Jeff Tweedy
2006-01-25
Chicago, IL - Abbey Pub - Gary Schepers Benefit

Taper        : Brian Skalinder / bskalinder@yahoo.com
Location     : Center, clamped to balcony's bottom rail, extended forward ~7'
Mic Config   : DINA (17cm, 90º)
Source       : Schoeps MK41/KC5/CMC6 > Lunatec V3 > MicroTrack 2496
Record Format: 24-bit, 48 kHz
Conversion   : MicroTrack 2496 > USB > PC
Edit         : Adobe Audition 1.5, iZotope Ozone Loudness Maximizer
Dither       : MegaBitMax, Medium Shaping
Final Format : 16-bit, 44.1 kHz
Track        : CD-Wave 

DISC ONE

01. < lead-in >
02. The Ruling Class
03. < sound system problems, banter >
04. Summerteeth
05. (Was I) In Your Dreams
06. Bob Dylan's 49th Beard
07. Please Tell My Brother
08. Blasting Fonda
09. Pieholden Suite
10. < new tune >
11. Airline To Heaven
12. I'm The Man Who Loves You
13. Heavy Metal Drummer
14. New Madrid
15. ELT
16. Someday Soon

ENCORE 1

17. A Shot In The Arm
18. Hoodoo Voodoo
19. < fade-out >

DISC TWO

01. < fade-in >
02. Henry And The H-Bombs
03. Theologians
04. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
05. I Can't Keep From Talking

ENCORE 2

06. Acuff-Rose

NOTES

To seamlessly join the two discs, simply remove D1T19 and D2T01.

Behind the public and well-known faces of musicians and bands of Chicago's vibrant and wildly diverse music scene there is a community of creative and dedicated people who make it all possible. Theirs are names you will likely never know and whose faces don't make the glossy magazines, but whose contributions to the music we all love are irreplaceable.

If you have been a regular concert-goer in Chicago during the past twenty plus years, odds are strong that you have benefited from the ubiquitous and experienced ears of Gary Schepers behind the soundboard. He has been the big man with the big voice and the good heart working the sound at Lounge Ax, the Abbey Pub, Empty Bottle, Martyr's, Fitzgerald's, Schuba's and every other venue you can think of. He's been the soundman for Eleventh Dream Day, Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Material Issue, and John Parish. In short, Gary is one of *the* unsung people that help keep our city the vital and accessible music scene that it is.

Recently, Gary was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and is spending the holiday season in a hospital room recovering and getting treatments. Like many people in the music industry, Gary is without health insurance. To help defray his mounting medical bills, there will be a series of benefit concerts featuring just a tiny percentage of the artists he has worked with over the years. The speed and ease with which these fundraisers have come together, and the breadth of talent participating in them, is testimony to the appreciation and high regard held for Gary within the community of musicians that have performed in this city.  Gary's steady and quiet contribution to the Chicago music community is one of building, in quotidian fashion, a body of work and experience that has shaped the concert going experience for all of us.