ï»¿BOTTLE ROCKETS
Mississippi Nights, St. Louis, MO
December 23, 1994

Source: soundboard > 8-track cassette recorder > mixed down to DAT 
Transfer: clone of mixed down master DAT(2) > Tascam DA-20 > M-Audio Audiophile USB > PC > Audacity (edits,
normalization) > CD Wave Editor (tracking) > FLAC (level 8)

Taped by Bob Parr and Michael Prater, mixed by Bob Parr
Transferred from DAT by mrpember

This is a 16/48 recording

01- Trailer Mama
02- Iâ€™ll Be Cominâ€™ Around
03- Gravity Fails
04- Pot of Gold
05- $1,000 Car
06- Hey Moon 
07- Truck Drivin' Man (Give it All I Can) (first half of song cut)
08- Radar Gun
09- Stuck in a Rut
10- I Wanna Come Home
11- At Least Iâ€™m Coming Home to You
12- Partyman

LINEUP

Brian Henneman: guitar, vocals
Tom Parr: guitar, vocals
Tom Ray: Flying V bass
Mark Ortmann: drums

NOTES

The original line-up of the Bottle Rockets, raging through a 47-minute set opening for Wilco before a big
hometown crowd at a special holiday show. They were on fire, the set ended with Brian Henneman sending his guitar
out into the crowd during a 10-min long "Partyman." Very, very good times.

I had planned to tape but was told that Bob Parr, brother of guitar player Tom Parr and bass player in Chicken
Truck (an earlier incarnation of the band) had brought their 8-track cassette recorder to the show. I talked to
Bob for a bit, he said that sound engineer Michael Prater had helped him tweak the recording setup and pointed
out that it was the same 8-track machine that Chicken Truck had used to record all their cassette / demo releases
(The 90 Minute Tape, Loud MUsic, etc.).

A few months later their management was kind of enough to let me borrow and copy their DAT copy of the show which
I assume was a clone of the mixed-down master. It's been a huge favorite of mine ever since. It sounds fantastic.
I removed a few small gaps here and there and gave it a final fadeout, otherwise this is untouched.

And no, they did not record Wilco's set. Bob said they would have recorded them but they didn't have enough tape.

Enjoy,

mrpember, December 23, 2020