Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Garden State Arts Center
Holmdel, NJ
7/7/1990

Original recording:
Sony clip-on stereo mic clipped to front of painter’s cap > Sony D6 cassette (FOB 13th row center, on Maxell XLII-S tape, Dolby C on)

Cassette Transfer:
My master cassette > Nakamichi Dragon (Dolby C decode, auto azimuth adjust) > Sound Devices 722 (@24/96)

Mastering:
Sony SoundForge 11 (EQ, DC Offset, volume normalization, clap/whistle/yell scrubbing, resample to 44.1 with iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than “Highest Quality” setting w/anti-alias filter; 24 > 16 bit dither using iZotope MBIT+ Dither with Ultra noise shaping+high dither settings); Tracked in CDWave 1.98

--- Cassette side A
1. Pre-taped walk-on music
2. Collins' Shuffle
3. The House Is Rocking
4. Tightrope
5. The Things (That) I Used to Do
6. Look at Little Sister
7. banter - song intro
8. Let Me Love You Baby
9. Leave My Girl Alone
10. Riviera Paradise

-- Cassette side B
11. banter - walls to tear down
12. Wall of Denial
13. Superstition
14. Cold Shot
15. Couldn't Stand the Weather ->
16. Collins Shuffle
17. encore break
18. Crossfire
19. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
20. thanks/band intros
Total time: 1:28:06

Double bill with Joe Cocker and his band. SRV played first.

Taper notes:
I let an entire year slip by (2016) without releasing a single BARN archival release (last was 10/2015) but I intend to correct that with some forthcoming tasty nuggets.

Speaking of tasty nuggets, let me present to you BARN170, a true gem from my collection. Recorded back in the summer 1990 when I was on the cusp of my 20th birthday, I hit the jackpot with a 13th row center ticket to this show which was a double bill of Stevie Ray Vaughan, who I was only semi-familiar with; though the album that he'd released with his brother -- Family Style from "The Vaughan Brothers" had recently gotten quite a bit of airplay on the Classic Rock radio station I listened to at the time; and I know he was being hailed in the press as "The Next Jimi Hendrix". I was much more familiar with Joe Cocker and his deep back catalog of hits dating back to Woodstock (and of course I was well familiar with his performance from the Woodstock movie). But I had no idea what I was in for at a SRV show -- it was LOUD and ROCKIN' -- much more so than I expected, and my ears rang for days after this show!

Who knew at the time that less than 2 months from this show this tremendous talent would be taken from us in a tragic helicopter crash on 8/27/90?

At the time I was just using a quality Sony D6 recorder and a small clip-on stereo mic that I fixed to a front of painters' cap. But it was LOUD and I was in exactly the right spot. With some of EQ mostly to boost the bass, some Dolby C (hence properly decoded) to completely eliminate the analog cassette hiss, and playback on arguably the best cassette deck ever made, you're in for a treat so you can be blown away by the talents of the man, the myth, the legend Stevie Ray Vaughan.

The Joe Cocker set from this night will follow shortly.

Enjoy!

Recorded, transferred, mastered, tracked, tagged, and posted by Scott Bernstein

Cassette Transfer: 3/22/2015
Mastering, tracking, tagging: 2/14/2017-3/5/2017