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w/ Bob Weir for a few songs

Levon Helm
Gathering Of The Vibes
Seaside Park
Bridgeport, CT
7/22/2011

Neumann TLM-170 (hypercardoids, approx 40 foot split, each mic on its own stand on opposite sides of the soundboard w/Rycote furry wind screens)->Sound Devices 722 (@24/96); FLAC File processing in SoundForge Audio Studio 10.0c (L/R channel time sync - removed 1329 samples from left channel at the start of the file; volume normalization; resample to 44.1 with iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter; 24->16 bit dither using iZotope MBIT+ Dither with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings); Tracked in CDWav.


1. crowd/tuning/greetings from Levon
2. Ophelia
3. Long Black Veil
4. Ain't That Good News
5. Cypress Grove Blues
6. Bourgeois Blues
7. banter - Hazel Dickens song
8. The Sweat Of My Brow
9. banter - Cindy Cashdollar and Joe Russo
10. Evangeline *#
11. tuning / banter - welcoming Bob Weir
12 Deep Elem Blues *#@
13. Attics Of My Life ^
14. banter - thanking Bob
15. All On Mardi Gras Day &
16. Keep your Lamps Trimmed And Burning
17. When I Go Away
18. banter- Larry Campbell introduces the band
19. The Weight %*
20. announcements

* = w/Cindy Cashdollar On lap steel guitar
# = w/Joe Russo On Drums (Levon on mandolin)
@ = w/Bob Weir On Guitar And Vocals
^ = just Bob Weir, Theresa Williams, Amy Helm, And Larry Campbell
% = w/Joe Russo on 2nd percussion kit
& = from 5:29 to 6:08 in this song the horns paraded (off mic) around the stage, so there was a significant volume drop in the PA -- this is not a glitch in the recording


Recorded, mastered, tracked, tagged, and posted by Scott Bernstein, 7/28-29/2011


Taper notes:
Another great set from the legendary Levon Helm! Yes it was still really hot out by the time Levon came up to play....but play he (and the band) did....really well. OK, this set was not very different from that last 2 times I saw them (at the Ramble where moe. opened up early this year, and the Gathering Of The Vibes in 2009), but it's always a pleasure to see and hear Levon perform. His voice was in bad shape, as can quickly be heard as he starts to sing Ophelia, so the rest of the band (including his very pregnant daughter, Amy Helm) handle the vocal duities ably until Deep Elem Blues and The Weight when Levon sang a bit. A few special guests drop in -- Bob Weir, Joe Russo (who was the busiest guy at the festival playing with God Street Wine, Levon, and Furthur!), and Cindy Cashdollar. Great stuff!!! Amazingly, even with Bob Weir onstage they did not perform Tennessee Jed which is a regular song in Levon's repetoire these days.

Neumann TLM-170

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