The Gourds Live at Beeblefest Early Outdoor and Late Indoor Shows @Stubbs October 25, 1997
“Beeblefest was largely the work of manager Mike Stewart. We got some friends to play all day and called it a festival. Old 97s, The Skeletons, Tiny Town, Damnations, etc. It was not a financial success. Interesting too is that we did it with Charles Attal of Stubbs who some years later went on to found ACL festival. I like to think he learned a thing or two about how to put on a festival from Beeblefest.” – Kevin Russell
Hear Gourds manager, MIke “Stewball” Stewart share some memories of putting on Beeblefest.
Early show
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Late show
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Beeblefest
Early Outdoor Show
Stubb’s BBQ
Austin Texas
10-25-1997
The early outdoor set. This hasn’t been available for as long as the late set. This is more of a Gourds show, whereas the late set is with guest musicians (members of Skeletons and Damnations). This one was recorded on a Sony D3 cassette deck by D3, our intrepid Taper Zero.
01 t-shirt girl intro
02 Piss & Moan Blues (level check)
03 Son of Bum
04 Nuevo Laredo
05 Caledonia
06 Gin and Juice
07 When That Great Ship Went Down
08 Trampled By the Sun
09 I Come Up > All the Labor
(Baby in Robin’s belly lyric)
10 Ringing Dark & True
11 Plaid Coat
12 Gallow’s Tree
13 LGO
14 Web Before You Walk Into It
15 Maria
16 Under Your Spell Again
17 When Wine Was Cheap
18 Turkey Thru the Corn with Tequila Breakdown
& Crooked Letter Jam
19 post show sounds
Master recording by D3:
Sony WM-D3 one-point stereo mic > Sony WM-D3 > Dolby B > Maxell XlllS (CrO2) cassette
Digital remastering by Ducktaper:
Maxell XlllS (CrO2) cassette > Sony WM-D3 (same unit as above) > Dolby B > one-out > analogue mini-stereo plug to mono plugs >
Creative Professional E-MU 0404 > Sony Sound Forge 7.0 for sampling at 96 kHz, 24-bit (for editing and normalization), then, conversion
and re-sampling to 16-bit, 44,100 kHz respectively and track splitting > Nero 6 > cdr
Beeblefest
Late Indoor Show
Stubb’s BBQ
Austin Texas
10-25-1997
This show is a gem if you are looking for the Gourds doing rare covers…..throw in the Damnations adding Rob Bernard’s guitar and Amy Boone and Deborah Kelly and we got something special.
01 pre show sounds
02 If I Should Fall From Grace with God
03 Weeping Willow
04 Whiskey & Blood
05 I’m Troubled
06 Copperhead Road
07 Nebraska
08 Dig It
09 Gipetto
10 Crazy Arms
11 Barstool Blues
12 Jackson
13 Single Girl, Married Girl
14 State Trouper
15 Walk the Way
16 Together Again
17 Invitation (Sort Of)
18 Green River
19 Lay Lady Lay
20 Devil’s Right Hand
21 Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
22 post show sounds
Master recording by D3:
Sony WM-D3 one-point stereo mic > Sony WM-D3 > Dolby B > Maxell XlllS (CrO2) cassette
Digital remastering by Ducktaper:
Maxell XlllS (CrO2) cassette > Sony WM-D3 (same unit as above) > Dolby B > one-out > analogue mini-stereo plug to �� mono plugs >
Creative Professional E-MU 0404 > Sony Sound Forge 7.0 for sampling at 96 kHz, 24-bit (for editing and normalization), then, conversion
and re-sampling to 16-bit, 44,100 kHz respectively and track splitting > Nero 6 > cdr
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