Funky Meters

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Meters
Liberty Lunch
Austin, TX
February 8, 1996

SB>DAT at 48khz
Sony 9000DDS>PowerMac G5 via DATXtract>Amadeus for tracking and splitting>xACT FLAC level 8

setlist: please add corrections as you see them!

Jam >
The Real Funk >
The Meters Got A Brand New Bag >
Here Comes the Meter Man >
Jungle Man >
Groovy Lady >
Africa >
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) >
Look-Ka Py Py
Honky Tonk Woman
Pocky Way intro > All Shook Up > Hey Pocky A-Way >
Cissy Strut > Reveille >
Cardova >
Get Out of My Life Woman >
George >
Oh Baby, You Don't Have To Go > George >
Down by the River >
Iko, Iko >
They All Ask'd for You >
This Is Rock & Roll > Down At The Corner Beer Joint > Hey Bartender >
Jambalaya tease > Big Chief > Smoke My Peace Pipe > Russell
Ohio > Keep on Marchin' >
Love Slip Upon Ya >
People Say > Crowd
Encore:
It Ain't No Use >
Voodoo Chile (slight return)

This one is a real smoker.  I've seen this show listed at February 6, 1996, but that is incorrect.  Reference these two articles from the Austin Chronicle which support dates of February 8 and 9, 1996 shows:
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:530522
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:530554

I got this show, as well as the following night's show, on DAT shortly after the concerts.  They near perfect soundboards of really great shows.  Enjoy!

upped by keytohwy



The funky Meters
Liberty Lunch
Austin, TX
February 9, 1996

SB>DAT
DAT>Mac G5 via optical cable
Peak 4 for tracking and 44.1 conversion > xACT FLAC 8

Funky Miracle
Africa
Thank You (for letting me be myself)
Look-ka Py Py
Cordova
Get Out My Life Woman
Soul Island
People Get Ready
Just Kissed My Baby
Iko, Iko
They All Asked for You
Hootchie Coo > Drums > All Shook Up
Hey Pocky Way
Bonnie Raitt intro
Hand Jive*
Junco Partner*
Honky Tonk Woman*
Going Down to Louisiana* (?)
Groovy Lady
Doodle Oop (the world is a little bit under the weather)
Cissy Strut
Love the One You're With > Hootchie Coo
Brand New Bag
Saturday Night Fish Fry
I Need More Time
Midnight Rider
e:
Fire on the Bayou

Lineup:
Art Neville
George Porter, Jr.
David Russell Batiste, Jr
Brian Stoltz
*Bonnie Raitt

The best funky Meters show ever?  Tough to beat this one.  Almost every song segues to the next as they move effortlessly across covers ands their own catalog.  A rare "I Need More Time" is also a highlight and who can miss the great Bonnie Raitt sitting in! Great show, well mixed, perfect soundboard with hotter/better levels than the previous night's recording.  A 17 minute version of Fire on the Bayou caps this smokin' 2:20 long set.  A must have for any funk fan.

upped by keytohwy

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Funky Meters
1996-02-09
Liberty Lunch
Austin TX

Source: DSBD > ? > CDR (A+)
Transfer: CDR > EAC (secure/offset correct) > WAV >
shntool > CDWave (retracked) > shntool > Flac Frontend
v1.7.1 (level 5) > FLAC by bcc32065 7/28/04

Setlist:

Disc 1: Set 1: [72:26]

01. Funky Miracle >
02. Africa >
03. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) >
04. Look-Ka Py Py
05. Cardova >
06. Get Out My Life Woman >
07. Soul Island >
08. People Get Ready >
09. Just Kissed My Baby >
10. Jam >
11. Iko Iko >
12. They All Ask'd For You >
13. Hoochie Coo >
14. All Shook Up >
15. Hey Pocky Way >
16. Willie And The Hand Jive > *
17. Junco Partner > *
18. Honky Tonk Woman *
19. Goin' To Louisiana > Rollin' And Tumblin' *

Disc 2: Set 2: [64:14]

01. Groovy Lady >
02. (Doodle Loop) The World Is A Little Bit Under The Weather >
03. Cissy Strut >
04. Love The One You're With >
05. Hoochie Coo >
06. Would The Real Funk Stand Up >
07. Saturday Night Fish Fry >
08. Jam >
09. Bass Solo >
10. I Need More Time >
11. Midnight Rider
------------
12. Jam >
13. Fire On The Bayou >
14. Jam

* with Bonnie Raitt

Size: 851 MB (FLAC)

The Funky Meters:
Art Neville Jr - organ, vocals
Brian Stoltz - guitar, vocals
George Porter Jr - bass, vocals
David Russell Batiste Jr - drums

This show's a scorcher, I don't know why it hasn't been transferred and more widely circulated before now.  It's wall to wall funk, y'all, so burn up a phatty boom batty blunt, shake that loose booty, and I'll see you down at the fish fry!



The Meters
3/2/96
The Double Diamond - Aspen, CO

Source: SBD
Transfer: Sony D8 > S/PDIF > M Audio Microtrack 24/96 > WAV > Audacity > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC
Taper Unknown
Transferred & Seeded by Bill Graves

~ Disc 1 ~
1. They'll Be Rockin' >
2. Cissy Strut >
3. Jam >
4. Africa >
5. Thank You >
6. Get You Outta My Mind >
7. (Standing on the Corner) >
8. Iko Iko >
9. Here Comes the Meter Man
10. Kissed My Baby >
11. Jungle Man
12. Midnight Rider >
13. Fire on the Bayou

~ Disc 2 ~
1. Happy Birthday >
2. Reform
3. Chicken Strut >
4. Soul Island >
5. Dance the Mardi Gras
~ Encore ~
6. Crowd
7. Drums >
8. Hand Jive >
9. Maybeline
10. Hey Pocky Way >
11. Gotta Get it On >
12. Chug Chug Chug-A-Lug //

Note:
The ending is clipped.

This show is a Boiler in the Basement Installment -
http://boilerinthebasementmusic.wordpress.com/



The Funky Meters
March 2, 1996
Aspen, CO @ Double Diamond

SBD > ??? > DAT > ??? > CDR > EAC > FLAC

Disc One:
1. Drums > Funkin' It Up > Rockin' >
2. Cissy Strut >
3. Cardova >
4. Africa > Thank You >
5. Can't Get You Outta My Mind >
6. Go To The Mardi Gras [Professor Longhair] >
7. Iko Iko [The Dixie Cups] >
8. Drums > ?Groovy Lady or Here Comes the Meter Man?
9. Kissed My Baby >
10. Jungle Man
11. Midnight Rider >

Disc Two:
1. Midnight Rider Jam >
2. Fire on the Bayou
3. (aud/setbreak/aud)
4. intros > Happy Birthday
5. Change/Reform
6. Chicken Strut >
7. Little Old Money Maker >
8. Soul Island > Drums >
9. Big Chief > Smoke My Peace Pipe
10. (aud)
Encore:
11. Drums > Hand Jive >
12. Maybeline [Chuck Berry] > Hey Pocky Way > Wop Bop > Pocky Way >
13. Chug Chug Chug-A-Lug > Ya Momma Don't Dance ?/cut/?

Art Neville, George Porter Jr., Brian Stoltz, David Russell Batiste

Note:
This source is not missing the last 4 minutes. There is a source that circulates that cuts about 3 minutes into Chug A Lug.



The funky Meters
Georgia Theatre
Athens, GA
April 16, 1996

MicroTech Geffels Cardioids>DAT @48khz
Sony 9000DDS>PowerMac G5 via DATXtract
Tracking via Amadeus

Funk it Up
Saturday Night Fish Fry >
Shake Rattle and Roll
Cordova >
People Say > Bass solo >
Africa >
Thank You >
Look-ka Py Py
9 till 5
Just Kissed My Baby >
Drums
Cissy Strut
Love the One You're With
Soul Island
Keep on Marching
Love Slip up on Ya
Ain't No Use

Encore:
Honky Tonk Woman
Hey Pocky a-Way > All Shook Up
Fire on the Bayou



The Funky Meters
Georgia Theatre
Athens, GA
April 17, 1996

AKG 460's > SBM1 > WAV > CD WAVE (tracking) > TLH > FLAC(8)
Transfer: keytohwy
Post-Production: robbiem (tracking/flac'ing/txt'ing)

Disc One
1. Funky Miracle > Sing A Simple Song > Funky Miracle > (9:24)
2. Groovy Lady > (4:44)
3. Hang 'Em High > (5:03)
4. House Of The Rising Sun > (3:12)
5. Africa > (6:27)
6. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) > (2:57)
7. Look-Ka Py Py (3:28)
8. Cissy Strut > (5:29)
9. (The World Is A Little Bit Under The Weather) Doodle-Oop > (5:43)
10. George & Russell > (3:34)
11. Come Together > (6:07)
12. Midnight Rider (8:45)
13. Got To Give It Up (Part 1) > Pocky-Away Intro > Willie & The Hand Jive > (6:01)
14. Hey Pocky-Away (6:06)
Total: 77:07

Disc Two
1. Seven Desires (7:34)
2. Pungee (3:27)
3. Band Intros (1:19)
4. Chug-A-Lug > (6:09)
5. Your Mama Don't Dance > (2:16)
6. Iko Iko > (3:12)
7. Jambalaya > (1:43)
8. They All Ask'd For You (3:39)
9. Crowd/Band Intro (1:52)
10. Russell (2:23)
11. Brian > Brian & Russell > (2:30)
12. Voodoo Child > (9:12)
13. Purple Haze > (4:05)
14. Fire On The Bayou (15:39)
TotalT: 65:07

Thanks to keytohwy for providing the goods.

Art Neville: Keyboards/Vocals
George Porter, Jr.: Bass/Vocals
Brian Stoltz: Guitar/Vocals
Russell Batiste, Jr.: Drums/Vocals



The funky Meters
Fillmore Auditorium,
San Francisco, CA
Schoeps MK4's>?>DAT

Set I
Cissy Strut
Cordova
Saturday Night Fish Fry
The Real Funk
Africa
Thank You
Look-Ka Py Py
People Say
Come Together
Groovy Lady
44 Blues intro >
All Shook Up >
Hey Pocky a-Way medley (All Shook Up, Iko Iko, etc.)

Set II
Keep on Marching
Love Slip Up on Ya
Hang 'em High
House of the Rising Sun
Soul Island
People Get Ready
Honky Tonk Woman
Cummins Prison Farm
Jungle Man
Midnight Rider
Fire on the Bayou
encore break
Ain't No Use

Smoking Fire on the Bayou and then back for a long intro to Ain't No Use.  On fire with two sets.  Almost 3 hours of music.


Funky Meters
Luther Burbank Center for the Arts
Santa Rosa, CA
1996-06-29

Source:   Sonics > D7 by Andrei Soloviev
Transfer: MDAT > Fostex D-15 > Tascam DA-3000 > WAV @ 16/48
Master:   Wavelab 12 (tracking, levels, EQ) > FLAC 1648

Thanks to Andrei for taping and lending his tape to be digitized, to Robbie Mendelson for help with song titles, and to Ted Mattes for facilitating

01. \Jam (Pumping It Up) >
02. Cissy Strut >
03. Get Out My Life, Woman >
04. drums - bass - jam >
05. Saturday Nite Fish Fry >
06. Love The One You're With
07. Soul Island >
08. Funk Medley >
09. Sing A Simple Song
10. Just Kissed My Baby >
11. They All Ask'd For You >
12. Do You Wanna Dance >
13. Iko Iko >
14. jam - bass solo >
15. Come Together >
16. jam
17. Africa >
18. Thank You For Letting Me Be Mice Elf >
19. Hang 'em High >
20. Honky Tonk Woman >
21. Look-Ka-Py-Py >
22. Hey Pocky Way >
23. Big Chief

Two hours of steady jams and grooves, with just the first few seconds of the show's beginning missing.  The taper needed about 2 minutes to get the levels set and then everything is fine.  As is common with the Sonics, there was more bass and less treble than ideal.  A little EQ helps.

Between Do You Wanna Dance and Iko Iko appears a curious snippet of music and lyrics that GP Jr. says is a "bastardized Bo Diddley groove that Art Neville just made up words to."

Enjoy!

--mhg :: 2025-01-06


The Funky Meters
Tipitina's
New Orleans
Oct. 31, 1996

SBD > DAT > WAV > AUDACITY (phase inversion - left channel) > CD WAVE (tracking) > TLH > FLAC(8)
Transfer: keytohwy
Post-Production (tracking/flac'ing/txt): robbiem

Disc One
1. People Get Ready > (3:42)
2. Love The One You're With > (4:49)
3. Iko Iko > (2:52)
4. Do You Wanna Dance? > (1:25)
5. Hey Bartender > (2:28)
6. Africa > (5:08)
7. George & Russell > (2:24)
8. Just Kissed My Baby > (9:41)
9. Groovy Lady > (2:44)
10. I Been Hoodooed > (2:18)
11. Tippi-Toes > (2:18)
12. Cardova > (2:55)
13. Brian > (2:04)
14. Fiyo Tease > (3:31)
15. Ain't No Use > (15:03)
16. Voodoo Child (8:14)
17. Crowd/Band Intro (3:23)

Disc Two
1. E: Big Chief > Smoke My Peace Pipe (7:26)
2. E: Fire On The Bayou (18:25)

NOTES
_ This is an upgrade to the previously circulating copy that was out-of-phase. It is identical in every other way. Thanks to nolataper for pointing out the problem.
_ D1T01 starts at a segue. Don't know how much is missing.
_ There's a hum that appears intermittently. I've found it only very noticeable with headphones.
_ The drum speed fluctuations at the end of Just Kissed My Baby was Russell having fun, not a problem with the recording.
_ I would normally balance the lengths of a two-disc show but the first 70+ minutes are uninterrupted and I thought it best to keep it that way. Feel free to burn it any way you wish. If you move D1T17 to the second disc, it'll at least reach about 30 minutes.

Thanks to sessone and, especially, keytohwy for providing the goods.

Art Neville: Keyboards/Vocals
George Porter, Jr.: Bass/Vocals
Brian Stoltz: Guitar/Vocals
Russell Batiste, Jr.: Drums/Vocals



Funky Meters
9:30 club
Washington, DC
december 5, 1996

Schoeps mk4's ortf>schoeps power supply/pre amp>d7
dat clone > dtc700> hhb 850> eac> cd wave> mkw act

Recorded by popskull, employing the "shoe mics" tecnique on the balcony above the sbd

transferred and tracked by drewcrew

the meters roll from song to song very frequently; so Im sure that someone can improve on my track markers...

disc 1

1. The Meters Got A Brand New Bag
2. It's your thing
3. soul island
4. Do You Wanna Dance? > Jambalaya >
5. 9 'Til 5
6. Africa
7. Look-A Py Py
8. Just kissed my baby
9. the world is a little bit under the weather
10. Hey pockey way tease
11. all shook up> ? >hey pockey way

disc 2

1. Chug a lug
2. Voodoo chile
3. Ain't no use
4. E: cissy strut cut because of 2 hr tape
5. Npr Jazz fest interview 4-21-05

Thanks to popskull for all the hard work!

enjoy! and support new orleans' musicians....


SHNID	Artist	Date	Venue	City	State
169867	Funky Meters	1996-02-08	Liberty Lunch	Austin	TX
SB>DAT at 48khz Sony 9000DDS>PowerMac G5 via DATXtract>Amadeus for tracking and splitting>xACT FLAC level 8
169728	Funky Meters	1996-02-09	Liberty Lunch	Austin	TX
SB>DAT DAT>Mac G5 via optical cable Peak 4 for tracking and 44.1 conversion > xACT FLAC 8
169729	Funky Meters	1996-02-09	Liberty Lunch	Austin	TX
Source: DSBD > ? > CDR (A+) Transfer: CDR > EAC (secure/offset correct) > WAV > shntool > CDWave (retracked) > shntool > Flac Frontend v1.7.1 (level 5) > FLAC by bcc32065 7/28/04
132427	Funky Meters	1996-03-02	Double Diamond	Aspen	CO
Source: SBD Transfer: Sony D8 > S/PDIF > M Audio Microtrack 24/96 > WAV > Audacity > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC Taper Unknown Transferred & Seeded by Bill Graves
169925	Funky Meters	1996-03-02	Double Diamond	Aspen	CO
SBD > ??? > DAT > ??? > CDR > EAC > FLAC
169730	Funky Meters	1996-04-16	Georgia Theatre	Athens	GA
MicroTech Geffels Cardioids>DAT @48khz Sony 9000DDS>PowerMac G5 via DATXtract Tracking via Amadeus
169731	Funky Meters	1996-04-17	Georgia Theater	Athens	GA
AKG 460's > SBM1 > WAV > CD WAVE (tracking) > TLH > FLAC(8) Transfer: keytohwy Post-Production: robbiem (tracking/flac'ing/txt'ing)
169868	Funky Meters	1996-06-28	The Fillmore	San Francisco	CA
Schoeps MK4's>?>DAT
169720	Funky Meters	1996-06-29	Luther Burbank Center for the Arts	Santa Rosa	CA
Source: Sonics > D7 by Andrei Soloviev Transfer: MDAT > Fostex D-15 > Tascam DA-3000 > WAV @ 16/48 Master: Wavelab 12 (tracking, levels, EQ) > FLAC 1648
169755	Funky Meters	1996-10-31	Tipitinas	New Orleans	LA
SBD > DAT > WAV > AUDACITY (phase inversion - left channel) > CD WAVE (tracking) > TLH > FLAC(8) Transfer: keytohwy Post-Production (tracking/flac'ing/txt): robbiem
169756	Funky Meters	1996-12-05	9:30 Club	Washington	DC
Schoeps mk4's ortf>schoeps power supply/pre amp>d7 dat clone > dtc700> hhb 850> eac> cd wave> mkw act Recorded by popskull, employing the "shoe mics" tecnique on the balcony above the sbd transferred and tracked by drewcrew

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