Galactic
The Knitting Factory
New York, NY
1/16/1998
BARN186

Original Master Recording: Neumann TLM-170 (cardoids, 10' split in the balcony) -> Sonosax SX-M1 -> Tascam DA-P1 (@16/48)

Master DAT playback: Sony R500 -> Sound Devices 722 digital input (@24/48)

Mastered: SoundForge 12.1 (manual clap/whistle/yell scrubbing; volume normalization; resample to 44.1 interpolation accuracy 4 w/anti-alias filter; 24->16 bit dither using POW-r #3 noise shaping, POW-r Dither). Tracked in CDWav. IDv3 tagged in Tag&Rename 3.9.15


Set 1
1. crowd/tuning/intro
2. Paul's Fantasy ->
3. Spicoli's Toe
4. Church
5. Open The Door
6. Start From Scratch +
7. Change My Ways +
8. Check Out Your Mind +
9. Metermaid
10. Go-Go
11. Get A Head On
12. Blues For Ben
13. Rigor Mortis
14. Crazyhorse Mongoose
15. banter - setbreak announce

Set 2
1. crowd/intro
2. Charlie's Dozen
3. Hamp's Hump
4. Funky Bird ->
5. Ain't It Funky Now ->
6. Funky Bird
7. Root Down
8. Love On The Run -> +
9. I Wish -> +
10. Action Speaks Louder Than Words +
11. Ready Willing and Able ^+
12. Up Shot
13. Layin' In The Cut ->
14. Drum Solo ->
15. Tchefunkta
16. Something's Wrong With This Picture +
17. Groovy Lady ->
18. 3rd Stone From The Sun ->
19. Groovy Lady
20. banter - thanks
21. encore break
22. tuning
23. Tippi Toes

+ = vocals by The Houseman (Theryl DeClouet)
^ = dedicated to Meredith on her birthday

Jason Mingledorff on tenor sax, not Ben Ellman

I hand scrubbed approximately 130 claps, whistles, and yells from this recording for all of our listening enjoyment.

DAT transfer: 6/23/2019
Tracking: 7/9/2019
Mastering: 8/18-9/9/2019
Tagging, initial posting: 9/18/2019

Recorded, mastered, tracked and posted by Scott Bernstein
Special thanks to Dan Debeer for helping out with a couple of track titles I was having trouble with!

Taper notes:
BARN186 & BARN187 represent my next dip into the music of Galactic -- last visited in the BARN series nearly *9* years ago in BARN65 way back in October 2010. Based upon some discussion about how good these shows were on the NYC Freaks music obsessive email list, I broke out the DATs of these shows, the 2nd and 3rd Galactic shows I saw (with 10/18/97 at the Knitting Factory being the first) and transferred and mastered them up for you.

These are not your average shows. This was a band absolutely at the top of their game, on a heavy touring schedule proving every night what they can do, mixing up the setlists, and throwing down the funk every single night. The 2nd night of this 2 night run (on 1/17) features a spectacular sit-in from the Wild Magnolias (dressed in their full Mardi Gras costumes and parading through the crowd), and the one and only Warren Haynes (of the Allman Brothers and Govt Mule) tearing it up on guitar. This is as good as it gets! In fact, these shows left a special impression on me as I had seen the Rolling Stones at MSG (for a lot of money -- I think around $150 which was pretty much the highest price ticket for any concert at the time) the night before and was quite disappointed. These shows proved to me for $15 I could have worlds more fun at shows at smaller clubs for a lot less money.

Enjoy!

