1998.03.29 - San Diego, CA, USA @ The Rimac Theatre

Source A: Analog  --- Sony Cassette Recorder TCS-580V (built-in mic)
Taper:    Duncan
Gen:   1st from Master

Notes: Duncan traveled from England to the States to attend Tool's 4-date mini-tour. His recording's of the March mini-tour have, as of Sept. 2002, been put onto CD yet again by the master taper. CatalystX remastered this recording as well & it is commonly available.

Notes: This gig seems a little bit louder than the other 3 mini-tour shows & is probably my personal favorite as well. Good sound especially considering that this is sourced from not a DAT, not a Mini Disc, but a cassette. Blistering performance of 3rd Eye...also, this may be the best performance by Tool during the mini-tour but, again, I wasn't there. But I do have an opinion... it is very hard to beat the performances of these mini tour recordings... they are classic. And very good for the equipment used! What a setlist... The times below represent two common rips out there, provided as a reference, the 2nd time to represent the 2002 CatalystX remaster. What a setlist!

CD 1
Time: 58:48

CD 2
Time: 56:46

46 & 2

‘Can you fell it? What is it?’

Cold and Ugly
Swamp Song

‘This next song you probably haven't heard us play for a while, it’s about safe sex in the nineties.’

Part Of Me

‘We missed you.’

Sober

Maynard: ‘We have a special guest with us here tonight, gonna play on a song with us. This’s Buzz from the Melvins. They are gonna be doing Ozzfest with us this year as well. None more metal than us.’
Buzz: ‘But you guys are the ones who won the Grammy.
Maynard: ‘We won the Grammy so eyes down please.’

Stranglehold

‘Buzz, the Melvins. Not a wig. We have another guest, oh come on. It’s band called Kyuss, this is there bass player Scott Reeder. It’s a Kyuss song called Demon Cleaner.’

Demon Cleaner

‘Scott Reeder.’

Pushit

‘Vince on keyboards.’

CD 2
Time: 30:21

Third Eye

‘Vince. Hmmm let’s see aahhh...’

Ænema

‘Why, why, why? Don’t you people have some studying to do?

Jerk-Off

Source B: DAT -- Core Sound Binaurals > Sony TCD-D8
DAT:        DAT-2 > Digital Clone-3
CD Info:   DAT>Casio DA-300>NVIDIAR>Sound Forge 6.0>WAV>CD Wave>Nero 6.1>CD (Galen 2004)

Notes - Transfer: There actually seem to be lots of 'sources' of this show that are labeled as CSB>D8 that are in actuality simply CatalystX remaster's of Duncan's cassette masters. In early 2004, I did my own transfer of this show from a 2nd Gen clone so please note that the actual time/track list per CD may be different to your actual CSB>D8 source on CD (if you have it). Apparently, with the DAT trade circles, this show gets around a bit. Funny how it is actually or has been hard to find on CD.
Notes - Recording: Absolutely stellar and beautiful recording. This, without a doubt, one of the best 1998 Tool recordings out there. Brilliant setlist, excellent performance, two cover songs, extended songs and this -is- the performance of Third Eye from 1998. Yes, I am positive on that - for sure. You know what that means, yeah? Somewhere, someone has this concert and the other mini-tour shows in stunning SBD quality. Demon Cleaner, Tool's version, makes you sort of rock back & forth & say "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah - I am the Demon Cleaner... Satan is the way". Out of any show from 1998, dare I say it, this is my favorite setlist - maybe AUD recording. That is saying a lot I think, there are some pretty good recordings out there. The taper seemed to have a -very- good idea of how to tape & there are only a couple detectable moments of movement which most people most likely would simply not notice as it is a very picky comment. As it is, stunning recording - best of the mini-tour & is one that definitely deserves a permanent spot in your 10 disc CD-player.

CD 1
Time: 56:13