Mike Watt
Cat's Cradle
Carrboro, NC
04/24/1995

Source: Audience Analog
1: Sony handheld with clip-on mic (stereo)
2: Panasonic handheld with built-in mic (mono)

Lineage: 
1: ANA(M) >> ANA(1) >> WAV >> FLAC
2: ANA(M) >> WAV >> FLAC

Transferred: 04/25/2004 by UglyRedHonda
Seeded (to StG): 04/26/2004 by UglyRedHonda

Quality: B+ (midrangey)

File Size: 434MB

01) Walking the Cow [Partial] (Source 2)
02) Big Train (Source 2)
03) Against the 70's
04) Habit
05) Drove Up from Pedro
06) Formal Introduction
07) Making the Freeway Safe for the Freeway
08) Chinese Firedrill
09) Piss-Bottle Man
10) Forever - One Reporter's Opinion
11) E-Ticket Ride
12) Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing
13) Coincidence Is Either Hit or Miss
14) The Red and the Black
15) Secret Garden
16) Powerful Hankerin'

Notes:
This show is from Mike Watt's 1995 Ringspiel tour, and includes Eddie Vedder 
(vocals, guitar), Dave Grohl (drums), Pat Smear (guitar, vocals), and William 
Goldsmith (drums) as Watt's backing band.

"Habit" is sung by Eddie.  The song later became a Pearl Jam song.  "Forever - 
One Reporter's Opinion" features dual-drumming, with Will on the main set and 
Dave playing Hovercraft's more diminutive drum set.  (Hovercraft opened the 
evening - Eddie played drums for their set, wearing a wig to disguise 
himself.)  "The Red and the Black" is a Blue Oyster Cult song.  "Secret 
Garden" is a Madonna song, sung by Pat Smear.  (Pat was spotted outside during 
the break in Watt's set scribbling the lyrics onto a legal pad.)

Similar to the Foo Fighters set from this show, Source 1 has been 
speed-corrected.  Also, the gap during the tape flip on Source 1 (at the 
beginning of "Secret Garden") has been filled from Source 2.

Source 1 is missing all of "Walking the Cow" and most of "Big Train", so those 
have been added from the second source.  However, Source 2 also lacks most of 
"Walking the Cow".  This is likely as "complete" as this recording will get.

I've included "bigtrain-source1.flac", which is the incomplete section of "Big 
Train" from the beginning of Source 1.  It seamlessly replaces tracks 1 and 2.

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please note that the last track is not written on a sector boundary. you will want to fix this before burning to CD. the set has been posted to the db as is, rather than being fixed first, because this is the set that is available on the archive.

    length     expanded size   cdr  WAVE  probs   filename
     2:14.00      23637644     ---   --    -xx    bigtrain-source1.flac
     0:49.65       8796524     ---   --    -xx    watt1995-04-24t01.flac
     4:47.04      50636252     ---   --    -xx    watt1995-04-24t02.flac
     3:12.18      33911180     ---   --    -xx    watt1995-04-24t03.flac
     4:11.09      44297612     ---   --    -xx    watt1995-04-24t04.flac
     4:40.45      49497884     ---   --    -xx    watt1995-04-24t05.flac
     4:04.22      43093388     ---   --    -xx    watt1995-04-24t06.flac
     2:56.14      31079372     ---   --    -xx    watt1995-04-24t07.flac
     5:04.02      53630348     ---   --    -xx    watt1995-04-24t08.flac
     3:56.70      41795084     ---   --    -xx    watt1995-04-24t09.flac
     3:38.04      38464652     ---   --    -xx    watt1995-04-24t10.flac
     3:22.58      35769260     ---   --    -xx    watt1995-04-24t11.flac
     1:35.27      16821548     ---   --    -xx    watt1995-04-24t12.flac
     2:52.47      30451388     ---   --    -xx    watt1995-04-24t13.flac
     6:10.60      65409164     ---   --    -xx    watt1995-04-24t14.flac
     4:25.67      46903628     ---   --    -xx    watt1995-04-24t15.flac
     4:20.28      45928724     -b-   --    -xx    watt1995-04-24t16.flac
    62:22.15     660123652 B                      (totals for 17 files, 0.6908 overall compression ratio)
