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Mike Langen's Collection

Leo Kottke   05/01/1985

Cotati Cabaret, Cotati, CA
Source sbrd
Media cdr   3 discs
Notes Leo Kottke
May 1, 1985
Cotati Cabaret, Cotati, CA

Based on the history of the way they did shows at the Cabaret and based on listening to this and the songs,
I believe there were two shows that night and that I captured most of each.

soundboard >
high end desktop Sony cassette deck >
master cassette (Maxell UDXL-S 90 high bias tape recorded with Dolby B on)

transfer:
JVC KD-V6 (playback, with Dolby off) >
coax digital cable >
Sek'd Prodif Plus soundcard >
Sound Forge 8 (normalize, fade in and out, track splits) >
.wav files >
FLAC level 8 encoding, align on sector boundaries

Recorded by Easy Ed.

I, Easy Ed, was at the show with my cassette deck connected to the soundboard
- this is not a multigenerational cassette received in trade years ago.
This is my master soundboard cassette.


disc one:
(early show)
1. Little Beaver
2. Airproofing
3. Last Steam Engine Train / Stealing
4. "A Corn Tyrant"
5. Wake Up! (Sleepers Awake)
6. Everybody Lies
7. From The Cradle To The Grave
8. "my own protoplasm"
9. Pamela Brown
10. Mary
11. Bean Time
12. Jack Fig
13. Saginaw, Michigan
14. Up Tempo
15. Standing In My Shoes
16. Three Quarter North / Four Four North
(encore)
17. "Self Defense" / Theme From "Doodles"
TRT 1.08:38

disc two:
(late show)
1. Airproofing (beginning cut, fade in)
2. Little Beaver
3. Bean Time
4. Ojo
5. Pamela Brown
6."glued to the guitar"
7. Three Quarter North / Four Four North
8. A Trout Towards Noon
9. Eight Miles High
10. "a guitar I got from Dave Lundberg"
11. Saginaw, Michigan
12. The Train And The Gate / Vaseline Machine Gun (beginning cut, fade in)
13. Little Martha
14. Echoeing Gilewitz
15. Cripple Creek
(encore)
16. Louise
TRT 65:05

The venue for this show was The Cotati Cabaret in Cotati, CA.
It was a small club that held about 300 people.
Cotati is a small town located about an hour north of San Francisco.
The Cabaret was an outgrowth of another venue that had been across the street called The Inn of The Beginning,
a resurrected version of which has since 'risen from the ashes' once or twice since the 80's.

Cotati is next to Sonoma State University, which was called Granola State University back in the days.
SSU is where the great 1973 recording of Old & In The Way with Ramblin' Jack Elliott opening was made.
There is a great poster of the O&ITW show, my copy of the poster is long gone :<(

Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Sound: A+
Owned by Mike Langen · Last Updated May 23, 2023