The Black Crowes
Union Hall
Phoenix, AZ
December 10, 1996

** 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 cassettes (Maxell XL-IIS 100m) > Tascam 112MKII > Aphex 204 > dbx iEQ-31 > Digital Audio Labs CardDeluxe > Soundforge 9.0 > CD Architect 5.2 > CDR > EAC > .WAV's
Mastering: .WAV's > Sound Forge Pro 11.0 (Build 299) [re-join .WAV files; iZotope Mastering Suite (declick); minor edits, normalize, &
fades] > CDWav (tracking) > Trader's Little Helper (level 5) > FLAC > TagScanner 6.0.18 (tagging)
Location: 3rd row, Rich's side (THANKS Taller!)
Recorded,transferred, & EAC'd by: Steve "ballsdeep" Hagar
Mastered by: Dennis Orr

Setlist: (1:38:27)
01 Under A Mountain
02 She Gave Good Sunflower
03 Tied Up And Swallowed
04 Torn And Frayed
05 Descending
06 Hotel Illness
07 Spider In The Sugar Bowl Blues
08 Hollow Day Jam
09 Bring On, Bring On
10 Mr. Spaceman
11 Ballad In Urgency >
12 Wiser Time
13 Chris's Rant
14 Somebody's On Your Case
15 Nonfiction > Jam
16 No Speak No Slave
17 Encore Break
- Encore -
18 Good Friday
19 Jealous Again

Chris Robinson - lead vocals & harp
Rich Robinson - guitars & backing vocals
Marc Ford - guitars & backing vocals
Johnny Colt - bass & backing vocals
Ed Harsch - keyboards
Steve Gorman - drums

R.I.P. Ed Harsch: May 27, 1957 – November 4, 2016

Chris's Rant:
"You know, we've been on the road for more...like 85 days or somethin'. And uhh...we love this shit you know. But when you see something like that, man...it's like what the fuck does that do for anyone, you know? It's like...I don't know sometimes what people think a good time is supposed to be...but selfish people get thrown out of the buildings" (cheers)

Steve's Show Notes (edited from his Crowesbase post):
- Gov't Mule opened
- A really weird venue, with overall poor attendance compared with most of the gigs on this tour (2/3 full tops).
- BARELY made it to this show after running out of gas on the way back from Austin on the 10 West, stumbled in about 5 minutes before Mule left the stage (one of the only Mule shows I was at and haven't found...anyone???). This may well be my favorite "sleeper" setlist from the '96 tour...THREE "Amorica" ballads, "Tied Up And Swallowed", "Torn And Frayed" EARLY in the set, "Mr. Spaceman", "Ballad > Wiser", "Somebody's On Your Case", this set is just really "out there", in comparison to most. Very solid recording, I missed about 5 seconds of "Bring On, Bring On" due to a tape flip.

Mastering Notes Part 1:
OK, this is an interesting one. This recording did circulate as part of the excellent and comprehensive Scott Weber ("Spider-Web") project, in which he collected the best sources for the 1996 shows, and mastered and torrented them. For this one, Scott listed the lineage as follows
(which he believed to be correct):

Analog Master > DAT > Digital DAT Clone > .WAV > FLAC

Now, 20 years later, the truth comes out! I'll let Steve tell it:

"I sent Scott 2g cassette copies (made from my safeties), then he got 1g DAT transfers from my buddy Paul (who drank a lot back then), who
promised he wouldn't trade them to Weber, but because I knew he'd get drunk and do so, I put "master" stickers on my 1g's and sent them to Paul! He then transferred my "masters" and sent them to Weber. I restickered them when Paul sent them back."

So, bottom line is that while this source has circulated previously, THIS is the first time it will circulate on a transfer directly from the
master cassettes!

Mastering Notes Part 2:
As Steve mentioned in his Show Notes, there was a tape flip at the end of "No Hollow Day Jam", and a few seconds were lost. The flip was
seamlessly spliced into "Bring On, Bring On". There is also a tape flip during the Encore Break applause, which is seamlessly spliced.

The EAC logs are included, however I re-joined all the individual tracks and re-tracked the show after mastering it.