Robert Hunter & Comfort
1978-02-07 or 08  San Francisco, CA  Shady Grove  (M1-SBD)

First Set :::
01. --tune-up--
02. Cruel White Water
03. Ariel
04. Hooker's Ball
05. She Gives Me Love
06. Big Wind
07. It Must Have Been The Roses
08. Rum Runners
09. It's True
10. Friend Of The Devil -> Promontory Rider

Second Set :::
11. Arizona Lightning
12. Standing At Your Door
13. Let Me Go
14. Miles High
15. ...Alligator Moon Suite
16. Only You
17. Jesse James
18. That Train

Total Time ::: 01:46:23

::: Excellent crisp stereo soundboard with some instrument mix issues. Check samples for wisdom acquisition or flutters of aural stimulation.
::: Warts: Instrument mix balance was a mess. Fixed what I could, then mixed channels to more normal stereo, but instrument levels do fluctuate & the guitars are still low.
::: Tape labeled "Shady Grove 1977-78" & was dated by giglists & comments Hunter makes about the famous Boston snowstorm! How do you like them chickens?! I was in Boston during that storm. Very cool to see tens of thousands of people out on the streets everyday, walking (no cars allowed), and what was really great was people were amazingly friendly & enjoying themselves for the most part. Excellent vision of humanity facing adversity. In any case, the correct date is almost certainly the 7th or 8th of February, 1978. Hunter played both nights.
::: Dates & band line-up assistance by way of http://lostlivedead.blogspot.de/2009/07/robert-hunter-and-comfort-performing.html - Thanks for your archival work.

Recording Information ::: soundboard -> unknown recording equipment -> stereo reel-to-reel master tapes -> 1st generation Maxell XLII-S 90 cassettes, Dolby B on.

Playback 2012-02-27 ::: 1st generation Maxell XLII-S 90 cassettes on Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth & pitch adjusted, heads cleaned & demagnatized -> Tascam CD-RW900SL pro CD recorder -> CD-RW -> computer, EAC secure -> wavs -> Audacity (fades &/or glitches, dropouts, volume adjustments, no EQ) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> Trader's Little Helper -> yer ears. Some mastering notes: The original tape has bizarre, extreme instrument imbalance problems & completely different things going into each channel. The master tape was recorded incredibly low in spots - a problem with no limiter & a small club. The sound engineer wasn't concerned with the recording mix... So, after about 14 full hours of voume diddling, you get what you hear (or see if you look). It may look brickwalled in places as I brought down a lot of high level spots (manually), but only brought up a bit of the low level stuff to keep the music more intact. I then mixed the channels somewhat to balance out the stero mix & I think the result is pretty damn good. The fluctuations on my original cassettes ruin continuous listening but now I find it a pleasure (though the guitars are still a bit low & things change around). Overall quality is a crisp soundoard & it's primetime for Hunter & Comfort. First uploaded week of 2012-06-01.

Line-up (unconfirmed) ::: Robert Hunter - guitar, vocals // Kevin Morgenstern - lead guitar // Rodney Albin - violin, mandolin, (trumpet on "Only You"? banjo on part of "Alligator Moon Suite"? - someone plays them...) // Ozzie Allers - keyboards // Larry Klein - six string bass // Pat Lorenzano - drums // Marlene Molle - vocals // Kathleen Klein - vocals.

Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.

CoolSonics 157 ::: Thanks to the original taper & trader! ::: Corrections welcome ::: This is the jelly in the donut, magical musical mind food. Bob's songwriting has always been as unique & special as it gets, & I find his vocal delivery mesmerising. In my opinion, Comfort gigs were his live performance heyday. Since he has been so generous about letting us trade & archive his music, we can only hope someone can raid his studio archives before most of us are gone. For that matter, original album mixes of his first 2 albums would be REALLY appreciated. Enjoy... almost 2 hours of fun.

Kudos to Zongo for life support, Lochner for mikes&more & Fast Freddie for runnin' Video Dick's Record Emporium with the bathroom office full of tape decks. Thanks to Hanwaker (few among us can keep his pace). Mountains of gratitude to Davmar, D.White, Sanchez, Elliot, The Florida Kid, Kloiber, Zingg, JTW, Bershaw, Boston Gold, Weeks, Dixon, Moore, Gough & SO many more for all that collecting & sharing... Royal thanks to The Man In The Palace, Doc Tinker, Brinkhoffs, Barely Eatin', Reel Master Gaule, Parrish & all the traders who housed me thru my music acquisition & travel years. Hats off to Brother Kent, Uncle Jake, Little Queenie (& her neighbor Frank) & his honor Ptomaine Thomas. Glasses raised to Byron for musical horizon expansion & much obliged to J & Thurston for keepin' my concert fires burnin' since my continental shift. Thanks to the Mods for keepin' DIME alive. Enjoy, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees

Support the artist! But if you are looking at this, you probably already have & do!

Do whatever you want with it except sell it, 'cause that ain't cool!

Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-01.flac:05d4697f4279ebcf1597cee9c6408da1
Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-02.flac:cf718214a93e9d84075d960eef105747
Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-03.flac:7f6e2824ba7dc4f5bf86508bc565d6cc
Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-04.flac:8fb1cdf73a896b776d93be548244cf66
Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-05.flac:955bf17ee9b0d457614cd2d8837f6434
Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-06.flac:e8f29b8a34702817aceba0b3058c69fc
Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-07.flac:ee3f602ac9899690401e760f8b830bab
Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-08.flac:c51a1ee3cd5a1b00043f3204949f1b03
Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-09.flac:96d4ebfd122e4178481c1fe5503e42d3
Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-10.flac:385dad5517ab98cc4e6a3b2392af55b5
Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-11.flac:f2245997c5e722864c6e103c9125d894
Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-12.flac:90c840e9e8f6461a5d55e79aae171827
Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-13.flac:0f0c8539c1a039797596dae67562bc4c
Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-14.flac:58482dc485a40c10f501940c45d5be8b
Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-15.flac:6d36a10660cb96b24069f318a49a31fc
Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-16.flac:2b02463da1c9a510c399bb47cf6c2601
Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-17.flac:902a3157240b759aad832cb7bcd83aa9
Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-18.flac:70eb5684d62dad014c8dba193dca157c

9365c64e7ba53439635ee50c6f08b92a *Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-01.flac
e4f2ff333bde33b2defc2efc3c035287 *Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-02.flac
aea16b9dd9bf2eabbc0116fa6595c083 *Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-03.flac
4c19130d56a33bf5b3bc506a72c29477 *Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-04.flac
3940cee9a9aca878e2374ca56b357c3e *Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-05.flac
4e5b5742754236faa72be2f194f3f21d *Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-06.flac
2bbe13eadd84902451048070388a311e *Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-07.flac
a18aa1584b0a1ed4ea513f4923cafea2 *Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-08.flac
50f8271b6b7197db1a948494817172de *Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-09.flac
24d75aa7a5cf52527947c8dac97737c1 *Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-10.flac
c4f01db885bcb02457589f78228ab8c0 *Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-11.flac
726242d5af3922460b8dde5f83a819e9 *Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-12.flac
eb943abbaa88616d1edab97ec10ee093 *Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-13.flac
840bb54738c6e9d2b4d55d6b55160b47 *Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-14.flac
61edc51aff0d046e1b3ce77c09d05eb1 *Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-15.flac
43b50e1094c5ad9d3bf15f175038d5cb *Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-16.flac
4d9cfd3d5b053735c8d59f735973227d *Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-17.flac
75df9b3bc70cd9d398e1958573f84454 *Robert Hunter 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove-18.flac
854b07a549dc36f8b99c8f263748ab8f *Robert Hunter&Comfort 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove M1-SBD.ffp
12dee78898c0eeba9a3f05151bd8f401 *Robert Hunter&Comfort 1978-02-xx San Francisco,CA Shady Grove M1-SBD.txt