The Beat Farmers
February 28, 1986
The Catalyst
Santa Cruz, California, USA

from 4 channel cassette master - Soundboard + microphones over stage matrix mix - excellent sound quality.

This show was seeded before but did not include the last two tracks from the soundcheck excerpt. A few clicks and other minor flaws were also repaired seamlessly for this version. This copy also has scans of a Beat Farmers T-shirt and also similarly drawn Beat Farmers graffiti from the backstage area behind the stage that was drawn the day of this show and was photographed right before the walls were painted over later in 1986!

disc 1 - first set - 47:42
101 [0:44] tune ups and crowd before first song of set
102 [3:00] Reason To Believe
103 [2:09] Hey Tonight
104 [2:31] Singing The Blues
105 [2:45] Bigger Fool Than Me
106 [3:45] Ridin'
107 [3:28] Blue Chevrolet
108 [1:51] I Want You Too
109 [3:59] California Kid
110 [2:30] Showbiz
111 [2:39] Selfish Heart
112 [3:14] Texas
113 [3:27] unknown title
114 [4:25] Hollywood Hills
115 [3:07] Death Train
116 [1:27] Happy Boy
117 [2:22] Big Ugly Wheels
118 [0:17] thanks and crowd at end of first set

disc 2 - 68:10 second set + 4:14 soundcheck excerpt = 72:24 total
201 [0:46] crowd and tune ups before beginning of set
202 [3:07] Bigger Stones
203 [0:26] talk
204 [2:00] Led Zeppelin medley [acapella]
205 [4:08] Make It Last
206 [3:27] Riverside
207 [2:46] There She Goes Again
208 [3:16] Have Love Will Travel
209 [2:54] One Dying and A Burying >
210 [1:46] Gonna Tie My Pecker To My Leg
211 [2:54] Ball of Yarn
212 [1:31] Trendy Shitbag >
213 [2:34] One Dying and a Burying
214 [3:01] Seven Year Blues
215 [2:43] Buy Me A Car
216 [3:45] Powderfinger
217 [2:29] [cuts in] Rosie
218 [2:40] Deceiver >
219 [2:37] Keys To The World
220 [3:53] Revenooer Man
221 [3:09] Big River
222 [1:35] thanks, crowd and talk before first encores
Encores:
223 [2:22] Chug-A-Lug
224 [2:21] Road of Ruin
225 [1:54] second encore break (thanks, crowd and talk)
226 [3:36] Carol
227 [0:30] final thanks and crowd

Bonus from soundcheck:
301 [2:05] [cuts in] Hey Tonight
302 [2:09] I Want You Too

Dolby C Maxell XLII-S cassettes > Yamaha MT44D 4 channel recorder (4 channels of 45 minutes per 90 min. tape in one direction when sensor is on back of cassette).

2 channels of monitor soundboard + 2 channels of Crown PZM microphones over stage.

Transfer: Yamaha MT44D (Dolby C decoded) > Macintosh with Echo Layla audio interface > AIFF > Pro Tools (minor "nip and tuck" edits, time alignment, normalization, matrix mix and tracking - no equalization or digital noise reduction) > AIFF files > xACT (flac level 8 files with sector boundaries verified).

Note: the opener for this show was Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper. That set has been posted separately.

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