Audience

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DVD 3004; lineage: "(Bull)dozin' at the Knick" Stereo Audience Recording, Analog Transfer. Low-gen VHS > Sony SLV-N700 > M-Audio Fast Track Ultra 8R > STEINBERG WAVELAB 5 > 16-Bit/96kHz WAV > FLAC Frontend Level 8 > Trader's Litter Helper. A WombBoy Recording/Production. Upped By Buttmanos, first circulation: 8/9/11

Show Notes:

Picked up this tape for $24.99 in a small shop in Chicago in 1999, and itís been sitting on my shelf for way too long. With the recent flourish of uncirculated and new Steely Dan/Donald Fagen Band ROIOs on TDD, it was worth it to me to break this bad boy out, rip the audio and put it out there, as I am quite sure that it has not been done before. Hence the "uncirculated" nature of this recording.

The source is an audience-shot video; therefore it's an audience audio recording. It has a clear sound but thereís lots of room-reverb that to some may be overwhelming. The snare drum sounds huge! There is some analog noise - crackling that's on the source tape. Otherwise the sound is nice, warm and saturated (as is typical for a VHS - a medium that did much better with sound than video). It's worth a listen without the distraction of viewing. For now.

If anyone has experience capturing video and authoring DVDs with menus, etc., I'd like to hear about it, as I am hoping we can follow up with a DVD torrent of this show sometime this year.

I scanned the tape-case artwork and it is included with the torrent, as is a picture of the tape, itself. (If anyone wants to take a stab at some real artwork, by all means do so.)

The title "(Bull)dozin' at the Knick" is an obviously play on the Grateful Dead live album "Dozin at the Knick" culled from the Dead's 1990 run of shows at the then-brand new venue. Plus, near the end of the 1993 Steely Dan Tour, the band was IMO bulldozin' through the hits quite effortlessly. See,for example, Black Friday, which is surely powerhouse on this recording. I've never heard it so uptempo yet so relaxed.

The runner-up title was "Citizen Knick" (...like Citizen Dick...), but that didn't make the cut for obvious reasons. The reference might be TOO obscure.

Some interesting notes about the venue:
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/01/nyregion/knickerbocker-is-name-for-new-albany-arena.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Union_Center

Finally,

What a band this was! Erkine, Zingg, POTTER!?!? etc. etc.

Also, this show features Curtis King (*NOT* King Curtis) on backing vocals. What's that? A male backup vocalist live with the Dan in the later era? It's true. I think he was subbing for Catherine Russell for this show and possibly a few others toward the end of the 1993 tour. He does a nice job as far as I can tell. You can hear different harmonies for some tunes if you listen carefully enough, though he was given no solos.

***More uncirculated shows to follow.***

It's a good time to be a dan-fan.

Enjoy.

-Buttmanos

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