JOE SATRIANI
Time Machine Tour
March 7, 1994
Agora Theater
Cleveland, OH
Audience recording
FLAC 16-bit/44.1khz


** In memory of the immense talent of Phil Ashley (1955-2020) **


Set list
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01 Summer Song
02 The Extremist
03 Ice 9
04 Flying in A Blue Dream
05 Circles
06 The Crush Of Love
07 Time Machine
08 Keyboard Solo
09 Cryin'
10 Bass Solo
11 Drum Solo
(tape flip, no songs cut)
12 Satch Boogie
13 The Mighty Turtle Head
14 Always With Me, Always With You
15 The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing
16 One Big Rush
17 Band Jam
18 Big Bad Moon
19 Surfing With The Alien
20 Rubina


Lineup
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Joe Satriani, Stu Hamm, Phil Ashley, Jonathan Mover


Lineage
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1994 live taping and 2023 transfer to FLAC by Dave I.

Recording:
Aiwa CM-T7 mic > Sony TCS-430 > Maxell UR120 (master)

Transfer:
Maxell UR120 (master) > Denon DR-70 cassette deck (cleaned and azimuth adjusted)
> Edirol R-09 (48khz, 16bit)
> Audacity: L/R balance tweaked, mild low-end EQ boost, +6.270% speed correction, resampled to 44.1khz
> FLAC 1.4.2: level 8, aligned on sector boundaries

Tracked as a continuous recording (no split for burning discs... I assume nobody does much burning these days).


Comments
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I taped this show from the literal back of the Agora Theater. I sat on the top edge of the back of my seat in the very last row to position myself above the crowd, and it seemed to work out for the best. Until the numbness quickly kicked in from sitting like that. Ugh, so much numbness. Anyhow...

My Sony TCS-430 recorder always ran a little slow, so for this transfer I adjusted the playback speed by +6.270% in Audacity to compensate. In the 90s I had a habit of making raw backups of my live tapes to minidisc, and I've spent time studying those backups to determine the proper speed of the original tape.

At the Agora Theater I was located off to one side, so for this transfer I tweaked the left/right balance to make headset listening more tolerable (it could still be balanced a little better). Some low EQ was added to punch things up a little, but nothing too drastic. I've listened to my minidisc backups of this recording for nearly 30 years now, and though they sound pretty good, this 2023 transfer is a long overdue upgrade.

This show will never be mistaken for a DAT recording done by an experienced taper, but I'm still shocked it turned out as good as it did. I really had no idea where to stand and my gear wasn't great, but that night the live sound was so good that it didn't really matter. 'Rubina' for me is one of the highlights here, as the show atmosphere mixes with Satch's one-of-a-kind guitar tone to end the night in a mystical mood.

Play it. Copy it. Give it away to other Satch fans. I'm not sure how many other 'Time Machine' era live recordings exist, so enjoy!

- Dave I.