Jefferson Starship
Tuesday 23 October 2012
La Cartonnerie, Reims, FRANCE.


01. intro
02.Sunrise->
03. Have You Seen The Saucers?
04. Crown Of Creation
05. "I'm ready now"
06. Somebody To Love
07. Fresh Air
08. Ride the Tiger
09. Count On Me
10. Lather
11. Let's Get Together
12. Miracles
13. Wooden Ships
14. "leave you in Cathy's clutches / Cathy's rap
15. Beautiful Girl
16. Harp Tree Lament
17. Connection
18. Jane
19. Pride of Man
20. The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil->
21. Teaching The Computers To Dream->
22. solos->
23. The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil
24. encore break
25. White Rabbit
26. 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 "Beautiful Girl"
Chris Smith - keyboards
Jude Gold - lead guitar, backing vocals
Rich Newman - drums


Recordings:
SBD - stereo soundboard feed->Olympus LS11->Edirol R-09 16bit@44.1 kHz
AUD - Audio Technica AT822 stereo mic at soundboard approx. 30' from stage > Edirol R-09 (16 bit@44.1kHz)
Minor edits to both in CoolEdit 2000 > Recordings aligned and mixed 70% SBD:30% AUD in Audacity 2.0.2
Exported to stereo wavs, cut on sector boundaries using CDWav


Recordings and matrix by Jelly.


45 minutes on the fast train from Paris and I'm in Reims, the capital of the champagne region. I'm staying in a great hotel near the station, and I arrive before the band. Since the venue is a few miles from the city centre, and I'm carless, I pass up on an early visit to the venue, grab a light lunch and relax for a few hours. A wander round the quite lovely city with a fellow fan later in the afternoon, and a fine early dinner (al fresco) mean I kiss off the soundcheck, and arrive shortly before the doors open, but in enough time to set up. I'm assuming the venue was once an industrial building, or on the site of one. The band are playing in quite an arty studio. An open "pit" floor, and a balcony on three sides level with the stage, perhaps three feet above the main floor. The room is black and modern, but with furniture made from suitably cut and welded old oil tanks or similar. A pretty mixed crowd, perhaps due in part to the local support who are competent without being overly memorable.
I'm delighted to see that in deference to the local product, the venue bar not only serves three beers but also two champagnes. It would be rude not to avail myself of the facilities... It's a solid set, and the sound seems a little muted (in part I believe due to some relatively strict regulations the French have about noise levels at gigs, I believe), but the crowd enjoy it; it's a thumping "Tiger" and a spacey Wooden Ships that do it for me.
Backstage after the show I'm glad to see that the locals break out some local produce for the band, and jolly nice it is too. This is one city I would definitely visit again (even if there wasn't a JS show in town!)
When I blended this it seemed a little flat at 75/25, but the vocals seemed quite echoey if I added too much audience. I think the final 70/30 I used is about as good as it gets without playing with filters and other effects and essentially distorting the record of the event quite significantly.



Suggested split for CDRs
Disc 1: t01-t12 or 13
Disc 2: t13 or t14-t26