Yonder Mountain String Band
Castle Theatre
Bloomington, Illinois
Wednesday November 9, 2011


Set 1 
Disc 1
No Expectations
This Lonesome Heart
100 Years From Now
Father's Arm's
Granny ->
Winds On Fire
Troubled Mind
Honestly ->
Fine Excuses ->
Honestly
Darkness & Light
Irondale
Ramblin' ->
Mason's ->
Ramblin'

Time: 01:10:18

Set II 
Disc II
Blue Collar Blues
Year With Rose ->
What The Night Brings
Red Tail lights
Damned If The Right 1
Steep Grade
Old Plank Rd.

Disc III
Rag Mama
Jail Song
Free To Run ->
Looking Back ->
Hole ->
New Horizons
E1: Sangaree
E2: Red rocking Chair

Time:01:36:36

Total Time: 02:46:54

DPA4061s->Olympus LS11 (24/96) 
Mounted on stand 13' up, mics seperated 10", 8' from stacks right next to the band's sound desk.
SoundForge 8 resample 16/44.1 for CD

Jeff Austin - Mandolin
Ben Kaufmann - Bass
Dave Johnston - Banjo
Adam Aijala - Guitar

Great capture of a fantastic show in front of a wild crowd.  The venue felt over-sold for how crowded the floor was, and there was a strictly enforced 'No Smoking Tobacco' rule.  (everything else was fair game...)  The show started a bit late but the band just shortened their set break to compensate for the late start and still finish near midnight (12:06AM to be exact)  Jeff offered doctor's notes for anyone needing them to excuse them from work or class on Thursday.


The sound was the best of any show I have seen at the Castle and the band was smokin for the 'near' hometown return of 2 of the members. (Dave and Jeff atteded UofI in Champaign Il.)  This was my first time seeing them and definitely will not be my last.
I ran 2 sets of gear during the show just to test some new mics.  The second source is an Audio-Technica (AT2022)->Olympus LS10 24/96 on the center of the same stand elevated 13'.  The new mic performed admirably, and would have been fine if it was the only source, but the DPAs do sound a bit better and have more bass response in the mix, so I am only posting the one source.  There were some folks running a seperate rig with a HD video camera from the left balcony, hopefully that source will see the light of day as the camera was sitting on a tri-pod and his mics on a stand infront of the left stacks.

Setlist provided by the sound engineer who was kind enough to remember to get me a copy after the show ended.
Artwork included made with pictures I took at the show, and the article that ran in the local paper for the show.


Enjoy,

-Don
