George Benson
Live at Thorton Winery
Temecula, CA
2011 09-03

Genre: Jazz
Audience Tape: A- to A (Crowd Noise)
Mikes: Schoeps mk4 > Actives > NBox >
Recorder: Edirol r-O9hr (24b)
Transfer: Goldwave (Volume Boost, Compression > Dither to 16b) > Media Monkey (Flac Transfer L8)
Recorded by Scooter123
Location: LFC FOB
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Tapers Notes:

George Benson hasn't toured out here for a while and is used to playing out large,
sold out venues, so when his presence at this 500 seat venue was announced,
I jumped all over it. The set list is almost exclusively from his first four
1976-1980 Warner Brothers Records. He knew exactly what is his best work was
(Tommy LiPuma produced them) and delivered.

This band was super tight, well rehearsed, and basically poured out musical hits
without a break for an hour and a half. Most noticeably, I give kudos to Stanley
Banks on bass, who has been with Benson for thirty some years, and David Garfield
who, for you fusion fans, was one of the founders of LA's Los Lobotomies, a Toto-based
fusion band which played at the Baked Potato for a couple years on Monday Jam night.

Finally, Benson's new CD, "Guitar Man" will be released October 4. Buried in the files
is some banter with a link to a FREE copy of the CD. But you have to download the
show.

Set List:

1. Weekend in LA (George Benson)
2. Affirmation (José Feliciano)
3. Unknown
4. Love x Love (Rod Tempterton)
5. Banter
6. Nothing Gonna Change My Love For You (Gerry Goffin and Michael Masser)
7. Turn Your Love Around (Bill Champlin, Jay Grayton, Steve Luthaker)
8. Lady Love Me (David Paich and James Newton Howard)
9. Moody's Mood for Love (James Moody and Eddie Jefferson)
10. Beyond the Sea (Jack Lawrence and Charles Trenet)
11. Breezin (Bobby Womack)
12. Banter
13. Don't Know Why (Jesse Harris)
14. Tequila (Daniel Flores)
15. This Masquerade (Leon Russell)
16. Love Ballad (Skip Scarborough)
17. Give Me the Night (Rod Temperton)

19. Band Introductions
18. On Broadway (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller)

TT: 1:35

Personnel:

George Benson, Guitar and Vocals
David Garfield, Musical Director and Keyboards
Stanley Banks, Bass
Tom Hall, Keyboards
Oscar Seaton Jr., Drums
Dad Dio Saucedo, Percussion
Michael O'Neil, Guitar and Vocals

As always, I don't care what you do with these files, once you
download them--they are yours now, except these files are not
for sale, free trade only. You can thank me by uploading
something of a similar genre or trading with me, so I can.