James Gang
Beacon Theatre, New York, NY
August 18, 2006

This is a short but great show and a must have for your collection.

Recorded from the 4th Row, directly in front of the left floor & mounted stacks. (Glad I had my earplugs with me for this one ... it was loud.) Despite the screamer/clapper one seat away this is a great recording. If I do say so myself, this is amongst the best recordings of this tour so far.

I’ve also included the opening act, JD & The Straight Shot. For those who don’t know JD is James Dolan, heir to Cablevision (and its chairman), owner of Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, The New York Knicks & The New York Rangers. As one NY Time writer put it Mr. Dolan “put on a gray fedora, grabbed a guitar and morphed into JD, the lead singer of JD and the Straight Shot.” As expected, many catcalls from the crowd, taunting a man many within New York City view as nothing less than villainous (aside from being son of the owner of one of the largest and most nefarious cable monopolies on the East coast, he underwrote the cost of the defeating’s Mayor Bloomberg’s competition to MSG in the form of the West Side Stadium that was to bring the New York Jets back to New York City proper from its “new” home in New Jersey as well as the 2012 Olympics.) In my opinion Mr. Dolan’s music suffers from the same mediocrity that plagues his sports teams, but in the spirit of completeness, I though you all should hear it too.

Recorded, Extracted and Edited by TaperAdvocat, uploaded to the Dime on August 19, 2006.

Source Info: Schoeps CCM4's > SD744T > firewire to hard drive of dedicated music only
computer > Bit Conversion and re-sampled with Sound Forge 7.0 > indexed in Sound Forge 4.5
> CD set up with CD Architect 4.5 > CD burned with CD Architect 5.0 onto Mitsui Gold CD >
Extracted to Internet Capable Computer with EAC > FLAC.

Hope you all enjoy this recording as much as I do. PLAY IT AS LOUDLY AS YOU CAN!!! Please let me know what you think. And most importantly, share it freely with your loved ones and friends.

May those who try to sell or otherwise profit from my recording be cursed with all the bad karma
that you justly deserve. This means you Middle Valley, VGP & all you other scum sucking
bootleggers who profit from my recordings. We will find you and we will put you out of
business.

-TA

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Setlist (Total Time 1:19:55):

01 Intro >
02 Walk Away
03 Take A Look Around
04 Midnight Man
05 Asshtonpark
06 The Bomber
07 Garden Gate (Joe solo acoustic)
08 Ashes The Rain And I (Joe & Dale acoustic guitars, Jim on bass)
09 Tend My Garden
10 Stop >
11 You're Gonna Need Me
12 Lost Woman
13 Funk #49
14 E1: Rocky Mountain Way
15 E2: Going Down


(Note: The whole show ran 1 hour 23 minutes. To make this fit onto one 80 min. (700MB) CD, I cut out the crowd noise between the end of the set, encore #1 & encore #2.)

Band:
Joe Walsh - Guitar, Vocals
Jim Fox - Drums
Dale Peters - Bass
Bill Appelberry - Keyboards
Gia Tamboni - Vocals
Robin Kernsay - Vocals
Stacy Michelle - Vocals