Steve Kimock Band
Smilefest
Van Hoy Campground
Union Grove, NC
6/8/2002

Source:  Core Sound CSBs (hung over the rail) > Goodwin Industries Battery Box > Sony D3 > DAT

Transfer:  Sony 59ES DAT > Zoltrix NG Pro (coax) > CoolEdit Pro > normalize > tweek (+8 dB/10 kHz - 20 kHz/linear) > CDWAV (tracking) > MKW > Easy CD 4.02

Track listing:

1)  Intro
2)  A New Africa
3)  Elmer's Revenge
4)  Tangled Hangers
5)  Drums >
6)  Thing Two
7)  Five Before Funk
8)  Sabertooth
9)  Extro

TT: 78:30-ish

Recorded, transferred, mastered and shortened by Scott Goodwin, 6/11/2002.  
teasinthatbooboo@hotmail.com


Notes:

Levels are a bit nutty for the first minute or less of Africa, and my efforts 
at equalizing the "Oh shit - look at those levels!" of the opening notes aren't
spectacular by any means.  But, if you were running a 13-year old DAT, FOB, in 
a sand-floored cattle auction barn, under the influence of several powerful 
substances, in the dark, crammed into the front row of 800 dancing FLOK, you'd 
have level issues, too!  :^)  

What a great little festival this is.  You should go next year!  

This recording was made with the D3, external battery pack, and battery box 
balanced on a 1" wide aluminum rail that capped the barrier between crowd and 
stage.  I am still amazed that the gear remained there, completely unmolested, 
for the whole set, although a flying beach ball knocked the whole rig onto the 
sandy plywood front-of-house floor about three minutes before the band took the 
stage.  Sigh.

SKB was rushed offstage after a shorter-than-planned set in order to get the 
schedule back on track for that stage.  This is the fan's loss, as SKB was 
certainly *on* this time.

Other bands at Smilefest 2002:
Keller Williams
Larry Keel Experience
Bela Fleck (with and without Flecktones)
Karl Denson's TU
Acoustic Syndicate
Sam Bush Band
Colonel Bruce Hampton (ret.) And The Code Talkers
Many others...

I took the liberty of making Rondey's drum "solo" into a separate track - if 
you like it, just listen, and if not, just track up once to get to Thing Two.
