moe.
Gathering Of The Vibes
Seaside Park
Bridgeport, CT
6/20/1999

Original master recording:  Neumann TLM-170 (30' split cardoids) -> Sonosax -> Teac DAP20 (m)

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

One long set
1.  John Dwork intro / tuning
2.  Moth -> *+
3.  Meat *+
4.  Spine Of A Dog *+&
5.  banter - thanking the other bands
6.  Blue-Eyed Son ^
7.  banter - fathers' day, rubber chicken
8.  Plane Crash *
9.  banter - Nate appreciation
10. Bring It Back Home -> *%
11. Moth (reprise) *
12. thanks/encore break/"Summer Session" tour announcement
13. Rebubula
14. outro/thanks

* = w/Nate Wilson (Percy Hill) on organ
+ = w/DJ Logic on turntables
& = w/"Powerhouse" ending
^ = w/Chuck on acoustic guitar, Al on mandolin
% = w/"Jessica" (Allman Brothers) tease

Flaws:  There is a 0.4 second dropout in the left channel only at 3:30 in track 4.  I have copied the right over that spot to mask the issue -- it's hardly noticeable.

Strangefolk, Deep Banana Blackout, Percy Hill, The Radiators, John Scofield played earlier; Govt Mule & Project Logic played later


Taper notes:
It's been a long while since I had a new moe. entry in the BARN series, so for BARN76 I thought it was high time for me to get another one of my favorite moe. shows out there.  Abandoning my previous moe.thodology of going through my moe. recordings chronologically and getting the shows out there that weren't already circulating, I pulled out this set just because whenever it gets close to summertime and the Gathering Of The Vibes festival lineup is annouced, I think back to this AWESOME moe. set from GOTV 1999.  This is definitely in my "top 10" favorite moe. shows of all time.  What's so great about it?  Well, let's start with the guests -- DJ Logic & Nate Wilson.  These are no ordinary special guests who are featured for one song, take a smokin' solo, and then go away.  The super-talented Nate Wilson (ex of Percy Hill) really integrates himself into the band for the entire show (save 2 songs) and makes significant contributions all over the place.  DJ Logic -- what can you say about him?  He doesn't necessarily get to lead any of the jams here, but his contributions add a little extra spice and kick each of the jams up a notch, inspiring the band to break out of their usual mode and expand the jams into new and different places.

Setting the scene a bit, this show was in the middle of a summer where the band was busy in the studio recording and wasn't touring at all -- they just did a couple of one-off gigs here and there.  So they were tight from the studio work, but their playing was fresh as they weren't tired or burned-out from being on the road.

Let's get to the music -- if you come to this show looking for country-ish hoedown music which they sometimes play, this is not the show for you (though you do get just a taste of that with a short but sweet almost-acoustic "Blue Eyed Son").  No, what you get out of this show is in-your-face huge jamming from the band -- right out of the gate with a 40 minute tour-de-force of moe.'s most "throw caution to the wind" jamming.  The Moth gets wild and crazy pretty quickly, and finds itself in that territory where (and I remember turning to Pete Costello who noted this to me at the show) moe. is actually playing 2 songs at once -- there was a short period of time during the transition where they were playing BOTH Moth and Meat at the same time!  (OK, it's not too difficult with those 2 songs since they almost share a bassline at one point)  Anyway, this combo jumps you right into the deep end, and though it took Steve Young a while (nearly 10 minutes) to get both DJ Logic and Nate Wilson audible at the correct volumes, they both contribute heavily to the craziness.

Other highlights include a powerful "Plane Crash" with a bit of a Latin-flavored jam, a version of "Bring It Back Home" that (even though it's much-maligned and one of the songs I was not particulary psyched to hear) is unique and holds its own among the other great stuff in this set.

At the end of the set Al explains to us that they had a bunch of new tunes to debut for us but they "spent too much time wanking off on the old ones" and ran out of time.  Oh well...They would go on to premiere "New York City", "The Ghost Of Ralph's Mom", and "Can't Seem TO Find" at their very next show which was Woodstock 99 but not for over a month later!

Closing the proceedings with a smokin' version of my all-time favorite moe. song, "Rebubula" (always made that much better when it's outdoors on a hot day in the sun) ends things on a great note.

(As a bonus, my recording of the very tasty Project Logic "tweener" set which followed moe.'s set on this day was on the same DAT tape so it got to come along almost for free for the ride.  Look for it as BARN77.)

Enjoy!

Scott

A rundown of my previous BARN archival releases (all can be found on archive.org except as noted):
BARN1 - Col Bruce Hampton and the Code Talkers at Bret & Joyce's wedding 9/17/2005
BARN2 - Col Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit (w/guest Warren Haynes for all of set 2) Wetlands 11/20/1993
BARN3 - moe. Wetlands 7/8/1995
BARN4 - Dan Bern Bottom Line 7/31/1998 (late show)
BARN5 - moe. Birch Hill 10/31/1996
BARN6 - moe. Maxwells 1/20/1996
BARN7 - Dan Bern Central Park Summerstage 9/19/1997
BARN8 - Dan Bern, Bottom Line 8/1/1998
BARN9 - moe. Bayou 4/5/1997
BARN10 - moe. Irving Plaza 4/4/1997
BARN11 - moe. AKA 9/7/1995
BARN12 - Yolk AKA 9/7/1995
BARN13 - Robert Walter/Johnny Vidacovich/James Singleton/Donald Harrison Preservation Hall 4/30/08
BARN14 - Phish Las Vegas, NV 10/31/1998 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN15 - Phish Great Went @ Loring AFB, Limestone, ME 8/16/1997 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN16 - Phish Great Went @ Loring AFB, Limestone, ME 8/17/1997 (on bt.etree.org), includes orchestra set - by request
BARN17 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/4/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN18 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/6/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN19 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/7/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN20 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/5/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN21 - God Street Wine, Irving Plaza, NYC 6/24/1993
BARN22 - Leftover Salmon, Wetlands, NYC 10/1/1994
BARN23 - Anders Osborne, Manny's Carwash, NYC 11/5/1997
BARN24 - Anders Osborne, Manny's Carwash, NYC 11/6/1997
BARN25 - moe. Pool Party, Morganville, NJ 6/2/1996
BARN26 - Widespread Panic, Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ 11/7/1992 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN27 - Stew ["Passing Strange"], The Turning Point, Piermont, NY 4/6/2003 (on bt.etree.org. dimeadozen.org)
BARN28 - Stew ["Passing Strange"], Joe's Pub, New York, NY 5/22/2003 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN29 - Percy Hill, Lion's Den, NYC 3/16/1996
BARN30 - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Irving Plaza, 8/3/1995
BARN31 - Percy Hill, Wetlands, NYC 6/8/1996
BARN32 - Bad Livers, Mercury Lounge, NYC, 11/15/1999 (opening for Leftover Salmon)
BARN33 - Bad Livers, Mercury Lounge, NYC, 11/16/1999 (opening for Leftover Salmon)
BARN34 - G. Love And Special Sauce, Central Park Summerstage, NYC 6/18/1995
BARN35 - The Band, The Great Lawn, Central Park, NYC 5/16/1993 (on dimeadozen.org)
BARN36 - The Band, Mountain Stage Radio broadcast, Charleston, WV, recorded 4/4/1996 (on dimeadozen.org)
*** Start of New Orelans Jazzfest Appreciation mini-series (note that BARN13 technically belongs in this series) ***
BARN37 - Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Tipitina's, New Orleans, LA, 5/5/2008
BARN38 - Steve Kimock Band, Tipitina's, New Orleans, LA, 5/6/2001 (2AM show)
BARN39 - The Funky Meters, Tipitina's, New Orleans, LA, 5/6/2001 (11PM show) (on bt.etree.org)
BARN40 - Anders Osborne, Tower Records instore, New Orleans, LA, 5/7/2001 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN41 - Joe Krown Trio w/Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Russell Batiste + special guest Mike Gordon, Tipitina's, New Orleans, 5/5/2008
BARN42 - Russell Batiste and Friends, The Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans, 5/1/2008 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN43 - Global Noize, The Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans, 5/1/2008 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN44 - Deep Banana Blackout, The Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans, LA 5/6/2000
BARN45 - Bela Fleck And The Flecktones, The Saenger Theater, New Orleans, LA 5/5/2000
BARN46 - Medeski Martin And Wood, The Saenger Theater, New Orleans, LA 5/6/2000 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN47 - String Cheese Incident, The Saenger Theater, New Orleans, LA 5/5/2000
BARN48 - Soulive, House Of Blues Parish, New Orleans, LA 5/5/2001
BARN49 - String Cheese Incident, Cajun Queen Riverboat, New Orleans, LA 5/3/2000
BARN50 - New Mastersounds, House Of Blues Parish, New Orleans, LA 5/2/2008
BARN51 - Funky Meters, Bonnaroo, Manchester, TN 6/13/2003 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN52 - George Porter And The Runnin' Pardners, Village Underground, NYC, 5/19/2001
BARN53 - Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Tramps, NYC 10/29/1993 late show
BARN54 - The Meters, Tramps, NYC 5/15/93 late show (on dimeadozen)
BARN55 - The Meters, Tramps, NYC 10/29/93 late show (on dimeadozen)
BARN56 - Wild Magnolias, Wetlands, NYC 2/10/2000 (on bt.etree.org)
*** end of New Orelans Jazzfest Appreciation mini-series ***
BARN57 - Blues Traveler, Livingston Gym @ Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 4/17/1993
BARN58 - Phish, Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 10/29/1998 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN59 - Jazz Is Dead, Bottom Line, NYC 2/7/1998 (late show only) (on bt.etree.org)
BARN60 - Grateful Dead, Cal Expo Amphitheatre, Sacramento, CA 5/27/1993
BARN61 - The Dude Of Life (w/Trey Anastasio and Jon Fishman for entire show, plus Page McConnell for a bunch), Wetlands, NYC 2/5/1994 - on bt.etree.org
BARN62 - ALO, High Sierra Music Festival Main Stage, Quincy, CA 7/3/2005
BARN63 - Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon, High Sierra Music Festival Main Stage, Quincy, CA 7/3/2005 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN64 - Dan Bern, The Bottom Line, NYC 11/11/1998
BARN65 - Galactic, Knitting Factory, NYC 10/18/1997 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN66 - Bruce Hornsby And The Range, Paramount Theater, NYC 12/7/1993 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN67 - God Street Wine, Irving Plaza, NYC 8/26/1993
BARN68 - Warren Haynes Midnight Southern Jam - Wetlands, NYC 8/5/1993 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN69 - Dave Matthews And Friends (Trey Anastasio, Tim Reynolds, Tony Hall, Brady Blade, Ray Paczkowski) Bonnaroo 6/11/2004 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN70 - Rana at Bret & Joyce's wedding, Whitehall, NY 9/17/2005
BARN71 - Soulive - Baby Juputer, NYC 6/11/1999
BARN72 - Chris Barron, Nightengale Bar, NYC 7/14/1997
BARN73 - Chris Barron, Nightengale Bar, NYC 11/17/1997
BARN74 - George Porter's 60th Birthday w/PBS and friends, Blender Theater, NYC 12/29/2007
BARN75 - Jennifer Hartswick Band with special guest Trey Anastasio, Lion's Den, NYC 11/7/2003 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN76 - moe., Gathering Of The Vibes, Seaside Park, Bridgeport, CT 6/20/1999
BARN77 - Project Logic, Gathering Of The Vibes, Seaside Park, Bridgeport, CT 6/20/1999

Recorded, transferred, mastered, and tracked by Scott Bernstein (Transfer 3/5/2011; Processed 4/5-4/7/2011)


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