An Evening With Joe Satriani
The Hippodrome Theatre
Baltimore, Maryland
2004-10-15


The story behind this recording is I bought "Strange Beautiful Music" due to Robert Fripp being involved with it, and fell in love with the CD. A good friend of mine then gave me a ticket to this show with one string attached, I had to record it for him. Who am I to say no?

We arrive at the newly rehabbed Hippodrome, which is indeed beautiful. It opened in 1914 as a vauderville house that also screened motion pictures. Our seats were tiny (seems people were much smaller in those days, no fast food around the corner I guess) and were located at the end of the middle balcony, which in this case meant there was a walkway behind us. The seating was steep stadium type, and my knees were at the same level as the heads in the row in front of me. The guy sitting to my left was pretty cool, and I was able to bribe him to be quiet by promising a copy of the recording. Of course my friend was on right of me, therefore there is next to no loud crowd yap during the entire show. I was thinking to recording might turn out sounding distant, but it really dosn't except in the very beginning, before the house sound was adjusted.

I'm not very familiar with Satriani's works so please excuse the lack of song titles and misspellings. I'm hoping some Satriani fan can fill in the blanks and make corrections.

This is an uncirculated show, the only ones that have copies are my friend Dan, the guy I bribed to be quiet, and me. Oh, special thanks to Dan for running out to the car during break to get extra batteries.

Lineage:

CoreSound PDA Audio Sytem
-Csnd High End Binaural Mics (DPA 4061's) >
-Csnd Switchable Bass Filter (Bass filter On) >
-CSnd 20dB Attenuator Cable >
-CSnd Mic2496: Portable Dual Microphone Pre-Amp and A-to-D Converter (Set for 24bit-48ks/s) >
-Toslink >
-Csnd PDAudio-CF: Compact Flash 24/96 S/PDIF digital audio interface for PDAs >
-Hewlett Packard iPAQ 5150 >
-Gidluck Live2496 PDAudio software >
-Sandisc 2GB CF cards >
-Soundforge 5.0 (For EQ, Resampling and Tracks) >
-CDR>
-EAC>
-FLAC Frontend (Level 8/Verified) >^^

I dropped a couple of dB on the bass end, other then that this is a raw recording.


The Band:

Joe Satriani - Guitars
Gaylen Hanson?? - Rhythm Guitar
Matt Bissonette - Bass
Jeff Campitelli Drums

Tracks:

CD One

01- ????
02- ????
03- ????
04- ????
05- ????
06- If I could Fly
07- ????
08- ????
09- Quartz
10- ????

CD Two

01- Sleepwalking
02- Starry Night
03- Morracan Sunset
04- Bamboo
05- Strange
06- Phycho Monkey

CD Three

01- ????
02- ????
03- ????
04- Surfing with the Alien ???





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