Leo Kottke
2/15/26
Lobero Theatre,
Santa Barbara, CA

7th Row Just ROC;
Neumann AK 40s (x/y) >LC3 >KM 100s >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)
WAV >Audacity (De-Amplify Between-Song Applause, Amplify Entire Recording, Minor Compression, Track Splits, Fades, Minor Edits, Downsample To 16 bit/44.1kHz)
Fix SBE's >FLAC + Tags Via xACT 2.53

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

Disc I:
01. Announcements / Applause
02. Flat Top
03. Living In The Country
04. Louise
05. Disco
06. Frizz Fuller Story / Pizza Towers False Start
07. William Powell
08. From Pizza Towers To Defeat
09. Empty Head / Home Hair Cutting Kit / David Lindley Story
10. Sleepwalk
11. Busted Bicycle Intro
12. Busted Bicycle
13. "I've Seen Enough Of Me" Story

Disc II:
01. Standing In My Shoes
02. Confusion switching guitars, talk
03. Wonderland By Night
04. Emergency Room Story
05. The Sailor's Grave On The Prairie
06. Pamela Brown (false start)
07. Pamela Brown
08. Crow River Waltz
09. The Brain Of The Purple Mountain >
10. (Formally) Four Cents
11. Julie's House Intro
12. Julie's House
13. encore break / applause
14. Jack Fig >Vaseline Machine Gun (encore)


Leo Kottke - Six & 12 String Acoustic Guitars, Vocals


OldNeumanntapr Notes;
This is my fourth time that I have seen Leo at the Lobero, and the fifth Kottke show that I have recorded. I love the theater because it is small and intimate and has wonderful acoustics and I've been recording there since early 1998. This show marks 40 years since I have been a taper and will probably be my last, as ticket prices are just too expensive and, thanks to the necessity of heightened security because of the ever increasing violence in our country, it's just not as much fun as it used to be. Plus, a lot of the artists that I like are old and dying off. I wish I would have recorded Leo Kottke earlier, but I didn't discover him until 2014. How we hadn't crossed paths before I don't know. I love to collect Leo's live shows. Every one of them is different, because of the wacky, rambling, non-sensical stories that he tells as he is tuning. I love his stories equally as much as his music. Another music collector said it best, "People have it all wrong. Leo is a very funny comedian who just happens to be a virtuoso guitarist!" When I play a Kottke live show when my wife and I are on a road trip and he gets into a long meandering story, my wife will frequently exclaim, "Get To The Point!!!" Ah, but the way I look at it the journey is equally as important as the destination! It really has been a Long Strange Trip throughout these past 40 years and I've been privileged to have seen and recorded some pretty amazing musical performances.

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