Wilco
February 18, 2008
Riviera Th., Chicago IL USA

Eaglebarger Source
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Source: Earthworks SR77’s > Lunatec V3 (@24/48)> Microtrack 24/96 (FOB, on first rail)
Transfer: Wavelab 5.0 (UV22 HR dithering to 16/44.1) > CD Wave (tracking) > Wavelab 5.0 (fades in d1t01,d2t02, d2t03, d2t19) > Trader’s Little Helper (flac encoding)
Taped and transferred by Jerry Eaglebarger (chitaper@mindspring.com)

Dewey Source
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Taper: John Dewey (hammerhorror@sbcglobal.net)
Uploader: John Dewey (hammerhorror@sbcglobal.net)
Source: Neumann AK40’s (NOS Kwon Bar) > LC3 Active Cables > KM100’s > AETA PSP3 > Sound Devices 744t
Conversion: Compactflash Card > Sandisk Card Reader > Adobe Audition > CD Wave Editor > FLAC Frontend

Darktrain Source
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Taper: Darktrain
Source: Schoeps MK4’s> Actives> Nbox> Marantz PMD620(24/48)
Location: Taper Section

Disc 1 (76:39)

Set 1
01 Blue Eyed Soul
02 *Remember The Mountain Bed
03 *Bob Dylan’s 49th Beard
04 *Hesitating Beauty
05 -Stage Banter-
06 *That’s Not The Issue
07 Wishful Thinking
08 You Are My Face
09 Side With The Seeds
10 A Shot In The Arm
11 We’re Just Friends
12 Kamera
13 -Stage Banter-
14 Handshake Drugs
15 *How To Fight Lonliness
16 *Jesus Etc.
17 -Stage Banter-
18 Should’ve Been In Love
29 -Stage Banter-
20 *Pick Up The Change
21 Theologians

Disc 2

01 #Walken
02 #I’m The Man Who Loves You

Set 2
03 Via Chicago
04 Impossible Germany
05 She’s A Jar
06 Say You Miss Me
07 -Stage Banter
08 Box Full Of Letters
09 I’m Always In Love
10 -Stage Banter-
11 *#Hate It Here
12 *#The Late Greats
13 *#Red Eyed & Blue >
14 *#I Got You
15 *#Monday
16 My Darling
17 -Encore Break-
18 #Can’t Stand It
19 Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway(again)

*w/ Andrew Bird
#w/ the Total Pros horn section

I give the edge to the Eaglebarger source, but the Darktrain source is pretty good too. Dewey, less so.

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Wilco
February 16, 2008
Riviera, Chicago IL USA

Matrix Source
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Recorded by yltfan and Jerry Eaglebarger
*a thir13en blend*
Source 1:
SBD>iRiver h140
Recorded by yltfan
Source 2:
Nakamichi cm300’s>iRiver h120
Recorded by yltfan
Source 3:
Earthworks SR77’s > Lunatec V3 (@ 48kHz) > Microtrack 24/96 (24 Bit)
Transfer: CompactFlash > HD > DVD > HD > Sound Forge 9.0c (24 bit tracking) (fades in on t01 and t21) (fades out on t20 and t35) > Flac Frontend (level 8 endcoding)
Recorded by Jerry Eaglebarger
Transfered by Fez

Skalinder Source
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Recordist : Brian Skalinder / bskalinder@yahoo.com
Location : ~3′ LoC, ~40′ back at first rail overlooking pit, ~6.5′ stand
Mic Config : ORTF, 17cm, 110∫
Source : Schoeps MK5 (cardioid) > KC5 > CMC6 > Sound Devices 722
Record Format: 24-bit, 48 kHz
Conversion : Sound Devices 722 > firewire > PC
Edit : MAGIX Samplitude SE v8.3 (gain change adjustments, iZotope Ozone 3 Loudness Maximizer, mixdown, fades, resample, MBIT+ dither, tracking)
Final Format : 16-bit, 44 kHz
Thanks to: the taping crew (Jerry, Chris, and Warner for the clamp space), the understanding surrounding crowd, the venue, and the band and crew.

Eaglebarger Source
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Source: Earthworks SR77’s > Lunatec V3 (@24/48) > Microtrack 24/96, FOB on first rail with all the others!
Transfer: Wavelab 5.0 (UVHR rendering to 16/44.1) > CD Wave (tracking) > Wavelab 5.0
(fades in d1t01, d2t04, d2t05, d2t21) > Trader’s Little Helper (flac encoding)
Recorded and transferred by Jerry Eaglebarger (chitaper@mindspring.com)

First Set
01 Intro
02 Someone Else’s Song
03 Hell Is Chrome
04 Handshake Drugs
05 Muzzle of Bees
06 Via Chicago
07 I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
08 Hotel Arizona
09 A Shot In The Arm
10 Impossible Germany
11 It’s Just That Simple
12 When You Wake Up Feeling Old
13 Too Far Apart
14 Hate It Here
15 Jesus Etc.*
16 Forget The Flowers*
17 Dash 7*
18 Christ For President*
19 Walken^
20 I’m The Man Who Loves You^

Second Set
21 Newhart Intro
22 The Late Greats
23 Heavy Metal Drummer
24 Red-Eyed And Blue*
25 I Got You (At The End Of The Century)*
26 A Magazine Called Sunset
27 Monday^
28 Casino Queen
29 Kingpin
30 Passenger Side*
31 Dreamer In My Dreams*
32 The Lonely 1*
33 Encore Break

Encores
34 ELT
35 Hoodoo Voodoo
36 Hoodoo Voodoo 2

*Andrew Bird
^Horns (Total Pros)

The Matrix source of course is the best, but both audience sources are pretty good, though I’d give the edge to the Eaglebarger source. Too bad I couldn’t find the soundboard source, that would have been nice.

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Wilco
Riviera Theater
Chicago, Illinois
February 15, 2008

Ademotte Source
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Location: balcony, far left, roughly 10th row

Skalinder Source - the best source for my money.
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Recordist : Brian Skalinder / bskalinder@yahoo.com
Location : ~3′ RoC, ~40′ back at first rail overlooking pit, ~6.5′ stand
Mic Config : DINA, 17cm, 90º
Source : Schoeps MK5 (cardioid) > KC5 > CMC6 > Sound Devices 722
Record Format: 24-bit, 48 kHz
Conversion : Sound Devices 722 > firewire > PC
Edit : MAGIX Samplitude SE v8.3 (gain adjustments, iZotope Ozone 3 Loudness Maximizer, mixdown, fades, resample, MBIT+ dither, tracking)
Final Format : 16-bit, 44 kHz

Track listing:

Marty Lennartz intro
ELT
A Shot in the Arm
Side With The Seeds
You Are My Face
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
Pot Kettle Black
At Least That’s What You Said
Banter
What’s the World … (false start)
What’s The World Got In Store
Banter
When The Roses Bloom Again
Airline To Heaven
Ashes of American Flags
Either Way
Jesus, Etc.
Banter
Too Far Apart
I Can’t Stand It
Sunken Treasure
Spiders (Kidsmoke)
Misunderstood
Far, Far Away
Why Would You Wanna Live?
Impossible Germany
Sky Blue Sky
Please Be Patient With Me
Cars Can’t Escape
Hummingbird
Encore break
Banter
Hate It Here
Walken
I’m The Man Who Loves You
Heavy Metal Drummer
Candyfloss
Outta Sight Outta Mind

In 2008 Wilco did a run in Chicago where they played every song they had officially released plus a few extras like some of the stuff they did with Billy Bragg on the Mermaid Avenue sessions. Pretty much every night was epic with them playing about 30 songs a show. I posted the run in a low quality MP3 format ages ago, but it got deleted by Mediafire or whatever. Thanks to the Owl and Bear I now have the entire run in FLAC format (which I’ve also converted into high quality MP3s.) There are also multiple sources for each show and I’ll be posting those as well. I decided to put the various sources into one post with notes on their details.

I’m also going to comment on which source I think is better for each show, but with the caveat that I haven’t had time to listen to every note from every show and every source. My judgment will come from a few tracks through my computer speakers. Your mileage may very. I will however include one song in MP3 format to download as a way for you all to listen and make your own choices.

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My wife teaches at university and as of yesterday she is on break for the summer. What this means for the Midnight Cafe is yet to be discovered but it does mean I’ll have more free time which should means some additional writing and posting. I am obviously still buried in reup requests and I try to get to them regularly while still doing new shows for the folks who have been around awhile. For the last long bit I’ve been mostly uploading the reups on the weekends and doing new stuff on the week days, but I’ve been ahead of myself so they’ve been posted out of order if that makes any sense.

I’ll probably do a few days of hard core reupping soon to try to catch up and then I’ll get back to new stuff regularly. Maybe, we’ll see. Also I’m getting pretty close to filling up my 2 TB external hard drive where I’ve been storing all of my FLAC files. I’ve got a huge cache of shows that I’ve already blogged that needs to get burned to disk. Until I do that I’ll be relying on the reup material and the shows on my hard drive that I’ve yet to post. Don’t worry there are a lot of those shows to get through. What this really means is that over the next month or so you’ll likely see more shows by the same bands. I’ve got a whole bunch of Van Morrison, Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan and Neil Young to post and while I’ll try to mix those up with other artists those other artists will eventually run out.

With the wife off I’ll try to start doing some major burning soon which will free up hard drive space and eventually let me get back to downloading more shows. Yeah, I don’t really know why I’m telling you all this as you likely don’t care. You can always help me by sending me more shows. I’ve had a few folks tell me they’d like to send me some shows but don’t know all the technical junk to do it. If this sounds like you please feel free to e-mail me and I can walk you through the process. It really isn’t difficult and I’ve got lots of patience so I don’t mind going over and over and over it until we get it right.

Ok, I promise that’s the last of my ramble posts. I’ll have something musical to post either tomorrow or Monday.

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There are a variety of ways to keep up with the Midnight Cafe and I wanted to highlight them for a moment. I generally create new posts every weekday, and sometimes on weekends. You can of course simply type in the url and visit when you like, but if you are like me then you’ll eventually get distracted and not come for a few days and then start forgetting to come and then you’ll miss out on lots of great music. Here are a few ways to avoid that tragedy

In the right sidebar there is a little box where you can enter your e-mail address. If you do so you will start receiving regular e-mails full of my posts. I’m actually not entirely sure how often you’ll get those e-mails nor if there are any settings you can manipulate, but there are enough folks who get them that I suspect someone will answer that questions soon in the comments. I promise I will never send your e-mail to anyone else nor will I use it to spam you. In all honestly I pay absolutely no attention to who signs up to that list, but its a pretty cool option to choose to get regular updates on the blog.

Also in the right sidebar are links to my feeds. I never, ever use rss feeds myself and I sat those up when I first created this site and I can’t really tell you any other information about them. I assume they work since nobody has complained, so if you dig that kind of stuff please use it.

Lastly but also in the right sidebar is a link to my Facebook page. Well the sites Facebook page. I have my own personal Facebook that I’m not publishing, but I created one just for the Midnight Cafe (this was before you could create your own site pages, but anyway.) It is connected to my site so that every time I publish a post Facebook picks it up. Since I have my own personal Facebook I tend to forget to log into the sites page so that’s pretty much all it has is links to my posts. I keep thinking I’ll add some new, original content to the page to give people more reasons to interact with me, but I never do. I’m also really slow about accepting new friends, so if you try to friend me and I don’t respond for a bit that’s why. But its an easy way to get updates on the site so feel free to friend me.

I imagine most of my regular visitors know about this stuff already, but every now and again I like to point it out for those who don’t.

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I use iTunes to rip my CDs and then xACT to convert to FLAC or MP3 as the case may be. iTunes automatically moves files around in the hard drive according to the artist name. In each of the Genuine Bootleg Series there were a few tracks that had Bob Dylan singing with someone else (that isn’t a part of his regular band.) In those cases iTunes named the tunes as “Bob Dylan and…” whoever the person was. It then moved those particular tracks to separate folders. Anyways the result was I did not include those track in my original uploads because I didn’t realize they were in other folders. Thanks to IntheGarden(who also provided a track I really didn’t have at all) I have now rectified the matter. If you downloaded the FLAC files from any of those volumes you can now go back to the posts and get the missing files. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Thanks to JOC for the covers!

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
1999-04-23
Rockpalast
Hamburg, Germany

This was a TV Broadcast which was taped on HiFi-VHS.

Lineage:
TV Broadcast>HIFI-VHS>Phillips CD-Recorder>CDR>EAC>WAV>Trader´s little helper>FLAC>YOU

Setlist
Disc 1
AROUND AND AROUND
JAMMIN´ME
RUNNING DOWN A DREAM
BREAKDOWN
CALL ME THE BREEZE
SWINGIN´
DON´T DO ME LIKE THAT
DIAMOND HEAD
MARY JANE´S LAST DANCE
I WON´T BACK DOWN
LISTEN TO HER HEART
GREEN ONIONS
IT´S GOOD TO BE KING

Disc 2
LUCILLE
LITTLE MAGGIE
LAY DOWN THAT OLD GUITAR
WALLS
ANGEL DREAM
FOR WHAT IT´S WORTH
ROOM AT THE TOP
GUITAR BOOGIE SHUFFLE
AMERICAN GIRL
HONEY BEE
I DON´T WANT TO FIGHT
YOU WRECK ME
FREE GIRL
FREE FALLIN´
GLORIA
LEARNING TO FLY

Line up:
Tom Petty
Mike Campbell
Benmont Tench
Howie Epstein
Steve Ferrone
Scott Thurston

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Robert Plant & Jimmy Page
September 16, 1998 (1998-09-16)
Red Rocks Ampitheatre
Morrison, Colorado
USA

Sonic Studios DSM-6 > 85 cycle Bass roll-off > Sony D7 DAT > 16/48 wav > Wavelab (tracking and tweaking) > Flac(8) > you !

01. Egyptian Intro
02. Wanton Song
03. Celebration Day
04. Heartbreaker
05. What Is and What Should Never Be
06. Walking Into Clarksdale
07. No Quarter
08. When the World Was Young
09. Going to California
10. Tangerine
11. Gallow’s Pole
12. When I Was a Child
13. Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You
14. How Many More Times
15. Most High
16. Whole Lotta Love
17. Encore Audience
18. Thank You
19. Rock n Roll

Total 1:59:56

What a fantastic show! I had the pleasure of attending this one and it’s easily in the top 3 shows I have seen at Red Rocks over the years, somewhere around 150 shows that would be. ( another one of my top 3’s will be posted under Stevie Ray Vaughan later today). While I am not a big fan of the Walking into Clarksdale material they did this night, the revisiting of the old Zep standards were great! How Many More Times is a beast, I highly suggest cranking that one in particular LOUD.

Anyway there had been a “good” recording of this one floating around since about a year after the show, the problem with that one was the last 3 tracks had some serious digi drop outs and static throughout, I am happy to announce this version, from whotraders master copy, is not only static free, but a great recording to boot (pun intended).

extensive notes from the taper / original uploader are included hope you all enjoy it!

Rauol Duke January 6, 2012

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Phil & Friends
4/20/98
San Francisco, CA

CSHEB (dpa4061) > Zefiro Inbox > Sony D100 > 44k dats from 5th row at right balcony at level of right hanging speakers

Transfer 11/7/11: 44k dat>midiman delta dio 2496> cooledit2000> wav> flac; cooledit2000 used to raise levels 20% and cut tracks

Flaws: missing first few seconds of 2nd set as they surprised most by starting before the curtain was raised; pause/cut near end of d3t3 in the crowd noise awaiting the encore

Notes: The dats were treed shortly after the show on datheads. In comparison to shnid=8980, this has a fuller warmer sound and that is brighter. (You may need to have a good stereo and play it loud to notice). This has an extra 10 seconds of the beginning of China Cat than that has.

Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Bruce Hornsby, Stan Franks, John Molo, Branford Marsalis

CD1 (1st set)
1 New Minglewood Blues
2 Friend of the Devil (Phil vox, Bob on acoustic)
3 Wang Dang Doodle
4 High Time (Phil)
5 West L.A. Fadeaway >
6 Bird Song
7 Box of Rain
8 Imagine (Phil vox, Bob acoustic)

CD2 (2cd Set)
1 China Cat Sunflower->
2 I Know You Rider
3 When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob acoustic, did gondola/Coca-Cola bridge)
4 Revolution (Phil vox)
5 Hell in a Bucket->
6 The Other One->
7 U.S. Blues

CD3
1 Cassidy
2 Morning Dew (Phil vocals)->
3 Touch of Grey
4 (Encore) Like a Rolling Stone

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LEVON HELM & THE RCO ALL STARS
PALLADIUM,
NEW YORK,NY,USA
DECEMBER 31,1977

CD 1
1 intro
2 Ain’t That A Lot of Love
3 A Mood I Was In
4 The Tie That Binds
5 Back to Memphis
6 You Got Me
7 Washer Woman
8 It’s A Rough Old Road to Travel
9 Milk Cow Boogie
10 Blues So Bad

CD 2
1 Born In Chicago
2 Rain Down Tears
3 Got My Mojo Working
4 band intros
5 Sing Sing Sing
6 crowd
7 Ophelia
8 Goodnight Irene
9 Auld Lang Syne

Levon Helm - Drums, Vocals
Tom ìBonesî Malone - Trombone
Donald ìDuckî Dunn - Bass
Fred Carter Jr. - Guitar
Steve Cropper - Guitar
Alan Rubin - Trumpet
Lou Marini - Saxophone
Mac Rebennack (Dr. John) - Keyboard, Vocals
Howard Johnson - Tuba,Saxophone
Paul Butterfield - Harmonica, Vocals

CASSETTE AUDIENCE MASTER > 2ND GEN CASSETTE >
AUDIO CD’S > SOUNDFORGE SCREENBLAST EXTRACTION >
COOL EDIT > RETRACKED WITH CD WAVE EDITOR >
TRADER’S LITTLE HELPER > FLAC>WAV>MP3

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