(acoustic show w/ Davey Farragher of the Nashville Queens on bass)
Graffiti's
Pittsburgh, PA July 16, 1997
Excellent digital soundboard recording Another stellar recording from "The RS Archives" (a Mexminute/TheCommish production)
TheCommish notes: Really nice Hiatt show featuring pretty rare songs (
Native Son,
My Sweet Girl,
After All This Time) PLUS a special piano version of "Sure Pinocchio", a personal favorite. Of course, the SOUND QUALITY is superb... it's like having Hiatt playing in your own living room. And for my money, the version of "Georgia Rae" (a song written about his daughter) is perhaps the best version I've heard anywhere; it sounds great in this duo's set.
Setlist:
101. Slow Turning
102. Real Fine Love
103. Ethylene
104. Native Son **
105. Sure Pinocchio **
106. Buffalo River Home
107. Little Head
108. My Sweet Girl
109. Memphis In The Meantime
201. Icy Blue Heart
202. Graduated
203. Tennessee Plates
204. Pirate Radio
205. After All This Time
206. Perfectly Good Guitar
207. Cry Love
208. Have A Little Faith In Me
209. Georgia Rae **
** - Hiatt on piano (guitar for all other songs)
Lineage: DAT master > Sony PCM-R500 (playback) > HHB CDR-850 (burning) > CDR, then CDR > EAC > WAV > Editing (see below) > FLAC Frontend > FLAC
Editing notes:
* Re-tracked show (combined WAV files in Nero, then re-split with CD Wave)
* Using Audacity, increased volume +2dB in right channel (all tracks)
* Increased volume on disc 1 (Tracks 101-109) by +4dB except for volume spikes in Track 103 (4:36 mark) and Track 106 (3:15 mark) and increased volume on disc 2 (all tracks) by +2dB
* Using Nero's wave editor, deleted 7 seconds of extra applause at end of Track 109 and applied fade-out; also deleted 7 seconds of extra applause at beginning of Track 201 and applied fade-in
* Deleted small gap between Track 207 and Track 208
About "The RS Archives":
The RS Archive consists of a selection of live recordings made by a great individual who passed away in 2005.
RS worked in the music industry in many capacities….a music fan….a musician….a sound engineer. He was considered one of the best behind the mixing board. I was honored to have known him for practically 35 years. There was no one like him….he was a wonderful human being. Everybody loved him. He was a level-headed guy who knew what sounded good and what didn't. He could conceive and design sound systems from scratch in his head to meet the artist’s needs. Whatever they wanted, he could do.
For years, he mixed music at the annual Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards television show. RS worked closely for years with Daryl Hall and John Oates, Juice Newton, Anita Baker, Mariah Carey, Tears for Fears, Crack the Sky, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Aretha Franklin, Pink Floyd, Whitney Houston, Bette Midler, Ann Murray, Michael Bolton, Kenny G, Tony Bennett, Johnny Cash, Eric Clapton, John Fogerty, Bonnie Raitt, Frank Sinatra, John Hiatt, Little Feat, Little Village, and Waylon Jennings…..to name a few.
He had a huge reputation in the business, and that's why he was chosen to work with such budding clients as Mariah Carey. With the major stars, he was one of the preferred engineers they choose to work with. A particular client of RS who had a reputation for firing sound engineers with great regularity was Anita Baker, whom he won over not only with his technical abilities and personality, but with his refusal to put up with her criticism. He quit a few times but always came back because she loved the way he mixed her music. He could coddle difficult and temperamental celebrities, and they respected his work. He was able to kick back and get along with them. Even though he knew these people, he was a very modest man.
So now, it is time to honor him by sharing some of the many recordings he made while on the road. All are perfect (or near perfect) soundboard recordings made from the master cassettes or master dat tapes. Unfortunately, I am not able to identify the original equipment these tapes were made on, however I can say that for the transferring process, the cassette tapes were played back on a Nakamichi CR-7A, and the dat tapes on a Sony PCM-R500. They were all burnt onto cdr using a HHB CDR-850. Please enjoy these tasty gems!
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