The Beat Farmers
June 19, 1987
The Catalyst
Santa Cruz, California, USA

Soundboard with microphones - live matrix mix cassette master. Though this show has been seeded before from another audience master, this is the first wider circulation from this better-sounding source. That alternate source provided the few seconds that this one needed to make it perfect. Excellent sound quality and performance too!

disc 1 - 53:49
01 [1:01] talk, crowd and tune ups before first song
02 [4:23] Hollywood Hills
03 [3:17] Bigger Stones
04 [3:22] There She Goes Again
05 [4:25] Dark Light
06 [4:35] Ridin'
07 [4:26] Never Goin' Back
08 [5:41] Lucille
09 [3:37] Big Ugly Wheels
10 [2:35] Rosie
11 [4:55] 20th Century Man
12 [4:02] Powderfinger
13 [4:32] Big Big Man
14 [2:58] Selfish Heart

disc 2 - 53:30
01 [4:10] Texas
02 [4:29] Blue Chevrolet
03 [1:50] Led Zeppelin Medley [acappella]
04 [2:27] Beat Generation
05 [2:45] I Want You Too
06 [2:40] Deceiver >
07 [3:45] Key To The World
08 [4:08] God Is Here Tonight
09 [3:54] Riverside
10 [0:58] talk, crowd and tune ups
11 [4:47] Big River
12 [1:43] Happy Boy
13 [5:30] Death Train
14 [4:32] Revenooer Man
15 [4:28] California Kid
16 [1:23] final thanks and crowd

Lineage: Monitor soundboard feed with 2 Crown PZM microphones over stage, 2 Nakamichi cm300 microphones over stage and one other ambient mic. mounted on balcony railing. Live matrix mix > Sony auto-reverse cassette deck > Dolby C encoded Maxell MX90 (metal tape) master (2 cassettes).

Transfer: Nakamichi Dragon (Dolby C decoded) > Macintosh with DigiDesign AudioMedia III card > Pro Tools (nip and tuck edits, normalization and tracking) > AIFF > xACT (Flac level 8 files with sector boundaries verified).

There is a very short seamless splice from the alternate source audience cassette master (lineage: Nakamichi cm300 > Sony tcd5m > Flac > Dime) during "Big Big Man" for a tape flip.

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