Govt Mule
East Stage
Mountain Jam 8
Hunter Mountain, NY
6/2/2012

Neumann TLM-170 (hypercardoids, just left of SBD, front right corner of OTS) -> Sound Devices 722 (@24/96); FLAC File processing in SoundForge 10.0d (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); Tracked in CDWav. IDv3 Tagged in AudioShell 1.3.5.

Set 1
1. tuning
2. Brighter Days ->
3. Brand New Angel
4. banter - willed away that rain
5. Lola Leave Your Light On
6. Mother Earth ->
7. Trouble Every Day
8. World Boss -> *
9. Gameface ->
10. Mountain Jam -> +
11. Gameface ->
12. Larger Than Life
13. She Came In Through the Bathroom Window ^
14. banter - gonna have some fun
15. Bitch %
16. setbreak announce

Set 2 - Tribute To Levon Helm #
1. tuning
2. The Night They Drove Old Dixie DOwn
3. Up On Cripple Creek
4. Ophelia
5. The Shape I'm In
6. This Wheel's On Fire ->
7. It Makes No Difference
8. band introductions
9. The Weight @
10. thanks

Set 3
1. tuning
2. Birth Of The Mule
3. banter - inviting out "Blue Lou"
4. Sco-Mule &
5. banter - Blue Lou / tuning
6. It Makes No Difference (reprise) ->
7. Beautifully Broken
8. Forevermore
9. encore break
10. Planet Of The Ram Jam
11. I'm A Ram ~

* = first time played
+ = "Norwegian Wood" teases
^ = w/Machan Taylor, Alecia Chakour & Nigel Hall on background vocals
% = w/Lukas Nelson on guitar and Earl McIntyre, Jay Collins, Kenny Rampton, Blue Lou Martni, Howard Johnson on horns
# = entire set 2 with most of The Levon Helm Band: Larry Cambell (guitar, vocals), Teresa Williams (vocals), Brian Mitchell (keys, organ, accordeon), Jim Weider (guitar), Byron Isaacs (bass), Justin Guip (drums), Earl McIntyre (trombone), Jay Collins (tenor saxophone), Kenny Rampton (trumpet), Blue Lou Marini (alto sax) & Howard Johnson (tuba); w/o Matt Abts & Jorgen Carlsson
@ = w/Lukas Nelson on guitar / vocals, Jorgen Carlsson on bass, Matt Abts on drums, Corky Liang on vocals/tambourine
& = w/"Blue Lou" Marini on saxophone, "I'll Never Go Back To Georgia" (Joe Cuba) teases
~ = w/Danny Louis on trombone, "Message To You, Rudy" (The Specials) jam


I hand-scrubbed claps from what seems like one annoying nearby loud clapper that I didn't notice at the show (first of the weekend) from S1T3(17), S1T5(1), S1T6(13), S1T7(5), S1T8(13), S1T11(13), S1T12(10+), S2T7(2 claps + 1 firecracker), S3T6(1), S3T11(18)

Recorded, mastered, tracked and posted by Scott Bernstein (6/16-19/2012)

