Gov't Mule
The Catalyst
Santa Cruz, CA
03/26/98

Source: Dan Sislerâ€™s rig; Neumann KM184's (ORTF 18" Spread) >Lunatec 316 >Zefiro inBox @ 44.1kHz >Tascam DA-P1 > [My] Sony TCD-D7 master (Patched).

Left Balcony, Third Table Back From Stage.
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO,
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.35
FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.53

Sony TCD-D7 Master Recorded, Transferred, FLAC'd, Tagged, & Front Cover Artwork by OldNeumanntapr

Disc 1
(Electric)
01. John The Revelator >
02. Thelonius Beck
03. Thorazine Shuffle
04. Don't Step On The Grass, Sam
05. Painted Silver Light >
06. Birth Of The Mule
07. Larger Than Life
08. Towering Fool >
09. She Said >
    Tomorrow Never Knows Jam

Disc 2
(Acoustic)
01. 1. Raven Black Night
02. I Shall Return
03. The Eleven +# >
    Afro Blue + >

(Electric)
    Pygmy Twylyte >
04. Blind Man In The Dark
05. Smokestack Lighting

Encore:
06. Red House

+ = w/ Tim Reynolds
# = 1st time played

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was my first Gov't Mule show. The plastic clamps on my microphone stand broke as I was setting up, but I was able to patch into Dan's KM-184's. The etree listing is wrong however. They list a Lunatec V2 mic preamp when it was actually a Lunatec 316 studio model that Dan had rigged to run off of a car battery. He brought a hand truck into the show with all of his gear in anvil cases. Dan was first in line and I was right behind him. Wow! I patched my D7 into his DA-P1. I was so impressed with the sound of the Neumanns that I sold my Nakamichi's and bought a set of Neumanns later that year! We were up in the left balcony and Dan had his KM-184s spread about a foot and a half in an OFTF pattern. This recording SHINES, especially during the acoustic opening set with Tim Reynolds and Warren. The Catalyst has two balconies on either side of the stage, and I think the balconies sound much better than the floor does. This is the show that my buddy Jack, the dwarf, left the show with some woman he met and I never saw him again for the rest of the night. I waited until 3 am in Santa Cruz and he never showed up, so I left. At 6 am when I had just gotten home my phone rang and it was him, drunk, saying, "Where are you?" He took a bus home the following day and was mad at me but hey, I waited until 3 am. What was I going to do? He gave me gas for years about leaving him in Santa Cruz.  I looked for him EVERYWHERE, and remember looking for him out in the back of the Catalyst and there was a taper who I saw give Warren Haynes a DAT tape case. He looked confused and opened it up, and inside was a bomber joint!

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
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