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Friday, March 21 1986
8 p.m.
Beaux Arts Ballroom
Bemidji State University
Bemidji, MN
1. Wintergrove (Stephen Berg)
2. Nowhere To Go (Stephen Berg)
3. Old Yellow Car (Lacy Dalton)
4. Paladins (Stephen Berg)
6. Only Teasing (Stephen Berg)
7. It Doesn't Matter (Stephen Berg)
8. Same Old Story (Stephen Berg)
10. Easy From Now On (Susanna Clark-Carlene Carter)
12. Like A Friend (Michael Johnson)
This is my third show at Bemidji State University while I was a student there. I do have one of my performance in the Rendezvous Room which will be forth coming. the show
I played down in the student union wasn't recorded. This was, however, set up as a concert with free admission in a large
room at BSU. We set up a stage, had lights, and this was decently recorded by Eric Allen, a dorm mate with perfect pitch.
There are some songs not included, and they are "B-Side" by Loudon Wainwright III, "Friendly Divorce" by me, and "Two More Bottles of Wine" sung by Shawn Olson, and "Sad Lisa" by Cat Stevens with Leah Ramos on the piano. Each of these tracks had some problems with volume, clairty, or performance.. If I learned
one thing here, it was to talk less. This is heavily edited and I believe that I spoke for at least a half hour's worth of
time, which actually brought the length of the show to 90 minutes.
What is interesting here is to hear an early version of "Only Teasing," which eventially found its way onto my CD
The Left Is Right .
Those who contributed to this were:
Stephen Berg: acoustic and electric guitar, vocals
Tracey Rhen: Piano on "You Get Bigger As You Go," "It Doesn't Matter," and "Only Teasing."
Shawn Olson: Lead vocals on "Lola" and "Easy From Now On"
Leah Ramos: Piano on "Long-time Love Song"
Stefanie Thelen: Lights
Eric Allen: Recording
Three of these people I have no idea whatever happened to. Tracey, Eric. or Stefanie, if you see this, let me know
what you're up to!
October 10, 1997
Riverview United Methodist Church
Brooklyn Park, MN
1. Nothing I Can Do (Stephen Berg) 3.39
2. Who Are We? (Stephen Berg) 4.32
3. Judas In Me (Stephen Berg) 4.55
6. I Was There (Stephen Berg) 4.07
7. Pilgrim's Flight (Stephen Berg) 3.29
8. I Call Out Your Name (Stephen Berg) 4.36
9. Kit Carson (Bruce Cockburn) 4.36
10. New Beginnings (Stephen Berg) 3.57
This concert was the second at my home church of Riverview United Methodist Church. I am joined by my wife Erin Berg on keyboards. The only song that is missing is a train song that I sang with my son. This
show was sparsely attended, as I remember only about 12-15 people there. My wife "opened" with a classical set of five songs,
some by John Dowland.
The sound on this could be better - I miked everything as opposed to running direct with the guitar, and things
are a little noisy. A couple of the songs could be better too, such as "Free To Be" suffers from some wrong notes. Other than
the one missing song, this is the entire set that was played, and typical of the gigs I was doing. I was just a guy with a
guitar and his wife.
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