The Black Crowes
Furthur Festival
Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
Englewood, CO
July 27, 1997
Source: Sonic Studios DSM-6P w/3-way lo-cut filter, position unknown (most likely @ 80hz, middle setting) > Sony WM-D6
Transfer: Master cassette (Maxell XL-IIS 100m) > Denon 790R > Kenwood A-522 amplifier > Kenwood GE-622 Equalizer > Audacity
(boosting/splicing) > .WAV
Mastering: .WAV > Sound Forge Pro 11.0 (Build 299) [iZotope Mastering Suite (declick); minor edits, normalize, & fades] > CDWav (tracking) >
Trader's Little Helper (level 5) > FLAC > TagScanner 5.1 (tagging)
Location: Row 22, Marc's side, slightly left of center
Recorded & transferred by: Steve "ballsdeep" Hagar
Mastered by: Dennis Orr
Setlist:
01 Nebakanezer
02 Another Roadside Tragedy >
03 Share The Ride >
04 Mellow Down Easy
05 Good Friday
06 Jealous Again (1)
07 Nonfiction (2) >
08 Hard To Handle (3)
- All Star Electric Jam (4) -
09 Goin' Down (5)
10 Chain Of Fools
11 Truckin'
- Bonus Track -
12 Mew Minglewood Blues (6)
(1) Jealous Again was added to the original setlist
(2) With Dave Ellis - saxophone
(3) With Bob Weir - guitar
(4) Complete lineup unknown
(5) With Chris (lead vocals) and Marc (guitar)
(6) Marc sitting in on guitar with Ratdog
Chris Robinson - lead vocals & harp
Rich Robinson - guitars & backing vocals
Marc Ford - guitars
Johnny Colt - bass
Eddie Hawrysch - keyboards
Steve Gorman - drums
Show notes: this show was quite an interesting experience...landed in Denver around noon, and it was STORMY....took a couple hours to rent a
car and get to the Executive Suites hotel within walking distance...around 3pm, the skies just OPENED up, so that pretty much sealed the fate
of not catching .moe, Sherri Jackson and the drums/Robert Hunter portion. And the other irony is that I had a shitty lawn seat. well, when
wandering around, I happened to meet Gary Rossington of Skynyrd's guitar tech (!!!)...this was back in the day of pagers (side note: I hit
this guy's pager up and delivered Rossington a fat quarter of Fairbanks' finest, 5 different kinds, when Skynyrd made it up to Anchorage
in January of the next year, and I was comped a couple of Skynyrd tix for the courtesy!)....aaaaanyhow, this guy had a couple of tix in the
22nd row on Marc's side, and he was kind enough to sell me it for face, so onward inward for Ratdog...which was a good thing as Marc sat in on
a spirited version of "New Minglewood Blues".
Overall, this was a great introduction to Furthur...first time these ears had heard "Another Roadside Tragedy" live (courteous tapers had sent
taped versions this way previous), and how it morphed into "Share The Ride" then "Mellow Down Easy" sounded perfectly natural to these ears...
The really sad part that Crowesbase doesn't note is the post-show jam, where Chris TORE UP "Goin' Down" and Marc soloed all over the place
(they also played "Chain Of Fools" and "Truckin'")...also, Marc sat in with Ratdog for a pretty smokin "New Minglewood Blues"...oh yeah,
pretty sure you can hear me pull my 'raincoat' (trashbag with hole ripped in bottom for neck and in sides for arms) over my head right at the
beginning of or during "Jealous Again" (damn, it was 19 years ago), and occasional bag crinkles after that. it was also a bit of a shrill
sounding (read: LOTS of midrange) show, which I assume was due to the seats. All in all, it was a great show, and a great start to hitting
4 Furthurs. BIG thanks to Dennis for the upload, and I do have a couple more *complete* Furthur's that might get sent his way.
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