Railroad Earth
Gillioz Theatre
Springfield, MO
June 29, 2014

Source: Microtech Gefell 210 Hypercardioids (DINa) > Silver Clad XLRs > Sound Devices 722 @ 24bits/96KHz 
Location: DFC Orchestra behind soundboards at ~10'
Lineage:  SD 722 > CEP2 gain, resampled, dithered to 16bits/44.1KHz > CDWave > Traders Little Helper Level 6 > FLAC16
Taped by: R Graham and M Fenlon
Transferred, tracked, encoded by: R Graham (born_cross_eyed AKA RobertNC)

Set I Disc 1 61:26

1) Sing for Me
2) When the Sun Gets in Your Blood
3) Jerusalem Ridge
4) Bringin' My Baby Back Home
5) Been Down This Road
6) The Cuckoo
7) Any Road
8) A Day on the Sand
9) Seven Story Mountain

Set II Disc 2 25:31

1) Long Way To Go
2) Old Man and the Land
3) All That's Dead May Live Again >
4) Introit >
5) Black Elk Speaks

Set II Disc 3 64:23

6) Colorado
7) Long Walk Home
8) 420
9) Just So You Know
10) Monkey
11) Face with a Hole >
12) One More Night on the Road
13) Crowd

Encore:

14) Take a Bow

Comments:

The second set split may seem odd, its based on my own personal preferences in the setlists, you can mix it up however you like.  It will fit on one disc if you can overburn by a little less than 3 minutes, definitely within reason for at least good quality 80 minute CDRs.

Not much low end on this one, the venue had short stacks sitting directly on the stage. Never gonna get but so much low end detail out of that with an audience recording, and I see no point in just arbitrarily boosting the bass in post when there is not much real detail in the signal to begin with.  If you like the sound of mud or just want to bother the neighbors, you can reach on over and crank that knob on your stereo all you like.  ;-)

But a fine show in an incredibly beautiful theatre.  Thanks to all the band and Mike Partridge and crew for such fine music, and allowing and being so supportive of tapers.  

Also always enjoy seeing the boys out and about after a show.  Margaret went out to smoke wihile I packed up and was taking "selfies" with Andy, she had a blast.  Meanwhile I really enjoyed running into John Skehan after the show walking around mutually admiring the old theatre.  John is always so gracious and we talked a bit about Railroad Earth expanding out and playing in places they have not been before and he spoke of how much more enjoyable and inspiring it was for them to be able to play a show in such a great old beautiful environment.  

I was also talking to MIke at the setbreak about the logistics of these show and how unless you were some big name pop act nowadays it seemed to me that there was probably basically no one to support you.  He nodded and sadly remarked "For us it is all about ticket sales".  I say sadly because this venue was maybe 1100+ capacity and well under half of that in attendance.  400 people is probably a really generous estimate.  :-(

2014 has been a great year for myself and Margaret, with Railroad Earth appearing off the usual circuits in places like Bloomington IL, Columbia MO, Springfield MO etc.  We have seen some stellar shows we would have missed otherwise had they been in the more typical but much less accessible (for us) places.

So if you like Railroad Earth, and you enjoy this show, or for that matter any show, whoever and wherever you are, burn some CDs, any show you like, give them to people you know that you think might like Railroad Earth , if they just knew something about them.  Then tell them how these recordings at best can only partly capture only one dimension of the elaborate complexity and multidimensional experience of actually being at a show, and tell them: Go!  See a show!  

This ain't no commodity garbage Pepsi commercial, or a Superbowl Halftime, and it's one of the few things made right here in the USA, not China.  And if people don't go, there is no show.

Enjoy!  RobertNC and Margaret - GangstaLean Productions Midwest Branch ;-)

