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Lettuce 01/17/2001

Wetlands Preserve, New York, NY
SHNID 170585
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Original master DAT recording: Neumann KM140 + Soundboard -> Mackie 1202 mixer -> Apogee AD1000 (16 bit/44.1khz) -> Tascam DAP1(master tape)
DAT playback:Sony R300 -> Sound Devices 722 digital input (@24/44.1)
Mastered: Soundforge Pro 12.1 - *All file manipulation in Soundforge done at 24 bits*. File processed in Soundforge for clap/whistle/yell scrubbing, volume normalization, 24 -> 16 bit dither using POW-r Dither with POW-r #3 noise shaping. Tracked in CDWav. Tagged in Tag&Rename 3.9.15
Entered by Mark Goldey
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03/21/2025
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Archive Identifier lettuce2001-01-17 ↗

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Lettuce
Wetlands
New York, NY
1/10/2001
BARN178

Original master DAT recording: Neumann KM140 + Soundboard -> Mackie 1202 mixer -> Apogee AD1000 (16 bit/44.1khz) -> Tascam DAP1(master tape)

DAT playback:
Sony R300 -> Sound Devices 722 digital input (@24/44.1)

Mastered: Soundforge Pro 12.1 - *All file manipulation in Soundforge done at 24 bits*. File processed in Soundforge for clap/whistle/yell scrubbing, volume normalization, 24 -> 16 bit dither using POW-r Dither with POW-r #3 noise shaping. Tracked in CDWav.  Tagged in Tag&Rename 3.9.15

Set 1
1.  Deuce *
2.  Reunion *
3.  Cannonball *
4.  Use Me * +
5.  It's Your Thing *+
6.  Nyack *

Set 2
1.  tuning
2.  Reunion
3.  The Chicken
4.  Let The Music Take Your Mind ^
5.  Spider #
6.  Flu The Coop
7.  s2t07
8.  Tighten Up @

* = w/Fred Wesley on trombone/vocals, Jacques Schwartz-Bart on sax
+ = w/Stephanie Mackay on vocals
^ = Jeff Bhasker on bass keys (no Matt Rubano)
# = w/James Hurt on keys
@ = w/Emiliano Hevesi on tenor sax
Ryan Zoidis on some tracks


Adam Deitch - drums
Eric Krasno - guitar
Adam Smirnoff - guitar
Sam Kininger - alto sax
Jeff Bhasker - keys
Matt Rubano - bass

I painstakingly scrubbed hundreds of claps, yells, and whistles which were right the mics from this recording

Recorded, transferred, mastered, tracked, tagged, and posted by Scott Bernstein (possibly recorded in conjunction with Bill Mulvey)

DAT Transfer: 1/27/2018
Mastering, tracking, tagging: 3/1/2018-4/1/2019

Taper notes:
BARN178 is the flip side of the last BARN series that I posed, BARN177 -- they were both part of a 4 week Lettuce run at Wetlands (very early on in their history) with different special guests each week.  This particular week features FUNK LEGEND, trombone player Fred Wesley who goes all the way back to playing with James Brown in his band "The JBs" and later on in the JBs (with Maceo Parker and Pee Wee Ellis) in a version of the band that continued without James Brown.

Both BARN177 and 178 were selected when Jenn Glickman was visiting visiting our apartment in January of 2018 and proceeded to tell me "Dude, you have Lettuce recordings from 2001 that are not in circulation?!  You must correct that!" -- so thanks to Jenn Glickman for choosing these two picks to share with the world.

To recap, Lettuce has become one of the great funk bands around -- touring the whole world, spreading the funk and winning many converts.  In these early years, they were essentially known as a somewhat funkier Soulive side project (because guitarist Eric Krasno was a founding member of each, but Lettuce apparently existed long before Soulive did) -- and while the core of the band has remained, one of their members have been drafted into Dave Matthews Band (Rashawn Ross) and the keyboardist from this time period, Jeff Bhaskar, left to became one of the most in-demand hip hop and pop producers/song cowriters in the business, scoring hits with Jay Z, Beyonce, Kanye West, Bruno Mars, Fun, Drake, Alicia Keys, Lana Del Rey, Pink, Taylor Swift, The Rolling Stones, Eminem, Mark Ronson, Rhinanna, Harry Styles, Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, Miguel, and just about any other big name you can think of in the pop world in the last 10 years.

This show the 3rd of a 4 week Wetlands residency featuring special guests each week.  Eric McRoberts has previously posted the first week's recording (featuring DJ Logic, Ekene Nwokoye, Charles Haynes, and Grant Green Jr) from 1/3. The 2nd week (which was my previous archive release back in January) featured Ekene (once again), the Casey Benjamin, Javier Colon (Derek Trucks Band vocalist at the time and future winner of The Voice), the mind-bending James Hurt on keys, and others.

Note that Erick "ED" "Baby Jesus" Coomes was absent from this run of shows.  His large low-end shoes were more than ably filled by the incredible Matt Rubano who was the bassist from the prog-rock jamband Schleigho at the time (he eventually went on to become, for a time, the bassist for the band Taking Back Sunday, though he's no longer with them).

Enjoy this piece of history!!!

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