Crosby Stills Nash & Young
August 27, 2006
The Theatre At Madison Square Garden
New York, NY
As Ed Tyre said to me while at dinner before the show: "To make a perfect recording you need
1000 things to go right. It takes but one thing wrong to ruin the job." I think this recording has
999.5 things that went right. In my opinion this may be THE audience recording of this current
CSNY tour. Performed in a small venue, The Theatre (formerly the Felt Forum &/or The
Paramount) seats about 4000-5000 and has pristine acoustics, unlike an arena or an outdoor
venue like Jones Beach.. I was in the 8th Row, directly in front of the left stacks. Crowd noise is
minimal thanks to the Schoeps, you will hear the occasional hoot, holler & clapper as with any
stealth audience recording, but the music just sizzles on this recording. Clean as can be. (I will
gladly post a 24 bit version for burn to DVD-A if somebody will teach me how to track/index in
24 bit on a windows based computer. I need a good free software application to use too.)
Source Info: Schoeps CCM4's > SD744T > firewire to hard drive of dedicated music only
computer > Bit Conversion and re-sampled with Sound Forge 7.0 > indexed in Sound Forge 4.5
> CD set up with CD Architect 4.5 > CD burned with CD Architect 5.0 onto Mitsui Gold CD >
Extracted to Internet Capable Computer with EAC > FLAC.
FLAC >WAV >Audacity (Combine Tracks Into A One-Track File, Select De-Amplification Of End-Of-Song Close-Proximity Hand Claps, Amplify By 3.2db, Re-Track On Original Index Points) >Fix SBE's >FLAC (Level
+ Tags Via xACT 2.51 By OldNeumanntapr
CD1
01. Flags Of Freedom
02. Carry On
03. Wooden Ships
04. Long Time Gone
05. Military Madness
06. After The Garden
07. Living With War >
08. The Restless Consumer
09. Shock And Awe
10. Wounded World
11. Almost Cut My Hair
12. Immigration Man
13. Families
14. Deja Vu
CD2
01. Helplessly Hoping
02. Our House
03. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
04. Guinevere
05. Milky Way Tonight
06. Treetop Flyer
07. Roger And Out
08. Southbound Train
09. Old Man Trouble
10. Carry Me
11. Teach Your Children
12. Southern Cross
13. Find The Cost Of Freedom
Cd3
01. Star Spungled Spanner (James Marshall Hendrix) >
02. Let's Impeach The President
03. For What It's Worth
04. Chicago
05. Ohio
06. What Are Their Names
07. Rockin' In The Free World