Stevie Ray Vaughan
& Double Trouble
Live in Vancoucer
Pacific Coliseum
Sunday, July 22, 1990
Joe Cocker alternating opening act.
Recorded by Audioarchivist U - 101
using a Sony WM D3 Professional cassette recording walkman
with original mini stereo condenser mic in my hat
from mid blue sec 25 row 28 seat 15
onto Maxell UD II 100 capsule tapes with Dolby B on
played back with Denon DRM 500 cassette deck with Dolby B off
througha Sentrek analog EQ for warmth
into a Toshiba Laptop using it's built-in line input
edited using Wavelab 4.0
burned once (well twice, but second copy virtually destroyed) only ever in life to CDR only one time ever
harddisk containing original files destroyed (deleted maliciously)
extracted from these only existing cd's with Exact Audio Copy in secure mode
read speed averaged 2.7x, all files tested and approved
encoded to FLAC files with Trader's Little Helper at level 6

One of my very first mastering jobs, done with a friend's computer years ago by request for a close fellow taper, I naively only burned myself 1 audio copy and my friend 1 audio copy before the computer's owner deleted my files. There was an intro for a few minutes before the PA kicked into canned intro music rapid edited to the start presented here. Unknown to me at the time, the computer's owner also sabotaged the original files just before I did the audio cd burning, eliminating the 7 or 8 minute (non Stevie) pre-amble and intro...
I do still have the original cassettes, have not done the Joe Cocker set to digital yet, haven't got plans to ReMaster the SRV set for a long while from original tapes. There's too many other tapes un-digitized to do!
I was sitting up on the upper right side (stage left) in the blues. Pretty packed house, If I remember. The PA was loud enough, clear enough, and I wished I was on the floor (packed and reserved seats). The crowd rushed the stage during the mellowest song (Riviera Paradise), and Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) was jammed on by the Joe Cocker band's Bass player.
An amazing show, it would only be a month or so before tragedy struck, and Stevie would be taken from us. I had also seen him a year and a bit earlier in May 1989 at Vancouver's Orpheum, had attempted to record using inferior borrowed gear, and suceeded in taping the first few notes, missing half an hour, and getting the end of the show in pretty dismal quality, compared to this show... Years later another taper buddy came forth with the first 45 minutes of that show on an equal sounding (not so good) source. He proceeded to record over my side 1 with the first few notes intro , the 1/2 hour blank spot, and the last 15 minutes of actual recorded show,before flipping to side 2 to record fine (again)!

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I missed him completely on my birthday Dec 5, 1989, a show I was just up the road from getting, uh, distracted... (Thanks Athena!) There is an awful sounding tape of this show out there somewhere, I;ve got a XX generation copy on high speed dubbed tape to prove it exists... but that's all part of another long and meandering story...
It's always been nagging at the back of my mind that there's WAY too many people who knew about this tape's existence from me telling everyone about it after the show, but not enough people who actually heard it, nevermind had a copy of it.

It is with humple pride that I make it available to you all now...

distribute this recording freely, using the original FLAC files only
DON'T EVER make it into mp3 files (even for your own use!) {;<)&
burn to CD for yourself, and your close friends who must promise not to give copies away from those CD's
get them the FLAC files for distribution purposes!
If you make cover art that's proper and cool, email it to me at
audioarchivist@hotmail.com

Set list:
Disc 1
1. Collin's Shuffle
2. If The House Is Rockin' (Don't Bother Knockin')
3. Tightrope
4. The Things That I Used To Do
5. intro
6. Let Me Love You, Baby
7. Texas Flood
8. Mary Had A Little Lamb
9. crowd hype
10. intro
11. Riviera Paradise
12. Wall Of Denial
13. intro
14. Superstition
15. Cold Shot
16. step back a little bit...
17. Couldn't Stand The Weather
18. Goin' Down

Disc 2
1. encore crowd
2. Crossfire
3. Voodoo Chile (Shock The Zulu)
4. band introductions and goodnight

Sorry that disc 2 got encoded before disc 1, hope that doesn't matter.
You might find some scans of newspaper clippings enclosed within this package.
I haven't gotten around to actually making proper cover art for this package.
Again I ask, If you enjoyed the show, and you go all out and make coverart, I ask that you please email me some jpegs of your cover artwork versions...

email me at:
audioarchivist@hotmail.com


R I P S R V


There are 3 scans included.