Band: Gibby Haynes & Paul Green Rock Academy
Venue: Thee Stork Club
Location: Oakland, CA
Date: 2023-01-03 (Tuesday)
Taper: teetering
Type: AUD 16/48

Recording:
Sound Professionals MS-BMC-3 binaural mics > SP-SPSB-10-13005 12v battery box (at ~[x]v) > Sound Professionals SP-ATEN-6 (-15dB) > Andrea Electronics USB-SB-MA (stereo mic input) > phone > USB Audio Recorder Pro > FLAC 16/48
Processing: FLAC > Audacity [normalize, high pass: -36 dB @ 10 hz, channel balance, renormalized, soft limit -2.0db, track splits] > FLAC 8 16/48 > acxi (tagging, image embed, checksums)

Tech Notes:
* Still getting those DC non-symmetrical issues at high input levels. Using high pass took care of most of that, but not all.
* Using the SP-ATEN-6 attenuator to cut the dB input levels.
* If you delete track 6 where the club owner unplugged Gibby's gear, the intro and rest of X-Ray will more or less come back together.
* This club does not have a great sound system, adequate.

FLAC: 16/48.0 (2 channels)
Quality: 3/4 (24khz, very good)
Time: 1:13:37.91
Size: 455.1 MiB
Average kb/s: 864
Tracks: 29
FLAC FFPs: Verified

Setlist:
01. intro, audience, Gibby >
02. Who Was in My Room Last Night?
03. 100 Million People Dead >
04. Dum Dum >
05. I Saw an X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas... (drum start) >
06. (Gibby gear gets unplugged by club owner...) >
07. I Saw an X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas
08. Gibby >
09. Little Ricky >
10. Cherub
11. Sweat Loaf >
12. Gibby >
13. Suicide
14. To Parter >
15. Tornadoes >
16. Gibby >
17. Little Ricky >
18. Revolution Part 2
19. Gibby >
20. Dust Devil (fucked up start)
21. Gibby (we fucked up!) >
22. Dust Devil >
23. Jimi
24. Rocky >
25. Graveyard
26. Pepper >
27. The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave >
28. Green Eyed Lady >
29. applause

:te:

Band:
Gibby Hayes - effects, vocals
Paul Green Rock Academy - drums, bass, guitars, sax, vocals, keyboards

Notes:
* Victims Family and Gibby Haynes & PGRA were co-headliners, which made for a slightly discordant combination, both in performances and the audiences for each band.

* Gibby: "Alright, ok, here's what happened, we fucked up!... We fucked up, alright! People fuck up!... we're going to go back, and I'm going to put my fucking rock and roll heart into this shit... because that's the kind of guys they are! (PGRA)"

* Any notion that this was just a bunch of kids Gibby picked up a quick tour should be quickly dismissed! If anything, this was a master graduation thesis where the project was to become a new version of the Butthole Surfers, and that's exactly what this group did. I'm sorry I can't give them name credits, they were really good.
* If you missed this tour... well... bummer...
* This was in my opinion much more like a real Butthole Surfers show than their 2011 tour with the original lineup.

* About Paul Green Rock Academy:
The Paul Green Rock Academy (PGRA) is an advanced touring ensemble of young musicians between the ages of 10 and 18 who have been selected for their musical prowess, showmanship, love of performing, and ability to share the stage with professional musicians as they tour the world.
The students of Paul Green Rock Academy completed three 2022 Summer Tours as the backing band for Jon Anderson, lead singer of Yes, and for Gibby Haynes of Butthole Surfers. They have headlined the Meltasia Music Festival and performed at the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice, Mountain Jam, and the international Frank Zappa Festival, Zappanale in Germany. This summer they will be doing two North American tours with Jon Anderson of Yes and with Gibby Haynes of Butthole Surfers.
PAUL GREEN is the founder of the international music school chain School of Rock and the apparent inspiration for the lead character in the movie. Paul oversaw the growth of the company to 57 locations and changed the format for music education throughout the country. Since that time, he has hosted his own radio show, been part of the production of two documentary films, been the music director for the Woodstock Film Festival, managed/tour managed/advised national musical acts, played the bass for the national touring band "Gene Ween Does Billy Joel", produced countless fundraisers and special events with numerous guest stars. However, the Paul Green Rock Academy is the school of his dreams... a small audition-only school for the most dedicated students, with branches in Philadelphia and Southwestern Connecticut.

* About Thee Stork Club (2330 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA)
* It was previously located at 380 12th St., about 10 blocks away.
* Website: https://theestorkclub.com/
"Thee Stork Club is dive bar and music venue located in the Koreatown Northgate (KONO) district of downtown Oakland. A storied watering hole with a nearly 100 year history, the Stork Club changed ownership in 2022 and now in the hands of the people behind the Mosswood Meltdown festival and Eli’s Mile High Club [both in Oakland]."
* Thee Stork Club is split in three basically, when you walk in, to the right is the music space, and to the left is the bar. Neither part is very big. There's another room in the back, with booths to sit in. And a little outside area along the side of the club you can access via a door in the back room.
* https://oaklandnorth.net/2011/09/02/the-nightcap-punk-rock-pbr-and-barbies-at-the-stork-club/
"For decades, The Stork Club was located on 12th Street, and was originally a country music bar, famously decorated year-round with a Christmas tree and lights. Twelve years ago [~1999], it moved to its current location on Telegraph"

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Dan Healy (Grateful Dead sound engineer), on audience recordings:
"I learn a lot from hearing those tapes... The axiom that 'microphones don't lie' is a true one. If you put a microphone up in the audience and pull a tape and it doesn't sound good, you can't say, 'It was the microphone,' or 'It was the audience.' You've got to accept the fact that it didn't sound good. When you stick a mic up in the audience and the tape sounds cool, it's probably because the sound was cool. So it's significant to pay attention to the tapes."
[assuming decent quality powered mics, of course...]
source: https://www.prosoundweb.com/the-grateful-dead-a-continual-development-of-concert-sound-circa-1983/

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