Soulive
House Of Blues Parish
New Orleans, LA
5/5/2001

Neumann TLM170s (omni, split hung above the stage) -> Schoeps VMS -> AD2K -> Sony D8 (@16 bit, 44.1khz - 1st digital copy)

Transfer: Sony R500->Sound Devices 722

Mastered: Soundforge Pro 10.0b - *All file manipulation in Soundforge done at 24 bits*.   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 back to 16 bits using using iZotope MBIT+ with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings. Tracked in CDWav.

Set 1:
1.  intro
2.  Cash's Dream
3.  banter - what's up
4.  Uncle Junior
5.  banter - a special occasion
6.  Jesus Children Of America ->
7.  Who Knows ->
8.  drum solo ->
9.  Jesus Children Of America
10. banter - inviting up Mark Whitfield on guitar
11. The World Is A Ghetto *
12. banter - thanking Mark, inviting out Sam Kininger
13. It's Your Thing +*
14. banter - band intro, setbreak announce

Set 2:
1.  Steppin'
2.  banter - the new album
3.  1 in 7
4.  banter - inviting Sam Kininger, tribute to Cannonball Adderly
5.  Cannonball +
6.  banter - Soulive chant
7.  Reunion
8.  banter - thanking Mark & Sam
9.  Soul Power -> +*
10. Right On +*
11. banter/encore break/pre-encore banter
12. Lenny
13. Turn It Out ->
14. Voodoo Child jam ->
15. Turn It Out (cut) ^


* = w/Mark Whitfield on guitar
+ = w/Sam Kininger on saxophone

Original recording by Peter Costello & Scott Bernstein
Transferred, Masterd, and Tracked by Scott Bernstein (5/30-6/3/2010).

Taper notes:
Continuing my New Orleans Jazzfest appreciation series with BARN48 -- another oldie but goodie, one of my other longtime favorite bands, Soulive, from pretty early in their career, playing a super late night show at the tiny House Of Blues Parish room.  This one is LONG and jammy.  Jazz guitarist Mark Whitfield and frequent guest Sam Kininger sit in for some significant portions of the show.  In addition to originals from their early repetoire, we get lots of nice covers -- Stevie Wonder:  Jesus Childern Of America, 2 Hendrix jams -- Who Knows & Voodoo Child, War: The World Is A Ghetto, The Isley Brothers: It's your Thing, Jame's Brown: Soul Power, and Stevie Ray Vaughan: Lenny.  That's a lot more covers than the typical Soulive show, but with great songs like these, who cares?  :-)

I got there early and Pete Costello already had his rig set up hanging over the band onstage, but he took his Schoeps down and replaced them with mine, as the omni pattern on my Neumanns is really well suited for a situation like this.  You can really hear the stereo placement of band members on stage -- Alan on the left, Neil on the right, Kraz in the middle.  It also means that the stage banter is only represented by what was coming out of the stage monitors which wasn't too loud, but I've tried to raise the volume a bit when Alan is speaking so you all can hear it better.

I'm not exactly sure why the end of Turn It Out is missing on my tape. Peter's tape probably cut just before the end of the show, so that's all we have.

Something to note -- my original setlist for this show listed a "Bridges To Bama" jam in the middle of "Jesus Children", a "Rudy's Way" in the middle of "It's Your Thing", and "Stakes Is High" between "Cannonball" and "Reunion".  I think those must have been mistakes as I'm not hearing evidence of those songs.....

Enjoy!

Scott