Dark Star Orchestra
Show #201 - Fri, Aug 6, 1999
Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA

Performing 9/3/88 Capital Centre, Landover, MD

Source: SDB > DAT > SoundBlaster Live > CoolEdit Pro 1.2 > Easy CD
Creator > CDR > Toast Audio Extractor (overlap) > WAV > SHN

Thanks to DSO's Webmaster Ed for the dics.
Extracted, SHNed, and seeded by Jon Seff (jon@seff.net)

Disc I/Set I:
01 LTGTR 04:55
02 Stranger > 06:50
03 Franklin's > 08:46
04 Rooster 10:07
05 Peggy-O 07:35
06 Me & My Uncle > 02:44
07 Big River 06:19
08 Bird Song 10:54

Set II:
09 Box Of Rain 07:18

Total Time 65:34

Disc II/Set II continued:
01 Victim > 06:22
02 Foolish Heart > 09:12
03 Woman Smarter > 08:28
04 Eyes > 09:38
05 Drumz > 10:58
06 Space 17:57

Total Time 62:39

Disc III/Set II continued:
01 GDTRFB > 06:36
02 Miracle > 04:16
03 Morning Dew 15:29

Encore:
04 Saturday Night 05:24
05 Ripple 05:03
06 Band Hello 01:34

Filler:
Hey Pocky Way 06:41

Total Time 45:08

Notes: If you're interested, check out a story I did on them back
when they were getting started at
http://www.newcitychicago.com/home/daily/feature/deadheads_4_27_98.html.

seeded 11.29.00

Dark Star Orchestra 
9/17/99 Mudsplash '99, Springville, IN
Performing 6/30/1984 Sports and Music Center, Indianapolis, IN
SBD

Partial Set II

One Disc  [79:34]
Shakedown Street >  [11:33]
Playin' >  [10:18]
Terrapin Station >  [11:33]
Drums >  [11:14]
Space >  [5:57]
Playin' Reprise >  [4:45]
Truckin' >  [6:31]
Spoonful >  [7:31]
Stella Blue  [10:09]

with Mike Marat as Bobby
with Mike Hazdra as Phil


Recording/Mastering Information:
SBD>Sony MDZ-R55>Cool Edit Pro v1.2>CDWav>mkwACT>SHN

No other audio source exists of this performance.

Some first set video may exist.

Prior to uploading to etree, this performance had never been heard by anyone
other than the 100 or so people in attendance that night.  No copy exists in
DSO's "vault".

Recording, remastering and transfer by TC.
__________________________________________


Notes:
Extremely hot levels and less-than-stellar equipment made for a somewhat
acoustically-challenged recording.  If I remember correctly, the soundboard
had a fixed output that couldn't be turned up or down independently from the 
main house PA.  Sounds ridiculous, I know, but this board might *MIGHT* have
had sixteen working channels.  Far from state-of-the-art.  Far from working.

The first set is nearly impossible to listen to, both for its sluggish playing 
and the constant haze of distortion.  Most of the second set, whence these 
highlights come, is much clearer.  However, it's far from perfect.  Mike Marat's 
guitar is so high in the mix that your ears might start bleeding if you listen 
for too long.

Allow for some variations in the mix through Shakedown Street; from the 
(really pretty) jam in Playin' through the Playin' Reprise, it's a good
listen.  Truckin' and Spoonful are a little overloaded, but the Stella Blue
is a nice calm spot fefore it fades out.

In remastering this show, I was very conscious of the fact that I cut out a 
great deal of music.  Nevertheless, I believe that I have preserved both the 
highlights of the performance and the only listenable section.

It's pretty interesting to listen to the way the band sounded less than two years 
into its existence....

A cold, lonely, dusty night in Middle-Of-Nowhere, Indiana, this was.  But fun.
And -loud-.

DARK STAR ORCHESTRA
11/26/99 Park West, Chicago, IL
Performing 7/14/1976 Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, CA

Set I  [1:24:34]
Promised Land  [5:48]
Sugaree  [8:55]
Minglewood Blues  [6:37]
Scarlet Begonias  [10:14]
Looks Like Rain  [7:52]
They Love Each Other  [6:41]
Mama Tried  [3:21]
Ship Of Fools  [7:29]
Playin' In The Band* >  [11:57]
Drums* >  [1:00]
The Wheel* >  [7:35]
Playin' In The Band*  [6:59]

Set II  [1:39:42]
Brown-Eyed Women >  [4:45]
Samson & Delilah  [12:03]
Friend Of The Devil  [8:39]
Let It Grow >  [18:33]
Eyes Of The World >  [12:30]
Wharf Rat >  [10:17]
The Other One >  [8:49]
Music Never Stopped  [8:43]
crowd  [2:12]
E: Johnny B Goode  [5:39]
show announcement  [0:39]
F: Cold Rain & Snow  [6:30]

Total Time  [3:04:17]


with Mike Marat as Bobby
with Mike Hazdra as Phil


Recording/Mastering Information:

Recording: 4 FOB AKG 460 [2 w/ hypercardioid caps directed at the PA, 
2 w/ cardioid caps in x-y] mixed with XLR SBD > Sony MDZ-R55 (MD MASTER)
Transfer: (MD MASTER) Sony MDZ-R55 > Cool Edit Pro v1.2 > CDWav v1.71 > mkwACT v0.9b1 > SHN

*"Playin'">"Wheel">"Playin" (splice at 2:48): 4 FOB AKG 460 [2 w/ hypercardioid caps directed at the PA, 
2 w/ cardioid caps in x-y] mixed with XLR SBD > Tascam PS-1 4-Track PortaStudio (CASSETTE MASTER)
Transfer: (CASSETTE MASTER) Marantz SD4000 > Cool Edit Pro v1.2 > CDWav v1.71 > mkwACT v0.9b1 > SHN

Entire show fits on 3 audio CDs:
Disc I - "Promised Land" through "Ship Of Fools"
Disc II - "Playin'" through "Friend Of The Devil"
Disc III - "Let It Grow" through "Cold Rain"

Recording, remastering, and transfer by TC.


DSO Show #254

DARK STAR ORCHESTRA
12/2/99 Canopy Club, Urbana, IL
Performing 5/3/1991 Cal-Expo Amphitheatre, Sacramento, CA

Set I  [55:53]
Bertha >  [6:55]
Greatest Story Ever Told >  [3:57]
West LA Fadeaway  [7:48]
Queen Jane Approximately  [5:23]
Jack-A-Roe  [5:05]
It's All Over Now  [6:12]
Tennessee Jed >  [7:38]
Let It Grow  [12:52]

Set II  [2:03:23]
tuning  [1:38]
China Cat Sunflower >  [8:06]
I Know You Rider  [6:05]
Estimated Prophet >  [13:29]
He's Gone >  [10:56]
Jam >  [5:30]
Drums >  [10:46]
MIDI Jam >  [13:54]
Space >  [11:03]
The Wheel >  [5:13]
All Along The Watchtower >  [7:44]
Stella Blue >  [8:26]
Turn On Your Lovelight  [10:13]
E: US Blues  [5:45]
show announcement  [0:24]
F: /Broken Arrow  [4:03]

with Mike Marat as Bobby
with Mike Hazdra as Phil


Recording/Mastering Information:

Recording: SBD > HHb Portadat @48 kHz (DAT MASTER)

Transfer:
Set I: DAT MASTER > Sony PCM-R500 > HHb CDR-850 (CD MASTER) > 
EAC (SECURE) > Cool Edit Pro v1.2 > CD Wav v1.71 > mkwACT v0.97b1 > SHN
Set II: DAT MASTER > Sony D7 > Cool Edit Pro v1.2 > CD Wav v1.71 > mkwACT v0.97b1 > SHN

Recording by Ken Kleber; remaster and transfer by TC.


DSO Show #256



DARK STAR ORCHESTRA
12/3/99 Mississippi Nights, St Louis, MO
Performing 10/3/1976 COBO Arena, Detroit, MI

Set II  [89:43]
Samson & Delilah  [7:56]
Ramble On Rose  [7:24]
Playin' In The Band >  [11:20]
Drums >  [4:16]
The Wheel >  [6:06]
Good Lovin' >  [6:08]
Jam >  [2:39]
Comes A Time >  [9:40]
Dancin' >  [7:37]
Not Fade Away% >  [12:00]
Dancin' Reprise >  [4:13]
Around & Around  [9:35]
show announcement  [0:43]

* contains a "China Cat Sunflower" jam
% contains a splice in the recording source

missing F: You Ain't Woman Enough

with Mike Marat as Bobby
with Mike Hazdra as Phil


Recording/Mastering Information:

"Samson" through "NFA": 
Recording: SBD > Sony MDZ-R55 (MD MASTER) 
Transfer: Sony MDZ-R55 > Cool Edit Pro v1.2 > CDWav > mkwACT > SHN

"NFA" through "Around": 
Recording: SBD > Tascam PS-1 4-Track PortaStudio (CASSETTE MASTER)
Transfer: TEAC V-250 > Cool Edit Pro v1.2 > CDWav > mkwACT > SHN

Recording, remastering and transfer by TC.


DSO Show #257

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Notes:
OK, the three big things about this recording:

1. The vocals are *way* behind in the mix
2. John's guitar is *way* ahead in the mix
3. There's a slight distortion to everything at times

With those caveats out of the way, I do need to stress that this IS NOT one of the extremely clean & shiny mixes for which we've come to love Cam. 
It may have been the recording, but as I was just off of the board's main outputs, I can't imagine what I did wrong.

Nevertheles, this show has some really great moments. The "Comes A Time" is the best I've ever heard, and the NFA rages. This show is a snapshot, really, 
of a band which has hit it's first peak and it's first wall. Mike Marat quit after the next night's show in Peoria, and the tension which had been 
building is obvious. Internecine problems aside, this was two years into the Dark Star Orchestra experience, and the band had begun to play really, 
really well.



DARK STAR ORCHESTRA
12/4/99 Madison Theater, Peoria, IL
Performing 6/29/1976 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL


Set I  [1:13:54]
Tennessee Jed  [8:54]
Cassidy  [5:19]
Peggy-O  [7:59]
Mama Tried  [3:13]
Mission In The Rain  [6:33]
Looks Like Rain  [7:51]
Brown-Eyed Women  [5:23]
Lazy Lightning >  [3:18]
Supplication  [4:08]
Row Jimmy  [9:28]
Music Never Stopped  [6:28]
Might As Well  [5:13]

Set II  [1:24:53]
Samson & Delilah  [7:05]
Candyman  [7:43]
Playin' In The Band >  [10:13]
Drums >  [0:42]
The Wheel >  [8:48]
Playin' In The Band  [4:43]
St Stephen >  [4:43]
Not Fade Away >  [7:31]
St Stephen >  [0:59]
One More Saturday Night  [6:34]
E: US Blues  [6:30]
F: Help On The Way >  [5:32]
Slipknot! >  [4:07]
Franklin's Tower  [9:38]

Total Time:  [2:38:48]


with Mike Marat as Bobby
with Mike Hazdra as Phil

Mike Marat's last show


Recoring/Mastering Information:

Recording: 2 Nakamichi C300 (shotgun) > Sony MDZ-R55 (MD MASTER)
Transfer: (MD MASTER) Sony MDZ-R55 > Cool Edit Pro v1.2 > CDWav v1.71 > mkwACT v0.9b1 > SHN

Some digi-flutter throughout filler... not too distracting.

Entire show fits on 3 audio CD's:
Disc I   [73:54]: All of Set I ("dso1999-12-04set1t01" through "dso1999-12-04set1t12")
Disc II  [65:35]: "Samson" through "US Blues" ("dso1999-12-04set2t01" through "dso1999-12-04set2t11")
Disc III [19:18]: "Help On The Way" through "Franklin's" ("dso1999-12-04set2t12" through "dso1999-12-04set2t14")

SHN files fit on 2 CD's.


Recording, remastering & transfer by TC.

Remastering & transfer done in memory of Roger Van Cleave, 1953-2003.
Roger was, and will forever be, "Everybody's Favorite Santa".

DSO Show #258 * "Santa's Request Night"dy's Favorite Santa".

DSO Show #258 * "Santa's Request Night"

SHNID	Date	Venue	City	State
66982	1999-02-26	Canopy Club	Urbana	IL
Show #131 (06/15/76) SBD > Sony D7 > Panasonic PV-9450 > Cool Edit Pro > CDWav > mkw > Shn Recording by Ken Kleber Remaster and transfer by TC
2108	1999-08-06	Fillmore Auditorium	San Francisco	CA
Show #201 (09/03/88) SDB > Dat > SoundBlaster Live > CoolEdit Pro 1.2 > CD > Toast Audio Extractor (overlap) > WAV > Shn Extracted, SHNed, and seeded by Jon Seff
15164	1999-09-17	Mudsplash '99	Springville	IN
Show #219 (06/30/84) SBD > Sony MDZ-R55 > Cool Edit Pro v1.2 > CDWav > mkw > Shn Recording, remastering and transfer by TC
66979	1999-11-26	Park West	Chicago	IL
Show #254 (07/14/76) SBD + (FOB) AKG 460 > Sony MDZ-R55 > Cool Edit Pro > CDWav > mkw > Shn Recording, remastering, and transfer by TC
66998	1999-12-02	Canopy Club	Urbana	IL
Show #256 (05/03/91) SBD > Dat > Cool Edit Pro > CDWav > mkw > Shn Recording by Ken Kleber, Remaster and transfer by TC
66964	1999-12-03	Mississippi Nights	St. Louis	MO
Show #257 (10/03/76) SBD > Sony MDZ-R55 > Sony MDZ-R55 > Cool Edit Pro > CDWav > mkw > Shn Recording, remastering and transfer by TC
66999	1999-12-04	Madison Theater	Peoria	IL
Show #258 (06/29/76) Nakamichi C300 (shotgun) > Sony MDZ-R55 > Sony MDZ-R55 > Cool Edit Pro > CDWav > mkw > Shn Recording, remastering & transfer by TC
1873	1999-12-30	The Fillmore Auditorum	Denver	CO
Show #266 (12/30/99) SBD rca analog feed > DA-P1 > CD

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