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Claude Bourbon “Take It To Heart” Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA 4/24/22

If you weren’t there, you didn’t see this………

“Take It To Heart”

Listen to full show here: Archive

Amelia White “Nowhere Man” 4/10/22 Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA

We may not have an upload to Archive for this show-at least not until we have a further discussion with Amelia White about that (she has a trepidation about it).

In the meantime, here’s a little number she did that we just have to share. It’s atypical of the rest of the performance:

“Nowhere Man” audio

Eddie Turner “Hey Joe” 4/17/22 Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA

Sorry for the shaky stuff and jumping around; didn’t realize it was going to be a fourteen minute video, and it’s missing a couple of intro minutes at that…….anyway, that’s a long time to try to hold something still without a tripod…..

Mace Hathaway “Dupree’s Diamond Blues” (Grateful Dead, 1969) 4/9/22 Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA

“Dupree’s Diamond Blues” first appeared on the 1969 Grateful Dead album, Aoxomoxoa.

Dan Tedesco “Wildflowers” (Tom Petty 1994) 4/3/22, Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA

Dan Tedesco “All I Wanted Was A Friend” 4/3/22, Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA

All I Wanted Was A Friend

Dan Tedesco “Heart Of Gold” (Neil Young 1972) 4/3/22 Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA

Set Opener, Set 1, 4/1/22, Rocky Athas Band, “Palace Of The King”, VanGarde Arts, Sioux City, IA

“Palace Of The King” audio

This is a preview of a pending post of the full show at Internet Archive. Our library of those posts can be found here:

Jared Watson, Guitar
Walter Watson, Drums & Vocals
Rocky II, Bass
Rocky Athas, Guitar

“Two Faded Carnations”, Nick Dittmeier & The Sawdusters, 3/27/22 Byron’s Bar

Mono Mix

Role Of Mono In Audience Recordings

Record producer Terry Melcher didn’t believe in stereo, passing it off as a fad. The people listening to pop music were driving cars, and cars only had one speaker.

So, there are subtle differences between his stereo and mono mixes because he left the stereo to an assistant, at least in the case of Paul Revere And The Raiders.

But this is about crowd noise. We’ve been wondering if crowd noise can be suppressed in audience recordings, since our recorder employs at least three microphones while we’re using it and apparently much of the crowd noise is out of phase. That means if we mix the recording down to mono, some of that will get zapped (I can’t remember the correct technical term). Doesn’t it?

While yours truly is convinced, we had a great opportunity tonight to test it. At the beginning of the third set by Nick Dittmeier And The Sawdusters, the band opened with a song named “O’Bannon Woods”, and the crowd was slow to quiet down. At the same time, the house PA was playing music that they play during intermissions, and nobody turned it down. One of those speakers is close to our mic, so we were temporarily recording from two different sources from two different directions at two different volumes.

Here are two versions of an identical track: one stereo as it was recorded, one mixed to mono: