Warren Haynes Band
May 10 2025
Majestic Ventura Theatre
Ventura, CA

Neumann KM 140s (ORTF) >Lunatec V2 (30db Gain) >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)
Recorded 2nd Tier Center Directly In Front Of Soundboard Area, Microphones On A Five-Foot Stand (As Not To Interfere With Lighting Technician's Sight Lines.)

WAV >Audacity (Amplify, Track Splits, Fades, Downsample To 16bit / 44.1kHz) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

Recorded, Audacity Post Production, FLAC, Tags, Front Cover Artwork, And Photos, By OldNeumanntapr

Set 1:

01. WHB Intro >
02. Man In Motion
03. Go Down Swinging
04. Sick Of My Shadow (Blue Sky Tease)
05. Banks Of The Deep End
06. This Life As We Know It
07. What Is Hip? >
08. I've Been Workin' >
09. What Is Hip?
10. You Ain’t Above Me
11. Instrumental Illness

Set 2:
01. For Here On Out
02. From A Whisper To A Scream
03. That’s What Love Will Make You Do (w/ Saxon Weiss on Guitar)
04. Stage Fright
05. Thorazine Shuffle
06. Tear Me Down
07. It’s My Own Fault
08. Invisible (Feelin’ Alright, Les Brers In A Minor, & Flashlight teases)


Encore:
09. Soulshine (Prophet Omega tease)


Million Voices Whisper Tour

Warren Haynes - Guitars, Vocals
Kevin Scott - Bass
Matt Slocum - Keyboards
Terence Higgins - Drums

https://warrenhaynes.net
https://saxonweiss.com/home

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
My sister had an extra ticket for me for the previous night's show at the Fremont Theater in San Luis Obispo, but I couldn't make it and had to pass. I asked her later about the show and she said that there were a few tapers there but the venue made them set up against the back wall of the theater, most likely to reduce sight-line restrictions.

I had purchased a ticket for the WHB at the Ventura Theatre when they first went on sale in January and figured it would be a nice birthday present for myself as I would be turning sixty in May. I didn't realize at the time that tickets would go on sale soon after for the Fremont Theater show, much closer to home.

I have recorded at both theaters many times, but I hadn't been to the Ventura Theatre in 24 years, since the Cowboy Junkies show in 2001, so I really wanted to visit the Ventura Theatre again. I left home at 3:15pm from Santa Maria and got to Ventura at about five PM. Doors opened at 7pm and the show started at 8:00 so I had some time to kill. I found a killer parking place on Chestnut a block west of the theatre next to the park and I changed my shirt. I wanted to wear my 1992 Allman Brothers Band tour shirt which normally sits in a drawer with a bunch of other old concert shirts that are only worn on special occasions.

Walking by the stage door I saw Warren Haynes standing outside talking with some of the crew so I went over and said hi to him. I told him that the last time I talked with him was backstage at Red Rocks in Colorado a month before 911. I told him that I was the guy who had told him then to, 'take good care of yourself, don't do anything risky or unsafe. We want you to be around for a while. Don't die young like Jerry (Garcia)." I asked him if he remembered that, and he smiled and said, "I do Now!"
I held my mic stand up and asked, "Audio taping tonight?" and he said yes, and if I had any trouble to talk with Fred Cox, the Road Manager.

I told him thanks and that I was glad for all that he did for tapers, and made my way to the front doors of the theater. I asked one of the staff members where the theater people wanted tapers tonight and he checked with the sound crew and came back and said, "Anywhere was fine". That was cool with me and I said thanks.

By this time I was looking at an hour-and-a half wait until doors, but it went fast. I was the second person in line. Another taper joined me in line and we struck up a conversation. I had brought my copy of Bill Kreutzman's biography and I read a bit of it to pass the time and also talked with some of the people in line.

I got through the doors easily with only a cursory look through my taping bag and Michael, the other taper, and I elected to take the spot directly in front of the board at the back of the second tier. Because we were directly in front of the lighting board we could only keep our microphones at a height of about five feet, but it worked out OK because the speaker cabinets were low and the crowd around us was quiet.

Why does it seem like my microphone stand chooses to break down for warren Haynes shows? In 1998 some of the plastic clamps on my Smith-Vector stand broke as I was setting up for my first Gov't Mule show at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz, necessitating patching into Dan Sisler's Neumann >Lunatec >DA-P1 rig. Tonight was no different. When I tried to set up my 39-year old stand the last remaining plastic thumb clamps shattered leaving it in a sad state. Luckily I had a roll of duct tape in my pack.

I used my Fiio portable headphone amp to monitor with my Sennheiser 770 closed headphones, and I thought (at the time) that the bass was too loud and a bit boomy, but when I listened to the recording at home it sounded a lot better. That's not the first time that a recording has sounded better than the actual show did.

I have seen and recorded Warren with the Allman Brothers Band, as far back as 1992, and I have recorded Gov't Mule a handful of times, but this was my first time recording the Warren Haynes Band. As a result, a lot of his material was new to me. I did like hearing the Mule tunes and the Soulshine encore was awesome.

Warren brought a young guitarist, named Saxon Weiss, onstage to play guitar on 'That's What Love Will Make You Do' and I thought he was very impressive. He was just a little squirt but he could play! It reminded me of seeing Derek Trucks onstage when he was young. It was amazing to see the crowd's response! So many camera phones suddenly lit up!! Mine was one of them. I walked up on the left side and shot the photo that I used for the front cover just at the top of the steps above the front tier. I was impressed by his playing.

Thanks so much to Warren Haynes and his crew, and thanks as well to the staff at the Ventura Theatre. This was a much better experience than I have had at that theatre in the past getting gear in for open taping bands.

Dinner at In-And-Out Burger in Santa Barbara at midnight and home by 1:30 AM. All in all a good night!


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