The Beat Farmers
February 20, 1987
The Catalyst
Santa Cruz, California, USA

The master cassettes for this show are missing but luckily a digital PCM Beta copy was made later the same night after the show. This is apparently the first transfer for this recording since then. It's a ripping performance with the mix and sound quality excellent too!

disc 1 - 1st set - 49:41
101 [0:46] crowd and tune ups
102 [4:12] announcer > Ridin'
103 [3:54] Bigger Stones
104 [3:58] God Is Here Tonight *
105 [4:34] Dark Light
106 [2:07] Bunny Call
107 [3:25] Big Rock Candy Mountain
108 [3:37] Beat Generation
109 [2:43] Rosie
110 [4:40] Hollywood Hills
111 [3:56] Powderfinger
112 [3:08] Selfish Heart
113 [4:07] Texas
114 [3:44] Riverside
115 [0:50] thanks and crowd at end of set

disc 2 - 2nd set - 63:50
201 [0:36] talk and crowd before start of set
202 [1:59] I Want You Too
203 [4:07 Reason To Believe
204 [4:10] Make It Last
205 [2:46] Deceiver >
206 [3:32] Keys To The World
207 [4:10] Blue Chevrolet
208 [5:27] Lucille
209 [4:07] Big Ugly Wheels
210 [4:03] Big Big Man
211 [2:56] There She Goes Again
212 [4:09] Never Go Back
213 [1:04] talk
214 [3:19] Big River
215 [2:45] thanks and crowd before encores
216 [2:13] Happy Boy
217 [6:08] Death Train
218 [5:20] California Kid
219 [0:59] final thanks and crowd

Notes: * a few seconds are missing from the guitar solo in God Is Here Tonight (spliced together seamlessly).

Lineage - Monitor soundboard feed plus 2 Crown PCM microphones mounted over stage > live matrix mix > Sony auto-reverse Dolby C encoded cassette masters > same or similar deck for playback (Dolby C decoded) > Sony SL-HF900 Super Beta HiFi deck with Sony PCM-601ESD Digital Audio Processor > Sony ESX HiFi L-500 tape (Beta II speed).

First Transfer [January, 2009] - Sony SL-HF1000 Beta HiFi deck with Sony PCM-601ESD Digital Audio Processor > Macintosh with Digidesign Audiomedia III sound card (SP-DIF digital input) > Pro Tools (minor nip and tuck edits, normalization and tracking) > AIFF > xACT (Flac level 8 files with sector boundaries verified).

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