The Band
Central Park Great Lawn
Ben & Jerry's "One World One Heart" Festival
5/16/1993
Sony ECM-959 -> Denon DTR-80p (16 bit/48khz)
Transfer: Sony R500->Sound Devices 722
Mastered: Soundforge Pro 10.0b - *All file manipulation in Soundforge done at 24 bits*. Volume normalization, sample rate conversion 48khz to 44.1khz using iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter, then dithered back to 16 bits using using iZotope MBIT+ with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings. Tracked in CDWav.
1. intro
2. Rag Mama Rag
3. Crazy Mama
4. Remedy
5. Blind Willie McTell (Bob Dylan)
6. Atlantic City (Bruce Springsteen)
7. It Makes No Difference
8. Ophelia
9. The Shape I'm In
10. banter - thanks to Ben & Jerry, band intros/encore break
11. The Stuff You Gotta Watch
12. The Weight *
13. outro
* = w/Leah Hopkins on vocals
The mix from the PA was all over the place for the first couple of songs, but steadies sometime around "Remedy".
Blondie Chapman played with them at this show.
Transferred, Mastered, and Tracked by Scott Bernstein (5/10/2010).
Lineup:
Garth Hudson
Levon Helm
Rick Danko
Blondie Chapman (for at least some songs)
not sure who else
Also on the bill:
Eddie Palmieri
Steel Pulse
Women Of The Calabash
Taper Notes:
Frankly I'm not quite sure why I thought about putting this show out for BARN35. But yet here it is, another one of my oldest DAT recordings -- this was not the only time I time I saw the legendary Band (I saw them one other time on the fateful night before Jerry Garcia's death at Central Park Summerstage, opening for Bob Weir and Ratdog), but this was the only time I ever recorded them. This was a super fun day on the Great Lawn at Central Park, presented thanks to Ben & Jerry's -- a music festival with a slightly progressive political bent -- there were prewritten postcards about various issues (including, if I recall, reproductive health) which you could fill out and exchange for free ice cream pops. I don't think I saw the entire festival, but I think I saw some of the other acts (thuogh I didn't record them).
This is not a great recording in any sense of the word -- I was not exactly in the "sweet spot" in a tremendous crown on the Great Lawn of Central Park, and my gear was not the greatest at this point, but this turns out to be a highly listenable recording of one of the greatest bands of all time.
Enjoy!
Scott
A rundown of my previous BARN archival releases (all can be found on archive.org except as noted):
BARN1 - Col Bruce Hampton and the Code Talkers at Bret & Joyce's wedding 9/17/2005
BARN2 - Col Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit (w/guest Warren Haynes for all of set 2) Wetlands 11/20/1993
BARN3 - moe. Wetlands 7/8/1995
BARN4 - Dan Bern Bottom Line 7/31/1998 (late show)
BARN5 - moe. Birch Hill 10/31/1996
BARN6 - moe. Maxwells 1/20/1996
BARN7 - Dan Bern Central Park Summerstage 9/19/1997
BARN8 - Dan Bern, Bottom Line 8/1/1998
BARN9 - moe. Bayou 4/5/1997
BARN10 - moe. Irving Plaza 4/4/1997
BARN11 - moe. AKA 9/7/1995
BARN12 - Yolk AKA 9/7/1995
BARN13 - Robert Walter/Johnny Vidacovich/James Singleton/Donald Harrison Preservation Hall 4/30/08
BARN14 - Phish Las Vegas, NV 10/31/1998 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN15 - Phish Great Went @ Loring AFB, Limestone, ME 8/16/1997 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN16 - Phish Great Went @ Loring AFB, Limestone, ME 8/17/1997 (on bt.etree.org), includes orchestra set - by request
BARN17 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/4/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN18 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/6/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN19 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/7/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN20 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/5/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN21 - God Street Wine, Irving Plaza, NYC 6/24/1993
BARN22 - Leftover Salmon, Wetlands, NYC 10/1/1994
BARN23 - Anders Osborne, Manny's Carwash, NYC 11/5/1997
BARN24 - Anders Osborne, Manny's Carwash, NYC 11/6/1997
BARN25 - moe. Pool Party, Morganville, NJ 6/2/1996
BARN26 - Widespread Panic, Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ 11/7/1992 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN27 - Stew, The Turning Point, Piermont, NY 4/6/2003 (on bt.etree.org. dimeadozen.net)
BARN28 - Stew, Joe's Pub, New York, NY 5/22/2003 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN29 - Percy Hill, Lion's Den, NYC 3/16/1996
BARN30 - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Irving Plaza, 8/3/1995
BARN31 - Percy Hill, Wetlands, NYC 6/8/1996
BARN32 - Bad Livers, Mercury Lounge, NYC, 11/15/1999 (opening for Leftover Salmon)
BARN33 - Bad Livers, Mercury Lounge, NYC, 11/16/1999 (opening for Leftover Salmon)
BARN34 - G. Love And Special Sauce, Central Park Summerstage, NYC 6/18/1995
BARN35 - The Band, The Great Lawn, Central Park, NYC 5/16/1993