The Neville Brothers
May 11, 1988  (1988-05-11)
The Catalyst
Santa Cruz, California, USA

Recently going through some PCM copies of masters that are not available to transfer directly. Soundboard with ambience ("tape mix"). The quality is decent to excellent on all - it starts out a bit ambient-sounding but improves by the end of the second song. Very listenable overall despite the (minor) flaws with the mix in some spots.

CD1 - 52:59
101 [6:47] announcer intro > Saturday Night Fish Fry
102 [4:55] Everybody's Dancing
103 [5:39] Mojo Hannah
104 [6:10] Voodoo
105 [7:31] People Say
106 [5:24] The Dealer
107 [9:33] The Ballad Of Hollis Brown
108 [7:00] Wildflower [with short tape flip - very little missing]

CD2 - 58:41
201 [9:23] Barney Miller theme > 30x90
202 [4:22] Sitting In Limbo
203 [3:51] Wishin'
204 [2:18] Brother John >
205 [3:56] Iko Iko
206 [6:52] Yellow Moon
207 [5:59] Big Chief
208 [1:14] encore break
209 [5:57] Mardi Gras In New Orleans
210 [7:43] Fiyo On The Bayou
211 [2:23] Amazing Grace >
212 [3:38] One Love
213 [1:05] final thanks and applause

Lineage: Monitor soundboard feed + 2 Crown PZM microphones + 2 Nakamichi cm300 microphones and one other ambient microphone mounted on balcony railing > live matrix "tape mix" > Sony TC-WR950 quick auto-reverse deck > Beta PCM (Sony SL-HF900 with PCM-601ESD adaptor).
Transfer: Sony Beta SL-HF900 with PCM601ESD PCM interface (SPDIF digital output) > Macintosh with Digidesign Audiomedia III card > Pro Tools (minor "nip & tuck" edits, normalization & tracking) > AIFF > xACT (FLAC level 8 files with sector boundaries verified).

Notes: This show is tracked to fit on audio CD's but plays seamlessly. There were a few places where PCM-related dropouts and the flips were repaired as seamlessly as possible (mostly inaudible now). Finally some of the song titles are "best guesses" - any corrections will be appreciated.
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