David Grisman & Martin Taylor
November 8, 1996
Luther Burbank Center For The Performing Arts
Santa Rosa, CA

soundboard recording by Easy Ed

record: soundboard > Sony PCM-F1 (44.056kHz, 16 bit digital recording)

playback: Sony PCM-601esD > coax digital out (44.1kHz, 16 bit) > Sek'd Prodif Plus > Sound Forge 8 (24 bit, normalize, tracking) > 16 bit .wav files > FLAC level 8 encoding align on sector boundaries. Not burned to cdr - no EAC.

This recording has been lightly circulated in the past, but this is a new transfer done in December 2006 as outlined above. The old transfer lineage was: Sony PCM-F1 digital recorder (16 bit, 44.056kHz) > analog out > TC Equalizer Plus > Hhb cd recorder > DAE > Sound Forge > CD Architect > Philips OMNIwriter26 1.20 > cdr > EAC

first set:
1. (introduction by MC Raymond Jax)
2. (title?)
3. It Had To Be You
4. Swing 42
5. (title?)
6. Out Of Nowhere
7. Just Squeeze Me (MT solo)
8. Tears (DG solo)
9. Please
10. Besame Mucho
11. Dawgmatism/Dawgma
1hr05m20s second set:
1. (title?)
2. Tzardas
3. Stompin' at the Savoy
4. Minor Swing
5. (title?)
6. "a few fiddle tunes" (DG solo)
7. Georgia (MT solo)
8. Teasin' the Frets
9. Mood Indigo
10. El Cumbanchero
11. Manoir De Mes Reves
1h07m50s

The first set is mono (two channels), can't remember why. The second set is stereo.

This recording was made with the knowledge and consent of David Grisman but it being shared without his knowledge or consent.

After snatching this and listening to it, you will of course immediately purchase Tone Poems II by David Grisman and Martin Taylor, where you can hear their music perfectly recorded on great vintage instruments, and be blissfully happy for having done so.

In addition to the great discs of his own music and collaborations, David Grisman's Acoustic Disc label has put out amazing discs by other artists you have to hear, like Oscar Aleman, Dave Apollon, Rudy Cipolla, Red Allen & Frank Wakefield, Jethro Burns, Tiny Moore, Frank Vignola, et al. You can be assured that releasing those titles was not profitable but was done for the love of the music and to share it with the world so please support that effort by purchasing some of the cds. There is also a live Grisman Quintet show you can download from his site.

This is not some multigenerational copy of indeterminate lineage acquired through trading that's been on everybody's tapelist for years. This is straight from the person who recorded it- me!

NOT FOR SALE, BROADCAST OR COMMERCIAL REPRODUCTION