Timbuk 3
Pat McDonald- acoustic and electric bass, MIDI guitar, harmonica vocals and drum programming
Barbara McDonald- electric guitar, mandolin, violin, vocals and rhythm programming
Wally Ingram- drums
Paradise Rock Club
Boston, Mass.
November 4, 1989
(previously posted in 2008 with incorrect date, Nov. 8)
performance quality: A
recording quality: B+
source: master audience tape

lineage: Realistic mini- mikes >
Sony D-6 cassette deck (dolby off) >
Maxell XLII-S cassettes >
soundforge 4.5 > FLAC 6 > torrentially yours.
(since I didn't align the sb's the 1st time
I posted this, and now know better), I have
reconverted flac > wav > flac (sb's aligned)
for this post. they're the same files (w/o the sbe's)
runtime: 89:16
setlist:
01: B-side of life 4:56
02: national holiday 4:05
03: waves of grain 3:43
04: Rev. Jack & His Roamin' Cadillac Church 4:10
05: count to ten 5:13
06: facts about cats 3:57
07: dance fever 2:56
08: standard white Jesus 4:39
09: looking for work 4:01
10: dirty dirty rice 4:07
11: third rail 3:05
12: you are my government 3:56
13: a story 2:34
14: easy 4:31
15: life is hard 4:23
16: the future's so bright I gotta wear shades 3:36
17: grand old party 5:05
18: Eden Alley 3:50
19: assholes on parade 3:57
20: WW III blues 2:38
21: not fade away 4:38
22: hairstyles and attitudes 5:07
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely, losslessly and gaplessly.
comments:
Does anybody remember when the future was so bright you had to wear shades? This band's popularity
lasted about as long as a Texas tornado. I think this was their 2nd tour (Eden Alley) and they already
had to relearn future's so bright... but they do it a little differently than the first time. This is
their complete show (Young Fresh Fellows opened, I didn't record them). Timbuk 3 is a trio, 2 guys
and a woman, kinda like an Arlo Guthrie for the next generation. I thought these guys were good,
both for the music and political slant, I think they only played 2 shows in Boston, the 1st just a
few months (maybe as much as a year) before this and after they had that 1st big hit, "the future's so bright..."
The recording came out well, no cut songs, and everything is clear, no hiss or problems, this torrent
comes from the original master cassette. I guess this would have to be listed as folk music, but I
don't know what to call it. Most "folk music" bores me, but not this music. They have conscience and
imagination in their songs and a pretty good sense of where the world was at in the late 80's. Don't
know if they ever toured again (maybe in the midwest, I think they're from Cleveland, Ohio area.).
There are several opportune places to break for burning to disc where there is no music or talk going on.
Since I had to redo this, I've added track times and the band line up.