Jefferson Starship
Wednesday 24 October 2012
Spirit Of 66, Verviers, BELGIUM.


01. intro
02. Sunrise->
03. Have You Seen The Saucers?
04. Crown Of Creation
05. Somebody To Love
06. Fresh Air
07. Ride The Tiger
08. Count On Me
09. Let's Get Together
10. "the originals"
11. Miracles
12. Wooden Ships
13. "we love you too...Chris" / Cathy's rap
14. Beautiful Girl
15. Harp Tree Lament
16. "here he is, Paul Kantner"
17. When The Earth Moves Again
18. Jane
19. Greasy Heart
20. Pride of Man
21. The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil->
22. Teaching The Computers To Dream->
23. solos->
24. The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil
25. encore break
26. White Rabbit
27. Volunteers
28. The Other Side Of This Life


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. 18' 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


Recordings and matrix by Jelly


Verviers, the end of the line for me. A pleasant old town in the east of Belgium originally built on the wool and textile industry. The Spirit Of 66 is a funky little music bar named after the famous American highway of "Get Your Kicks On Route..." fame (rather than England's World Cup football team of four an a half decades ago :-) Not huge, but bigger than you think, courtesy of balcony seating upstairs.The soundboard is pretty much smack in the middle of the floor, so my mic was pretty close to the stage. That and the fact that it's quite a wide room meant that much of the audience was behind or to the side of my mic - so you actually hear only a relatively small portion of the crowd compared to most of my recordings on this tour. And as people moved around a bit, the noisier parts of the audience are sometimes more in one channel than another. It was another good show, and as you'll hear, one where they metaphorically tore up the setlist partway through the show. It's a good 'Tiger, and at one point Jude seems to take the Wooden Ships white-water rafting. A nice Greasy Heart (less of a bossanova feel is good for me :-) with a nice Amy Winehouse tease. Fitting that my extended sojourn on tour should end with an Other Side - always a personal favourite.

Suggested split for CDRs
Disc 1: t01-t12 or 14
Disc 2: t13 or t15-t28