Galactic
The Knitting Factory
New York, NY
1/17/1998
BARN187

Original Master Recording: Neumann TLM-170 (cardoids, 10' split in the balcony) -> Sonosax SX-M1 -> Tascam DA-P1 (@16/48)

Master DAT playback: Sony R500 -> Sound Devices 722 digital input (@24/48)

Mastered: SoundForge 12.1 (manual clap/whistle/yell scrubbing; volume normalization; resample to 44.1 interpolation accuracy 4 w/anti-alias filter; 24->16 bit dither using POW-r #3 noise shaping, POW-r Dither). Tracked in CDWav. IDv3 tagged in Tag&Rename 3.9.15

Set 1
1. crowd/tuning/intro
2. Let The Music Take Your Mind
3. Go-Go
4. Gotta Get A Head On
5. Crazyhorse Mongoose
6. Just Kissed My Baby +#
7. Love On The Run +
8. I'm A Ram +
9. Doo Rag -> *
10. Backpack
11. Peepin'
12. Two Clowns ->
13. Handa Wanda -> +^
14. Iko Iko -> +^
15. Hey Pockey Way +^

Set 2
1. intro - "Tapers get your tape ready"
2. Hamp's Hump
3. Spicoli's Toe
4. Funky Miracle ->
5. Root Down ->
6. Quiet Please
7. My Mind Is Hazy +
8. Something's Wrong With This Picture +~
9. Get Out Of My Life, Woman +@
10. Church ->
11. Black Eyed Pea -> %*
12. drum solo ->
13. Black Eyed Pea
14. encore break
15. banter - get funky a little more
16. Africa +=
17. thanks

+ = vocals by The Houseman (Theryl DeClouet)
# = sung as "Pork Chops and Gravy"
* = w/John Ellis on saxophone
^ = w/the Wild Magnolias (including June Yamagichi on guitar) paraded around the Knitting Factory in full costumed Mardi Gras Indian regalia
~ = dedicated to Merideth on her birthday
@ = Walter ? on what sounds like a trombone
% = w/Warren Haynes on guitar
= = w/June Yamagichi on guitar

Jason Mingledorff on tenor sax, not Ben Ellman

There is some minor digital signal loss (not too disruptive) due to some high error rates at the very beginning of my aging DAT tape -- it mostly affects the intro track and just a touch of the beginning the first song of the first set

I hand scrubbed approximately 160 claps, whistles, and yells from this recording for all of our listening enjoyment.


DAT transfer: 6/23/2019
Tracking: 7/9/2019
Mastering: 8/18-9/9/2019
Tagging, initial posting: 9/18/2019

Recorded, mastered, tracked and posted by Scott Bernstein

Taper notes:
BARN186 & BARN187 represent my next dip into the music of Galactic -- last visited in the BARN series nearly *9* years ago in BARN65 way back in October 2010. Based upon some discussion about how good these shows were on the NYC Freaks music obsessive email list, I broke out the DATs of these shows, the 2nd and 3rd Galactic shows I saw (with 10/18/97 at the Knitting Factory being the first) and transferred and mastered them up for you.

These are not your average shows. This was a band absolutely at the top of their game, on a heavy touring schedule proving every night what they can do, mixing up the setlists, and throwing down the funk every single night. The 2nd night of this 2 night run (on 1/17) features a spectacular sit-in from the Wild Magnolias (dressed in their full Mardi Gras costumes and parading through the crowd), and the one and only Warren Haynes (of the Allman Brothers and Govt Mule) tearing it up on guitar. This is as good as it gets! In fact, these shows left a special impression on me as I had seen the Rolling Stones at MSG (for a lot of money -- I think around $150 which was pretty much the highest price ticket for any concert at the time) the night before and was quite disappointed. These shows proved to me for $15 I could have worlds more fun at shows at smaller clubs for a lot less money.

Enjoy!

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