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Robert Hunter 10/10/2013

The Town Hall, New York, NY
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flac1644 Lineage: Stealth recorded and minimally produced by mrsaureus. Sitting center floor fifth row using Core-Sound High End Binaurals (DPA-4060 capsules) to Sony PCM-M10 (48 kHZ, 24 bit), WavePad Sound Editor to chop and Switch Sound File Convert to convert to FLAC.
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Robert Hunter
Town Hall, NYC
October 10, 2013

This recording is being shared as 16 bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC's.

First set:

01-Franklin's Tower
02-Standing on the Moon
03-Box of Rain
04-Dire Wolf / Peggy-O
05-Ship of Fools
06-Deal
07-Silvio
08-Candyman

Second set:

09-Jack Straw
10-Cruel White Water
11-Brown-Eyed Women
12-It Must Have Been the Roses
13-Reuben and Cherise
14-Stella Blue
15-Wharf Rat
16-Brokedown Palace
17-Sugaree
18-The Wind Blows High
19-Talking Money Tree Blues
20-Friend of the Devil
21-New Speedway Boogie

Encore:

22-Scarlet Begonias
23-Ripple
24-Boys in the Barroom


Lineage:  Stealth recorded and minimally produced by mrsaureus, being shared for the first time.  Sitting center floor fifth row using  Core-Sound High End Binaurals (DPA-4060 capsules) to Sony PCM-M10 (48 kHZ, 24 bit), WavePad Sound Editor to chop and Switch Sound File Convert to convert to FLAC.   In Town Hall for a quiet performance, the applause is always a lot louder than the music, and in order for the music to have reasonable gain the applause saturates sometimes.  This is an audience recording that aims to document the experience of being in the crowd at the show, and features occasionally loud but appropriate crowd noise.


This week there were four shows I really wanted to see but I only had the time to go to one (this is actually a constant problem here in musical paradise.) So I missed Biffy Clyro, the 1975 and The Naked and Famous, and I went to see Robert Hunter. What I figured is, I’ll surely have more chances to see those other bands, but if I missed the very last show of RH’s first tour in years, I might have to do without.

Now there are plenty of people who used to be in the Grateful Dead who are still alive, but a couple of very important ones are actually dead with a little “d”. It has never seemed to me that Jerry Garcia’s spirit much haunts the major post-Dead projects like Further or Phil Lesh and Friends. I guess he’d rather be someplace else. And that someplace turned out to be at the RH show, where Jerry’s spirit seemed to dwell quite naturally. Hunter’s performance carried much of the wooly, loose, technically imperfect and sometimes plodding shuffle of some of Jerry’s solo shows, but it also had the wry spark of subversive mischief that Jerry brought to the Dead, a thing mostly absent from Big Dead Redux.

Hunter’s voice isn’t bad for a septuagenarian, but isn’t an instrument to build a career around. His guitar work was sloppily dazzling, with beautiful, strange dissonances sticking through the icing like nails on a birthday cake. But hearing this man perform this canon of work which, in his key role of song crafter in one of the greatest musical projects ever, he was so instrumental in creating,transcends the detailsand heads for the clouds.Like the Kris K show last year at the Ethical Culture Society, there was a strong spirit of valedictory hagiography: people shouting that he’s a treasure, standing ovations after everything, lots ofconspicuous appreciation. But there was nothing ossified about RH.  Just a dude playing a show, to a big room of fans and friends.

Like Leonard Cohen, Hunter is apparently back on the road to make some money. He reported in Rolling Stone that he’d had some medical problems, and the bills coupled with creeping financial anemia are what pushed him back to performing, but he looked fit and sounded like he was enjoying himself. I’ll admit to some ambivalence here. I wish these guys the best, naturally, but comfortably retired musicians don’t come out and play.

If Jerry’s benevolent spirit touched down in Town Hall on Thursday, then none of the staff had a finger on the Ouija board.  Town Hall ushers were aggressively unfriendly to tapers and iPhone videographers. A guy to my right was allowed to bring in a large and elaborate dual mike recording system, but wasn’t allowed to set it up at his seat. Then at the beginning of the second set, ushers fanned out and shut down everybody with a phone camera aimed at the stage. It wasn’t just a cursory thing, either.  They were into their mission, sneaking around to try to catch people back at it and really being dicks.  But they didn’t get me, I’m happy to say, and so here is a passably good musical document of an outstanding musical performance.  I think you’ll enjoy it.


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