Mike Scott & Steve Wickham
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Porch Stage
5 October 2013

Contrast Clause: This is a different recording, with different equipment, a different location, and by a different taper (me) than Wonderful's recording at http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=486142.

CA-14 Cardioids -> SP-SPSB-11 Slimline Battery Module (16 Hz, no bass roll-off) -> mic-in jack of Sony PCM-M10 -> Sound Forge 9
(for trimming) -> FLAC8 -> BigDee -> Sound Forge & HarBal -> 16/44.1 -> FLAC -> wav files & retracking by me in Sound Forge 7 -> FLAC8 -> mp3tag

Recorded in 24 bit/44.1.

Format: 1 set

Really amazing performance! If I wasn't there, I'd think that there were more performers than just Mike & Steve on stage.

I got to the stage very early, and got a great spot right next to the stage. I'm really, really pleased with how this turned out. This is probably the best recording that I've ever done at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass!

Many thanks to BigDee for working his usual magic in mastering this.

Thanks to Wonderful for his excellent recording as well, and for his setlist (which I adapted to my tracking).

Description as published in the program: Having begun a musical career in the 1970s which has continued to this day, Scott
has been described as a �madman or genius, depending on your point of view� by Record Collector Magazine and is well known for his radical changes in music genres throughout what Scott refers to as his �allegedly unorthodox� career. Steve Wickham is an Irish musician described by Mike Scott as �the world�s greatest rock fiddle player� and by New Musical Express as a �fiddling legend.�

Set List:
01 Intro by Kevin Vance
02 Savage Earth Heart
03 chat
04 Mad As The Mist And Snow
05 Raggle Taggle Gypsy
06 Bring 'Em All In
07 The Wedding (unfinished, stopped suddenly without explanation)
08 White Birds
09 Fisherman's Blues
10 The Pan Within
11 Will The Circle Be Unbroken
12 chat
13 When Will We Be Married


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Enjoy!