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    Yarn
    Gypsy Sally's
    Washington, DC
    December 18, 2015

    01 Empty Pockets
    02 You're Gone, I'm Alright
    03 Tomorrow's Another Day ?
    04 Bad, Bad Man
    05 Woman on the Interstate
    06 This is the Year
    07 Down on Your Luck
    08 Bobby Weeks
    09 I'm the King
    10 Let Me In
    11 Dirt Road
    12 The Loner
    13 I Hate You
    14 Ferd Moyse intro
    15 25 Years *
    16 Turn the Light Off *
    17 Love and Hate
    18 Fussin and Fightin *
    19 It's All Over Now *
    20 Silent Night *
    21 I Gotta Go * (cut)

    *= Ferd Moyse on Fiddle from The Hackensaw Boys

    Note: I Gotta Go and Abilene cut due to equipment error.

    CA-14 cards>Naiant pfa>SD mix pre>Tascam DR-60. Recorded at 24 bit/48 kHz
    Audacity normalize>CD wave (Splits)>Trader's Little Helper (flac conversion, tagging)
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    I had an unusual night. Gypsy Sally's is a difficult place to record. The board is all the way in the back of the room and perhaps the best place for a stand. GS advertises themselves as a listening room, but it is more of a Georgetown hang out bar. There is a floor and a raised area with tables. The only time it seems like a listening room is during the opening acts. Otherwise, it is a very chatty place. I think some folks just stop by to hang out in the back and yap the entire time.

    During the Yarn show, I put one deck in the back of the room out of the soundboard. Lots of people in between my seats and the board, but a pain to go during the show to go back and check. Got the Hackensaw Boys out of the board. The Yarn set did not come out. Apparently, when the soundguy switched over from house music to the stage, he cut off my feed and I'll I got was static.

    I had a good seat 10 feet from the left stack and was able to clamp to a rail about six feet high, but could not go above head level per the house. All night, people kept coming over and having conversations under the mics. You can hear someone talking about their friend's Star Wars experience.

    So when I went to pack up, I accidentally hit the power cable and shut the deck off before the deck finished saving the file. When I got home, there was not a file to be found on the disk, but after running a system check, I was able to recover most of the file. I Gotta Go and the Abilene encore were not recovered though.

    I really wish the owners of this venue would do something about the chatter. They book some great acts, but I don't frequent the place since it is usually very chatty, the service is super slow, and the food is mediocre. Yes, even the gelato is sub-par. How can you screw up gelato? Also, they have these monstrous speakers that take up a portion of the stage view. When Andrew was in the band, Rod would be hidden at times behind the right stack.

    Anyhow, the recording is ok with a ton of chatter. It's alot of work to battle talkers near the mics all night long and takes away from my enjoyment of the experience.

    https://archive.org/details/Yarn2015-12-18.CA14.flac24
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    I like Gypsy Sallys, but it is a chatty venue 9although so many of them are these days...). I have mostly seen John K and the DC Mystery cats there, who bring a very regular dedicated audience, so I'm sure that is different. They seem to get good recordings and streams from those shows. Have you ever talked to the guys who do those? Andrew or Stu?
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    no, don't know them personally. I think they set up back by the board. Back there, you get more room chatter and a less punch, but ok sound. When I was there for Kimock, the crowd got quieter during the music and I think a crowd of old Deadheads understands what a person is doing with the microphones. The best recording was Alex's from Kimock this spring where he was in the same spot, but me and another taper stood on the floor and blocked people away from the mics https://archive.org/details/skb2015-03-11

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