The Pleasure Barons (Country Dick Montana, Mojo Nixon, Dave Alvin, Joey Harris, John Doe, Rosie Flores, Katy Moffatt Jonny Viau, Steelbone Dick and Mike Middleton)
March 27, 1993
The Catalyst
Santa Cruz, California, USA

The Pleasure Barons
with Country Dick Montana, Mojo Nixon, Dave Alvin, Joey Harris, John Doe, Rosie Flores, Katy Moffatt, Jonny Viau and Steel Bone Dick)

March 27, 1993
The Catalyst
Santa Cruz, California, USA

Audience cassette master. This one turned out to be more work than I had hoped for due to an intermittent microphone cable in the second half of the show that caused problems that were mostly seamlessly repaired by pasting in from the good channel and then using gradual pans from stereo to mono and back. The quality and levels changed a little bit here and there but problems were minimized and I hope you will enjoy this one as much as I do! I have it rated Vg-Ex, but please check the samples to get an idea of the sound for yourself. Very cool setlist and since this is one of the last shows of the tour it's a very tight, fired-up performance. A couple of song titles were guesses so any help with the setlist will be appreciated.

disc 1 - 68:44
101 [1:49] intro
102 [1:57] instrumental >
103 [3:17] Party Dolls And Wine
104 [5:01] Que Sera Sera
105 [3:44] Beer Gas And Ride Forever
106 [7:46] Louisiana Liplock
107 [7:54] Gangster Of Love
108 [4:47] Take A Letter Maria
109 [4:12] One Night
110 [5:01] Give Me Whiskey Give Me Wine...
111 [3:37] Katy Moffatt intro > Let's Talk About Us
112 [0:26] talk
113 [6:39] Games People Play
114 [3:34] If I Can Hold
115 [0:35] talk
116 [4:50] Worldwide Brotherhood
117 [3:35] The Poontango

disc 2 - 57:50
201 [1:02] talk (Rosie Flores intro)
202 [5:42] I'm Guilty
203 [1:52] talk
204 [4:14] Trouble Bound
205 [3:15] The New World
206 [0:18] talk
207 [3:27] The Pleasure Creed
208 [6:31] Going Back To Las Vegas
209 [3:33] Beat Generation
210 [5:12] Haley's Comet
211 [0:50] talk
212 [8:14] Call Of The Wreckin' Ball
213 [1:38] Suspicious Minds >
214 [7:49] Elvis Is Everywhere [cut]
encores:
215 [0:40] [cuts in] It's Not Unusual >
216 [2:42] Delilah >
217 [0:51] What's New Pussycat? [cut]

Country Dick Montana
Mojo Nixon
Dave Alvin
Joey Harris
John Doe
Rosie Flores
Katy Moffatt
Jonny Viau
Steelbone Dick (Tim Cook)
Mike Middleton

Lineage: 2 x Nakamichi cm700 microphones with cardioid capsules > Sony TCD5M > Dolby B encoded cassette master.

Transfer: Nakamichi Dragon (Dolby B decoded) > Macintosh with Digidesign Audiomedia III card > Pro Tools ("nip & tuck" edits, normalization & tracking - no DNR or EQ) > AIFF > xACT (FLAC level 8 files with sector boundaries verified).

Background info from an article I found on the web about this tour: http://articles.latimes.com/1993-03-11/news/ol-981_1_pleasure-barons

PLEASURE TRIP : Some Well-Known Roots-Rock Barons Have Another Go at Touring and Frivolity
March 11, 1993 | MIKE BOEHM | Mike Boehm covers pop music for The Times Orange County Edition

"Double your pleasure, double your fun" seems to be the operating strategy for the Pleasure Barons as they return to court the sophomore jinx, staging another large-ensemble revue of rock, roots music and ribaldry. Or maybe they're just going by that old baseball adage, "You never can have too much pitching." In any case, where the first version of the Pleasure Barons was fronted by three well-known Southern California roots-rockers of varying degrees of serious musical intent, the featured Barons and Baronesses now number six. The supporting cast includes guitarist Joey Harris, a member of Country Dick's full-time band, the Beat Farmers; drummer Mike Middleton from Nixon's band, the Toadliquors; keyboards player Rick Solem, from Alvin's band; trombone/steel guitar man Tim Cook, and sax player Johnny Viau. They play Friday, March 12, at the Rhythm Cafe in Santa Ana. The first edition of the Barons actually encountered the freshman jinx: Part way through the tour, Alvin contracted meningitis and wound up in the hospital--a setback he attributes to having shared a drink backstage with the wrong person. Maybe it's the experience of having lost a key player the last time out that prompted the Pleasure Barons to enlarge their starting rotation. Moffatt says Alvin, an old friend, called to recruit her--and to caution her about the risks of Baronial living. "He gave me all the appropriate warnings," Moffatt recalled. "He said this could possibly ruin your career, and other things, too. I don't know (what those other things are) because I didn't ask. It just sounded like too much fun to resist, so I'm on." The tour will encompass 17 concerts in the West today through March 29.

HighTone Records recently released "Live in Las Vegas," a concert album documenting the Pleasure Barons' first go-round. Alvin, the ex-Blaster and highly respected songwriter, is the more or less straight man, leading the Barons through zesty blues and rockin' country numbers. Country Dick sings low-down like Johnny Cash, only with a salacious streak. True dementia sets in when Nixon takes over, singing, as is his wont, like a refugee from a Crazy Eddie commercial. This would-be ayatollah of pop can be heard proclaiming the central tenet of his personal faith: "Elvis Is Everywhere," or leveling claims against famous singers he can't stand: "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child" and "Don Henley Must Die."

Nonsense aside, there is some pretty sharp playing throughout the album. The Pleasure Barons may be about musical slumming, but not at the sacrifice of musical self-respect. The supporting cast includes guitarist Joey Harris, a member of Country Dick's full-time band, the Beat Farmers; drummer Mike Middleton from Nixon's band, the Toadliquors; keyboards player Rick Solem, from Alvin's band; trombone/steel guitar man Tim Cook, and sax player Johnny Viau.
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