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Blues Traveler 03/31/1989

Under Acme, New York, NY
SHNID 154561
Source Summary
SBD>Cass(x)
taper unknown; tape provided by Eric Brodsky
Entered by Mark Goldey
Checksums ffp, md5
Disc Counts 0 / 0
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Date Circulated
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12/05/2021
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Archive Identifier bt1989-03-31.flac16 ↗

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Blues Traveler
March 31st, 1989
Under Acme, New York, NY

Master:
SBD>Cass(x)
taper unknown; tape provided by Eric Brodsky

Conversion:
Tascam DA-20>Microtrack 24/96>WAV>Sound Studio 4.2>xACT 2.15>FLAC
by Dave Mallick

Disc 1 Total: [48:35.66]
01. //Warmer Days>        [06:36.33]
02. Gotta Get Mean>       [03:03.04]
03. Gloria>               [09:05.59]
04. Gotta Get Mean        [02:12.04]
05. But Anyway            [07:05.71]
06. Out Of My Hands*      [05:00.50]
07. Come Together         [06:03.04]
08. Crash Burn>           [03:39.74]
09. Bad To The Bone/      [05:48.67]

Disc 2 Total: [48:04.00]
01. //Mother Funker       [06:04.49]
02. //Alone               [08:55.05]
03. 100 Years*            [04:18.10]
04. Love Of My Life>*     [06:09.52]
05. And So It Goes>       [06:14.43]
06. Sweet Talking Hippie  [08:00.15]
07. Trust In Trust        [03:43.36]
08. Miss You              [04:38.15]

* with Roger Fox on flute

Recording notes:
- This is almost definitely an incomplete recording, but this is all
  that has ever circulated.
- The first song of each set cuts in, and a tape flip cuts out the very
  beginning of Mother Funker.
- There is a hum/buzz coming from the PA that is particularly audible
  between songs. I was not able to eliminate it without affecting the
  music, so I elected to leave it in.

Historical notes:

This show circulated for a very long time as the oldest show out there,
dated April 1st, labeled Acme, then Acme Underground. However, John's
commentary at the very beginning of this recording dates it to a day
earlier, and another show gets the venue name right.

John mentions his own birthday "the day before" - you can even hear a
tiny snippet of John's lounge-singer-esque delivery of Happy Birthday
after Bad To The Bone - it sounds like he's singing "[happy birthday] to
us..." Since John's birthday is March 29th, that dates this show to the
31st. Further evidence of the venue can be heard at the end of the
recently surfaced 3/26/89 show, when John and Bobby mention a show at
Under Acme. Acme was the name of the restaurant upstairs from the venue,
and in the late 80's/early 90's, the room was known as Under Acme - it
didn't change to Acme Underground until the mid 90's.

Thanks to Eric for loaning me a definite upgrade to my hissy 4th-gen
cassette, and enjoy a recording nearly 23 years in the making.

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