Dixie Dregs - 1978-05-30 - Tucson, TX (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

This one is nice and using 2 sources it is complete and superb sounding. 

Dixie Dregs 
Lee Furr's Recording Studio 
May 30, 1978 
Tucson, AZ. 
Live on KWFM 92.9 

Lineage: 
Partial track 1 & Track 9 = FM > unknown cassette generation > WAV > Flac 
Partial track 1 & all others = 7-1/2 IPS, 2 Track Pre-FM Master > Beta II Hi-Fi Stereo > WAV > Flac 

Steve Morse - Guitar 
Andy West - Bass 
Rod Morgenstern - Drums 
Allen Sloan - Violin 
Mark Parrish - Keyboards 

Disc 1 
01 DJ Intro > Free Fall 
02 Moe Down 
03 Refried Funky Chicken 
04 Night Meets Light 
05 The Wabash 
06 Travel Tunes 
07 Wages of Weirdness 
08 Northern Lights 

Disc 2 
01 Punk Sandwich 
02 The Odyssey 
03 DJ Intro > Take It Off the Top 
04 Country House Shuffle 
05 Ice Cakes 
06 What If 
07 Gina Lola Breakdown 
08 Cruise Control 
09 DJ Outro & Interview 

Many Dregs collectors have had this show for years of mostly unknown lineage. I was always frustrated with the quality I would run across in the tape trading circles back in the day. Living in Tucson and knowing folks in the recording industry, I went on a hunt. I knew someone had to have a master cassette from the FM broadcast or maybe a pre-FM master. I contacted some folks who worked for KWFM, Lee Furr, the owner of the studio and various engineers who worked there, spending months making phone calls and following up on any lead I could find. Many were dead ends. When one day, making a phone call to an engineer who worked at Lee's studio and was now working for the local PBS affiliate I explained what I was looking for and if he might have a lead. Wow he said, I have the tape right here! I offered to buy him lunch at a restaurant of his choice if he would let me borrow the tape for a few days. I dropped by his office and picked up the reel and quickly transferred it to the only decks I had available at the time which was two Sony beta Hi-Fi VCR's and one VHS Hi-Fi VCR. 

The first song on the master reel was cut and did not contain the interview that as I recall was played in the middle of the live FM performance. I used the first 33 seconds from my best FM cassette source and spliced it into the master reel version. I also used the FM Cassette source for the interview.

The Dixie Dregs - 1981-05-13 - New York City, NY (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

The Dixie Dregs

May 13th, 1981

The Ritz

New York City, New York

United States

lineage

Soundboard cassette tape (mono), 1st gen Audacity rip saved as .flac (level-8/24bit)

Steve Morse - guitar

Andy West - bass guitar

Rod Morgenstein - drums

T Lavitz - keyboards

Mark O'Connor - violin

Side A

01 Unknown 4:31 (tape starts mid-song)

02 Pride of the Farm 3:28

03 Twigs Approved 4:23

04 Kat Food 5:28

05 Unknown 7:31

06 Long Slow Distance 3:52

07 Unknown 4:00

08 I'll Just Pick 4:21

09 Rock & Roll Park 5:29 (Ends abruptly. End of cassette side.)

Side B

10 The Bash 7:41 (Intoduces Mark O'Conner)

11 Cruise Control 15:55

12 Steve & Mark Duet 2:38

13 What If 5:15 (This was the last song on the cassette B side. If it was the last song of the evening is unknown.)

Dixie Dregs - 1978-02-18 - Stony Brook, NY (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Dixie Dregs

February 18, 1978

Stony Brook University - Union Auditorium

Stony Brook, New York

Origin/lineage unknown

Probably sourced from soundboard or FM broadcast

Steve Morse - Guitar

Andy West - Bass

Rod Morgenstern - Drums

Allen Sloan - Violin

Mark Parrish - Keyboards

01 - Free Fall

02 - Moe Down

03 - Ice Cakes

04 - The Bash

05 - Take It Off The Top

06 - Country House Shuffle

07 - What If?

08 - Gina Lola Breakdown

09 - Dixie

The origin/lineage of this recording is not given, which is unfortunate. I have it listed as a soundboard and it certainly sounds to be because the audio quality is excellent. It could also easily be from an FM broadcast. The audience is audible so at the very least there are audience mics in the mix. There is some tape hiss.

Dixie Dregs - 2003-01-10 - Santa Cruz, CA (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

The Catalyst

Lineage:

Monitor soundboard tape mix > Sony TCD-D10 Pro > DAT master.

Transfer:

Panasonic SV-3700 (digital output) > Macintosh with Digidesign Audiomedia III card > Pro Tools (minor "nip & tuck" edits, normalization & tracking) > AIFF > xACT (level 8 files with sector boundaries verified).

Steve Morse - guitar

Rod Morgenstein - drums

T Lavitz - keyboards

Dave LaRue - bass

Jerry Goodman - violin

CD1

01 Tuneups

02 Take It Off The Top

03 Sleeveless In Seattle

04 Justice

05 Odyssey

06 Talking

07 Kat Food

08 The Hereafter

09 Good Intentions

CD2

01 Brick Chicken

02 Shapes Of Things

03 The Bash

04 Cruise Control

05 Band Intros

06 Meeting Of The Spirits

07 Bloodsucking Leeches

08 Talking

Excellent sounding stereo soundboard Dat master.

Note:

This is tracked to fit on audio CD's but will play seamlessly through the entire show.

The Dixie Dregs - 2001-12-03 - Buffalo, NY (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

The (Dixie) Dregs

The Tralf

Buffalo, NY

December 3, 2001

Taper: Rotten Jimi

Transfer: some jackass

Mastered by }{eywood

Lineage:

SBD > cass (M) > 16/48 .wav > Wetransfer > Adobe Audition 1.5 (EQ, peak limiting, splits & fades) > Xrecode II (conversion to 16/44.1) > TLH (sector alignment, flac 8)

01 - Ionized

02 - Twiggs Approved

03 - Assembly Line

04 - Hearafter

05 - Hearafter (same track repeated?)

06 - Justice

07 - Steve Talks

08 - Busybodies

09 - Divided We Stand

10 - Kat Food

11 - Brick Chicken

12 - The Dance Of The Maya

13 - The Bash

14 - Cruise Control Pt1

15 - Cruise Control Pt2

16 - Cruise Control Pt3

17 - Cruise Control Pt4

18 - Divided We Stand

19 - Bloodsucking Leeches

Dixie Dregs - 1978-10-21 - Columbia, SC (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Dixie Dregs

Date: 1978-10-21

City: Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Venue: Russell House Student Union, University of South Carolina

Source: SBD

Format: FLAC

Discs: 1

Steve Morse, guitar

Andy West, bass

Allen Sloan, electric violin

Rod Morgenstein, drums

Mark Parrish, keys

01 - Take It Off The Top

02 - Country House Shuffle

03 - Moe Down

04 - Refried Funky Chicken

05 - Night Of The Living Dregs

06 - Patchwork

07 - Ice Cakes

08 - Little Kids

09 - Night Meets Light

10 - Travel Tunes

11 - The Bash

12 - Cruise Control

13 - Disco Dregs

14 - Kathreen

15 - Dixie

Total time: 1 hour 19 min

Recorded in 1978, three months after filming the show Montreux Switzerland which can now be found on the "Dixie Dregs Live At Montreux 1978" DVD.  T Lavitz would replace Mark Parrish on keyboards two months after this show.  Noise reduction was applied a little too heavily at some point, which is apparent in the quiet spots in between songs.  However this doesn't detract from the performance... Otherwise a decent SBD recording for that era.

Dixie Dregs - 1975-09-13 - Miami, FL (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Dixie Dregs (Rod Morgenstein Recital) 
University of Miami 
Miami, Florida, USA 
September 13, 1975 

Earliest known Dixie Dregs live recording

Rod Morgenstein - Drums 
Steve Morse - Guitars 
Allen Sloan - Violin 
Andy West - Bass 
Mark Parrish - Keys 

Source: Soundboard 
Quality: Really Good (A-/B+) 
Lineage: SBD > Tape > ?? > CDr > EAC (Secure/Offset corrected) > .WAV > FLAC (L8/SBA) > TorrentSpy

1. Unknown 
2. Unknown 
3. Unknown 
4. Unknown 
5. Unknown 
6. Unknown 
7. Cosmic Strut (Mahavsihnu Orchestra) 
8. Leprechuan Promenade 
9. Celestrial Terrestial Commuters (Mahavishnu Orchestra) 
10. Wages Of Weirdness 
11. Flight Of A Cockroach 
12. What If 
13. Holiday 
14. Country House Shuffle 

Fades between tracks but overall an excellent show in great quality. Even though they are all young whippersnappers, they are already frightenly talented.