Levon Helm
moe.down XII at Gelston Castle
Mohawk, NY
9/4/2011

Neumann TLM-170 (cardoids, FOB center ~30 ft. from stage) -> Sound Devices 722 (@24/96); FLAC File processing in SoundForge Audio Studio 10.0c (volume normalization; resample to 44.1 with iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter; 24->16 bit dither using iZotope MBIT+ Dither with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings; clap removal as noted below); Tracked in CDWav.

1.  ...This Wheel's On Fire
2.  Long Black Veil
3.  Bourgoise Blues
4.  I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)
5.  By The Sweat Of My Brow
6.  banter - Bobby Weir intro / tuning
7.  When I Paint My Masterpiece *
8.  tuning
9.  Deep Elem Blues *
10. Attics Of My Life *
11. Tennessee Jed *
12. All On Mardi Gras Day *
13. Ripple *
14. banter - thanks/band intros
15. The Weight *

Fiona McBain replaced Amy Helm on vocals at this show, as Amy was, I believe, giving birth?

Notes:
There was a torrential downpour just before this set and it was delayed for 45 minutes until the worst of the storms passed.  As a consequence I had taken shelter under the beer tent and had no clue that the band was coming back onstage.  So as soon as I heard the first notes I RAN out to my gear and started up, but missed the beginning of the 1st tune as my SD722 was powering back up.

This recording turned out surprisingly well considering it was POURING out.  You can hear the rain a bit during Attics Of My Life but otherwise it seems unaffected

Due to the confusion on stage during the storm they were rushed in their stage setup, and there was a LOT of bad feedback during some parts of the show -- but I tracked down all of the feedback I could find (in T2,9,10), spectrum analyzed the feedback, and notch filtered it out.  As a result, most of the feedback is barely audible after my processing.

I removed a couple of moments of wind noise in T2, T12, T13

Also there was some horribly annoying person clapping right into my mics during most of this set.  I spent hours removing most of his claps in T3(14 claps), T5(17), T7(37), T9(56), T10(6 claps + EQ-ing out yells in beg and whistles in end), T12(16), T13(25), T15(27) = a total of 198 claps I removed painstakingly by hand......

Levon Helm - Drums, Mandolin
Larry Campbell - Guitar, Vocals, Mandolin, Fiddle
Teresa Williams - Guitar, Vocals
Jim Weider - Guitar, Vocals
Byron Isaacs - Bass
Brian Mitchell - Keys, Accordion, Vocals
Jay Collins - Sax
Erik Lawrence - Sax
Howard Johnson Â– Tuba, Vocals
Clark Gayton Â– Trombone
Steven Bernstein - Trumpet
Fiona McBain - Vocals

* = w/Bob Weir - Guitar, Vocals

Recorded, mastered, tracked, and posted by Scott Bernstein