1997-08-03 Irvine, CA - The Black Crowes

Notes from the Taper

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The Black Crowes
Furthur Festival
Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre
Irvine, CA
August 3, 1997

** 16 BIT **

Source: Sonic Studios DSM-6P w/3-way lo-cut filter, position unknown (most likely @ 80hz, middle setting) > Sony WM-D6
Transfer: Master cassette (Maxell XL-IIS 100m) > Denon 790R > Kenwood A-522 amplifier > Kenwood GE-622 Equalizer > Audacity
(boosting/splicing) > WAV
Mastering: .WAV > Sound Forge Pro 11.0 (Build 299) [iZotope Mastering Suite (declick); minor edits, normalize, & fades] > CDWav
(tracking) > Trader's Little Helper (level 5) > FLAC > TagScanner 5.1 (tagging)
Location: Orchestra 1, Row F, seat 111 - 6th row, Rich's side, 2 seats from the far right aisle...right by the stack.
Recorded & transferred by: Steve "ballsdeep" Hagar
Mastered by: Dennis Orr

Setlist:
01 Intro
02 Remedy
03 My Morning Song
04 Sting Me (slow version)
05 Tied Up And Swallowed
06 Paint An 8
07 Chat
08 Shake Your Money Maker (1)
09 Black Moon Jam >
10 Black Moon Creeping
11 No Speak No Slave
- All Star Electric Jam - (2)
12 Chain Of Fools
13 White Rabbit
14 Not Fade Away

(1) With Jorma Koukonen on guitar
(2) Exact lineup unknown, other than the following:
Chain Of Fools (with Sherri Jackson)
White Rabbit (with Debbie Henry, Jorma Koulonen, Michael Falzarano, Jack Cassady and ?)
Not Fade Away

Chris Robinson - lead vocals
Rich Robinson - guitars & backing vocals
Marc Ford - guitars
Johnny Colt - bass
Eddie Hawrysch - keyboards
Steve Gorman - drums

Show Notes:
Marc Ford's final 1990's show with the Crowes

Venue Notes:
The Meadows is a fair place to see a show, pretty steep sightlines and not the biggest barn by a stretch, still, it's SoCal, so not too
much to complain about.

Recording Notes:
Probably one of the most legendary shows in band history, show length excused...this show was a SHAMC tour-de-force with 5 songs from
that album, a top notch rare cut, a rump-shakin cover with Jorma, and a 'new' song rounding out the 8 song set...if only fans knew that
Marc was takin' a hiatus, perhaps the venue would have been more than 60% sold out...that said, there is nary a bump in the road for
this show. ALL songs are strong cuts, and Chris getting accosted by male strippers near the end is a priceless memory...the post-show
jam was also quite a nifty surprise, as it started off with "Chain Of Fools", THEN Jack Cassady came out with a poop-eatin' grin and
started pluckin' the opening strings of "White Rabbit", then, it all ended with an extended version of "Not Fade Away", with that
drumbeat at the end doin' time with the Energizer bunny (i.e. the drums just kept going and going and going...). All in all, these shows
were a blast, as the Crowes somehow found a way to cram the energy of a 2 hour show into 60 minutes each night...any and everyone
should trade for this entire tour, as it showcases a band at the top of their game (regardless of what some band members may have said
about other band members on national cable television specials...)


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