JETHRO TULL
June 18, 2000
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Chastain Park Amphitheater
from my master cassette
just digitized for it's DIME debut
never traded before
this show, but not this recording, has circulated as "The Return Of Mr Clappy"
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THE BAND
Ian Anderson - vocal, flute, guitar
Martin Barre - guitar
Jonathan Noyce - bass
Doane Perry - drums
Andy Giddings - keyboards
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THE SONGS:
01 For A Thousand Mothers 5.09
02 Nothing Is Easy 6.19
03 Thick As A Brick 10.21
04 Hunt By Numbers 5.00
05 Beside Myself 7.23
06 The Habanero Reel 5.16
07 Bourée (tape flipped here - only applause is cut) 4.40
08 talk 1.55
09 The Water Carrier 5.52
10 With You There To Help Me 6.24
11 Barre Instrumental "a piece of music of his own devising" 4.08
12 Dot Com 4.32
13 AWOL 6.06
14 Boris Dancing 4.02
15 Dharma For One 6.06 (this is a great version, complete with chanting ||:"dharma":||
16 instrumental 0.58
17 A Hunting Girl 6.05
18 Passion Jig (beginning missing due to new-tape insertion) 1.57
19 Locomotive Breath 6.57
20 Applause 1.24
21 Aquadiddley/Aqualung (abbreviated due to time restrictions) 2.57
22 Cross-Eyed Mary (abbreviated due to time restrictions) 1.39
23 Protect And Survive (inst) / Cheerio 2.57
TOTAL TIME 1 hour, 47 minutes, 55 seconds
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THE VENUE:
I hate this place.
Chastain Park is in the middle of a suburban residential community so there are, understandably, volume restrictions and all shows must end before 11 pm.
No matter the artist, the audience at Chastain is notoriously inattentive, rude, loud and disruptive, obnoxious, and totally off-putting for anyone interested in listening to the music.
I think (but I'm not sure) that it was Bobby McFerrin who actually cut his show way short because nobody was paying attention.
People come here to see and be seen. They bring their little candelabras, their bottles of domestic wine, their crudites (notice the root word there: crude). The music is, at best an accompaniment to their socializing and dining, and at worst an annoyance or interference.
I've seen a bunch of shows there over the years but after my last experience there ("Down from the Mountain") I swore I'd never, ever, go there again.
During the "Down from the Mountain" show this lawyer (they're not all bad) next to me kept blathering on about his work. After about half an hour of this I asked him if he wouldn't mind lowering his voice as I couldn't really enjoy the music. (He was quite loud and the music - volume restrictions - is never at proper rock and roll levels). He did lower his voice somewhat, but when he left he stepped on my foot, turned and said, "I hope you liked your music" in a very sarcastic manner. What a jerk.
That was it for me.
No more Chastain.
Heck I could win backstage passes, with a door to door chauffeured limousine, for a U2, Stones, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, show with reengaged Bill and reanimated John, George, Rick, and Bonzo - as well as all-you-can-eat cavier and Dom Perignon - and I STILL wouldn't go.
I hate this place.
...course that's just me
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THE SOUND:
Taped from the audience,
For a while I taped from my seat in Row S, dead center.
A while into the show, because of the crowd noise, I actually moved about 10 rows BACK for better sound.
The show was no where near a sell out. There were lots of empty seats.
Because of the rude crowd and the almost constant clinking of beer bottles being tossed into metal trash cans the show's sound is less than ideal. That's why I never digitized it before.
In between the people and bottles,
the music sounds half decent.
There is some clipping during applause.
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THE LINEAGE:
master cassette (tape 1 TDK SA-X, tape 2 Maxell XLII in AIWA walkman-type recorder with cheapie stereo mic) > Nakamichi BX-2 playback with azimuth adjustment done > digitize via Audacity > FLAC 8 via xAct
Not quite a raw transfer.
This was the last show I taped with my Aiwa as it was dying.
It was recording a bit slow.
So when played back on my Nak it played about a semi-tone sharp.
I speed-corrected that. (it's not quite A-440, but close enough for rock and roll)
There are fade outs at points of tape flip
No noise reduction or eq was applied.
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HEY GANG:
I offer what I have, with ALL the information known to me.
If you've got a better version, seed it.
If you have more accurate information, please add it in a comment.
If anyone would like to attempt a remaster, go right ahead.
Try and keep it positive.
Let's make DIME as good an experience for all as possible.
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thirduncle
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