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Steve Morse's Morse Code .... August 29, 1983 (First Show)(9:14 PM)
Marble Bar/Congress Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.


Steve Morse - guitar
Rod Morgenstein - drums
Jerry Peek - bass


Taper: bpthree
Taping Gear: Sony TC-1100T with Sony ECM-16 condenser microphone
Lineage: Maxell XL-1S master cassette> Teac A-550RX cassette playback> TASCAM CDRW-700> Trade CD-R> (wav) EAC (secure mode)> (flac) Trader's Little Helper level 6 (align on sector boundaries)
Quality: vg/vg+
Length: 26:32 minutes
Artwork: none.
Samples: none.


Set List:

01. The Introduction
02. Refried Funky Chicken
03. On The Pipe
04. Pride O' The Farm (?)
05. Cruise Missile


Taper's Comments:

1 - HELP!! If you have any uncirculated SPIRIT shows, or better quality FM
broadcasts than what's been posted here before, please share them. If you
know anybody who has shows that fit this category that aren't on DIME, please
dub off their stuff and share it. I'm trying to write a book on SPIRIT and need
all the information I can get. I have a database of over 1500 gigs 1967-1996, and
want to find as much information as I can to add to it. If you have any memories
of where you saw SPIRIT, the more specific the better (venue, city, date, supporting
bands, etc.), I'd love to know that as well. Please leave that in the comments
section or PM me. Thank you!

2 - Show description & comments follow:

The "Marble Bar" was a venue that operated in the basement of a seedy hotel from about
1977 to 1985. In it's heyday, both the hotel and the bar had been Baltimore landmarks.
It got it's name from a 70 foot solid marble bar. In 1983 it was in a rough area of town.
The venue could have been really nice if they had the funds to restore it some, but that
never happened. It was a lot of concrete, and smelled like a musty basement to boot. The
last I heard, it had boarded up for years, and they were going to convert the Hotel into
condos. The bathrooms were to be avoided at all costs!

This concert, along with headliner Allan Holdsworth, was certainly one of the most screwed
up evenings of music I ever saw. I have alluded to it in some of my previous Allan
Holdsworth postings, as has fellow DIMER eeklair, who also attended. It was the most
crowded I ever saw the "Marble Bar", as the show should have been in a larger venue,
such as the "Wax Museum" in Washington, DC. It was hot, and the air conditioning wasn't
up to snuff. The show started off wrong when Steve Morse went on very late for the
opening act. On the first show, the headliner usually hit the stage between 9:30 PM and
10 PM, and Steve started at 9:14 PM. As a result, he was forced to play an extremely
short set, but said he would return later, which to the best of my knowledge, never
happened. The worst was yet to come, and the story will be continued in my Allan
Holdsworth posting of his portion of the show. The sound is WAY better than I remember.
You'll get an idea of the evening, and how bad the venue was, from the audience
comments. Enjoy!

bpthree

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