orleans, LA 5/5/2000
BARN46 - Medeski Martin And Wood, The Saenger Theater, New Orleans, LA 5/6/2000 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN47 - String Cheese Incident, The Saenger Theater, New Orleans, LA 5/5/2000
BARN48 - Soulive, House Of Blues Parish, New Orleans, LA 5/5/2001
BARN49 - String Cheese Incident, Cajun Queen Riverboat, New Orleans, LA 5/3/2000
BARN50 - New Mastersounds, House Of Blues Parish, New Orleans, LA 5/2/2008