Band: Terry Gross
Venue: Thee Stork Club
Location: Oakland, CA
Date: 2022-12-17 (Saturday)

Taper: teetering
Type: AUD

Recording:
Sound Professionals MS-BMC-3 binaural mics > SP-SPSB-10-13005 12v battery box (at ~11v) >
Andrea Electronics C1-1021450-1 Model USB-SA-1 (stereo mic input) > phone > USB Audio Recorder Pro > FLAC
Processing: FLAC > Audacity [DC Bias corrections, boost/cut: l: -1db @ 85hz h: +3db @ 900hz, normalized, soft limit -2.0db, track splits] > FLAC 8 > acxi (tagging, image embed, checksums)

Tech Notes:
* Significant DC Bias issues due to high voltage going into battery box/USB audio device.
* This setup is going to need a bit more work I think.
* The band caught me offguard, so I missed the first seconds of the first song, sorry.

FLAC: 16/44.1 (2 channels)
Quality: 2/4 (22khz, decent, almost a 3, but some rough patches, and gear issues to resolve)
Time: 24:44.01
Size: 164.3 MiB
Average kb/s: 929
Tracks: 3
FLAC FFPs: Verified

Setlist:
01. //?
02. Worm Gear >
03. Specificity (Or What Have You)

Band:
Phil Manley - guitar, vocals
Donny Newenhouse - bass, vocals
Phil Becker - drums

Notes:
* If anyone knows the title of track 1, let me know. If I got either of the others wrong, please correct.
* A nice show by Terry Gross, who we've seen playing with Mammatus in a previous recording, and who I am starting to really like.

* Label: https://thrilljockey.com/artists/terry-gross
"Terry Gross is an engrossing trio composed of guitarist Phil Manley (Trans Am), bassist Donny Newenhouse, and drummer Phil Becker. The trio are also connected as owners and engineers at Bay Area recording spot El Studio, where they began improvising together as a way to test the boundaries and gear of the studio. Their loose, organic chemistry burgeoned into a deep camaraderie and a sound both expansive and exacting."
* Bandcamp: https://terrygrossband.bandcamp.com/

* About Thee Stork Club (2330 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA)
* It was previously located at 380 12th St., about 10 blocks away.
* Website: https://theestorkclub.com/
"Thee Stork Club is dive bar and music venue located in the Koreatown Northgate (KONO) district of downtown Oakland. A storied watering hole with a nearly 100 year history, the Stork Club changed ownership in 2022 and now in the hands of the people behind the Mosswood Meltdown festival and Eli’s Mile High Club [both in Oakland]."
* Thee Stork Club is split in three basically, when you walk in, to the right is the music space, and to the left is the bar. Neither part is very big. There's another room in the back, with booths to sit in. And a little outside area along the side of the club you can access via a door in the back room.
* https://oaklandnorth.net/2011/09/02/the-nightcap-punk-rock-pbr-and-barbies-at-the-stork-club/
"For decades, The Stork Club was located on 12th Street, and was originally a country music bar, famously decorated year-round with a Christmas tree and lights. Twelve years ago [~1999], it moved to its current location on Telegraph"

--------------------------------------------------------

No distribution in lossy formats!!
No selling!!
No bootlegging!!
Yes sharing. Definitely share.

Support the artists when or if they play, and buy their records/merchandise.

Please correct any errors or oversights in this information in the comments section so the information can be as accurate as possible.

--------------------------------------------------------

Dan Healy (Grateful Dead sound engineer), on audience recordings:
"I learn a lot from hearing those tapes... The axiom that 'microphones don't lie' is a true one. If you put a microphone up in the audience and pull a tape and it doesn't sound good, you can't say, 'It was the microphone,' or 'It was the audience.' You've got to accept the fact that it didn't sound good. When you stick a mic up in the audience and the tape sounds cool, it's probably because the sound was cool. So it's significant to pay attention to the tapes."
[assuming decent quality powered mics, of course...]
source: https://www.prosoundweb.com/the-grateful-dead-a-continual-development-of-concert-sound-circa-1983/

--------------------------------------------------------

Images for all shows as well as full size images for this show.

Images for this show: