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
? - drums
Gilrein's
Worcester, Mass. U.S.A.
December 9, 1998
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
setlist: 1st set 46:09
1: preachin' blues
2: Boch to Boch
3: 555 lake
4: D minor blues
5: band introductions
6: looka pipi (the Meters)
7: ain't that lovin' you
8: tutu
9: 44 blues
10: afro blue
2nd set 79:41
11: talk and tuning
12: Otto
13: yield not to temptation
14: younk punk
15: good morning little schoolgirl
16: cissy strut
17: all right
18: Naima
19: band introductions
20: travelin' south
21: egg 15
22: eul clown
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.
comments:
I've noticed a few more recent Derek Trucks Band recordings on dime lately, and thoought, 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.
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.
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.
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 34 year history (it's a nonprofit,
commercial-free, non-network, listener supported station)
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely and losslessly.