Spin Doctors
Wetlands Preserve
New York, NY
9/27/1995

Original master recording: SBD + Sony ECM-959 (+ Scheops (CMC-54?) -- for late show only, I think) -> Mackie 1202 mixer -> Denon DTR-80p (master @ 16/48)


DAT playback:  Sony R-500 -> Sound Devices 722 digital input (@24/48)

Mastering:  Soundforge Pro 10.0c - *All file manipulation in Soundforge done at 24 bits*.  Applied 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 to 16 bits using using iZotope MBIT+ with Ultra noise shaping, with high dither settings, EQ-ing out some feedback, and some minor clap scrubbing.  Tracked in CDWav.

Early Show (50:17)
1.  intro by Dano from WNEW
2.  Jimmy Olsen's Blues ^
3.  Yo Mama's A Pajama
4.  banter - what grade are you in
5.  Big Fat Funky Booty
6.  banter - this or recess?
7.  Cleopatra's Cat ->
8.  Little Miss Can't Be Wrong
9.  banter - Sesame Street, Puff The Magic Dragon
10. She Used To Be Mine
11. What Time Is It?
12. How COuld You Want Him (When You Know You Could Have Me)?
13. banter - band intros
14. Two Princes
15. crowd

Late Show Set 1 (51:19)
1.  intro
2.  You've Got To Believe In Something
3.  banter - 5 year anniversary of "Up For Grabs" recording
4.  Lady Kerosene
5.  banter - who are you
6.  To Make Me Blue
7.  banter - beauty is transitory
8.  You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast ->
9.  About A Train *%
10. banter - new album
11. Where Angels Fear To Tread
12. banter - new songs
13. I Can't Believe You're Still With Her
14. Shinbone Alley
15. banter - Chris' bong
16. Yo Mama's A Pajama

Late Show Set 2 (98:52)
1.  Happy Birthday To You (for Patricia Feelbach?) / banter - bong
2.  Marcy Of The Air
3.  Out Of The Wool
4.  banter - the 2nd set
5.  Bags Of Dirt
6.  Dogs On A Doe
7.  She Used To Be Mine
8.  If Wishes Were Horses
9.  Freeway Of The Plains *
10. banter - now
11. House #
12. banter - Williamsbug
13. Hungry Hamed's
14. banter - a picture of water
15. Scotch And Water Blues *
16. Sister Sisyphus
17. encore break / banter
18. Someday All This Will Be Road
19. banter - Chris doesn't feel finished yet
20. Spanish Castle Magic
21. encore break #2 / shots of Yaeger
22. More Than Meets The Ear
23. banter - blessings


^ = sound is pretty poor and in mono for the first 1 min 20 sec of this track and intro due to a loose connection on the input to my DAT recorder
% = has non-standard lyrics
* = w/Arnie Lawrence on saxophone
# = w/"Hound Dog" lyrics interpolation


- EQ'd out feedback from early set: T2,3,5,14; late show S1: T6; late show S2: T3, T5, T11, T13
- There is some occasional crackling in the late show 2nd set, which sounds like it's due to a bad cable on the vocal mic.

Early show was a private benefit for PS 116 and was limited in attendance to schoolkids and their parents.

Note that the late show is already posted on archive.org, but this version should supplant that one, as I've done some minor remastering (fixing some volume level fluctuations) and filtering of a whole lot of isolated feedback from the stage.

Chris Barron - vocals
Aaron Comess - drums
Mark White - bass
Anthony Krizan - guitar

Taper notes:
For BARN122, I present an interesting curiosity of a Spin Doctors show.  Frankly I've been wanting to -- and I've had requests for putting out some Spin Doctors in the BARN series for a long time (though I have released some Chris Barron solo shows in the past).  I mean I have taped these guys SO MANY times over the years...and I still love 'em -- they were the second jamband that I really connected with after Blues Traveler, and I think I connected with them even more.  Yes, some of you may remember them for the hits, and short poppy songs, but they were really much more than their hits and had some tunes that really really jammed.

Anyway, the "classic" Spin Doctors period was like 1989/1990 through maybe 1993, when the band was really firing on all cylinders.  Then the whole thing deflated when Eric Schenkman, their guitarist, unceremoniously quit the band in the middle of a tour!  Well, they took some time to recompose and hired Anthony Krizan, who did a pretty good impersonation of Eric (he even sort of looked like him), and filled the slot pretty well -- they wrote a whole batch of new songs, did weekly runs at their old haunts (Wetlands, Nightingales) to break in the "new guy" and break out beyond their core material, take fan requests in a friendly setting, etc.

So this show is particularly fun because you get to hear some fun banter with the parents/kids in the early show, in addition to getting most of their most popular material out of the way.  Then for the late show, we get a bunch of new material -- some good ("You've Got To Believe In Something", "Marcy Of The Air", "Dogs On A Doe", "You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast"), some sublime ("More Than Meets The Ear"), and some less than good ("She Used To Be Mine" , "To Make Me Blue", "If Wishes Were Horses", "I Can't Believe You're Still With Her"), and others simply forgettable ("Out Of The Wool").  They also treated us to some awesome deep cuts that I will take any day of the week -- like "About A Train" (with alternate lyrics I'd forgotten about), "Scotch And Water Blues", "Sister Sisyphus", "Someday All This Will Be Road" (which someone in the audience had been yelling for all night), and a cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Spanish Castle Magic"!

3 sets is a lot of music, so strap yourself in, it's going to be a long ride.  :)

Even after a very long night, the ravenous fans call the band back for 2 encore segments, and the band very appreciatively obliges

Just to catch up, Anthony Krizan stayed with the band a little while, was replaced by Eran Tabib in 1997, when the band also added Ivan Neville as a full-time member, but they sort of petered out when Mark White left the band.  These days the full original lineup is back together and performing infrequently (though they did just have a 20th anniversary of "Pocket Full Of Kryptonite" international tour), and the songs written during the period with the replacement guitarists have seemingly been erased from their collective memory -- the band neither plays them anymore, nor do the fans seem to want to hear them.

This is a matrix recording I made, but it's a little rough at points.  The first minute or so of the first song in the early show is barely listenable due to a mini-plug which was only 1/2 plugged into my recorder.  Also, I was fiddling with the mix a bit....and then in the late show I add in the Scheops mics, when Eliot Byron arrived.  The early show and the late show sound pretty different, but the mix show settles in about 2-3 songs into the late set, when I managed to nail the mix, I think.  I also added a touch of EQ to the early show, as I think it needed it. 

Enjoy!

Scott

Here's a rundown of all 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 ["Passing Strange"], The Turning Point, Piermont, NY 4/6/2003 (on bt.etree.org. dimeadozen.org)
BARN28 - Stew ["Passing Strange"], 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 Orleans 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
BARN51 - Funky Meters, Bonnaroo, Manchester, TN 6/13/2003 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN52 - George Porter And The Runnin' Pardners, Village Underground, NYC, 5/19/2001
BARN53 - Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Tramps, NYC 10/29/1993 late show
BARN54 - The Meters, Tramps, NYC 5/15/93 late show (on dimeadozen)
BARN55 - The Meters, Tramps, NYC 10/29/93 late show (on dimeadozen)
BARN56 - Wild Magnolias, Wetlands, NYC 2/10/2000 (on bt.etree.org)
*** end of New Orleans Jazzfest Appreciation mini-series ***
BARN57 - Blues Traveler, Livingston Gym @ Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 4/17/1993
BARN58 - Phish, Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 10/29/1998 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN59 - Jazz Is Dead, Bottom Line, NYC 2/7/1998 (late show only) (on bt.etree.org)
BARN60 - Grateful Dead, Cal Expo Amphitheatre, Sacramento, CA 5/27/1993
BARN61 - The Dude Of Life (w/Trey Anastasio and Jon Fishman for entire show, plus Page McConnell for a bunch), Wetlands, NYC 2/5/1994 - on bt.etree.org
BARN62 - ALO, High Sierra Music Festival Main Stage, Quincy, CA 7/3/2005
BARN63 - Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon, High Sierra Music Festival Main Stage, Quincy, CA 7/3/2005 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN64 - Dan Bern, The Bottom Line, NYC 11/11/1998
BARN65 - Galactic, Knitting Factory, NYC 10/18/1997 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN66 - Bruce Hornsby, Paramount Theater, NYC 12/7/1993 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN67 - God Street Wine, Irving Plaza, NYC 8/26/1993
BARN68 - Warren Haynes Midnight Southern Jam - Wetlands, NYC 8/5/1993 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN69 - Dave Matthews And Friends (Trey Anastasio, Tim Reynolds, Tony Hall, Brady Blade, Ray Paczkowski) Bonnaroo 6/11/2004 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN70 - Rana at Bret & Joyce's wedding, Whitehall, NY 9/17/2005
BARN71 - Soulive - Baby Jupiter, NYC 6/11/1999
BARN72 - Chris Barron, Nightingale Bar, NYC 7/14/1997
BARN73 - Chris Barron, Nightingale Bar, NYC 11/17/1997
BARN74 - George Porter's 60th Birthday w/PBS and friends, Blender Theater, NYC 12/29/2007
BARN75 - Jennifer Hartswick Band with special guest Trey Anastasio, Lion's Den, NYC 11/7/2003 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN76 - moe., Gathering Of The Vibes, Seaside Park, Bridgeport, CT 6/20/1999
BARN77 - Project Logic, Gathering Of The Vibes, Seaside Park, Bridgeport, CT 6/20/1999
BARN78 - Phish - Beacon Theater, NYC 4/13/1994 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN79 - Phish - Beacon Theater, NYC 4/14/1994 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN80 - Phish - Beacon Theater, NYC 4/15/1994 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN81 - The Recipe, Wetlands, NYC 11/12/1999
BARN82 - Ominous Seapods, Wetlands, NYC 6/4/1999
BARN83 - Coby Brown Group, Wetlands, NYC 11/12/1999 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN84 - The Big Wu, Wetlands, NYC 11/12/1999
BARN85 - Moon Boot Lover, Wetlands, NYC 6/5/1999
BARN86 - Percy Hill, Wetlands, NYC 6/5/1999
BARN87 - Miracle Orchestra, Wetlands Lounge, NYC 6/5/1999
BARN88 - Jiggle The Handle, Wetlands, NYC 6/5/1999
BARN89 - Jiggle The Handle, Wetlands, NYC 10/2/1998
BARN90 - Lake Trout, Wetlands Lounge, NYC 6/5/1999
BARN91 - Olu Dara, Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival, South Street Seaport Atrium, NYC 6/6/1999 (on bt.etree.org / www.dimeadozen.org)
BARN92 - Donna The Buffalo, Wetlands, NYC 11/12/1999
BARN93 - Radiators (w/Merl Saunders sit-in), Irving Plaza 10/8/1998
BARN94 - Tiny Lights, Wetlands, NYC 8/18/1993
BARN95 - Tiny Lights, Wetlands, NYC 1/5/1994
BARN96 - Radiators, Irving Plaza, NYC 11/14/1997
BARN97 - Radiators, Manny's Carwash, NYC 5/30/1998
BARN98 - The Wood Brothers (w/Medeski, Wolleson, and special guest Amos Lee), Bowery Ballroom, NYC 5/17/2008 - on bt.etree.org
BARN99 - Pieta Brown, Bowery Ballroom, NYC 5/17/2008 - on bt.etree.org
BARN100 - Jeff Buckley, CBGB's 313 Gallery, NYC 12/18/1993 - on dimeadozen
BARN101 - Tiny Lights, CBGB's 313 Gallery, NYC 12/18/1993
BARN102 - Tiny Lights, The Lion's Den, NYC 2/18/1994
BARN103 - Tiny Lights, Club Sine', NYC 2/3/1994
BARN104 - Ha Ha The Moose, BB Kings, NYC 11/23/2001
BARN105 - Medeski Martin & Wood, Hilton Hotel Ballroom, NYC, 4/29/2005 - on bt.etree.org
BARN106 - Tiny Lights, The Court Tavern, New Brunswick, NJ 11/24/1993
BARN107 - Tiny Lights, Knitting Factory, NYC 10/26/1994
BARN108 - Tiny Lights, Mercury Lounge, NYC 7/13/1994
BARN109 - All God's Children, The Lion's Den, NYC 2/18/1994
BARN110 - Dan Bern, Bottom Line 1/2/1999 (w/Moxy Fruvous guesting in the late show)
BARN111 - Moxy Fruvous, Bottom Line 1/2/1999 (w/Dan Bern guesting in encore)
BARN112 - Peter Rownan's Reggaebilly!, High Sierra Music Festival, Quincy, CA 7/6/2002 (on The Trader's Den)
BARN113 - Conehead Buddha, Wetlands, NYC 10/2/1998
BARN114 - Conehead Buddha, Tramps, NYC, 2/12/1998
BARN115 - Conehead Buddha, The Lion's Den, NYC 7/2/1998
BARN116 - Frogwings (w/special guest Warren Haynes), Wetlands, NYC, 2/9/1999 on bt.etree.org
BARN117 - All God's Children, Jack's House Party, Long Valley, NJ 9/4/1994
BARN118 - God Street Wine, Irving Plaza, NYC 10/9/1993
BARN119 - David Bromberg, Tarrytown Music Hall, 10/15/1999 (on bt.etree.org / www.dimeadozen.org)
BARN120 - The Concept w/George Porter, ?uestlove, Ivan Neville, Eric Krasno, Bill Summers, Casey Benjamin, BB King's, NYC 9/26/02 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN121 - Percy Hill, The Lion's Den, New York, NY 7/13/1996
BARN122 - Spin Doctors, The Wetlands, 9/27/1995

Recorded by Scott Bernstein, transferred (9/2011), mastered and tracked (3/2-8/2012) by Scott Bernstein
