Talk:Concert 1989-04-24 Mill Valley

"Elvis Costello and Friends"
featuring Jerry Garcia, James Burton, Nick Lowe, Bob Weir, Kim Wilson, Charles Brown, Commander Cody, Sammy Hagar, Annie Sampson, Austin deLone and many others!
April 24, 1989
Sweetwater
Mill Valley, California, USA

Excellent quality soundboard. This was first shared by me, grner1, here on Dime. This version is the same audio content, 
but now has the files named better and tagged. Special thanks to David Hardy for the source tapes!

Lineage: The first half is from the VHS Hi-Fi soundtrack and the rest from a Dat master. A few seconds have been spliced in 
from an alternate downloaded soundboard source. Since all the breaks start between songs, very little of the music is 
missing as the video masters change tapes.

Transfer [grner1]: Sony WV-DR7 > Sony DVMC-DA2 Media Converter (DV Hardware Codec Converter) > Final Cut Pro > Pro Tools
(minor "nip and tuck" edits and normalization. No noise reduction or equalization).

CD1 - Nick Lowe solo - 24:55
101 [00:51] intro (1)
102 [02:23] Without Love (1)
103 [01:06] talk (1)
104 [02:45] Refrigerator White (1)
105 [02:46] Geisha Girl (1)
106 [04:42] Rocky Road (1)
107 [03:55] (I Wanna Build A) Jumbo Ark (2)
108 [02:37] Bo Bo Ska Diddle Daddle (1)
109 [03:26] I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock and Roll) (1)
110 [00:24] thanks and applause

CD2 - "Elvis Costello and Friends" part 1 of 2 - 70:46
Elvis Costello solo:
201 [00:24] intro to set
202 [02:42] Accidents Will Happen (3)
203 [03:34] Brilliant Mistake (3)
204 [04:19] Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (3)
205 [01:24] talk
206 [01:51] Mystery Dance (3)
207 [01:05] talk [Elvis introduces Jerry Scheff on bass & Austin deLone on keyboards]
208 [05:03] Poisoned Rose (4)
209 [10:27] God's Comic (3)
210 [02:50] (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (3)
211 [03:36] New Lace Sleeves (3)
212 [03:01] Peds Paws And Claws (3)
213 [03:30] Radio Sweetheart > (3)
214 [02:30] Jackie Wilson Said (3)
215 [00:24] talk
216 [03:32] (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding [with Nick Lowe] (5)
217 [01:07] talk [Elvis welcomes Jerry Scheff, Scott Mathews, Austin deLone and James Burton to the stage]
218 [03:27] The Big Light (6)
219 [05:07] Pouring Water On A Drowning Man (6)
220 [03:23] Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line (6)
221 [03:14] Leave My Kitten Alone (6)
222 [04:16] talk [Elvis welcomes Kim Wilson and Charles Brown to the stage] 

CD3 - "Elvis Costello and Friends" part 2 of 2 - 77:15
301 [06:05] I Stepped In Quicksand (7)
302 [05:39] Driftin' Blues (8)
303 [00:35] Charles Brown talks
304 [03:38] I Wanna Be With You (9)
305 [01:51] talk [Austin deLone thanks Charles Brown and welcomes Kim Wilson, Nick Lowe and James Burton back
            to the stage plus also Sean Hopper on keyboards]
306 [04:31] One's Too Many (And A Hundred's Ain't Enough) (10)
307 [05:57] Real Gone Lover (11)
308 [03:48] talk [Austin deLone thanks Kim Wilson and welcomes Jerry Garcia and Pete Sears to the stage]
309 [03:32] You Win Again (12)
310 [02:51] The Bottle Let Me Down (13)
311 [02:04] Why Don't You Love Me? (13)
312 [01:44] talk [Sammy Hagar, Commander Cody, Mitch Woods and Annie Sampson are welcomed to the stage]
313 [04:19] Riot In Cellblock #9 (14)
314 [00:29] talk [Austin deLone introduces Sammy Hagar to sing the next song and Jeff Burton is welcomed to the stage]
315 [07:17] Going Down (15)
316 [01:39] talk [Austin deLone thanks Sammy Hagar and welcomes Bob Weir to the stage]
317 [04:39] C.C. Rider (16)
318 [07:27] Turn On Your Lovelight (17)
319 [01:29] talk [Austin deLone thanks Bob Weir, Jeff Burton and Pete Sears and welcomes James Burton, Jerry Scheff 
            and Elvis Costello back to the stage and thanks  John Goddard for throwing the party] 
320 [03:24] Let The Good Times Roll (18)
321 [02:41] Loveable (19)
322 [01:36] talk [final thanks and applause]

Notes:
(1) Nick Lowe solo (vocals, acoustic guitar).
(2) Nick Lowe solo (vocals, bass).
(3) Elvis Costello (vocals, acoustic guitar).
(4) Elvis Costello (vocals, acoustic guitar), Jerry Scheff (bass), Austin deLone (piano).
(5) Elvis Costello (vocals, acoustic guitar), Nick Lowe (vocals, acoustic guitar).
(6) Elvis Costello (vocals, acoustic guitar), James Burton (lead guitar), Jerry Scheff (bass),
    Austin deLone (piano), Scott Mathews (drums).
(7) Charles Brown (vocals and piano), Kim Wilson (harp), Danny Caron (guitar), Steven Strauss (bass),
    Scott Mathews (drums).
(8) Charles Brown (vocals and piano), Kim Wilson (harp), Danny Caron (guitar plus a bit of backing vocals), 
    Steven Strauss (bass plus a bit of backing vocals), Scott Mathews (drums).
(9) Charles Brown solo (vocals, piano).
(10) Kim Wilson (vocals, harp), Nick Lowe (bass, backing vocals), James Burton (guitar), Sean Hopper (electric piano),
     Austin Delone (piano), Scott Mathews (drums).
(11) Kim Wilson (vocals, harp), James Burton (guitar), Nick Lowe (bass), Sean Hopper (electric piano), Austin Delone
     (piano), Scott Mathews (drums).
(12) Elvis Costello (vocals and electric guitar for first part of the song and then acoustic guitar after that), 
     Jerry Garcia (guitar), James Burton (starts on acoustic guitar after approx. 1 minute of song, then switches
     to electric guitar for the rest of the song), Pete Sears (bass), Austin deLone (piano), Scott Mathews (drums).
(13) Elvis Costello (vocals and acoustic guitar), Jerry Garcia (guitar), James Burton (guitar), Pete Sears (bass),
     Austin deLone (electric piano), Sean Hopper (piano), Scott Mathews (drums).
(14) Commander Cody (lead vocals), Elvis Costello (acoustic guitar and backing vocals), Sammy Hagar (backing vocals),
     Annie Sampson (backing vocals), Jerry Garcia (guitar), James Burton (guitar), Pete Sears (bass), Mitch Woods (piano),
     Scott Mathews (drums).
(15) Sammy Hagar (vocals), Annie Sampson (vocals), Jerry Garcia (guitar), Jeff Burton (guitar), Pete Sears (bass),
     Mitch Woods (piano), Scott Mathews (drums).
(16) Bob Weir (vocals, guitar), Jeff Burton (guitar), Pete Sears (bass), Austin deLone (piano), Scott Mathews (drums).
(17) Bob Weir (vocals, guitar), Elvis Costello (acoustic guitar, backing vocals), Austin deLone (piano, backing vocals),
     Jeff Burton (guitar), Pete Sears (bass), Scott Mathews (drums).
(18) Elvis Costello (lead vocals, acoustic guitar), Cait O'Riordan (backing vocals), James Burton (lead guitar),
     Jerry Scheff (bass), Austin deLone (piano), Scott Mathews (drums).
(19) Elvis Costello (vocals, acoustic guitar), Austin deLone (piano, backing vocals), James Burton (lead guitar),
     Jerry Scheff (bass), Scott Mathews (drums).

Notes: Village Music was a little record store in Mill Valley California and its owner, John Goddard, threw a lot of
great anniversary parties at the tiny nearby club, The Sweetwater. This show is full of cool one-of-a-kind performances.
It's the complete show from VHS tapes that are labeled "dubbing masters" and is an upgrade over what has previously
circulated of this show. The stage was well lit for the video and the cameras are mostly steady. There was a lot of
flash photography that washes out frames here and there, but it's mostly problem free and quite enjoyable. There was
some silent backstage footage at the end of the first VHS tape that is included at the end of the second DVD. I attempted
to list the lineups for each song but since there are so many changes there might be minor errors. I could've fit this on
one DVD9 disc but not at maximum video quality so it's only being shared in this two single-layer DVD set.

Finally from a blog I found online about this show that was from back when Village Music still existed:

"Elvis: Certainly a candidate for the world's greatest record store is Village Music, in Mill Valley. Every year
John Goddard has a party for his friends and customers, and he always has a really good bill of people. So on the
twenty-first anniversary, I did a show with Nick Lowe, and he invited James Burton and Jerry Scheff, who'd played
with me on the road. I did my little set, Nick did his set and then it was a free-for-all; Charles Brown did a piece,
and people were getting summoned to the stage. I was standing in the corridor when I suddenly heard, "Jerry Garcia to
the stage!" And, emboldened by several margaritas, I decided to join him.

Jerry: Not only that, but it was one of those situations where I had the choice of playing either Elvis' guitar, which
is low and it's stiff, and the strings are quite wide as well, and all this confusing script, or of playing Burton's 
guitar, which is strung with spider webs. I mean it's the absolutely lightest you can string a guitar and still get a
sound out of it. I'd take Burton's and play a note on it and it goes "spack." So I opted to play Elvis' guitar as the
lesser of two evils. [*laughter*] And I vowed I would never go to another one of those shows without my own.

Elvis: It was a whole Three Stooges routine -- "Here, you take my guitar," "No, I'll take your guitar." I think I had
Burton's old Telecaster for half a song, and James had my old Martin acoustic which wasn't cranked up so he couldn't
solo -- and Jerry's struggling with my guitar. But once everybody got settled we managed to struggle through a couple
of Hank Williams songs. Like any sort of jam thing it inevitably came to degenerate towards lots of blues. But we
managed a few songs with changes.

Jerry: A pretty high level of jam-sessionry really, considering what it was. Really fun. And Elvis' solo set was
phenomenal, I thought. That's one of those things that I can't do at all, just playing the guitar and singing.
You're so solid with that, you don't miss a band. I always feel like I'm missing a band."

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