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Irving Plaza
New York, NY
4/4/1997

Original recording: Scheops CCM4 (FOB/Center, sweet spot)->VMS box->Tascam DAP1->DAT(master recorded at 16 bit/44.1 khz)

Transfer: Sony R500->Sound Devices 722

Mastered: Soundforge Audio Studio 10.0a - slight volume normalization, smoothing volume adjustments listed below. All file manipulation in Soundforge done at 24 bits, then dithered back to 16 bits using using iZotope MBIT+ with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings. Tracked in CDWav.

Set 1
1. intro music/banter - NYC appreciation
2. Bring You Down
3. Timmy Tucker
4. Don't Fuck With Flo
5. banter - this next song...
6. She Sends Me
7. banter - stomp in time
8. Brain Tuba
9. banter - Black Sabbath
10. Spine Of A Dog (take 1, abandoned)
11. Spine Of A Dog (take 2, abandoned)
12. Spine Of A Dog (take 3)
13. banter - get junk mail from our bands
14. Time Again
15. Mexico
16. Recreational Chemistry
17. banter - setbreak announce

Set 2
1. banter - happy birthday Andy, Yolk propaganda, Brain Festival
2. YOY
3. Threw It All Away
4. Akimbo
5. tuning/banter - 1969 Elvis special
6. Happy Hour Hero
7. banter - if I drool on myself...
8. Brent Black *
9. St. Augustine ->
10. Stranger Than Fiction
11. Head
12. thanks/encore break
13. Buster ^
14. thanks/announcements

Ominous Seapods opened

Minor volume adjustments at (2:44) in S1T2, (00:17) in S1T3, (00:09) in S2T2

* = w/Ominous Seapods "bare-chested and masked", and Ted Marotta (OSP drummer) and Brian Mangini (OSP keyboardist) sitting in on drums with Vinnie on the same kit
^ = w/Ted Marotta on drums with Vinnie

Recorded by Scott Bernstein (patched out of Craig Savarick or Craig Hillwig, can't remember); Transfer, Mastering, and Tracking by Scott Bernstein Nov-Dec 2009.

Taper notes:
Sorry, not too much of a story about this one. Don't really have any recollections from this show at all besides it being a generally fun time and some fuzzy details about the Ominious Seapods running onstage and doing some really crazy stuff during Brent Black.

Sometimes you check out a somewhat ancient recording and it doesn't sound that great....but then there are times like this one where you check out a recording you haven't listened to maybe since the night you recorded it and it just sounds WONDERFUL.

This is release number 10 in my occasional BARN archive restoration series. Enjoy!

-- Scott