Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band
June 08, 2000
House Of Blues, Chicago, IL

Ringo Starr - drums, vocals
Dave Edmunds - guitar, vocals
Eric Carmen - keyboards, guitar, vocals
Jack Bruce - bass, keyboards, vocals
Simon Kirke - drums, vocals
Mark Rivera - saxophone, harmonica, vocals

Recorded onto MiniDisc using a set of Sound Professionals Premium Binaurals
Captured from about the 8th row, under the stage right stacks
Transferred from original MDs to WAV (44.1kHz/16-bit) digitally in Sept 2010.
Playback on Sony MDS-JE510 > Optical to S/PDIF converter > Microtrack 24/96.
Cool Edit Pro used for fades only. No EQ or other manipulation to the sound was conducted. Salt & pepper to taste.
Split into individual tracks using CD Wave Editor.
SBEs corrected using Trader's Little Helper ("-fixed" removed from the filenames).
Encoded to FLAC (Level 6) using Trader's Little Helper.

Disc One (72:38)
Kitty Loewy introduction
It Don't Come Easy
Act Naturally
Hungry Eyes (Eric Carmen)
I Hear You Knocking (Dave Edmunds)
Sunshine Of Your Love (Jack Bruce)
Shooting Star (Simon Kirke)
I Wanna Be Your Man
Love Me Do
Yellow Submarine
Boats Against The Current (Eric Carmen)
Classical Gas (Dave Edmunds)
Lady Madonna (Dave Edmunds)
Theme From An Imaginary Western (Jack Bruce)
Go All The Way (Eric Carmen)
The No No Song
Back Off Boogaloo

Disc Two (47:02)
I Feel Free (Jack Bruce)
All Right Now (Simon Kirke)
Boys
I Knew The Bride When She Used To Rock & Roll (Dave Edmunds)
White Room (Jack Bruce)
All by Myself (Eric Carmen)
Photograph
e: You're Sixteen
e: With A Little Help From My Friends

This was recorded dead center, at the edge of the stage.
Because of this, I ended up getting "stage mix, heavy on
the Jack Bruce bass" sound instead of a balanced recording.
This is what you get when you sacrifice a primo visual spot
instead of a primo acoustical location. But, then, it's
not every day that I receive direct eye contact from a real,
actual BEATLE, which occurred a couple of times. Ringo even
waved the peace sign to my wife to get her to smile. During
"White Room," Jack was so close to me, I couldn't untied
his shoelaces. The crowd was also much more excited, and
you'll occassionally hear some funny banter between Ringo
and the audience standing near me.





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