Mermen

The Mermen
Stork Club
Oakland CA
April 20, 2014 (Sunday)

Source: SBD (stereo feed) + MG M300s (7 ft. stand @ SBD, ~20 ft. from stage) > SD 744T > WAVEs (24/44.1)
Transfer: SD 744T (FW) > G5 Dual Mac (Logic/Peak/xACT) > FLACs (level 8)
Recording and mastering by Michael Zelner

Set 1 (1:39:36)
1 Madagascar
2 Varykino Snow
3 Raglan
4 Ocean Beach
5 Sponge Cookie
6 Under The Kou Tree
7 With No Definite Future. . .
8 Sand
9 One Hundred Foot Lemon
10 (banter/tuning)
11 Apo Calypso (aka Jungle Rot)
12 Between I And Thou
13 Driving The Cow

Set 2 (1:26:04)
1 "Neil Young No. 41" >
2 Little Stinky Kitty
3 Be My Noir >
4 Into The West
5 Gulch Of Spleens
6 Dragonfly
7 The Goodbye
8 Hammerhead > Third Stone From The Sun
9 Trapeze
10 Jack The Ripper
11 Redemption Song
12 Shooting Star
13 Last Forever

total time: 3:15:40

Set 1: 9:30pm - 11:10pm
Set 2: 11:40pm - 1:06am


Jim Thomas - electric guitars
Allen Whitman - electric bass guitars
Martyn Jones - drums

http://mermen.net

- Presented by Tom the Nurse
- Easter + 4/20 show


The Mermen jam with Henry Kaiser and Michael Manring
Don Quixote's
Felton, California
November 8, 2014


Players were Jim Thomas (guitar), Martyn Jones (drums) with Henry Kaiser (guitar) and Michael Manring (bass)

1st set

disc one
01. Intro jam ->
02. Dark Star (Grateful Dead) ->
03. Night Comes In (Richard Thompson) ->
04. Cortez the Killer (Neil Young) ->
05. Spanish Jam (Grateful Dead) ->
06. bass solo (Michael Manring) ->
[61:15]

disc two
01. St. Stephen (Grateful Dead) ->
02. Dark Star (Grateful Dead) ->
03. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) (Simon and Garfunkel) ->
04. Dark Star (Grateful Dead) ->
05. I'm So Glad (Cream)


2nd set

disc two (continued)
06. Intro jam ->
07. Cobra (Quicksilver) ->
08. Albatross (Fleetwood Mac) ->
09. Ode to Billy Joe (Bobby Gentry)
[62:24]

disc three
01. Morning Dew (Bonnie Dobson-Grateful Dead)
02. 1983... A Merman I Should Turn To Be (Hendrix) ->
03. The Fishin' Hole (theme to The Andy Griffith Show) (Earle Hagen and Herbert Spencer)
04. 3rd Stone From The Sun (Hendrix) ->
05. Interstellar Overdrive (Pink Floyd)
[44:11]

complete show: 2HR 47 MIN 50 SEC


Welcome to my recording nightmare and this Frankenstein compilation of 3 different sources

A disaster of a night of recording for me.
The show started before my equipment was fully set up and I had a very difficult time figuring out what was wrong in the dark.
My recording program kept saying "No Input" and crashing.
After struggling for the first 10 minutes I gave up and walked away so I could enjoy the performance.
Came back after a while and tried again.
Ended up that the Compact Flash card was not fully inserted into the IPAC computer slot.
By the time it was running I had missed the first 25 minutes of the show.

The second set started and the IPAC (hand held computer) looked normal like everything was working fine.
No such luck.
I guess I had crashed the program so many times it was just getting back at me.
Turns out there was nothing but 90 minutes of silence on that card.
At least I wasn't stressing for the entire show.
Although it's a bit painful now.

Glad there were others recording.

This is how it is put together here...


1. Regarding the source for the majority of the first set:

Recorded by Mike Martin
With 2 Sennheiser e-614 microphones on stands near the edges of the stage
Recorded with a core sound 24-96 > IPAC computer (well should say almost recorded)

Spliced the two sources together at the 25:33 mark or 4:42 of the second track
It is the point where the recording goes to a wide stereo sound.

2. Regarding the source used to fill in the first 25 minutes and for almost all of the second set:

Can't remember his name but he said he had Neumann KM55 microphones > (I think) Sony PCM-M10
Recorded in the back of the room and both microphones were on a single stand.

CD's were burnt and given out after the show.
Disc 1 was very scratched up so I only used the beginning for the first set.
Disc 2 was missing Interstellar Overdrive.
Of course, another dose of Murphy's law.


3. Regarding the final source used for the final song "Interstellar Overdrive":
The version used to complete this show can be found in the "music" section at archive.org
https://archive.org/details/MermenAndHenryKaiser11082014
The version at this location is mp3 but what is used here came from a torrent site and was in flac24 format

Recorded by Chris Berry from FOB
2 Church Audio CA-11 microphones > Sony PCM-M10 at 28/48k
Audacity (fades and cuts) > flac 24 (level 8)


to put these different sources together:
Audacity was used to clean up some diginoise at about 6:30 of disc 1 track 1 then to convert the last song to 16-44.
Adobe Audition 3.0 for the splices and minor repairs.
CD Wav to cut tracks on sector boundaries
Traders Little Helper to convert to flac (level 8) and create checksums and fingerprints
Stamp ID3 tag editor to add the song titles and other info

Many thanks to the musicians and to the tapers that helped complete this.
Additional thanks to Denise Halbe for the beautiful posters.
enjoy
-M- (Nov. 2014)

A FLYING M PRODUCTION

FAN RECORDINGS FOR COLLECTORS
TRADE FREELY BUT PLEASE DO NOT SELL




Logfiles


flac conversion

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No errors occured.


verification

mermen-kaiser-manring-2014-11-08-d1 tr01.flac:  tested ok (file is decodable without error).
mermen-kaiser-manring-2014-11-08-d1 tr02.flac:  tested ok (file is decodable without error).
mermen-kaiser-manring-2014-11-08-d1 tr03.flac:  tested ok (file is decodable without error).
mermen-kaiser-manring-2014-11-08-d1 tr04.flac:  tested ok (file is decodable without error).
mermen-kaiser-manring-2014-11-08-d1 tr05.flac:  tested ok (file is decodable without error).
mermen-kaiser-manring-2014-11-08-d1 tr06.flac:  tested ok (file is decodable without error).
mermen-kaiser-manring-2014-11-08-d2 tr01.flac:  tested ok (file is decodable without error).
mermen-kaiser-manring-2014-11-08-d2 tr02.flac:  tested ok (file is decodable without error).
mermen-kaiser-manring-2014-11-08-d2 tr03.flac:  tested ok (file is decodable without error).
mermen-kaiser-manring-2014-11-08-d2 tr04.flac:  tested ok (file is decodable without error).
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mermen-kaiser-manring-2014-11-08-d2 tr06.flac:  tested ok (file is decodable without error).
mermen-kaiser-manring-2014-11-08-d2 tr07.flac:  tested ok (file is decodable without error).
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mermen-kaiser-manring-2014-11-08-d2 tr09.flac:  tested ok (file is decodable without error).
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mermen-kaiser-manring-2014-11-08-d3 tr03.flac:  tested ok (file is decodable without error).
mermen-kaiser-manring-2014-11-08-d3 tr04.flac:  tested ok (file is decodable without error).
mermen-kaiser-manring-2014-11-08-d3 tr05.flac:  tested ok (file is decodable without error).

No errors occured.

Note to anyone who even looks at this part of a torrent
file names were modified to conform to the e tree naming policy of no gap allowed between artist and year or disc and track numbers


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The Mermen and Henry Kaiser play Don Quixote's International Music Hall in Felton, CA.
Recorded by Chris Berry from FOB with Sony pcm-m10/ca 11 rig...28/48k wav to 8/24 flac in audacity with fades and cuts applied


SHNID	Artist	Date	Venue	City	State
128745	Mermen	2014-04-20	Stork Club	Oakland	CA
Source: SBD (stereo feed) + MG M300s (7 ft. stand @ SBD, ~20 ft. from stage) > SD 744T > WAVEs (24/44.1) Transfer: SD 744T (FW) > G5 Dual Mac (Logic/Peak/xACT) > FLACs (level 8) Recording and mastering by Michael Zelner
132187	Mermen	2014-11-08	Don Quixote's	Felton	CA
Recorded by Mike Martin With 2 Sennheiser e-614 microphones on stands near the edges of the stage Recorded with a core sound 24-96 > IPAC computer (well should say almost recorded)
132916	Mermen	2014-11-08	Don Quixote's	Felton	CA
Recorded by Chris Berry from FOB with Sony pcm-m10/ca 11 rig

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