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John Hiatt (solo acoustic)
High Sierra Music Festival
Bear Valley, CA (USA)
July 1, 1995
Excellent digital soundboard recording (from DAT master)
Another stellar recording from "The RS Arvhives"
(a Mexminute/TheCommish production)
** mp3 samples provided (as always) in the Comments section **
Setlist:
01. Crossing Muddy Waters
02. Drive South
03. Walk On
04. Perfectly Good Guitar
05. Wrote It Down And Burned It
06. Real Fine Love
07. Icy Blue Heart
08. Your Dad Did
09. You Must Go
10. Cry Love
11. Your Love Is My Rest
12. Angel
13. Tennessee Plates
14. Dust Down A Country Road
15. As Good As She Could Be
16. Have A Little Faith In Me
17. Thing Called Love
Notes:
* SLIGHT amount of "static" in these spots (problm with feed to soundboard?):
Track 12 (1:44 mark), Track 15 (0:35 mark), Track 17 (2:14 and 5:07 marks)
Lineage:
DAT master > Sony PCM-R500 (playback) > HHB CDR-850 (burning) > CDR, then
CDR > EAC > WAV > Editing (see below) > FLAC Frontend > FLAC
Editing notes:
* Re-tracked show (combined WAV files in Nero, then re-split with CD Wave)
* Removed 3 seconds of repetitive tuning between Tracks 4-5
* Removed 6 seconds of repetitive tuning between Tracks 8-9
* Removed 6 second pause between Tracks 15-16 (tape pause for encore?)
* Inserted fade out/in between Tracks 16-17 (tape must have been paused again)
About "The RS Archives":
The RS Archive consists of a selection of live recordings made by a great individual who passed away in 2005.
RS worked in the music industry in many capacities….a music fan….a musician….a sound engineer. He was considered one of the best behind the mixing board. I was honored to have known him for practically 35 years. There was no one like him….he was a wonderful human being. Everybody loved him. He was a level-headed guy who knew what sounded good and what didn't. He could conceive and design sound systems from scratch in his head to meet the artist’s needs. Whatever they wanted, he could do.
For years, he mixed music at the annual Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards television show. RS worked closely for years with Daryl Hall and John Oates, Juice Newton, Anita Baker, Mariah Carey, Tears for Fears, Crack the Sky, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Aretha Franklin, Pink Floyd, Whitney Houston, Bette Midler, Ann Murray, Michael Bolton, Kenny G, Tony Bennett, Johnny Cash, Eric Clapton, John Fogerty, Bonnie Raitt, Frank Sinatra, John Hiatt, Little Feat, Little Village, and Waylon Jennings…..to name a few.
He had a huge reputation in the business, and that's why he was chosen to work with such budding clients as Mariah Carey. With the major stars, he was one of the preferred engineers they choose to work with. A particular client of RS who had a reputation for firing sound engineers with great regularity was Anita Baker, whom he won over not only with his technical abilities and personality, but with his refusal to put up with her criticism. He quit a few times but always came back because she loved the way he mixed her music. He could coddle difficult and temperamental celebrities, and they respected his work. He was able to kick back and get along with them. Even though he knew these people, he was a very modest man.
So now, it is time to honor him by sharing some of the many recordings he made while on the road. All are perfect (or near perfect) soundboard recordings made from the master cassettes or master dat tapes. Unfortunately, I am not able to identify the original equipment these tapes were made on, however I can say that for the transferring process, the cassette tapes were played back on a Nakamichi CR-7A, and the dat tapes on a Sony PCM-R500. They were all burnt onto cdr using a HHB CDR-850.
Please enjoy these tasty gems!
Mexminute (fellow DIME member).
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And won't you please consider thanking Mexminute for sharing this mighty fine show with us?
Generously shared by Mexminute
and uploaded on DIME by TheCommish
November 2008
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