The Bluesbusters
January 30, 1987
The Catalyst
Santa Cruz, CA

Soundboard with microphones - live matrix mix from Beta PCM clone of cassette master.

Disc 1 - first set - 55:36
01 [00:40] tune ups crowd and stage announcer before first song
02 [05:20] Gone Fishin'
03 [04:05] If The Phone Don't Ring
04 [06:20] > Down By The Border
05 [05:45] All That You Dream
06 [07:44] Between Coming and Going
07 [08:54] > ?? title
08 [06:07] Stone Crazy
09 [04:10] Chicken Legs
10 [06:31] Old Folks Boogie

Disc 2 - second set - 69:48
01 [04:50] stage announcer > Miss Clara's Cooking
02 [04:31] Skin It Back
03 [09:59] To The Left
04 [13:10] Dixie Chicken
05 [01:11] band intros
06 [02:37] Movin' To The Country
07 [08:31] Down On The Farm
08 [10:09] ?? title [w/ guest harmonica player]
09 [11:10] Boogie Man
10 [00:42] thanks and crow before encore
11 [02:46] Pump It Up
12 [00:12] final thanks and crowd

Paul Barrere - guitar and vocals
Freebo - bass and tuba
Catfish Hodge - guitar and vocals
T. Lavitz - keyboards
Larry Zack - drums
with guest Dennis Whitted - percussion [sits in on entire show]

Monitor soundboard feed with 2 Crown PZM microphones mounted on the low ceiling over the stage, 2 Nakamichi cm300 microphones (also over the stage) and one other Nakamich cm300 microphone mounted on balcony railing - Live matrix mix.

cassette master > Sony auto-reverse cassette deck > PCM (Sony Beta SL-HF900 with Sony PCM601ESD).

Transferred with Sony Beta SL-HF900 with PCM601ESD PCM interface (SPDIF digital output) > Macintosh with DigiDesign AudioMedia III card > Pro Tools (minor "nip & tuck" edits, normalization & tracking) > AIFF > xACT (FLAC level 8 files with sector boundaries verified). md5 file created with checkSUM+.

Excellent sound quality though rather ambient sounding. It sounds more like one of the best audience recordings than a board tape so you'll have to trust me that there is actually a board source but it does sound better than it would if it was from only microphone sources.

Catalyst matrix mixes in the 1985 to 1990 era tended to be ambient-sounding to add presence to the dry monitor board signal. Since the mix was done live, this is all that there is.

I've got the setlist close to complete, but any help will be appreciated. Samples will be posted in the comments for the two songs that I'm missing titles for.

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