Blues Traveler
Sacramento Community Theater
Sacramento, CA
June 21, 1990

Master: SBD > Cass(x) (taper unknown, cassette provided by John Pullekines)
Conversion: Denon DR-M44HX > Tascam DA-20 > emi 2|6 > Sound Studio 2.1.1b3 > xACT 1.5b1
by Dave Mallick

Note:
- Dropout at 1:09-1:11 of t03.
- These 43 minutes come from the only known circulating tape of this show, but I suspect that only the first 22 are actually taken from the Sacramento show. At the end of "Slow Change", John says "Thanks a lot, we're Blues Traveler" as if it's the end of the set. After a brief break, he says "We'd love to" as if being asked to take an encore, and introduces "Mulling It Over"...which is not played, but would have made the band fill a 30-minute opening slot perfectly. There is an obvious splice in the tape, and a drum solo - possibly the end of "Trust In Trust" - then segues into "Dropping Some NYC". Another splice follows, and the crowd afterwards sounds distinctly larger and farther away, as if at an outdoor amphitheater. Warren Haynes is introduced to play on two tunes; while it is possible that he was there, Warren did not begin to sit in with the band regularly until they opened for the Allman Brothers Band in the summer of 1992 (the band also opened for the Allmans during the summers of 1990 and 1991 but WarrenBase [http://www.mulebase.com/warren1.html] has no record of Warren guesting with BT on those tours). More likely - though this is by no means certain - the same taper later attended a BT/ABB show in the summer of 1992, recorded it, and then distributed the 6-21-90 set with filler from what I guess is this unknown 1992 show. The provenance of the "Dropping Some NYC" is completely unknown, as is the Warren guest spot - there is not another known instance of him guesting on either of these two songs. Despite all of this conjecture, I am circulating the recording in its spliced entirety. As always, enjoy!

01. Weird Chick [04:00.69]
02. Onslaught [05:19.18]
03. But Anyway > [04:57.45]
04. Slow Change/ [07:53.21]
05. Dropping Some NYC/ [03:09.72]
06. Warmer Days [10:06.13]
07. Gotta Get Mean [07:46.40]
08. Sweet Talking Hippie// [00:08.57]
(43:22)

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Enjoy! Support the artist and buy the officially-released items (to the best of my knowledge & as of this writing; asterisks denote BGE/Wolfgang’s Vault) -
*1991-03-02
*1991-09-29
*1995-09-03
1995-10-11 ("What's For Breakfast")
1995-10-12 ("Regarding Steven")
1995-10-13 ("Mulling It Over > Closing Down The Park")
1995-10-15 ("The Mountains Win Again")
1995-10-21 ("100 Years," "Sweet-Talking Hippie," "Imagine")
1995-10-22 ("Crash Burn," "But Anyway," "Love & Greed," "NY Prophesie")
1995-10-24 ("Gina")
1995-10-28 ("Freedom")
1995-11-25 ("Mountain Cry," "Go Outside & Drive > Low Rider > Go Outside & Drive > Low Rider")
1995-11-28 ("Alone")
*1997-10-(18-19)
2001-09-30 ("Back In The Day," "All Hands")
2001-10-02 ("Star-Spangled Banner," "Slow Change," "You Reach Me," "Sadly A Fiction," "Carolina Blues," "Pattern")
2001-11-17 ("The Path")
2001-11-28 ("Rage")
2001-12-04 ("You Lost Me There")
2003-07-04
*2018-10-09


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