A friend and I caught Taylor Hicks at the Rrazz Room in San Francisco last week.
It was my first time at the venue. It had a great vibe and great sound.
It was my zillionth time seeing Taylor Hicks. He also had a great vibe and a great sound. I thought it was one of the better TH shows I’ve seen. I still think The Roxy was the best TH show I’ve ever seen, but this Rrazz Room show is now my second favorite. That’s my second favorite out of a zillion shows, so that is saying something.
He was relaxed, but serious. He rocked it out, mixed it up, was liberal with the tags, and had an entertaining set list. It was a treat to have LiMBO band members Jeff Lopez on the sax, Brian Less on the keys, and Sam Gunderson on guitar. Those guys seem like old friends I haven’t seen in a long time, and it was great to see and hear them again. They were joined by the excellent Leif Bondarenko and Matt Kimbrell on drums and percussion and the excellent Brandon Peeples on bass.
The venue had an aura of ‘cool,’ and the crowd was cool, too.
We had good seats and I had planned to record the show as usual so obviously I brought my recorder. Unfortunately, but I forgot something I needed to make my mics work, so I couldn’t use them. It’s too bad too, because the sound was great at our seats and it would have been a pretty good recording.
At the last minute I decided to try my luck with using the internal mics on my recorder. I hit record, and let it go.
I think it doesn’t sound too bad for using the internal mics, so I’m going to go ahead and post the recording…
Samples:
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
Soul Thing (love the tags starting around the 6:00 mark…)
Back to Louisiana
Seven Mile Breakdown
Hold On To Your Love
Bulletproof
Download after the jump
Setlist:
Love the One You’re With
The Deal
Soul Thing —tags: San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair), East Bound and Down
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
Nineteen
What’s Right Is Right
Hold On To Your Love –tags: It’s a Man’s Word, Ghost In This House, (not really a tag: he said, “Bay Blues. San Francisco Bay Blues”
Maybe You Should — said “Sausalito town” instead of “Alabama town”
Back To Louisiana
Seven Mile Breakdown tag: The Valley Road
The Fall
Bulletproof
Recording track list:
01 Love the One You’re With
02 -banter-
03 The Deal
04 –banter-
05 Soul Thing
06 -banter-
07 Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
08 -banter
09 Nineteen
10 -banter-
11 What’s Right Is Right
12 -banter-
13 Hold On To Your Love
14 -banter-
15 Maybe You Should
16 Back To Louisiana
17 -banter-
18 Seven Mile Breakdown tag: The Valley Road
19 -crowd noise/banter-
20 The Fall (acoustic)
21 –banter-
22 Bulletproof
Download mp3s HERE
Thank you so much for this recording!
Much appreciated
I think those little internal mics on your R-09 deserve a round of applause!! I bet the intimate setting helped to create a good sound as well. Thank you so much for doing this — this is some of my favorite audio of the whole tour so far!
Big goofy grin this morning. I may have listened to this a time or two since downloading it last night.
Great quality and a great set list. This is one for the vault. 
Thank you for sharing this with all of us!!!
Excellent, as usual!! All I could wish for and more from your fantastic equipment. Thanks
I was there tytytyty so much for this you rock Taylor was awesome as usual
Oh, man! I should have gone, even if I was going to be a mess the rest of the week! Love, love, love the tags. Thank you so much for sharing these, T&J.
Thanks so much for these…downloaded last night and the sound is great…sounded like a great show, as most of them are…he totally rocks…
wow. Thanks so much. Great Goodies. Loving the tags too.
Thank you so much for recording the concert. I haven’t been able to make any of Taylor’s concerts this year so this is extra special for me.
I was thrilled to see downloads for the entire concert. The quality ~ I thought ~ was excellant. It was so good to hear Taylor in a comfortable atmosphere; yet, delivering each song with intensity.
Great performance! Thanx so much for allowing us to share in this experience.♥
Awesome recording kudos!! and Thanks for sharing with all of us!
Oh Yeah, it sounds great! I love Back To Louisiana – he was gettin growly, and funky, and southern and all that gritty stuff. Fantastic! Thanks again sooooo much!
Thank you, thank you very much for sharing.