The Meters
(aka "The Original Meters")
Voodoo Music Experience
WWOZ stage
City Park
New Orleans, La.
Oct. 30, 2011

1 Cissy Strut (cut) 0:23
2 Looka PyPy > 0:17
3 Fire on the Bayou 6:21
4 instrumental 4:13
5 George & Leo talk 2:06
6 Hey Pocky Way 6:46
7 No More Okey Doke intro 0:59
8 No More Okey Doke * 7:40
9 People Say > 10:56
10 Peace and Love jam > People Say 5:32
11 Art Neville / Ain't No Use intro 2:18
12 Ain't No Use 11:08
58:44

* with Cyril Neville and the Bonerama Horns (Mark Mullins, Craig Klein, Greg Hicks)


Source: WWOZ-FM > RadioShark v2.0.2 > Macintosh MacMini (2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) > aiff > Quicktime 7.6.3 (convert aiff to wav) > wav > flac v1.2.1 (linux command line; level 8 compression) > flac files

Splice source: WWOZ.org 128 kbps mp3 stream > StationRipper v2.98.4 > Hewlett Packard laptop > captured mp3 stream > hard drive > MacBook Pro (2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) > Quicktime 7.6.9 > (convert mp3 to wav/aiff) > see below

Transfer: flac file (transferred by ftp from remote pc) > MacBook Pro (2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) > X Audio Compression Toolkit 2.13 (convert to aiff) > aiff > Bias Peak Pro 6.2.0.21692 (trimmed, raised 3.4 db, split into songs) > X Audio Compression Toolkit 2.13 (sector boundaries repaired; level 8 compression) > flac

Notes: The first half of this broadcast was marred by a significant number of dropouts, most lasting 3/100th of a second or less. I closed up the dropouts, but there are places where the band (e.g., Zig) seems to speed up the beat as a result of my edits. In few places, the number of dropouts was so high (or the resulting edit was deemed too egregious) that I spliced in sections from the mp3 live stream, including:
* 3.6-second splice at 2:43 into Fire on the Bayou;
* 1.6 seconds at 4:36 into the same song;
* 35.7 seconds at about 3:10 into Track 4 (instrumental);
* 1.9 seconds at 1:16 into Hey Pocky Way;
* 7.3 seconds at 1:41 into the same song;
* 3 seconds at 1:54, also in Hey Pocky Way

There were virtually no dropouts after Hey Pocky Way.

One relatively long DJ interruption was removed, about 15.6 seconds 4:12 into Track 4.

There was some fairly substantial feedback during People Say. I used a -24db notch filter at 1800 Hz and 3600 Hz to reduce the noise (beginning about 6:18 into the song).

At the beginning of this recording, the DJs came on (in Track 00, in the "extra" directory) to say the broadcast would start in a few minutes. But rather than immediately going back to the station, the live signal from the stage was broadcast, where Cissy Strut (Track 1) was in progress. After about 20 seconds, the signal reverted abruptly to the station for about 5-1/2 minutes (Tracks 1b and 1c, in the extra directory) before the live broadcast officially began (Track 2).