Ry Cooder & David Lindley
July 6, 1995
State Opera House
Vienna, Austria

FOB; DSM-6S >Sony TCD-D7 DAT M. >DAT 1 >WAV >FLAC
DAT I Transferred; Sony PCM-R500 >S/PDIF >Tascam HD-2P (16bit/48khz)
WAV >iZotope RX6 Advanced & Har-Bal 3.0 >
Audacity (Track Splits, Down Sample / Dither To 16bit/44.1khz) >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.41

Recorded By Bruno Kaltenbrunner
Trade DAT (1) Transferred By Terry Watts
Post Production By Flying M
Audacity, FLAC & Tags By OldNeumanntapr

01. Intro
02. The Promised Land
03. Jesus On The Mainline
04. Mercury Blues
05. Afindrafindrao (Madagascar trad.)
06. Si Bheag Si Mhor
07. Paris, Texas >
08. Vigilante Man
09. All Shook Up
10. That's The Way Girls Are From Texas
11. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? *
12. About to Make Me Leave Home *
13. Lonesome Fugitive
14. Me And My Chauffeur *
15. Ain't No Way
16. Breaking Up Your Happy Home *
17. Little Sister
18. Play It All Night Long
19. If Walls Could Talk > Ain't It Crazy (A.K.A.The Rub) > 5-10-15 Hours *

encore #1
20. Hold That Snake
21. Talk To The Lawyer
22. Good Night Irene

encore #2
23. The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)
24. Do You Want My Job?


Ry Cooder: guitars, accordion, bouzouki, tambour, mandolin, & vocals
David Lindley: guitars, bajo-sexto, bouzouki, tambour, vocals
Roseanne Lindley: guitar, vocals *
Joaquim Cooder: drums, percussion

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OldNeumanntapr Notes-
This is a recording that I received as a DAT trade in the late 90s from Bruno Kaltenbrunner, the taper of the recording made in the audience. (Apparently Lindley also recorded this onstage.) The original Kaltenbrunner recording suffered from extremely loud applause spikes, while the acoustic music was relatively quiet.

I didn’t realize until later while looking at Lindley’s webpage that Bruno was in trouble with Mr. Dave for selling his recording of the Opera House show. I was appalled, because, as a taper myself, this is an EXTREME violation to the artist, and is also anathema to everything that I stand for in the archival of live music. When I found out I sent Bruno a scathing email, lambasting him for what he had done. I never heard back from him.

I sent the trade DATs to Terry Watts for him to do a fresh digital transfer, and consequently sent those WAV files to Flying M to see if he could tame the excessive crowd applause and generally work his magic on the recording. As always, he excelled at his task and made this recording a lot more pleasant to listen to. Thanks as always to Flying M for his skill and dedication. You’re the BEST! Thanks also to Terry Watts for the new transfer.

I did my best to split ‘Paris, Texas’ and ‘Vigilante Man’. I put the split right before the vocals started where it sounded like the percussion changed a bit, but, this is very subjective because to me, all of ‘Paris, Texas’ has the guitar riff from ‘Vigilante Man’ though out.

It is my intention to send this finished copy out to as many people as possible, for FREE, so that Bruno’s travesty of selling the show will be diminished. I don’t know if he is still selling his version of this but PLEASE do not buy it, or any ‘bootleg’ recording, when you can collect and trade them for free! Plus, the quality of this remaster is so much better than the original.

ONT-

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Flying M Notes-
The goal was to reduce the applause and increase the music and I was successful at that.
Included a couple screenshot comparisons as visual aids.

Detail:
There was some equalization and compression to increase the amplitude of the music and make this sound closer to the stage.
Applause segments were then reduced by 12-15 dB and distracting loud claps and other noises during the music were removed.
There was also a lot of loud coughing in different places and most of that was removed.
Now the music is much louder than the applause instead of the other way around.

The applause between songs was already "tamed" by someone else before I started (all but the encores).
Whatever tool was used to reduce the clapping left behind an "underwater" noise that I tried to reduce.
One place was really awful and to hide it I copied the applause from another song and pasted over what was there.
I can also hear that sound just a little during the music but just barely.
That's the bad but overall this is a great sounding recording and I am happy with the results.

BTW - as nice as this sounds there might be an even better sounding capture of this show that I found on you tube.
Taken from "The Family Tour" bootleg CD it sounds much closer to the stage so the venue echo is almost non-existent.

I also think this is the same concert offered for sale on the David Lindley web page so be warned it is officially released.
Per the set-list on Dave's website the official version is missing a couple tracks that are on this recording.
Just an FYI on what I found poking around.

The set-list was updated as there were 2 songs not listed in a medley that I identified (track 19)
Per Dave's official set-list track 16 was re-named "Breaking Up Your Happy Home".
To be more accurate track 20 "Hold That Snake" was moved to encore #1 and there was an encore #2 added.
Track 21 was changed to "Talk To The Lawyer"
Roseanne sang on more than one song so an asterisk was placed next to ALL of the songs where she is the lead vocalist.

-M-

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
Enjoy! Share freely, don’t sell, play nice, don’t run with scissors, etc. ;)