Michael Franti and Spearhead
Zoophorus Festival
Whistler, Britsh Columbia
8/31/2002
SOURCE: SBD > Sony M-1 > Sony PCM 2300 > SB Audigy Platinum (spdif) > CDWAV > MKW > SHN [seekable]
DISC #1 (78:47:12)
1. Intro
2. Everyone Deserves Music
3. Soulshine
4. People In The Middle
5. Every Single Soul
6. Stay Human
7 Never Too Late
8. What I Be
9. Pray For Grace
10. What Happens Next
11. Words
12. Feeling Free
DISC #2 (54:50:69)
1. Radioactive Solo
2. Rock The Nation
3. Love Why Did You Have To Go
4. Words
5. Bomb The World
6. Sometimes
7. Outro
NOTES:
Spearhead is:
Michael Franti - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Dave Shul - Electric Guitar
Carl Young - Bass
Mannas Itiene - Drums
Radioactive - Human Beat Box
Kevin Choice - Keyboards *
*Bob Crawford fills in for Kevin on this show.
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Photos of this show are available at:
http://www.purplesparkle.com/spearhead/Dan's%20Photo%20Archive/index.html
For more live Spearhead visit:
http://www.spearheadvibrations.com/
http://www.loveisdashit.com/
http://www.freakyandfree.com/
Love like your life depends on it....
Because it does.
FLAWS:
This is a beautiful recording with a few small exceptions:
* Sound levels adjust in the first 30 seconds of the show.
* A little bit of digital noise at 32:56 (Stay Human)
TAPE AND TRANSFER:
This show was taped off the SOUNDBOARD by Dan Kramer (tahoesparit) on his Sony M-1 DAT.
Soundboard Mix by Tige. Transferred by Matt Ziegler (spearits@loveisdashit.com)
Sony PCM 2300 DAT Digital out > S/PDIF in Audgy Soundblaster Platinum via CD WAVE
at 44.1 khz 16 Bit Stereo.
Tracked in CDWAVE by Matt Ziegler. SHN'd by Matt Ziegler via MKW (SEEKABLE)
REVIEW: by Dan Kramer
The boys got off to a late start due to technical difficulties, but Radio came out as
soon as things were ready to welcome the crowd and invited them to come closer to the
stage to dance. Michael then grabbed his acoustic guitar to begin the day's exspearience
with Everyone Deserves Music. Michael had something in his throat and had to stop to
clear it before going on sounding much better than before. As the band made it's
transition into Soulshine, the sun followed with it's own transition from overcast to
sunny and the crowd really started getting into the music!
They continued the vibe, wasting no time rolling into People In The Middle (Reggae Style)
as the herb smoke started to rise in the open aired venue. Every Single Soul followed
with Michael reciting the Beatnig's Nature again, towards the end before flowing right
into a high energy, Stay Human. Radio and Carl did a killer duet, feeding off each other
as they got the crowd rockin'. Michael and the guys then turned B.C. onto one of their
new tunes, Never Too Late. The B.C. spearits seemed to like the new tune and where more
than happy to help Mike and the band along with the "we will, we will, rock you" chant
as they fooled around with the Queen classic. The reaction to the new songs was so good
that the guys pulled out two more to tease the crowd until the new album comes out with
What I Be and Pray for Grace! A pretty solid but standard version which lead up to What
Happens Next to step up the groove abit. After the quick workout that is What Happens Next,
Michael takes a moment to acknowledge the beautiful venue and the wide range of weather
being displayed, "We had some sunshine, wind and looks like we're gonna get some rain.
There's still some snow left up there." Radio adds, "I saw a nice patch of weed growing
out there".
Next, Michael slows things down again with Feeling Free and Dave added some nice soulful
licks throughout the verses and Radio freestylin' the crowd into a freny! The rain began
falling and the spearits in attendance just start dancing harder. Radio follows Feeling
Free with a panflute beatbox intro including a beatbox cover of Metallica's "One", warming
everyone up for Rock The Nation. A pretty strong Rock The Nation set the mood for another
powerful new rock ballad type song called Love Why Did You Have To Go, which left many
speechless. Michael took another moment to invite everyone down to the Power To The
Peaceful concert in Golden Gate Park and then began playing Bomb The World.
Finally, Mike calls for the guitar man to give him some guitar as the Sometimes ritual
gets jumpstarted. Michael brings up a security guard (Jake-o?) on stage to help sing
a verse from Michael Jackson's Billy Jean before letting everyone know that, "Our love
will always shine" and calling it a night (No Marley Jam, ran out of time). Michael is
told, from a fan, that they were playing in the Spearhead Mountian range. A short set
that was shortened even more because of the technical difficulties but still a solid
show either way!!!!
Later That Night, Bob and Dave sat in with the Living Daylights and others that joined
together at the Boot Pub, next to the Zoophorus venue, for an all-star improv jam which
went to the break of dawn!