I am not sure about Obie. Honestly, I don't have much issue with most of the KTF and These Days recordings. He began taking part in the engineering with KTF the album. Anyone with tour books from those two tours, look up the personnel and see who was handling the mixing.

Offhand, the only These Days tour recording I can think of that I thought was poorly handled was Johannesburg. This is based both on the audio from the TV broadcast and the These Days remaster bonus CD.

We haven't seen any real influx of soundboard recordings since. Everything since Crush has been sparse (read: 1 soundboard recording.) All we have are those odd TV appearances, shows like Zepp in Tokyo, Shepherds Bush, Times Square, VH1's One Last Wild Night, Storytellers, Manhattan Ballroom, the QVC Broadcast. They are either partial shows or one off shows. The only full soundboard from a regular tour date was Zurich 2000 and that was horrid. HORRID I say! They improved it for the DVD and that still sucked. In fact all of those recordings I just mentioned just plain suck the snot out of Karl Maldens (please tell me some people know who he is, I'm not that old) nose.

So when comparing the KTF and These Days recordings we have with those I mentioned above..there was still a considerable drop that occured in between 1996 and 2000.