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Furthur
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
December 30, 2009
VIDEO: Panasonic DMC-LS70 > noise reduction > edit/sync (sony vegas 9.0) > dvd architect pro 5.0
AUDIO: SHNID #105233
(from audio .txt: "Source: Neumann KMF4i > Denecke PS2 > Modified D8 (11ft. Stand in Section);Transfer: Modified D8 > Prodif Gold > Soundforge 6.0 (fades & Normalization) > CD wave (tracks) > Flac(8)")
DVD One/Set 1 (74:57):
1. Jam >
2. Here Comes Sunshine>
3. Bertha
4. Promised Land
5. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo>
6. Deep Elem Blues
7. Lost Sailor>
8. Saint Of Circumstance
9. Cosmic Charlie
DVD Two/Set 2a (58:16):
1. Playin' In The Band>
2. Eyes Of The World>
3. Scarlet Begonias>
4. Fire On The Mountain
5. Drums>
6. King Solomons Marbles
DVD Three/Set 2b (61:14):
1. Unbroken Chain>
2. Standing On The Moon>
3. China Cat Sunflower>
4. I Know You Rider
5. Phil's Donor Announcement
6. E: Terrapin Station
Just a Pavement Left Production
Known flaws:
This was filmed with a several year old point and shoot digi-cam - hardly the cutting edge of tech.
Its zoom is not so powerful, and (believe it or not) it does not record sound - so it was quite
time consuming to sync the video to audio in post. I found a location in the venue where the camera
could be rested (and electrical-taped) to a ledge, so it is mostly quite stable even w/o a tripod.
Due to an artificial file length limit imposed by the camera and the need for frequent battery changes,
small gaps exist every 20 minutes or so. Most are between songs, only 5-6 seconds in length and were
patched using other sources (video stills, photos or footage from internet sources). In two instances, no
suitable patch could be found - 6 seconds at the start of 'China Cat' and then about 1.5 minutes of
'Unbroken Chain' during the piano solo. For these, I used internet footage from elsewhere in the same
show but slowed down to about half-speed to make the sleight of hand more obvious. Finally, I was pretty
ham-handed about swapping out memory cards and batteries during the 'Terrapin' encore - I ended up missing
about a third to half of it. Those sections are patched using enhanced and stabilized YouTube footage.
All in all, I am quite pleased with the results of an essentially make-shift recording set-up: a very
enjoyable document of an extremely wonderful and memorable night's music. Please circulate freely and
widely!! (to restate the obvious: this recording is never to be sold or traded for profit or other gain)
Comment are welcome at pavement_left@hotmail.com - please include "TAPING" in the subject line to avoid
the spam filter. Also please email me if you have or know of any footage of the following night's
(NYE 12/31/2009) third and final set after 'Let It Grow' - I ran out of battery power at that point.
Look for my video of the first two sets wherever you found this! |