DARK STAR ORCHESTRA
12/3/99 Mississippi Nights, St Louis, MO
Performing 10/3/1976 COBO Arena, Detroit, MI

Set II  [89:43]
Samson & Delilah  [7:56]
Ramble On Rose  [7:24]
Playin' In The Band >  [11:20]
Drums >  [4:16]
The Wheel >  [6:06]
Good Lovin' >  [6:08]
Jam >  [2:39]
Comes A Time >  [9:40]
Dancin' >  [7:37]
Not Fade Away% >  [12:00]
Dancin' Reprise >  [4:13]
Around & Around  [9:35]
show announcement  [0:43]

* contains a "China Cat Sunflower" jam
% contains a splice in the recording source

missing F: You Ain't Woman Enough

with Mike Marat as Bobby
with Mike Hazdra as Phil


Recording/Mastering Information:

"Samson" through "NFA": 
Recording: SBD > Sony MDZ-R55 (MD MASTER) 
Transfer: Sony MDZ-R55 > Cool Edit Pro v1.2 > CDWav > mkwACT > SHN

"NFA" through "Around": 
Recording: SBD > Tascam PS-1 4-Track PortaStudio (CASSETTE MASTER)
Transfer: TEAC V-250 > Cool Edit Pro v1.2 > CDWav > mkwACT > SHN

Recording, remastering and transfer by TC.


DSO Show #257

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Notes:
OK, the three big things about this recording:

1. The vocals are *way* behind in the mix
2. John's guitar is *way* ahead in the mix
3. There's a slight distortion to everything at times

With those caveats out of the way, I do need to stress that this IS NOT one of the extremely clean & shiny mixes for which we've come to love Cam. 
It may have been the recording, but as I was just off of the board's main outputs, I can't imagine what I did wrong.

Nevertheles, this show has some really great moments. The "Comes A Time" is the best I've ever heard, and the NFA rages. This show is a snapshot, really, 
of a band which has hit it's first peak and it's first wall. Mike Marat quit after the next night's show in Peoria, and the tension which had been 
building is obvious. Internecine problems aside, this was two years into the Dark Star Orchestra experience, and the band had begun to play really, 
really well.

