Blue Cheer
Burg Herzberg Open Air Festival, Breitenbach, Germany
2000-07-15
(audience MD recording)

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lineage:

Soundman OKM I > SHARP MD-MT20H > ZOOM H1 > PC(via USB) > Wavelab (EQ, edit, tracking) > TLH(flac8)

recording position: somewhere behind the soundboard-booth, left of it (quiet far from the stage - as far as I remember)

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set-list:

01. ? (stopped - guitar problems) 2.45
01b ? (short filler) 00.37
01c ? (another short standart-filler) 1.04
01d ? (re-start track 01) 2.31
02. babylon 5.46
03. ride with me 7.58
04. the hunter 5.38
05. the girl next door 5.07
06. blue steel dues 7.59
07. - (drums'n'introduction) 2.15
08. out of focus 5.18
09. summertime blues 6.17
10. big trouble in paradise 4.34
10b - (tuning) 1.00
11. doctor please 9.26
12. ? (and another short standart-filler) 1.58
13. hoochie coochie man (also a filler) 4.07
14. ? (obviously also stopped - guitar was DEAD) 4.08

(my tracking ALWAYS starts with the announcement of a track - to me the announcement IS part of a LIVE-track !!!)
Time: 79 min
little help needed for the missing track-names !!!

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Dickie Peterson (bg, voc)
Andy MacDonald (g)
Paul Whaley (dr)
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This is a festival-audience-recording !
So, there is -of course- the classical, inevitable audience chatter during the whole concert,
but being the first band on stage that day, there were not so many people around, and still too tired to give some "heavy chatter", I think, so it's all quiet in the background.


The sound of this recording is good, but far from perfect.
I did not really care about BLUE CHEER (still don't), but it wasn't raining (rare moment that year) and I was curious about these "relics", only knowing their "Summertime-Blues"-version.
So I stayed quiet far away from the stage, but recorded it (nothing else to do).

so the recording suffered of these 3 (minor) flaws :

1. recording position too far from stage = sound became a little distant and "swimming" with every move or even the (soft) wind (not only in pan but also the heights). First 4 minutes are a little muffeled. As I said : I did not really care about a GOOD recording back then)
2. recording level was much too low = I had to amplify a lot, especially the high frequencies, and I got hiss I had to noise-reduct (sic: from a DIGITAL recording !!! - but the "swimming" was also there BEFORE noise-reduction)
3. I had to edit some minor MD-recording dropouts, but I don't think you will recognize them.

I also edit out quiet a few seconds of "silence" (or better: nothing but unnecessary background chatter) and had to do some EQ-work (the On-stage-sound itself was not very good during this concert) to get a balanced sound spectrum.


cover-artwork is added, but is not in best quality, cause I had to make a screencopy from another program (no way to convert)

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uploaded to DIME by rackhir November 2014

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