Steve Morse Band
January 16, 2007
Slim's, San Francisco, CA

Steve Morse, guitars
Dave LaRue, bass
Van Romaine, drums

stealth audience recording by Easy Ed from exact center, about twelve feet from the stage.

Oade Brothers Binaural Micro microphones > Sony D8 DAT @48kHz (with microphone preamps modified by Oade Brothers) > Sony PCM-R500 (playback) > coax digital out > Sek'd Prodif Plus soundcard > Sound Forge 8 (24 bit, normalize, fade in and out, resample to 44.1kHz) > 16 bit .wav files > FLAC level 8 encoding align on sector boundaries. Not burned to cdr - no EAC.

1. Simple Simon
2. Vista Grande
3. Mechanical Frenzy
4. (introductions)
5. Highland Wedding
6. On The Pipe
7. Little Kids
8. Rising Power
9. "have we ever played a gig at Slim's where something didn't break?"
10. Cut To The Chase *
11. Stressfest
[show over]
12. (Slim's burger)

*with Jeff Watson of Night Ranger

On track 8, Rising Power, the band's equipment started to have problems, causing crackling in the right speaker. (The problem was at the show, not in the recording) The crew ended up replacing a drum mike, Dave's bass, and Steve's guitar (he had broken a string) during this song. Because of the mystery equipment meltdowns, the setlist was changed and Jeff Watson joined them on the next song, originally slotted for the last song.

You will probably want to delete track 12 (maybe after giving it a listen). I just let the tape keep rolling after the show and the applause had ended, so you'll get the great joy of hearing me go back to the table where my Slim's Burger (which had been served to me one minute before the set started) had been cooling for an entire hour. You'll hear me visit with the people at the table, and hear what genuine Californians sound like when they're chatting between sets at a genuine California rock and roll club. Then you'll hear me go downstairs into a stall in the bathroom to shut off the recorder - you'll miss hearing me change batteries and put in a fresh DAT. See why you might want to delete the last track, put there solely out of perverse taper mania?
TRT 1h03m03s