1989-04-14 | Blues Traveler

1:09:22

SBD

Taper:

Luke McCormick

Transferrer:

mgoldey

SHNID:

bt1989-04-14.mtx.mc.mccormick.mgoldey.158393.flac1644

Source:

Nak CM-100 ("flat") + SBD (see notes) > D5 by Luke McCormick

Lineage:

MC (XLIIS-90) > Nak Dragon > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6 MHz) > Tascam HRE > PCM @ 2496 > Wavelab 11 (split tracks, correct phase shift, reimage to stereo, tracking, DDI Codec (Dolby B @ -29.6 dBFS), levels / Ozone Vintage Limiter, resample, Lin dither) > FLAC 1644

Taper Notes:

View NotesJohn Popper - harmonica, vox
Chan Kinchla - guitar
Brendan Hill - drums
Bobby Sheehan - bass  
**=w/ Roger Fox - flute
#=w/ Chris Barron (Spin Doctors) - vox
$$=w/ Avram Lavinsky (Dreamspeak) - keys
++=w/ Gordon "Nappy G" Clay (Dreamspeak; Groove Collective) - percussion  

Source:   Nak CM-100 ("flat") + SBD (see notes) > D5 by Luke McCormick
Transfer: MC (XLIIS-90) > Nak Dragon > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6 MHz) > Tascam HRE > PCM @ 2496
Master:   Wavelab 11 (split tracks, correct phase shift, reimage to stereo, tracking, DDI Codec (Dolby B @ -29.6 dBFS), levels / Ozone Vintage Limiter, resample, Lin dither) > FLAC 1644

NOTES:  
--Thanks to Luke McCormick for taping and loaning his cassette to be digitized  
--These files are a direct transfer from the master cassette made by Luke McCormick at Barnard Springfest on Friday, April 14, 1989.  This is a significant improvement over SHNID # 13921, which is a C(2) version of the same recording.
--The tape captures Blues Traveler as its career was taking off.  The band had been playing for a while with members of Dreamspeak and the Spin Doctors at a Columbia fraternity, Delta Phi, and was playing local clubs like Nightingales, Mondo Perso, 712 Club, and Wetlands (opened February 1989), as well as free concerts in Prospect Park and at local colleges (RealityFest at SUNY Albany was the following day, the 15th).  
--The taper, a member of the Phi and friend of the band, decided to "matrix" the SBD and AUD feeds by recording each to a separate channels, but this resulted in a 12 ms delay between channels.  This delay is audible and present in all other circulating recordings.  Here, the delay has been removed and each mono feed mixed to stereo.  (From the start through Rock Me Baby, the SBD feed was barely present and thus the first two tracks are mostly AUD.)
--The master cassette is marked 04/13, which is incorrect.  All circulating copies come from it and some are also misdated as April 13, which some folks stubbornly cling to.  The correct date is April 14, because...
............1) April 14 is confirmed by the taper here: https://web.archive.org/web/19990224185129/http://www.sgi.net/bluestraveler/gig.html
............2) The date is confirmed in the Columbia Spectator.  See the article accompanying these files.  
............3) Barnard and Columbia had classes on Thursday, and the college administration would never have allowed a rock concert on Lehman Lawn while classes were in session.  
............4) Dreamspeak, which also played, dates the performance as April 14, and provides photographs:  https://www.dreamspeak.com/gig/1989-barnard-springfest-wjohn-popper
--This is a significant improvement over existing sources and sounds great.  Play it loud! 

-- mhg :: 2022-10-15  

vanillag NOTES (10/19/2022):  
--Thanks so much to Luke McCormick for recording a matrix of this 1989 Blues Traveler show & getting it to mgoldey to transfer.  & to mgoldey himself for his detailed work in improving this recording for all of us to enjoy!!  Super appreciated & sounds tremendous now!!  
--"Springfest '89" was a three-day event commemorating the "rites of spring."  
--the festivities kicked off at noon  
--The lineup on this day was (in order):  Dreamspeak;  Majick;  Blues Traveler  
--There were also on-campus bands & acts that performed throughout the day between sets & between the main bands, etc.  These acts were:  the Bacchantae;  the Gilbert & Sullivan Society;  the Clef Hangers;  the Barnard College Musical Theater (BCMT);  Notes & Keys  
--the Dreamspeak performance can be found here:  https://archive.org/details/dreamspeak1989-04-14
--I added more detail to the venue info  
--I added the band members info
--fixed some titles toward how they appear on the original albums
--I added pics of the venue, an md5 checksum file & the ffp fingerprints to the text file