Jefferson Starship
Tuesday 16 October 2012
The Brook, Southampton, ENGLAND.


01. intro/tuning
02. Sunrise->
03. Have You Seen The Stars Tonite->
04. Starship
05. Somebody To Love
06. Fresh Air
07. When The Earth Moves Again
08. Find Your Way Back
09. Count On Me
10. Sketches Of China
11. Let's Get Together
12. Miracles
13. Wooden Ships
14. "hunting in the forests for sherwoods"/Cathy's rap
15. Piece Of Me
16. Harp Tree Lament
17. Frenario
18. Connection
19. "bloody ready already"
20. Fast Buck Freddie
21. Jane
22. The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil->
23. Teaching The Computers To Dream->
24. solos->
25. The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil
26. encore break
27. White Rabbit
28. Volunteers


Paul Kantner - vocals, electric Rickenbacker 12-string guitars
David Freiberg - vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion
Cathy Richardson - vocals, percussion, electric Rickenbacker 12-string guitar on "If I Could"
Chris Smith - keyboards
Jude Gold - lead guitar, backing vocals
Rich Newman - drums
Liz Lenten - backing vocals on "Volunteers"


Recordings:
SBD - stereo soundboard feed->Olympus LS11->Edirol R-09 16bit@44.1 kHz
AUD - Audio Technica AT822 stereo mic front row centre of balcony approx. 65' from stage > Edirol R-09 (16 bit@44.1kHz)
Minor edits to both in CoolEdit 2000 > Recordings aligned and mixed 75% SBD:25% AUD in Audacity 2.0.2
Exported to stereo wavs, cut on sector boundaries using CDWav

Soundcheck fragments (AUD recording only)
01. Starship noodlings
02. Somebody To Love
03. Piece Of Me


Recordings and matrix by Jelly

And so rested after the Grimsby gig on Saturday, our heroes journeyed south on the Sunday, to Southampton and another day off on the Monday. Tuesday afternoon and it's time to soundcheck at The Brook, During the afternoon a couple of gents from the record company that has released the Roswell set arrived, to video the evening's show, or at least bits of it. The Brook is another delightful small venue, with room downstairs for perhaps 450, with another 150 upstairs in the balcony. The balcony is closed to the general public tonight, so again I have an excellent place to stick my recording mic, front and centre of the balcony, nicely picking up the ambience from below. Up in the balcony there's me, the record label guys, a couple of the regular fans who are also running video, and a few folks on the guest list (including Deborah Bonham, a guest of Rich Newman). This was a fun show; I know some people expressed some reservation that it was a bit loose, and certainly after a couple of days off the band are a bit relaxed and chatty, and it's not a tight greatest hits set, but it's fun and I enjoyed it. It was pretty packed downstairs, and the crowd seemed to enjoy it.
There's also a few minutes I extracted from the soundcheck that afternoon. A bit of working on stuff, a bit of noodling. Chris also had a new keyboard this week. In the first week he had a consumer version, which made a twee "plip-plop" noise (not unlike the sound of those 70s "tennis" video games with bats and a square "ball") every time he changed effect (and whenever he did it just to make a silly plip-plop noise!). In the second week it was replaced by a professional model which could also record a sound and use that as the basis for the sound from every key. Cue people's voices suddenly appearing polyphonically from the keyboard during lulls at the soundcheck, or Chris getting his keyboard to sing doo-wop :-) (Although alas not in these bits - he tended to do it inbetween everybody else's instruments being set up indifiually at sound check.


Suggested split for CDRs
Disc 1: t01-t13
Disc 2: t14-t28 + soundcheck fragments if desired

A track of eight blamk seconds is included in the fileset in case you wish to create a short silent break on your second CDR between the end of the show and the soundcheck material