STEVE WYNN QUARTET and JOHN WESLEY HARDING - January 30, 1998 - Kulturfabrik, JUZ, Lichtenfels, Germany
**SOUNDBOARD-DAT master, MWM 0053**
>>STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES & UNIQUE SETLIST, and: !!HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVE!!<<
TODAY IS THE DAY:
STEVE WYNN'S BIRTHDAY
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THIS IS FOR YOU, MY FRIEND, AND ALL THE BEST !
To celebrate this event in an appropriate way, it was necessary to dig deep
in our vaults. After removing the dust of more than a decade those tapes came out.
This one here is THE REAL STUFF...UNRELEASED AND UNTRADED, SO FAR !
Preliminary remark 1:
Jaap, thanks for opening your INCREDIBLE archive of
Dream Syndicate, Steve Wynn, Danny & Dusty, Gutterball etc...etc...
Time for us to pay back (a little, at least...)
Jens Jakob, thanks for all your hard work here. You're doing the job of
Sisyphus for me, rolling a tape, and when it's up on the DIME-"hill",
there is another one waiting to be rolled...again and again and again...
Preliminary remark 2:
Steve Wynn is touring in Europe right now, together with Robert Lloyd
and Eric Van Loo. GO AND SEE THEM LIVE !! Don't forget your recorder,
but ASK the artists first for their permission ! ROLL YOUR TAPES !
I'D LIKE TO SEE SOME MORE STEVE WYNN/ROBERT LLOYD FROM THE RECENT TOUR ON DIME !!
Preliminary remark 3:
Here is the COMPLETE AUDIENCE recording of this show:
Torrent #167449 STEVE WYNN QUARTET and JOHN WESLEY HARDING -
January 30, 1998 - Kulturfabrik, JUZ, Lichtenfels, Germany
**Audience-DAT master, MWM 0022**
>>STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES & UNIQUE SETLIST<<
This recording here comes directly from the "Men With Microphones" archive.
"MWM" started in the 70ies in South Germany with analog recording equipment,
and at least two of them are still recording sometimes (since the 90ies on DAT,
and, lazy as we are, since lately with small, handheld WAV-recorders on SD-cards).
About this concert:
Most of the concerts of the STEVE WYNN QUARTET 1998 German Tour proceeded the same
way: John Wesley Harding opened, and then the Quartet rocked the venues, and during
the set or the encores JWH joined them, playing guitar or harmonica and did some
lead and harmony vocals...and sometimes Kirk Swan sang "Blessing In Disguise".
There had been just TWO exceptions:
- JZ Kamp, Bielefeld, Germany on February 6, 1998. It was a double-headliner-show:
support act John Wesley Harding, followed by the Steve Wynn Quartet and finally
Rich Hopkins & Luminarios (as usual: the more nice comments, the earlier up on DIME...)
- THIS ONE HERE...
I'll try to shorten the story... ;-)
This concert was planned to happen at Live Club, Bamberg, Germany, a really nice venue
in the historic district of this beautiful city, near to the cathedral (built in 1004).
BUT...
Short after the concert at Mälze, Regensburg, i got some phonecalls: one from the promoter
of the Bamberg show, the second from Barry (european agent, tour-manager, sound-wizard...),
and a third one from the german concert agency. Summary:
There was NO WAY to play Bamberg (maybe they didn't promote the show good enough, or didn't
sell enough tickets ?), Barry hated an off-day, and they surprised ME to find another venue...
Everybody working in this business knows that there is NO CHANCE
to do this, at least not in four or five days before the show !
So i asked my friend Tom, promoter at JUZ, Lichtenfels - and he accepted. Four days of hard
work for him, his wife and his crew: posters in the city, advertisements in the newspapers,
customize the venue, organise the drinks and snacks...etc...etc.
The fun was on my side: driving to Heilbonn to watch the show there, and guide them to our
house where the band, a driver/merchandizer and Barry stayed for the following few days. Then
they rocked the E-Werk in Erlangen, and the next day was a 9sqm-session at HO*T FM Hof.
And after that, on the way to our home, there was this concert here in Lichtenfels...
It turned out as some kind of livingroom-gig, with an excellent PA-system (for a room of this
size). The band, the quartet and JWH onstage, and more than twice as much people as audience
in front of them, including promoter Tom and his wife Andrea, Joe and Otto from HO*T FM, one
guy from the newspaper, and my wife and myself...less than 20 people, band AND audience !
It's hard to get a bigger crowd within four days, in the franconian prairie 100 kilometers
north of Nuremberg...and during the week...
So the band decided to play a VERY SPECIAL concert - and it is (almost) untraded so far.
I just made ONE digiclone for my buddy Frizze, and he gave just one analog copy to
Jaap for the archive...
this is the ultimate upgrade...
fresh pressed from the DAT-master, with a little remastering...
Barry was, mildly said, a little pissed, and so this boardtape is not his masterpiece.
BUT THERE WAS NO SOUNDCHECK, so he did everything on the fly. Starting the first song
really good, the drums increased to get too prominent, and during the first half of the
second song they came out too loud, then he changed a bit and the vocals overtook...
There are some slight volume fluctuations during the first two songs, and a short
diginoise at the beginning of song #1 (at about second 18), but nothing to worry about.
AHH, not to forget: Wes is an animal onstage, with an extremely loud voice - be prepared!
STEVE WYNN QUARTET and JOHN WESLEY HARDING
Kulturfabrik, JUZ,
Lichtenfels, Germany
January 30, 1998
lineage:
recorded by Barry Everitt for Leo, soundboard to lonetaper's DAT, with permission by all artists...
Soundboard (engineers: Barry Everitt & TomB) > Analog Cables (coax) > Sony DTC-60ES (recorded with
Super Bit Mapping, 16 bit, SP 48 kHz) > DAT (Maxell HS-4/90s, Helical-Scan 4mm Data Cartridge, 90 meter tape)
DAT (master) > Tascam DA-20 II, S/P-DIF out > Digital Cable (coax) >
> Behringer Ultramatch SRC 2000 (Sample Rate Converter & Jitter Remover) > Digital Cable (coax) > Soundcard, S/P-DIF in >
> CD Wave (recording) > Harddisc > CD Wave (tracking) > Traders Little Helper (SB aligned/level 8) > FLAC > DIME
the concert:
01. From A Better Place # $ 5:23
02. Nothing But The Shell $ 5:11
03. This Strange Effect 3:15
04. For All I Care 3:31
05. Why 3:21
06. How's My Little Girl 4:56
07. Layer By Layer 4:53
08. Bonnie & Clyde & 4:34
09. I'm Staying Here (And..Not Buying A Gun) & JWH 4:09
10. U Got The Look & JWH 3:02
11. Scared Of Guns & JWH 5:12
12. In Love With Everyone & 5:09
encore:
13. John Coltrane Stereo Blues &* 15:43
total: 68:19 mins
marks
# - first ~25 seconds missed (Barry, the board and the recorder...)
$ - unreleased in 1998
& - w/ John Wesley Harding on guitar, harmonica and/or backing vocals
JWH - lead vocals by John Wesley Harding
* - first time this tour
musicians:
Steve Wynn - vocals, guitar
Kirk Swan - guitar, backing vocals
Kurt Statham - bass
Linda Pitmon - drums, backing vocals
plus (check the marks):
John Wesley Harding - guitar, harmonica, lead or backing vocals
Please support the artists, visit their concerts and buy their CDs...
Tourdates are in the comments-section !
Check out their websites...
Steve:
http://www.stevewynn.net
http://www.myspace.com/stevewynnthemiracle3
http://www.bluerose-records.de/
Linda:
http://www.myspace.com/lindapitmon
http://www.drummergirl.com/interviews/pitmon.html
Wes:
http://www.wesweb.net/
http://www.johnwesleyharding.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Harding_(singer)
http://www.wesleystace.com/
http://www.myspace.com/wesleystace
Barry:
http://www.musictank.co.uk/resources/speaker-biographies/barry-everitt-promoter-the-borderline/
THIS TORRENT IS DEDICATED TO STEVE AND LINDA plus all past & present bandmembers...NOT TO FORGET WES!
Thanks to my wife, Mrs. Leo for supporting all my crazyness...and to Tom & Andrea.
You know, our friend Dave T says: "There's always more to come..."
And i'll promise you to keep MY tapes coming...
Leo
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Recorded, transferred & finally uploaded by lonetaper on Dime, February 2008. This is "MWM 0053"