Gov't Mule, Avalon Ballroom
Boston, MA - May 13th 2001

Â“The New School of GovÂ’'t MuleÂ”
(w/ Dave Schools & Chuck Leavell)

(missing Blind Man In The Dark)
(missing Lay Your Burden Down)
(missing Thorazine Shufffle)

1. .....Fire in the Kitchen
2. Blue Radio
3. Lucky >Â 
4. Rockin' Horse >Â 
5. Keyboard intro > 30 Days In The Hole

2nd Set:Â 

1. Bad Little Doggie >Â 
2. How Many More Years > Voodoo Chile tease > How Many More Years
3. Towering Fool
4. World Gone Wild >Â 
5. Drums/Bass >
6. Tomorrow Never Knows
7. Soulshine >Â 
8. Mule > 3rd Stone jam > Norwegian Wood tease > 3rd Stone tease > jam *> Les Brers tease > 3rd Stone tease > Norwegian Wood tease > 3rd Stone tease > What Is Hip? > Mule >
Encore:Â 
9. Intros
10. Which Way Do We Run ->
11. Goin' Out West

Field:
Neumann KM184->Lunatec V2->Apogee AD-1000->DA-P1->Oade Coax->Sony D8   (but see notes below)

Post:
Tascam DA-20 MKII->SPDIF->M-Audio Audiophile 2496->Audacity
Resampling as necessary with R8Brain (see Recording Notes)
Tracking in CD WAV, FLACÂ’ed and Torrented with TraderÂ’s Little Helper.

Bob Hundertmark February 2014.

Recording Notes:

This is a fresh transfer (02/2014) from my DAT Master, which was a digital D8 patch (Oade Coax SPDIF) into someoneÂ’s rig.  Jim R. hooked me up with the patch, since the TaperÂ’s pit was packed and I was late.  Then something was going on with the rigs, and I got switched to another patch.  Where I ended up with (according to what I wrote down that night) was the KM184s->V2->AD1000.   I missed the first 3 songs (Blind Man In The Dark, Lay Your Burden Down, Thorazine Shuffle).

12 years later, I do a DAT Transfer from my old Tascam DA-20 MKII, and there were obviously some further issues in the taper pit, so big thanks to whoever was scrambling around in there dealing with it all, IÂ’m sure things got a little hairy.  My first set starts at 48 KHz for the first few seconds, then abruptly switches to a 44.1 KHz sampling rate for the remainder.  The second set starts out at 48 KHz then, somehow, switches to 44.1 KHz again during World Gone Wild, then back to 48 KHz right after Norwegian Wood during Mule for the rest of the show.  I have no idea what was going on.  There appears to be only one other source for this, listed as Schoeps MK21H/MK8 -> VMS02iB -> Apogee AD500E.  That source appears to have had issues as well, most of which were fixed, some patched using an unknown source (maybe the Neumanns?).  Interesting, the prior a drop out during Blue Radio which seems to correspond to a drop out in this recording. Â– which would have been the 44.1 KHz source.  So whether I was being switched between those two rigs, or what I donÂ’t know.  IÂ’m guessing the 48KHz source was the Neumanns and the 44.1KHz the Schoeps, but I donÂ’t really know.

The way my soundcard locks onto the SPDIF sample rate, I had to record each different segment separately, down sample the 48 KHz pieces to 44.1 KHz (In R8Brain), then reassemble all the pieces.  So this file set is missing the first three songs, and there are a couple of splices in the second set, due to the sampling rate change issues, but otherwise a pretty great sounding recording (IMHO).

Show Comments.

Allen Woody died on August 25, 2000.  It was a huge loss for the music world, and IÂ’m sure Warren and Matt were devastated (along with other family, friends and fans).  Warren and Matt finished up 2000 with the acoustic Â“Smile At Half MastÂ” tour.  We didnÂ’t know what would become of the Mule, I just knew IÂ’d never be getting my ass kicked in the Woodshed again.  (Phil and Dave Schools have their respective Zones, Allen had the Woodshed).

March of 2001 saw the Â“New School of GovÂ’t MuleÂ” emerge Â– most of the initial shows took place south of the Mason Dixon, but in May they made it up to the Northeast Â– Pittsburgh, DC, Philly, NY, Providence, and they closed the tour with this show in Boston.  The future was still uncertain (Chuck & Schools were clearly temporary) but I left this show feeling confident the Mule would soldier on.



