Screamin' Jay Hawkins @ Santa Cruz, CA 1986-08-23

 
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins and The Chicken Hawks
The Catalyst Santa Cruz, CA August 23, 1986

Stereo soundboard with microphones - live matrix mix from cassette master - fairly excellent sound quality
CD: 74:23

1. announcer intro + crowd noise  0:19
2. Early In The Morning  7:08
3. Lawdy Miss Clawdy  4:37
4. talk by Jay: intro to Constipation Blues  0:49
5. Constipation Blues  6:38
6. Bite It  7:30
7. Stand By Me  7:17
8. talk: band intros by Jay  2:11
9. I Want To Know  10:05
10. Jay's intro to Gonna Make You Mine over drumbeat  2:07
11 > Gonna Make You Mine  5:11
12 > I Put a Spell On You  4:12
13. Pretty Little Baby  7:04
14. Shout  5:19
15. band member outro + crowd noise  3:56

Guitar: Jack Wargo
Sax: Barry Southern
Drums: Nelson Jarvis
Bass: Cash McCall
Keyboards: ?? (not introduced)

Monitor soundboard feed with 2 Crown PZM microphones mounted on the low ceiling over the stage, 2 Nakamichi cm300 microphones (also over the stage) and one other ambient microphone mounted on balcony railing - Live matrix mix.
Dolby C Maxell UDXLII-S90 cassette > Sony auto-reverse cassette deck. Transferred with Nakamichi Dragon (Dolby C decoded) > Macintosh with DigiDesign AudioMedia III card > Pro Tools > AIFF. FLAC files (level 8) created with xACT (sector boundaries verified). md5 file created with checkSUM+.The matrix mix tends to be ambient sounding to add presence to the dry board signal so please don't complain that this doesn't sound enough like a soundboard - it did end up a lot better as a matrix mix than it would have sounded as board or audience alone. Since the mix was done live, this is all that there is...








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  1. ex_mixerAugust 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM

    Awesome! Thank you! What a character! https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/14/arts/screamin-jay-hawkins-70-rock-s-wild-man.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gk8.agIM.KITndhJ1YOfj&smid=url-share His obit i the times has this great gem - "He would arrive on stage in a flaming coffin, wearing a black satin cape and, sometimes, a bone in his nose, clutching a cane topped by a flaming, cigarette-smoking skull named Henry." Fantastic!

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  2. ex_mixerAugust 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM

    here's a clean link to his obituary - https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/14/arts/screamin-jay-hawkins-70-rock-s-wild-man.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gk8.agIM.KITndhJ1YOfj&smid=url-share

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM

    Thank you!

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