The Ventures - 1987-10-23 - Santa Cruz, CA (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

The Catalyst

First transfer for this excellent previously lost cassette master. It sounds like a straight soundboard recording but after comparing again with the 1987-06-26 Ventures that I know is a live matrix recording I've decided that this recording does have some ambience in the mix, just not much. I've clarified the lineage below and in the linked info file (again!).

Lineage: 
Monitor soundboard feed + 2 Crown PZM microphones + 2 Nakamichi cm300 microphones and one other ambient microphone mounted on balcony railing > live matrix "tape mix" > Sony TC-WR950 quick auto-reverse deck > Dolby C encoded Maxell XLII-S 90 & Maxell XLII 46 cassette master.

Transfer [2013-06-15]: 
Nakamichi Dragon (Dolby C decoded) > Macintosh with Digidesign Audiomedia III card > Pro Tools (minor "nip & tuck" edits, normalization & tracking - no equalization or DNR) > AIFF > xACT (Flac level 8 files with sector boundaries verified).

Bob Bogle
Gerry McGee
Don Wilson
Mel Taylor

CD1 - 44:55
101 [1:45] tune ups and announcer intro
102 [2:00] Walk Don't Run
103 [0:48] talk
104 [2:28] Telstar
105 [3:06] Secret Agent Man
106 [4:20] Tequila
107 [3:20] La Bamba
108 [2:56] Apache
109 [0:27] talk
110 [2:27] Runaway
111 [3:04] Green Onions
112 [1:30] talk and band intros
113 [1:14] Blowin' In The Wind >
114 [1:35] Don't Think Twice
115 [3:44] Classical Gas
116 [0:27] talk
117 [1:01] Let's Go [false start]
118 [2:14] Let's Go
119 [0:24] talk
120 [3:19] Pipeline
121 [2:46] Hawaii Five-O
Wipe Out [VERSION #1 - MISSING - NOT RECORDED]

CD2 - 54:03
201 [1:41] [cuts in] Perfidia
202 [2:32] Memphis
203 [2:18] Slaughter On Tenth Avenue
204 [2:03] The Outer Limits
205 [0:32] talk
206 [2:13] Feel So Fine
207 [3:41] Ghost Riders In The Sky
208 [0:18] talk
209 [2:23] Walk Don't Run '64
210 [3:07] Penetration
211 [3:48] Honky Tonk
212 [2:45] House Of The Rising Sun
213 [0:14] talk
214 [4:42] Whittier Boulevard
215 [2:27] Diamond Head >
216 [3:06] Pipeline
217 [4:16] Tequila
218 [2:34] Hawaii Five-O
219 [0:24] talk
220 [3:36] Wipe Out
221 [0:43] thanks, applause and talk before encore
222 [4:03] Stars On Guitars medley
223 [0:37] final thanks, announcer and applause

Note: 
It was so loud over the stage that it was hard to get an optimal live mix but notes were kept for each band in case they later returned. Some of the mixes sounded more ambient than others and this one really sounds more like a straight soundboard feed but does have ambience too and the quality is fantastic on all of it. Highly recommended!