Solar Circus

Solar Circus
Joker's Pub
Harrisonburg, VA
2/2/93

SBD>MC>Dynaco PAS 3X>Soundforge>CDWav>Flac

Cassette masters recorded on a Sony WM-D3.
Set 1 Maxell XLII
Set2 Maxell XLIIS

Master recording & transfer by Gary Knight (DynacoST70 on Dime)


Set 1
All Here Together
Stems & Seed
My Sisters & Brothers
Come The Daybreak
Three Bells
Minglewood Blues
So Many Times
Lie
Twilight Dance
Just My Imagination


Set 2
Festival
Be Just Fine
Let It Go *
No Woman, No Cry
Shades Of Blue
Girl From The Other Side  
* Disc 3 *
Dark Star > 
Sugar Magnolia
Moving > 
One More Time Around
Late In The Evening
E: St. Stephen > 
Fortune Teller\\


Notes: 
very beginning of "All Here Together" clipped
Tape runs out on Girl From The Other Side. Not much missing. Dark Star starts cold after tape flip. 
Tape runs out on Fortune Teller
Let It Go is dedicated to Dan Millman


Education is when you read the fine print.
Experience is what you get if you don't.
-Pete Seeger

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Solar Circus
03/31/1993
Boulder Theater
Boulder, CO

Source:  Bands Archive DAT Master
Dan Tepper:Sound Engineer
<=>Dan Tepper's - Matrix Recording<=>
(SBD + Processed AKG414 Mix)

Tansfer/Mastering: Panasonic SV-3800 -> Berringer Ultra-DI Pro DI800 -> Presonus Tube Pre-Amp -> 

BBE 882i -> FW-410 (Apogee SPDIF) -> M-Audio 1010LT -> wavelab @16/44.1 (levels check/adjust) -> 

CDwave -> flacfrontend L8 -> Checksums/shntool via. Traders Little Helper

Tom Donovan: Lead Vocals Guitar
Mark Diomede: Vocals Lead Guitar
Charles Mitchell: Drums   
Kenny Golguch: Bass
Vince Vigo: Keyboards

-/\-ONE SET-/\-

***CD One***
1. Tuning			[01:53]
2. Three Bells			[04:28]
3. Better Days ->		[08:35]
4. Twilight Dance		[11:18]
5. No Woman, No Cry		[13:10]
6. Daybreak ->			[06:06]
7. Festival			[05:22]
8. Announcement			[00:54]
		Show Total: [45:55]

Transferred, mastered and lossless compression by mtownshend@adelphia.net


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Solar Circus
04/10/1993
Warfield Theater
Boulder, San Francisco, Ca

"Opening for Hot Tuna and Taj Mahal"

Source:  Bands Archive DAT Master
Dan Tepper: Sound Engineer
<=>Dan Tepper's - Matrix Recording<=>
(SBD + Processed AKG414 Mix)

Tansfer/Mastering: Panasonic SV-3800 -> Berringer Ultra-DI Pro DI800 -> Presonus Tube Pre-Amp -> BBE 882i -> FW-410 (Apogee SPDIF) -> M-Audio 1010LT -> wavelab @16/44.1 (levels check/adjust) -> CDwave -> flacfrontend L8 -> Checksums/shntool via. Traders Little Helper

Tom Donovan: Lead Vocals Guitar
Mark Diomede: Vocals Lead Guitar
Charles Mitchell: Drums   
Kenny Golguch: Bass
Pete Sears: Keyboard

-/\-ONE SET-/\-

***CD One***
1. Announcement		[00:52]
2. Spin Song			[11:02]
3. Sitting in the Past ->	[05:41]
4. Drums ->			[00:31]
5. Festival			[06:20]
6. Better Things		[06:51]
7  Let it Go			[07:30]
8. Daybreak			[07:44]

		Show Total: [45:55]

Transferred, mastered and lossless compression by mtownshend@adelphia.net


A GEMS production -+-+- www.shnflac.net -+-+- April 2007

Solar Circus

05/01/1993

Wetlands Preserve, NYC

SBD->DAT-> Beta PCM->
Soundblaster Audigy 2 (44.1K/16 bit) -> Cooledit ->
FLAC Frontend -> traders little helper

Set 1
d1t01 Intro
d1t02 Three Bells
d1t03 Not Yet
d1t04 Tuning
d1t05 She Don't Mind
d1t06 Stems and Seeds
d1t07 Tabla Rasa
d1t08 tuning
d1t09 Obsession
d1t10 Better Days
d1t11 Let It Go
d1t12 No Woman No Cry

Set 2
d2t01 Festival
d2t02 Hidden Colors
d2t03 Spin Song
d2t04 The Eleven
d2t05 Spin Song
d2t06 Day Break
d2t07 Mountain Marlane
d2t08 Shades Of Blue
d2t09 All Here Together
d2t10 Announcements

d3t01 Lifes A Mystery
d3t02 Laced In Silver
d3t03 The Race Is On
d3t04 Gates Of Heaven


Solar Circus
5/28/93
Big Daddy's
New Brunswick, NJ

Source: SBD -> DAT (Panasonic SV-255) -> Beta PCM (SONY F1) ->
WAV (Soundblaster Audigy 2 / Cool Edit 44.1/16) -> SHN (mkw Tool) 

Disc 1
1) Into Tomorrow (7:51)
2) Shades Of Blue (5:55)
3) Spin Song -> (6:56)
4) The Eleven Jam -> (4:24)
5) Spin Song (5:53)
6) Late in The Evening->* (6:16)
7) Drumz (2:01) ->
8) Festival* (10:17) 
9) Better Days* (7:19)
10) Fortune Teller (10:40)

Disc 2
1) In The Past (7:41)
2) Let It Go (9:23)
3) Bring It On Home To Me** (5:12)
4) Daybreak-> (11:09)
5) Twilight Dance-> (12:01)
6) Stems and Seeds (5:26)
7) Gates of Heaven (4:46)
8) Just A Mystery (5:53)

Disc 3
1) One MOre Time (11:42)
2) Sugar Magnolia** (8:15)
3) She Don't Mind (4:53)
4) Stage Announcements (Eric) (1:39) 
Encore
5) No Woman No Cry** (7:58)

* Mark on MIDI Guitar

Mark Diomede - Guitar, Vocals
Tom Donovan - Guitar, Vocals
Ken Golojuch - Bass
Charles Mitchell - Drums, **Vocals

Dan Tepper - Sound

This show was billed at Big Daddy's "Last Rock Event", I seem to
remember they were switching to country music or something like that.

I remember a nice sized stage area with plenty of room to dance
right in front. Also a nice sound system. I think this place used to
be the famous Chick's Inn. It looks like this was a show without a
keyboard player.

Mark was  experimenting with a new MIDI hookup for his guitar and 
plays various MIDI effects 

Steel Drums on "Late in the Evening"
Flute on "Festival"
MIDI Keyboard (?) on "Better Days"

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Solar Circus
08/14/1993
StoneHenge Festival
Christiana, PA

"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Show"

Source:  Bands Archive DAT Master (sbd)

Tansfer/Mastering: Panasonic SV-3800 -> Berringer Ultra-DI Pro DI800 -> Presonus Tube Pre-Amp -> BBE 882i -> Berringer Pro 8 Digital ADA8000 -> Optical out -> M-Audio CO2 -> SPDIF -> M-Audio 1010LT -> wavelab @ 16/44 (iZotope Ozone3,levels check/adjust) -> CDwave -> flacfrontend L8 -> Checksums/shntool via. Traders Little Helper

Mark Diomede: Vocals Lead Guitar
Tom Donovan: Lead Vocals Rhythm Guitar
Charles Mitchell: Drums, Vocals ^-^ 
Gus Vigo: Keyboards
Kevin Kopak: Bass
Dan Tepper: Sound Engineer

^\Set One/^
**Disk 1***
1. Twilight Dance -> *			[02:11]
2. Stonehenge Space ->			[05:37]	
3. Twilight Dance ->			[03:44]	
4. Better Things			[08:42]	
5. Festival ->				[09:30]	
6. Stems & Seeds			[07:48]	
7. Sugar Magnolia			[07:07]	
8. Technical Break			[02:40]
		Disk 1 Time [47:12]

**Disk 2***
1. The Coast ->				[06:01]
2. Mountain Marlane (Refrain) 		[02:43]	
3. Tangled Up in Blue ->		[09:32]	
4. Let it Go				[09:28]	
5. Nothing Stays The Same		[06:34]	
6. Aiko Aiko				[07:37]	
7. Daybreak ->				[08:33]	
8. Stonehenge Space ->			[03:33]	
9. Into Tomorrow			[08:16]	
		Disk 2 Time [62:25]
	Total Set 1 Time [01:49:06]  

^\Set Two/^
**Disk 3***
1. Vamping / Tuning			[02:47]
2. No Woman No Cry ^-^			[08:47]	
3. Minglewood #				[09:08]	
4. Eyes of The World ->   		[14:12]	
5. Lovelight				[10:38]
				
Encore:
6. Announcement / Vamping		[03:01]
7. Late in the Evening ->		[07:07]
8. All Here Together //			[01:16]
		
		Total Set 2 / Disk 3 time [58:31]  

Total Show Time [02:47:37]


* Twilight Dance typically has a space in the middle, but I chose to break out this one due to it's voracity.
# Rum Runners Members join in, but I don't think they were piped into this mix, just the PA, I do remember hearing them.

There is some static, since this was an outdoor improvised stage, the grounding may have been compromised, it' only noticable during the silent parts and didn't warrent any wavelab adjustments IMO.


This was one of the many fond memories of the band and the "gatherings" they inspired.  The main thing to focus on here when anlyzing the sound quality, is that this was a weekend long gathering of several hundred people who by Saturday evening had wafted themselves into a sporatic peak of lysergic energy.  Most everyone who attended and performed were in quite a pickle ;)

The sound this evening was really good, the equipment large enough to get the music to spread the dozen or so acres everyone was spreadout doin' their own thing. Every piece of land around was owned and farmed by the very strict Amish community.  (betweeen you and I, those folks can party ;)). I think some of the band got into the punch bowl on friday with the rest and I thank em' fer that, cause this gathering was the best place to experiment.  None the less this is incredibly documented and is very "error" free in lieu of getting things just exactly perfect. 

The most telling, the aud and announcer's request fer one more...that died off into the announcer and audience, just dropping the idea ;)

One of my faves :)

Enjoy!
-MT


Transferred, mastered and lossless compression by mtownshend@adelphia.net


A GEMS production -+-+- www.shnflac.net -+-+- March 2007

Solar Circus
12/14/1993
The Goldon Burro
Leadville, CO

++Elevation 10,200 Feet++

Source:  Bands Archive DAT Master
<=>Dan Tepper's - Matrix Recording<=>
(SBD + Processed AKG414 Mix)

Tansfer/Mastering: Panasonic SV-3800 -> Behringer Ultra-DI Pro DI800 -> Behringer Ultramiser Pro DSP1424P -> Behringer Ultrafex Pro EX3200 -> Presonus Blue Tube Pre-Amp -> BBE 882i -> (2) Presonus Mono EQ3B Parametric EQ's -> Behringer Ultramatch Pro SRC2496 -> M-Audio 1010LT (Apogee SPDIF) @16/44 -> wavelab @16/44 (levels check/adjust, minor edits) -> CDwave -> flacfrontend L8 -> Checksums/shntool via. Traders Little Helper

Tom Donovan: Lead Vocals Guitar
Mark Diomede: Vocals Lead Guitar
Charles Mitchell: Drums, Vocals  
Jason Crosby: Keyboards, Fiddle
Kenny Gologuch: Bass


***CD 1***
/-\Set One /-\
1. Shades of Blue		[05:28]
2. Mountain Marlane		[07:41]
3. Hidden Colors		[06:54]
4. Jah is Close			[04:59]
5. Better Things		[08:05]
6. All Here Together		[05:39]
7. Stir it Up			[06:29]
8. Daybreak			[09:37]
9. Into Tomorrow		[07:52]
10. Stems and Seeds -> 		[07:41]
11. Festival			[09:17]
		CD One Total: [79:18]
***CD 2***
1. Late in the Evening		[07:48]
			
		Set One Total: [01:27:30]

/-\Set Two/-\
2. Spin Song ->			[15:06]	
3. Too Many Lawyers		[05:31]
4. The Coast			[09:05]
5. Not Yet ->			[05:19]
6. Drums ->			[02:49]
7. Obsession			[17:19]
		CD Two Total: [62:57]

***CD 3***
1. Almost Remember ->		[04:05]
2. Let it Go			[08:03]
3. Mystery ->			[05:27]
4. Gates of Heaven		[05:25]

/-\Encore/-\
5. crowd / announcements	[02:02]
6. No Woman, No Cry ->		[07:42]
7. Lovelight			[10:54]
	
		Set Two Total: [01:38:58]
		CD Three Total: [43:38]
	Show Total: [03:06:28]
	
		
# Tried it once, but...I didn't inhale (processed)
Dan Tepper: Sound Engineer

Recorded, transferred, mastered and lossless compression by mtownshend@adelphia.net


A GEMS production -+-+- www.shnflac.net -+-+- April 2007

SHNID	Artist	Date	Venue	City	State
83311	Solar Circus	1993-02-02	Joker's Pub	Harrisonburg	VA
SBD>MC>Dynaco PAS 3X>Soundforge>CDWav>Flac
83829	Solar Circus	1993-03-31	Boulder Theater	Boulder	CO
Source: Bands Archive DAT Master <=>Dan Tepper's - Matrix Recording<=> (SBD + Processed AKG414 Mix) See below for transfer and mastering info
83830	Solar Circus	1993-04-10	Warfield Theatre	San Francisco	CA
Source: Bands Archive DAT Master <=>Dan Tepper's - Matrix Recording<=> (SBD + Processed AKG414 Mix) See below for transfer, mastering, etc...
166589	Solar Circus	1993-05-01	Wetlands Preserve	New York	NY
SBD->DAT-> Beta PCM-> Soundblaster Audigy 2 (44.1K/16 bit) -> Cooledit -> FLAC Frontend -> traders little helper
84530	Solar Circus	1993-05-28	Big Daddy's	New Brunswick	NJ
SBD -> DAT (Panasonic SV-255) -> Beta PCM (SONY F1) -> WAV (Soundblaster Audigy 2 / Cool Edit 44.1/16) -> SHN (mkw Tool)
83777	Solar Circus	1993-08-14	Stonehenge	Cristiana	PA
Source: Bands Archive DAT Master (sbd) See info for transfer and mastering lineage
84318	Solar Circus	1993-12-14	The Golden Burro	Leadville	CO
Source: Bands Archive DAT Master <=>Dan Tepper's - Matrix Recording<=> (SBD + Processed AKG414 Mix) See info for transfer and mastering

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