Out of the Madness, Into
the Home of the Blues
(in Central Massachusetts)
The Derek Trucks Band
Derek Trucks- guitar
Bill McKay- keyboards and vocals
Todd Smalley- bass and vocals
Yonrico Scott- drums
Gilrein's
Worcester, Mass. U.S.A.
December 9, 1998
performance quality: A-
recording quality: B+
source: master audience tape
Although this was broadcasted on FM radio (with permission from Derek Trucks himself)
this recording is a pure audience (miked) recording. (no soundboard feed is involved.)
original broadcast sometime in 1999 on WCUW 91.3 FM Worcester "Glasnost Radio" show,
although I cannot find any record of the exact broadcast date.
performance quality: B+
recording quality: B+
source: master audience tapes
runtime: 125:50 (minutes/seconds)
setlist:
1st set 46:09
1: preachin' blues 4:19
2: Boch to Boch 4:38
3: 555 lake 4:54
4: D minor blues 4:59
5: band introductions 1:39
6: look-ka-py-py (the Meters) 3:33
7: ain't that lovin' you 4:18
8: Tutu 6:03
9: 44 blues 6:20
10: afro blue 5:20

2nd set 79:41
11: talk and tuning 1:26
12: Otto 4:49
13: yield not to temptation 5:51
14: young funk 5:20
15: good morning little schoolgirl 11:37
16: cissy strut 6:22
17: all right 2:29
18: Naima 7:01
19: band introductions 1:21
20: travelin' south 6:33
21: egg 15 18:55
22: evil clown 7:52

lineage: Nakamichi CM-100 microphones >
Radio Shack mini-mixer >
Naka. BX- 100 cassette deck (dolby off) >
TDK- SA and Maxell XLII cassettes >
soundforge 4.5 > FLAC 6 > torrentially yours.
A Glasnost Radio Production. (not just practice this time).
also a 3 step torrent production. (master > WAV . FLAC > torrent.)
recorded and remastered by glasnostrd19. later reposted with setlist and band corrections
and for its third posting in Dec. 2009, a flac > wav > flac (sb's aligned) re-conversion
to remove the sbe's. since I left them out before I also added track times and total runtime
for this. So finally I got this thing right (bout time!)
comments:
this show was posted for the first time in mid 2008, and fell off the tracker. This is almost
a reseed, since the sound files are the same, but I had to make a few corrections to the info file,
track titles and the torrent file to make this thing right so I've done that, thus also a new md5
file was needed. I made this recording which is complete 2 sets, and this post comes entirely from
the cassette masters. None of the songs are cut, just 1 tape flip in second set between songs.
I've noticed a few more recent Derek Trucks Band recordings on dime lately, and thought, gee I have
one DTB master, that's not so recent any more, it came out pretty well, and it's from just about the
ideal place in this area to hear Derek Truck Band play live. Gilrein's is Worcester's home for blues
music, and Derek Trucks plays the blues, so why not post it? (now that I know how?)
This is a full night's fun with the Derek Trucks Band, and I believe a then 19 year old Derek Trucks
on guitar. I know I tried to do this another time with the same recording setup, at the same place and
couldn't do it because I was sold out, couldn't get in! I think that was 1999, if not if was the year
before but I think it was the year after because there were more people there that time than this one.
I heard most of a set of that from the street outside the club. If anyone has that please post it.
There were several people taping with good decks and mikes. Derek doesn't want his sbds and video posted
or widely circulated but he's always been very receptive to being recorded in audience audio with his group.
There were plenty of people at this show which I recorded from the audience and broadcasted on WCUW radio.
Gilrein's is THE classic blues club of Worcester and even this early on it was obvious that Derek Trucks
had interest and talent in the blues. Even though the drummer said his name twice, I still couldn't
understand what he said. I later found out he is Yonrico Scott.
It took him awhile to understand Worcester isn't part of Boston, but he learned eventually.
I'd still like to find the 1999 Gilrein's show if someone has it. I heard some of it from the street
outside. I don't know how he feels now about it, but at this time Derek was totally cool about being
recorded in the audience and even seemed grateful that I wanted to record him and broadcast it. The
setup in Gilrein's is not exactly ideal for recording this way, but I think I got the mikes out of the
crowd's way and in line with the sound system well enough to get a decent enough recording for radio.
Glasnost Radio Productions recorded over 200 shows from 1991 up to early 2001, for this same purpose.
Some never got broadcasted (recording problems, bad performance, artist didn't want it shared, ect.)
many that were broadcasted were heard in staticy, clicky, popping or otherwise severely impaired FM
radio reception of a circa-PT 109 era 100 watt tube tramsmitter. It is my intent with the help of the
Almighty Dime, to share some of the best of these recordings sounding the way I recorded them. As
they were meant to be heard. the near-constant poor reception problems of that tired old thing
ruined almost all of WCUW's programming for most of the station's now 35 year history (it's a nonprofit,
commercial-free, non-network, listener supported station)
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely, losslessly and gaplessly.