Widespread Panic
The Stone Pony
Asbury Park, NJ
11/7/1992

Sony ECM-959 stereo mic ("narrow" 90 degree pickup pattern) -> Sony WM-D6C (mic pad on) -> (live analog patch, no cassette generation) -> Denon DTR-80P (d1)

Transfer: DAT master playback on Sony R500->.flac file recorded on Sound Devices 722 digital input

Mastered: Soundforge Pro 10.0b - *All file manipulation in Soundforge done at 24 bits*. Volume normalization, sample rate conversion 48khz to 44.1khz using iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter, then dithered back to 16 bits using using iZotope MBIT+ with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings. Tracked in CDWav.


One Set:
1. intro
2. Weight Of The World
3. Space Wrangler ->
4. Walkin' (For You Love)
5. Fishwater
6. Travelin' Light
7. Hatfield
8. Makes Sense To Me ->
9. Henry Parsons Died ->
10. Papa's Home ->
11. Proving Ground ->
12. Jack
13. Heaven
14. The Take Out ->
15. Porch Song
16. Dream Song -> DO @ 3:24
17. Pigeons ->
18. Love Tractor
19. encore: Me And The Devil Blues ->
20. Chilly Water

Removed .030 sec dropout @3:23.846 in T16

Recorded by Scott Bernstein and Bob Mishka
Transferred, mastered (April 2010) and tracked by Scott Bernstein

Taper notes:
BARN26 -- this release is my oldest recording that I've worked on for the BARN series and may be the oldest DAT with no cassette generation of a show that I personally recorded. This show is from the post-summer 1992 HORDE tour time when I was checking out the bands that I had seen on HORDE tour for the first time (Phish, ARU, WSP) to see what they could do on their own, given time for a full set. So this was my first time seeing Widespread Panic headline their own show (after being blown away by their set at the Merriweather Post HORDE show). I wasn't quite as blown away by them at this show, though I remember really enjoying "Space Wrangler" (or as my friend Mike Stentz who I attended the show with called it, "The Vibraslap Song", after the percussion instrument that is prominently featured -- google it), "Proving Ground", "Heaven", and maybe a few others.

This was actually just a few weeks before I got my first DAT recorder, so I was still taping analog on my Sony D6, BUT luckily for all of us, my friend Bob Mishka had just gotten the same exact DAT recorder I was about to buy myself and patched it out of my cassette deck! And the Sony D6 probably had better mic preamps than the Denon DAT which has pretty poor mic pre-amps, so we get the best of both worlds (though there is an unfortunate brief dropout in "Papa's Home" for my cassette tape flip 55 minutes into the show as I was using a Sony 110 minute cassette on this night. I was usually pretty good with cassette flips, but the 5 song segue from "Makes Sense To Me" thru "Jack" caught me by surprise....) I was very cautious about the other tape flip after being burned on the first tape flip, flipping after only 33 minutes (before Dream Song) so at least that's clean.

Other than the cassette flip, for some reason the last few seconds of "Chilly Water" seem to be missing from my DAT. My guess is that Bob was using a 2 hour tape and it just ran out. I'm going to see if I can dig up my cassette to patch it up. Stay tuned....

A rundown of my previous BARN archival releases (all can be found on archive.org except as noted):
BARN1 - Col Bruce Hampton and the Code Talkers at Bret & Joyce's wedding 9/17/05
BARN2 - Col Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit (w/guest Warren Haynes for all of set 2) Wetlands 11/20/1993
BARN3 - moe. Wetlands 7/8/1995
BARN4 - Dan Bern Bottom Line 7/31/1998 (late show)
BARN5 - moe. Birch Hill 10/31/1996
BARN6 - moe. Maxwells 1/20/1996
BARN7 - Dan Bern Central Park Summerstage 9/19/1997
BARN8 - Dan Bern, Bottom Line 8/1/1998
BARN9 - moe. Bayou 4/5/1997
BARN10 - moe. Irving Plaza 4/4/1997
BARN11 - moe. AKA 9/7/1995
BARN12 - Yolk AKA 9/7/1995
BARN13 - Robert Walter/Johnny Vidacovich/James Singleton/Donald Harrison Preservation Hall 4/30/08
BARN14 - Phish Las Vegas, NV 10/31/1998 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN15 - Phish Great Went @ Loring AFB, Limestone, ME 8/16/1997 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN16 - Phish Great Went @ Loring AFB, Limestone, ME 8/17/1997 (on bt.etree.org), includes orchestra set - by request
BARN17 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/4/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN18 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/6/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN19 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/7/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN20 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/5/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN21 - God Street Wine, Irving Plaza, NYC 6/24/1993
BARN22 - Leftover Salmon, Wetlands, NYC 10/1/1994
BARN23 - Anders Osborne, Manny's Carwash, NYC 11/5/1997
BARN24 - Anders Osborne, Manny's Carwash, NYC 11/6/1997
BARN25 - moe. Pool Party, Morganville, NJ 6/2/1996
BARN26 - Widespread Panic, Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ 11/7/1992