Mountain Live at the Big Top Riverhead, NY 1996-08-10 and The Westbury Music Fair 1996-08-03 REMASTERED AUD masters

This is a total remastering of one of the very first torrents I did here on Dime. Rather than use the same cdr used for the last torrent, I dug out the master cassettes and redid them with the new soundcardless recording system. The Big Top show is complete as I have it, with no missing song material. Although the WMF portion is still incomplete, there were more tracks on the master. I have now given you everything that I have.

I expect you to hear a night and day difference in the sound quality of the Big Top show. This show featured Johnny Winter with Mountain as the opening act. Recording was certainly allowed, as many recorders were out in the open for this concert.

The Big Top was a round, circus-style tent put up in Riverhead's Polishtown district for this concert. Not much has gone on there since this concert, as the three-day free-of-charge Riverhead Blues Festival has taken over as the main attraction.

The Westbury Music Fair show featured Black Oak Arkansas as the opening act. Mountain went on second, and Foghat was the main event. Although only 28 minutes made it on tape, the Mountain portion is almost complete. They played for only about 35-40 minutes. The Westbury Music Fair features a rotating stage in the round, in the middle of the floor with the seats above and all around it. Depending upon how the acts speakers are set up, the music quality may vary. This is why the sound changes on this performance. It's also in mono, as the microphone malfunctioned in the right channel.

I'd like to thank Dime member Hopboy for encouragement to redo this set. The Big Top show has a really nice quality to it. Mr. West was very particular about his sound quality, and it shows.

setlist:

Big Top (63 mins)

America The Beautiful
Crossroads
Theme From An Imaginary Western
I've Been Accused (my guess at title, correct if wrong)
Never In My Life
For Yasgur's Farm
It's A Man's World
Nantucket Sleighride
Mississippi Queen

WMF (28 mins)

America The Beautiful
Crossroads
For Yasgur's Farm
Theme From An Imaginary Western
It's A Man's World
Band Intros
Nantucket Sleighride (cut)
Mississippi Queen (missing)

Lineage ->Denon HD8-100's ->Tascam 112mkII ->Layla3G ->Soundforge ->Flac Frontend level 8, sectors aligned and verified.

The Layla does not use a soundcard, it goes directly to the bus. Monitoring via Behringer Eurorack.

Enjoy!
A DoinkerTape