One of the great San Francisco Bay Area bands, Sons of Champlin is hard to categorize. They have a mix of rock and blues and soul, and are definitely a class act and appear to be getting tighter these days. There seems to be a younger member, pictured here, singing, that does an impressive job and they’ve been doing a ton of shows around California lately
Sons of Champlin, live at the Sausalito Art Fest, September 6, 2010, recorded direct to digital at 24 bit, 96 khz, online at 320kb/s MP3
updated, March 12, 2013, new upload in honor of the Sons return to Oakland after 3 years
http://www24.zippyshare.com/v/56412755/file.html
also, as it stands now, this is the Sons very last show, so it’s become a much more important document than anyone could have imagined. Still one of my all time favorites
full Flickr photo set
One note aside from this band but in this recording. There is about 10 minutes of people chatting near the microphone about half way through. This is a scourge, a plague, and a destroyer of live recordings and you can hear it. Why people go to concerts to chat about their home life and chicken recipes is beyond me
One asswipe actually sang into the microphone when I pointed to the microphone. I told him I couldn’t erase it and that it’s forever. Here’s the asswipe who did it. Luckily he left after a few minutes and the rest of the recording is free of excessive audience chatter. Update > this happens about 59 minutes-1 hour exactly on the recording…It is one of the few times you”ll ever hear me on my own tape, to warn this guy that the recording is forever and I can’t erase his voice..it took him about 30 seconds after that to realize, ooops, then he left
there was a second person who spent the entire day telling everybody he could find how great Lynyrd Skynyrd was…Sorry he missed the concert, you know? and so did everybody else near him….Luckily I was able to keep him more than 5 feet away, but you can hear it a little if you listen close…Here’s a photo of him in the hat, to the right
Oh yeah, and Paul Kantner came early and sat in the back of the stage for the Sons show. He’s apparently a fan of the Sons of Champlin
