Michael Franti and Spearhead
Zoophorus Festival
Whistler, Britsh Columbia
8/31/2002

SOURCE:  SBD > Sony M-1 > Sony PCM 2300 > SB Audigy Platinum (spdif) > CDWAV > MKW > SHN [seekable]

DISC #1   (78:47:12)

 1.   Intro
 2.   Everyone Deserves Music
 3.   Soulshine
 4.   People In The Middle
 5.   Every Single Soul
 6.   Stay Human
 7    Never Too Late
 8.   What I Be
 9.   Pray For Grace
 10.  What Happens Next
 11.  Words
 12.  Feeling Free


DISC #2 (54:50:69)

 1.  Radioactive Solo
 2.  Rock The Nation
 3.  Love Why Did You Have To Go
 4.  Words
 5.  Bomb The World
 6.  Sometimes
 7.  Outro


NOTES:
  Spearhead is:
    Michael Franti - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
    Dave Shul - Electric Guitar
    Carl Young - Bass
    Mannas Itiene - Drums
    Radioactive - Human Beat Box
    Kevin Choice - Keyboards *
     *Bob Crawford fills in for Kevin on this show.

  Please share this show with all who seek it.
  Photos of this show are available at:
     http://www.purplesparkle.com/spearhead/Dan's%20Photo%20Archive/index.html
  For more live Spearhead visit:
     http://www.spearheadvibrations.com/
     http://www.loveisdashit.com/
     http://www.freakyandfree.com/

  Love like your life depends on it....
  Because it does.


FLAWS:
  This is a beautiful recording with a few small exceptions:
     * Sound levels adjust in the first 30 seconds of the show.
     * A little bit of digital noise at 32:56 (Stay Human)


TAPE AND TRANSFER:
  This show was taped off the SOUNDBOARD by Dan Kramer (tahoesparit) on his Sony M-1 DAT.
  Soundboard Mix by Tige.  Transferred by Matt Ziegler (spearits@loveisdashit.com)  
    Sony PCM 2300 DAT Digital out > S/PDIF in Audgy Soundblaster Platinum via CD WAVE
    at 44.1 khz 16 Bit Stereo.
  Tracked in CDWAVE by Matt Ziegler.  SHN'd by Matt Ziegler via MKW (SEEKABLE)


REVIEW:  by Dan Kramer
  The boys got off to a late start due to technical difficulties, but Radio came out as 
  soon as things were ready to welcome the crowd and invited them to come closer to the 
  stage to dance.  Michael then grabbed his acoustic guitar to begin the day's exspearience
  with Everyone Deserves Music.  Michael had something in his throat and had to stop to 
  clear it before going on sounding much better than before.  As the band made it's 
  transition into Soulshine, the sun followed with it's own transition from overcast to 
  sunny and the crowd really started getting into the music! 

  They continued the vibe, wasting no time rolling into People In The Middle (Reggae Style)
  as the herb smoke started to rise in the open aired venue.  Every Single Soul followed 
  with Michael reciting the Beatnig's Nature again, towards the end before flowing right 
  into a high energy, Stay Human.  Radio and Carl did a killer duet, feeding off each other 
  as they got the crowd rockin'.  Michael and the guys then turned B.C. onto one of their 
  new tunes, Never Too Late.  The B.C. spearits seemed to like the new tune and where more 
  than happy to help Mike and the band along with the "we will, we will, rock you" chant 
  as they fooled around with the Queen classic.  The reaction to the new songs was so good 
  that the guys pulled out two more to tease the crowd until the new album comes out with 
  What I Be and Pray for Grace!  A pretty solid but standard version which lead up to What 
  Happens Next to step up the groove abit.  After the quick workout that is What Happens Next, 
  Michael takes a moment to acknowledge the beautiful venue and the wide range of weather 
  being displayed, "We had some sunshine, wind and looks like we're gonna get some rain. 
  There's still some snow left up there."  Radio adds, "I saw a nice patch of weed growing 
  out there".  

  Next, Michael slows things down again with Feeling Free and Dave added some nice soulful 
  licks throughout the verses and Radio freestylin' the crowd into a freny!  The rain began
  falling and the spearits in attendance just start dancing harder.  Radio follows Feeling 
  Free with a panflute beatbox intro including a beatbox cover of Metallica's "One", warming 
  everyone up for Rock The Nation.  A pretty strong Rock The Nation set the mood for another 
  powerful new rock ballad type song called Love Why Did You Have To Go, which left many 
  speechless.  Michael took another moment to invite everyone down to the Power To The 
  Peaceful concert in Golden Gate Park and then began playing Bomb The World.

  Finally, Mike calls for the guitar man to give him some guitar as the Sometimes ritual 
  gets jumpstarted.  Michael brings up a security guard (Jake-o?) on stage to help sing 
  a verse from Michael Jackson's Billy Jean before letting everyone know that, "Our love 
  will always shine" and calling it a night (No Marley Jam, ran out of time).  Michael is 
  told, from a fan, that they were playing in the Spearhead Mountian range.  A short set 
  that was shortened even more because of the technical difficulties but still a solid 
  show either way!!!!

  Later That Night, Bob and Dave sat in with the Living Daylights and others that joined 
  together at the Boot Pub, next to the Zoophorus venue, for an all-star improv jam which 
  went to the break of dawn!
