The Jayhawks
2012-03-18
Gruenspan
Hamburg

Church Audio CA 14 Cardioids > Sony RH1 (PCM-mode) > Hi-MD > Sonic Stage > wav > Audacity (level adjustments, trackmarking, some leveller for loud clapping) > TLH > flac level 8

recorded appr. 6 meters from stage, slightly to the left

TRT: 103:33 min

01. intro
02. Wichita
03. Cinnamon Love
04. Red's Song
05. Closer To Your Side
06. Take Me With You When You Go
07. She Walks In So Many Ways
08. Blue
09. No Place For People Like Him
10. Tiny Arrows
11. I'd Run Away
12. Clifton Bridge
13. Angelyne
14. Black Eyed Susan
15. Two Hearts
16. Miss Williams' Guitar
17. A Break In The Clouds
18. Settled Down Like Rain
19. Up Above My Head

- encore 1 -
20. encore intro
21. Tampa To Tulsa
22. How Can I Send There Tonight To Tell You
23. Waiting For The Sun

- encore 2 -
24. If You Really Want Me To I'll Go (Delbert McClinton)
25. Bad Time

Gary Louris - electric guitar, vocals
Mark Olson - acoustic guitar, vocals
Tim O'Reagan - drums, vocals
Karen Grotberg - keyboard, vocals
Marc Perlman - bass

Last show of the reunion tour. Nice show, but up to 4 voices in harmony are just a little too many harmonies for my taste. Although the Jayhawks have been around for a quarter of a century only it felt a bit like witnessing a show from the early 70's.
But I had gone for the opening band, Willy Vlautin and Dan Eccles of Richmond Fontaine, anyway, so I wasn't diappointed.

The Gruenspan was not sold out but nicely filled with an appreciative crowd of the bands age group, intent on listening, very little chatter and considerably less bottle noises than on the RF recording as I moved further away from the bar (and the music was louder).

I missed about 1 minuted of the crowd noise during the first encore break due to change of md, the gap was joined seemlessly, but is slightly notizable. I didn't expect them to come back for a second encore, 'cos the house music had already started. So this caught me by surprise and closer to the stage. I removed the bits of recorded music, joined the crowd noise betwen the 2 encores seemless, adjusted the levels of the second encore, but the bass drum is more prominent during the second encore.
Apart from that I reduceded a some docend volume spiked gradually, applied the leveller to close applause manually, raised the overall levels by 3 dB and the first encore song by an additional 2 dB.

The Richmond Fontaine opening set is here:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=398408