Before jambands went mainstream on the festival circuit in the last few years, most outfits were happy to get a few dozen people out to their local music venue for an evening of delightful dancing – the kind that only aging Deadheads and free-spirited types enjoy. Now it seems even mainstream rockers are trying out their own experimental jams and broadening their horizons. Along with Days of You, The Hundred Handed, and Jughead, The Burt Neilson Band were one of the most frequently followed jambands of southern Ontario during the late 1990s. They are still playing, albeit much less frequently these days, and it was great to catch them at Lee’s Palace in Toronto on a very snowy night last December. Details of the show and FLAC downloads are available here. You can download the show in variable-bit mp3 format here.
Burt Neilson Band
Saturday, 27 December 2008
Lee’s Palace, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mike Filipowitsch (guitar/vocals)
Jeff Heisholt (keyboards/vocals)
Jeremy Little (bass/vocals)
Gavin Maguire (drums/vocals)
CD1:
- Strange Companion
- By The Door
- Chevron
- Let Down
- In The Belly
- banter
- Silk And Gold >
- Down With The Sound >
- Yellow Pants >
- Yes We Can Can[1] >
- Yellow Pants
CD2:
- banter
- Martian >
- Morning Cold >
- Guns Guns Guns[2] >
- Morning Cold >
- Holes
- banter
- Full Tilt
- Down By The Seaside[3]
- St. Andrews
- banter
- Lost And Lonely
- guitar string change
- Distraction
- call for encore
- Don’t Do It[4]
- Frankenstein[5]
[1] Allen Toussaint cover.
[2] The Guess Who cover.
[3] Led Zeppelin cover.
[4] The Band cover.
[5] Edgar Winter Group cover.
Notes: CD1 starts out with the levels a bit low, but they come up within about a minute or so. Special thanks to Jay Cleary of NuFunk.ca for putting on the show and lending me the mics, mic hardware, and XLR cables. Taped and transferred by BradM (bradmcmail@yahoo.ca).
Source: AT3031s (NOS,FOB,DFC) > Edirol UA-5 (Oade digi-mod,44.1kHz) > optical > Creative Nomad JB3 (WAV)
Tranfser: Creative Nomad JB3 > SB1394 > Creative Soundblaster Audigy > CDWav > FLAC Frontend (Level 
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