The Black Crowes
Super Toads Entertainment Center
Des Moines, IA
September 9, 1998
** 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 > Denon 790R > Kenwood A-522 amplifier > Kenwood GE-622 Equalizer > .WAV @ 16 bit/44.1 kHz
Mastering: .WAV > Sound Forge Pro 11.0 (Build 299) [iZotope Mastering Suite (declick); minor edits, normalize, & fades] > iZotope RX6 Advanced v6.00.1210 (Spectral denoise) > CDWav (tracking) > Trader's Little Helper (level 5) > FLAC > TagScanner 6.0.18 (tagging)
Location: 50 - 60 feet from the stage, DFC
Recorded & transferred by: Steve "ballsdeep" Hagar
Mastered by: Dennis Orr
Setlist: (1:21:30)
01 Remedy
02 Sting Me
03 Gone
04 Blackberry
05 Horsehead
06 Ballad In Urgency >
07 Wiser Time
08 My Morning Song
09 A Conspiracy
10 Jealous Again
11 No Speak No Slave
12 Encore Break
- Encore -
13 She Talks To Angels
14 Hard To Handle
15 Band Intros
16 Twice As Hard
Chris Robinson - lead vocals & harp
Rich Robinson - guitars & backing vocals
Audley Freed - guitars
Sven Pipien - bass & backing vocals
Ed Harsch - keyboards
Steve Gorman - drums
Julie Griffin - backup vocals
Sharia (??) - backup vocals
Show Notes:
OH, WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES
After driving all over the south for ABB (twice) and Pearl Jam (4 shows), I made the LONG haul from Virginia Beach (PJ, on the 7th) to Des Moines, IA for my first post-Marc Crowes show.
Got into Des Moines, and had hoped to get the HoJo's across the street...but it was CONDEMNED!
And the venue had to have been an old Sears store or something...rotten ceiling tiles and the whole 9 yards, this was far and away the biggest dump I'd ever seen the Crowes at...was it a harbinger of things to come?
You bet your ass! WHAT THE HELL WAS THIS CRAP???
Instead of smooth jams and silky delivery, a coked-up costumed Chris came out and pranced around like a broken marionette...Rich was spot on, but Audley, while a great player in COL, this was clearly not a good fit for him...it was more like the "metal Crowes", or something of the sort.
A high-energy show devoid of any of those jams that would "take you somewhere", the onstage product was NOT the Crowes of yesteryear, but a cheap facsimile of prior years.
The only highlight was getting to see "Horsehead" live, but that was about it.
Went the next night in Columbia (already shared here), but ate my St. Louis tickets for the following show (100 degree temps plus a drastically different band made that an easy decision), and the only reason I witnessed them a 3rd time outside of Chicago (Tinley Park) was because they were part of an eclectic radio-station party with Rammstein, Monster Magnet, Anthrax, Local H, Creed, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Joe Satriani, and a few I'm forgetting (taped MM and Anthrax, and that was it that day).
If not for Jimmy Page joining them the following year, it'd have been 12 years between shows ('98 thru '09)
Anyhow, just 'cuz I don't like it don't mean it ain't no good...but this WAS NO GOOD!
So, *enjoy*!!! ;)
Alms for Dennis and fucks for me...LOTS of fucks...all shapes and sizes.
---Dr. Deep shoulda kicked Chris around for subjecting the fanbase to this garbage...but he didn't
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