The Allman Brothers Band
Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts
Mansfield, MA
1998-09-19

Source:   PPV (likely) > DATs via Doug Lamarre
Transfer: Otari DTR-8S > Tascam DA-3000 > WAV @ 16/48
Master:   Wavelab 12 (tracking, levels, fades, fix glitch) > FLAC 1648

Thanks to Doug Lamarre for  lending his tape to be transferred and shared

Set I (electric)
01. intro
02. Statesboro Blues
03. Black Hearted Woman
04. I'm Not Crying
05. Blue Sky
06. Please Call Home
07. End Of The Line
08. Jessica

Set II (acoustic)
09. Set II intro
10. Steady Rolling Man
11. Every Day
12. Come On In My Kitchen
13. Melissa

Set III (electric)
14. Sailin' 'Cross The Devil's Sea
15. Back Where It All Begins
16. Dreams
17. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed >
18. drums - bass >
19. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
20. No One To Run With

Although this performance circulates widely on DAT, as it was simulcast on Pay Per View and the radio, most circulating SBD-feed copies have glitches, dropouts, static, etc., or a cassette or CDR generation.  This recording has none of those things.  The DJ/MC chatter has also been removed and the set breaks cross-faded.

There also seem to be at least two variants of the broadcast, one in which the engineer aggressively mixed in the audience at the beginning of each song, and another, like this one, where that distraction is missing.  The odd thing is, in this version, the audio volume drops for a few seconds shortly after many of the songs begin, right when the crowd would be cheering most loudly.  It's almost as if the feed was split and this one, which lacked the audience part, still reflects the change in relative loudness of the SBD part of the audio.  Whatever the explanation, these drops have been smoothed over to make them less noticeable.

Enjoy!

--mhg :: 2024-11-29

