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| Last three gigs of '92 |
The hit and miss aspect of LOOB becomes apparent when, sandwiched between two good shows, this Right Track Inn doesn't quite past the taste test!
On this show, we get overwhelmed by our many guests and a bad mix. Ted, Mike & Hubie get completely obscured at times. Vocally, this is not one of our best shows.
The luck ran out on the trumpet players! Gigs from the previous month contain some of the best trumpet performances from both Lawrence, and our sometimes-guest trumpet player, Louis DeVirgilio. I don't know what happened on this show! But with the way we played, which was loose and sloppy (while being tight!), we left room for players to take chances...sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't....and as one such player, who sometimes executed something spectacular.....sometimes crapped all over the music.....I am talking from experience!
This one? Something's off! As I said....there's a whole lotta trumpet. The mix is a little weird....me and Hubie go flat alot, which says to me that we don't have a good monitor mix. I have a strong suspicion that our normal soundman Jon wasn't there. At the Right Track Inn, we usually had the best mix we could find, at any venue, so I don't know what the story is here.
Or maybe it's just us! What can you say? Sometimes...you just can't stop from doing wrong!
This show puts the "out of balance" in Life Out Of Balance!
Perhaps it's not all that bad. We get off to a rocky start. But things settle once we hit "Bucketful Of Rice". A great moment when JP, or maybe it's Louis, starts blowing some harp for a minute during a very nice "Soon Come"!
Baaaaaa, "Sailing" time at the Right Track Inn! This is actually the second "Sailing" we played at the RTI; we played another not-so-great show at the Right Track in August that ended with a mellow "Sailing", I'll post that soon.
Other than that August show, this seems to be the last Right Track Inn tape in the archive.
The Right Track Inn, December 18, 1992
It's Warm Outside
When Happiness Is Here
Wintertime
Bucketful Of Rice (All I Wanted)
Soon Come
I Know Your Name ->
Sailing
Thundersong
Gimme Fun
Lou Schwartz - guitar, vocal, percussion
Tedley Bizarre- bass, vocal, percussion
Dancing Lawrence - electric piano, synth, trumpet
Michael Goodygood Goodman - drums, vocal
Steve Neptune - percussion, accordion
with
Louis DegeedeVirgilio - trumpet
Dan Roth - conga
Jackson Villa (JP) - harp
recorded, as always, by Chris Ivers
download here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/oxzwqfelpr0rppp/1992-12-18+Right+Track+Inn.zip
or if you prefer Dropbox, use this link (but it will expire within a week or so)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3jp7htpficcu0y8/1992-12-18%20Right%20Track%20Inn.zip?dl=0
