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Bob Weir
05-10-92
Chachauga, CA
Jerry Brown Benefit
Source: SDB > DAT @ 48 > DA-P1 > Hosa S/PDIF > Delta DiO 2496 >
Peak @ 44.1 > Jam > Toast Audio Extractor (overlap) > SHN
NOTE: may not be SBD, read additional text file from taper
who says that he taped this FOB.
DAT transfer and SHNing: Jon Seff ([email protected])
01 Walkin' Blues 04:31
02 Twilight Time 02:44
03 Blackbird 02:28
04 Take Me to the River 04:15
05 KC Moan 03:27
06 Masterpiece 04:42
07 The Winners > 03:19
08 Easy to Slip 06:09
09 Victim or the Crime 05:12
10 Throwing Stones 10:20
11 The Weight 05:11
Total Time 52:22
Notes: Not sure about the location--never heard of a city named Chachauga in
California--but this is all the info the DAT had. Overall, a very nice solo
acoustic show.Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:56:20 -0800
To: fjb
From: Jonathan Seff
Subject: Re: Weir 5/10/92
I just got this VERY LONG message about the show, pasted below if
you're interested.
Jon
----
This is more information than you want to know but it will prove the
TRUTH, I hope.
My name is Bob Aronson. I taped nearly every west coast appearance
of the Grateful Dead, JGB, Bobby, and others from 1990-till the first
end. The day Jerry died all of my masters where sealed and have not
been circulated at all. If you have that tape, then it descended
from a few of the best human beings alive, and you are blessed. May
it roll forever.
One day I will come out of seclusion and ALL of my material will be
digitized and posted. This will be a **Slack** process so I don't
know when exactly. My tapes are very unique. I worked very hard at
it. I traded with a select few, several in Europe, but mostly I
became a taper to turn on people WHO DID NOT TRADE, so many of my
best gems are traded in NON TAPER circles. My mission was to give
the "have nots" something that the "haves" all wanted. Also I like
to tape as much of the audience as possible: half time music, post
show, etc. Incedentally my collection is alwayes available to the
members of the Grateful Dead organization. Everyone in the
organization.
That particular Bobby tape was made with a Denon DAT machine hooked
into my cheapest mics: Sonics Mics made for that model TCDD3 DAT
(sony sized) designed by a very talented guy up in Oregon named Guy
Lombardo - who I later had the honor of meeting at a Radiators gig at
the Hyatt in Eugene a few years since... He makes custom mics for a
variety of Digital and Video apparatus, and the mics are worn
directly on YOUR HEAD. I higly recommend them wher mic sre not
allowed. I preferred to wear FBI or Elvis Costello glasses, unless
at the Warfield where I would wear a nice homosexual looking pair of
fruity pebbles glasses. I NEVER got busted (or laid) with sonics
because I was fucking disciplined, and I'm not gay, not that I have
anything against Jerry Seinfeld.
I never moved my head laterally, and I could run my deck BY FEEL and
would never expose any apparatus to security even though they had
long suspected what I was up to. I drove them nuts.
On the original tape you can hear me at the bobby gig, then talking
to Bobby directly after the gig, (Mike took my photo with bobby) and
then getting into my car and RACING 150 miles to Jerry/Grisman at the
Warfield at which point you hear my conversation with Cheryl (BGP
Security at the Warfield door) who searched me, and failed, and then
let me into the interlude of ARABIA at the end of Jerry/Grisman's
first set. I had started the tape again 10 feet in front of the
door. Man I was sly.
2 shows, one tape, one day, 3hours and 150 miles apart. Its a great
story and its true I swear.
Let it be known that Bobby was known to perform off the record
throughout the years. Occasionally, a sneaky boy like me would get
in on that action, even at private gateherings around a campfire. So
if you have'nt heard of the information on a tape please DO NOT
correct it logically with guess work. It becomes like a game of
telephone and has fucked up deadbase for years. Pompous arguements
have no validity as to misconstued details. Always trace the source.
The sound system in Cachagua was borrowed from a local band at the
time known as "The Young Presidents". There was one large JBL
Speaker on stage left and a smaller Altec-Lansing on stage right.
The stage was in the south end of the back yard and faced north to
the back deck of the house about 60 yards up the slope. I stood like
a statue about 12.7 feet in front of the big speaker, with my FBI
glasses on. Therefore, it is a binaural stereo omnidirectional
recording with a mono source (One speaker). A mono source in a feild
of space with a stereo pair. This is the tried and true best method
of recording with Sonics. I got results like this everytime I used
them in this way. Those silly text book readers who would position
themselves in center, equidistant from left and right simply moved
themselves too farr away from left OR right. Being close to THE
SOURCE can not be out done by any other positioning. Fuck stereo
sourcing: two mics create stereo without needing two sources, silly
rabbits.
Standing stiff in my DEA glasses, wiggling my feet like a russian
bottle dance, without moving my head, Bobby knew I was a weirdo, but
he never figured out why....or maybe he did. He impressed me that
day because he works just as hard no matter what the gig, just like I
did, and the sound guys. There were about 20 kids down in my general
area in front of the imaginary stage, and the rest of the "Grown ups"
were eating the donated food and asking about who Bobby was and when
Jerry Brown would arrive. I particularly love the dog that barked
during a tune and Bobby had to warn to "Quiet Down Out There!" That
should dispel any INCORRECT assumptions that my recordings ever came
from a soundboard. They don't. The band does that quite well all by
themselves EXCEPT FOR THAT DAY THERE WAS NO BOARD TAPE. Ask the dude
from Ultrasound (I believe) that had the long dark hair and
handle-bar moustache. He was always with Healey and gang at the dead
shows I never knew his name because I was not a brown-nosed taper
and I never told him that I recorded the gig. One hint: He was the
same guy at the David Grisman/Tony Rice GIG in Carmel Sunset Center
at 5/28/94, where I handed david Grisman masters (ran two decks) of
the show directly afterward.
Otherwise, I was known as the "Mad Taper from Hell" (affectionately)
because I would haul 100 pounds of gear to a show: a four mic mix of
AKG C414b TL and C460B into a custom Hollywood Sound Corporation M-S
stereo mixer with every feature imaginable (made for Nagras ie) and
lots of lead acid batteries, extra tape, every adapter invented, 48v
phantom, purple and red and blue cable, special sauce. I was really
friendly and somewhat in a hurry all the time and I would allow
anyone to hook into my system and have a patch, unless I simply ran
out of space, like at Shoreline. I would offer to run your deck, and
usually not fuck it up. My tapes have a unique signature of "live
mix" since I always fucked around with the phase and with your minds.
I wore tha cans often. I broke every known rule of stereophonic
recording because I am an obsessive seeker. Often I would get the
best results imaginable. Sometimes they were pig vomit on toast.
Every time they were more than the sum of their parts and SOMETHING
DIFFERENT THAN THE SAME OL PERFECT STEREO PAIR 17.5 feet in front of
board....or the board itself for that matter. That shit (no offence)
was always available and always just peachy in the same ol
homogenized way.
Anyway, that bobby gig took place on somebody's personal estate in
deep Carmel Valley, CA not far from the Los Padres Dam. There were
grapes growing on the estate. Jerry Brown never showed up but if you
follow your sources on the tape you will hear that he phoned into the
event. you will also hear that I spoke directly to Bobby afterward,
as I had my picture being taken with him by my buddy Mike from
Alabama, who at the time worked at the Highlands inn in Carmel (as
bartender), where Phil Lesh likes to hang out. Mike took excellent
photographs and who in fact let me know about this gig. He has
since moved back to Montgomery Alabama, and I've lost track of him,
so please pass that along to him if you know him.
May tapers live on like the Dead in the various incarnations of form
and space and time.
I can be contacted at [email protected] anytime.
Love, peace, and Da-Da,
Boobers
San Mateo, CA
http://members.tripod.com/~baronson
[email protected]
***Slack is a reference to Slack, if you know what I don't mean, in
which case do not worry, just give money to Bob Dobbs***
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