The Hatters
The Warfield Theater
San Francisco. Ca.
November 13, 1993

SBD > Tape > WAV > FLAC

Lineup
Adam Hirsh - Guitar, Vocals
Adam Evans - Guitar
Billy Jay Stein - Keys
Jon Kaplan - Bass
Tommy Kaelin - Drums


Side One
Track 01 - Red Hot Mama
Track 02 - Found with Your Drawers Down
Track 03 - Madness of the Green
Track 04 - Gazebo
Track 05 - One With the Day
Track 06 - Empty-Handed
Track 07 - Dig the Ribbit (Underfrog intro)

Side Two
Track 08 - One-Eyed Captain Laing
Track 09 - Clip On

Total runtime: 56m24s


The Hatters played this Saturday night gig at the famous Warfield Theater in San Francisco, Ca. This was the 30th show of the band's fall 1993 tour, the ninth performance in eleven days and the third and final show opening for Boulder, Colorado's The Samples. The Warfield, at about 2500 seats, feels larger than it is. All issues of Samples-Hatters band get-along aside, the venue, staff, sound system and experience were all great to my recollection.

Track 07 is labeled Dig the Ribbit, but is actually a mashup of Dig the Ribbit (the frog song from the Hatters' second album) and Underfrog (the frog song from the Hatters' third album). The tape cut is in the jam between track 07 (Dig the Ribbit) and track 08 (One-Eyed Captain Laing), I stitched it together best I could, the cut is subtle but obvious, as the first minute or so of the second side of the tape displays a bit of the magnetic 'wave' defect. This defect lasts through the opening of track 09 (Clip On) before receding.

The master tapes were recorded straight from the venue's main soundboard into an unidentified tape deck. The master tapes were played on a Sony TC-WE305 tape deck into a Mac via a Behringer UFO202 digital audio interface. The source files were recorded in WAV format and tracked with Audacity 2.1.2. A 3dB levels boost was introduced in the second track to the end of the show to compensate for a reduction in recording levels, I cannot be sure if this reduction of levels was the result of the house or headliner engineer asking me (the opener's engineer) to drop the volume (a frequent request), or if I dropped the recording levels of the tape as a precaution against permanent signal distortion. xACT 2.41 was used to check for sound boundary errors (SBEs), there were none. xACT was then used to convert the WAV files into FLAC format. checksum+ 1.5 was used to create an MD5 checksum file for all the FLAC files. xACT was also used to convert the WAVs to easy-to-use MP3 files. All files (FLAC, checksum, MP3s and show notes) were zipped together and uploaded to Google Drive on November 10, 2017.

This show was mixed, recorded, digitized and seeded by Ben Folsom. Questions? Comments? ben@thefolsoms.net
