I am now on my 3rd pair of hearing aids. Beginning of 2018 I had an ear infection which I didn't get taken care of soon enough. My first impression for hearing aids in general, it was like hearing through your own personal p.a. system Music wasn't very smooth. I got a second pair about a year...
I'm listening to the Grateful Dead live at the Warfield Theater 02-17-1982 ( I like to live in the past ). It is a field recording from the front of the loge dead center. With headphones and speakers simultaneously, I'm transported back there. I was at this show. Front row dead center in the...
I'm listening to the Grateful Dead from the Marin Veteran's Memorial Auditorium in San Rafael, Ca. 03-31-1984. 2200 seat theater shaped like a speaker .
There were 4 shows and we were dead center for all of them. We were in row 8-11 for the shows. We were at the same height as the stage. It was...
I made audience tapes for years. And here is the scoop. Imagine you are in the 15th row dead center on the floor at a big arena. Madison Square Garden would be a good example. You have a pair of Nakamichi microphones and a Sony D5M (and you use the dolby B feature. You know how to set levels and...
The Fillmore East 1971 boards were made clandestinely. A feed from the snake fed a mixing console in the basement. A real musician with credentials mixed them in real time.
The band of course had the truck outside the theater doing the recordings that ended up on skull and roses. I think they...
I'm listening to the GD show from Portland from June 12, 1980 It was the night Mt. St. Helen's blew up at the same time the band was playing Fire on the Mountain
There was weird energy around the 2nd set. I think the band knew it happened before they came out for the second set. My tape was...