The Black Crowes
Orpheum Theatre
Vancouver, BC
September 25, 1996
** 16 BIT **
Source: Sonic Studios DSM-6P w/3-way lo-cut filter, position unknown (most likely @ 80hz, middle setting) > Sony WM-D6
Transfer: Master cassettes (Maxell XL-IIS 100m) > Denon 790R > Kenwood A-522 amplifier > Kenwood GE-622 Equalizer > .WAV @ 16 bit/44.1 kHz
Mastering: .WAV's > Sound Forge Pro 11.0 (Build 299) [splice; iZotope Mastering Suite (declick); minor edits, normalize, & fades] > CDWav (tracking) > Trader's Little Helper (level 5) > FLAC > TagScanner 6.0.18 (tagging)
Location: FRONT row, right in front of Rich (THANKS Taller!)
Recorded & transferred by: Steve "ballsdeep" Hagar
Mastered by: Dennis Orr
Setlist:
01 Better When You're Not Alone
02 Thick N' Thin
03 A Conspiracy >
04 Ballad In Urgency Jam >
05 Wiser Time
06 Title Song
07 Blackberry
08 Sting Me
09 Thorn Jam >
10 Thorn In My Pride
11 Seeing Things
12 Share The Ride
13 Pimper's Paradise
14 High Head Blues
15 She Gave Good Sunflower
16 Good Friday
17 Happy
18 Remedy
Chris Robinson - lead vocals & harp
Rich Robinson - guitars & backing vocals
Marc Ford - guitars & backing vocals
Johnny Colt - bass & backing vocals
Ed Harsch - keyboards
Steve Gorman - drums
Mastering Notes:
- The first few seconds of "Better When You're Not Alone", and some of the applause after "Sting Me" and the first few seconds of "Thorn Jam" were missing due to a tape flip. I patched in 10.957 seconds at the start and 52.013 seconds at the tape flip from Chris Bold's master:
Marcsounds binaural mics > Aiwa HDS2 DAT from row 16, RC
- Tape flip during the applause after "High Head Blues" - seamlessly spliced, no music lost.
R.I.P. Ed Harsch: May 27, 1957 ñ November 4, 2016
Steve's Show Notes (edited from his Crowesbase post):
- BR5-49 opened
- An insanely ornate theatre, it's tailor-made to the Crowes brand of talkin'...
- An absolutely amazing vibe, performance, setlist and the like...2 songs were dropped from the set ("Under A Mountain" and "Sometimes
Salvation") due to time constraints, and there was NO encore, they just played straight through (NOTE: The Orpheum is city owned and oerated,
and has a strict 11:00 PM curfew). This recording is EXTREMELY "Rich heavy", one listen to "Thick N' Thin" or "Happy" will confirm this statement.
Rating : 9/10
"First Time Circulating From The Master" Notes:
- OK, this is an interesting one. This recording did circulate as part of the excellent and comprehensive Scott Weber ("Spider-Web") project, in which he collected the best sources for the 1996 shows, and mastered and torrented them. For this one, Scott listed the lineage as follows (which he believed to be correct):
Analog Master > DAT > Digital DAT Clone > .WAV > FLAC
Now, 20 years later, the truth comes out! I'll let Steve tell it:
"I sent Scott 2g cassette copies (made from my safeties), then he got 1g DAT transfers from my buddy Paul (who drank a lot back then), who
promised he wouldn't trade them to Weber, but because I knew he'd get drunk and do so, I put "master" stickers on my 1g's and sent them to Paul! He then transferred my "masters" and sent them to Weber. I restickered them when Paul sent them back."
So, bottom line is that while this source has circulated previously, THIS is the first time it will circulate on a transfer directly from the
master cassettes!
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