Month: February 2009

Wilco – Lenox, MA (8/12/08)

Wilco
Tanglewood
Lenox, MA
(08/12/08)

Either Way
Hummingbird
Remember The Mountain Bed
Muzzle of Bees
You Are My Face
Impossible Germany
IATTBYH
A Shot in the Arm
jeff talks
What Light*
California Stars*
Pieholden Suite*
Handshake Drugs
Pot Kettle Black
Summer Teeth
Jesus, etc.
Poor Places>
Spiders (Kidsmoke)
Set II
Can’t Stand It*
Hate It Here*
Walken*
I’m The Man Who Loves You*
Encore #2:
The Late Greats*
Heavy Metal Drummer
Monday*>
Outtasite (Outta Mind)*
I’m A Wheel
Comment
* w/ the Total Pros horn section

Recording Info: Neumann KM184>Edirol UA5>Edirol R-09HR; front row of Box 13, left of center

Taped/Transferred/Tracked by Chris Moore

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Manchester, TN (06/15/08)

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
06/15/08
Bonnaroo Music Festival
Manchester, TN

Rich Woman
Leave My Woman Alone
Black Dog
Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us
Through The Morning, Through The Night
So Long Goodbye To You
Fortune Teller
In The Mood
Black Country Woman
Bon Temps Roulez
Trampled Rose
Green Pastures
Down To The River
Nothin’
The Battle Of Evermore
Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On)
One Woman Man

I’m one of the few people I know who didn’t particularly care for Raising Sand. I had high hopes for it, though as I think about it I’m not sure why (I’m not much for Led Zeppelin, I know very little of Robert Plant as a solo artist, and while I love Krauss’ voice, her songs I usually find to be lousy.) Perhaps it was the hype, or perhaps I dug the idea of an old rocker teaming with the bluegrass queen. Whatever the reason, the record never did it for me.

I like parts of it, some of the songs are good and intellectually I dig the match-up plus the use of old blues numbers, but at the emotional gut level it leaves me kind of flat. The brooding, dark production didn’t help either. Every song felt like death knocking at the door. Which was maybe the point, but it sure didn’t make me want to listen.

This concert though, I like a lot more. The dark production is still there, but less so. In a live setting the songs breath a little more, the Tennessee sun is allowed to shine just a bit. Or maybe they just scatter in a few uptempo songs.

I particularly like their take on a couple of old Zeppelin songs. Listen closely to “Black Dog” it is less godofthunder then the original but a lot more spooky.

The White Stripes – Jack White’s Kitchen, Vol. 1

The White Stripes
Jack White’s Kitchen, Vol. 1

Jack On Fire – (2005-09-21 Boston MA)
Oh Well (Jacks Prayer) (2003-07-02 Chicago IL)
Everywhere I Go, I’m Jack (2003-04-15 Detroit MI)
Blackjack Davey (2005-09-10 Columbus OH)
God Makes No Mistakes (2003-10-22 Tokyo Japan)
I Just Can’t Keep From Cryin’ (2005-07-28 Pomona CA)
Red Death At 614 (2004-08-21 Pukkelpop, Belgium)
Sams Place (2004-08-21 Pukkelpop, Belgium)
Five String Seranade (2003-04-30 San Diego CA)
The Air Near My Fingers (2003-07-02 Chicago IL)
Mr Cellophane (2003-05-30 Vienna Austria)
This Protector (2004-08-01 Naeba Japan)
Shoofly > Apple Blossom (2004-08-01 Naeba Japan)
Handsprings (2004-08-21 Pukkelpop, Belgium)
Truth Doesn’t Make A Noise (2005-09-21 Boston MA)
Death tease>If I Had Possession
Over Judgement Day (2005-08-24 St Louis MO)
I Wanna Be Your Dog (2003-10-22 Tokyo Japan)
Wasting My Time (2003-05-30 Vienna Austria)
You Belong To Me (2005-09-22 Boston MA)
Cold Brains (w/ Beck) (2005-08-17 Los Angeles CA)
Walking With A Ghost (2005-09-16 Toronto ON)
I’m Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman >
Whispering Seas (2005-07-03 Prague Czech Rep)
One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below) (2005-09-30 Detroit MI)
Cannon tease > Take Take Take (2005-08-24 St Louis MO)
Broken Bricks > Jambalaya (2005-09-22 Boston MA)
Don’t Blame Me (2003-04-20 Boston MA)
I’m Bored (2001-09-22 Ashville NC)
Do (2005-09-16 Toronto ON)

Our little chat about Jack White in the Raconteurs got me thinking about this set. You can see from the setlist it is a compilation of various things. It is something like a rarities/b-sides set of songs all done live of course. Sound quality varies from great to close to poorly. If you dig him though, this has some cool stuff.

Converted from my CDR collection. – Mat

Gram Parsons – New York, NY (03/09/73)

Gram Parsons
03/09/73
Max’s Kansas City
New York, NY

Buckaroo
Still Feeling Blue
That’s All It Took
California Cotton Fields
Cry One More Time
A Song For You
If You Don’t Love Him (with Emmylou Harris)
Hang On Sloopy
Baby What You Want Me To Do > Bony Maronie > Forty Days (Medley)

I really should like Gram Parsons more than I do.  He encompasses so much of what I love about music.  He virtually created alternative country, or country rock. He sang with Emmylou Harris.  He made the Byrds tolerable awesome. He was in a band called the Flying Burrito Brothers and if that ain’t a great name, I don’t know what is. He had one of the most spectacular/strange burials of all time.

All of these things are excellent and should be praised (well maybe not the weird death, but that’s just legendary.) I should love Gram Parsons. Yet every time I listen to him there seems to be something missing. I can’t put my finger on it exactly. I like his voice, I like his songs, but something doesn’t gel. Maybe it is some faulty wiring in my old noggin.

This concert though, I can’t complain about. It is Gram (and sometimes Emmylou) singing and playing and having a grand time. The sound, well let’s just say you can tell the recording is older than I am, but it still sounds good. If you like Gram, and you really should, then this is an excellent chance to see what he sounded like live.

Depeche Mode – Pittsburgh, PA (06/24/90)

Depeche Mode
1990-06-24
Star Lake Amphitheater
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Set list

Kaleid
World In My Eyes
Halo
Shake The Disease
Everything Counts
Master And Servant
Never Let Me Down Again
Waiting For The Night
I Want You Now (*)
World Full Of Nothing (*)
Clean
Stripped
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Black Celebration
A Question Of Time
Behind The Wheel
Route 66

Notes
Nitzer Ebb was the support act.

While we’re hanging out in the 80’s I thought I’d share another show from one of the decade’s biggest bands.  Violator was huge when I was in high school yet there was still some kind of alternative-ness to them (and that was even before alternative was cool.)  I don’t know how to explain that actually.  I look at it now and the album sold millions of copies, was all over MTV and yet there was this hipness to them, at least where I lived.  Maybe that was because a few of the popular kids at my school dug them before they had become huge and so when they did become huge it still felt like it was a secret.  Or something.

This is another weird type show in that I have never before seen a bootleg from these guys.  Honestly I can’t swear to the awesomeness of the show.  Not only have I not given it a big listen, 80s synth bands don’t tend to translate that well to concert recordings.  As my wife says “I’d rather hear the studio versions, they sound cleaner.”

If you love the 80s and you cant’ hear “Personal Jesus” enough, this shows for you.

Tears for Fears – Cleveland, OH (02/12/90)

Tears For Fears
1990-02-12
Public Hall
Cleveland, OH

CD1:
01. I Believe
02. Head Over Heels/Broken
03. Change
04. Woman In Chains
05. Advice For The Young At Heart
06. Mad World
07. The Working Hour
08. Famous Last Words

CD2:
01. I’ve Got To Sing My Song (Oleta Adams)
02. Badman’s Song
03. Band introductions
04. Sowing The Seeds Of Love
05. All You Need Is Love
06. Everybody Wants To Rule The World
07. Encore break
08. Year Of The Knife
09. Shout

Roland Orzabal – vocals, guitars
Curt Smith – vocals, bass
Adele Bertei – backing vocals
Biti Strauchn – backing vocals
Andrew Davis – keyboards
Carole Steele – percussion
Jimmy Copley – drums
William Gregory – saxaphone, keyboards
Neil Taylor – guitar
Oleta Adams – vocals

Lineage:
SBD > master cassette > CDR > EAC > WAV > Editing (below) > FLAC Frontend > FLAC

Editing notes:
* Re-tracked show (combined WAV files in Nero, then re-split with CD Wave)

Note #1: I decided to create a separate track for the encore break–which is really just crowd applause–since it lasts roughly two minutes; tracking it this way allows you the option of skipping over the “applause” track when you listen to the show…and thereby saving two minutes of listening time.

Note #2: The volume on both CDs is just below 90dB; I did not make any adjustment to the volume, although some of you who prefer louder recordings may want to increase the volume 1-2 dB with your favorite wave editor if you feel the volume should be slightly louder.

TheCommish notes:
On previous “RS Archives” torrents, several of you requested a Tears For Fears show from the archive. Well, you’re going to LOVE this awesome-sounding show!

A caveat, however: Since I am not a Tears For Fears fan, I had to research almost all of the song titles below. I think I got everything correct, but please forgive me if any of the titles are incorrect.

Also, this show came to me as “Unknown venue” and with an April 1990 date. After doing some research, I found that this Cleveland show was held at Public Hall on Feb. 12, 1990.

Somewhere in the mid-to-late 90’s, that is to say in the early days of the Internet, or rather, the early days of widespread Internet, a friend of mine sent me an e-mail an in the subject line she had written “Woman in Chains.”  That will likely seem strange until I tell you that in all the e-mails we sent each other we included in the subject line a song title, or lyric.  The receiver then tried to guess which song it came from.  I hadn’t the slightest idea where that one came from, which is to say I am not the world’s biggest Tears for Fears fan.  It surprised me that I didn’t know it, because I actually did have a couple of their disks, and my roommate enjoyed listening to them. I was surprised even more when I found out I had that very song on a CD.  Which is to say that I liked their big hit songs, but not much else.

The question then becomes why do I have one of their concerts if I am not really a fan.  The answer lies in my love of finding oddball, or obscure shows.  Concerts from folks like the Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen or Ryan Adams are easy to come by.  They allow taping, they understand the benefits behind letting people trade their shows.  For others this isn’t the case and thus there are not very many of their concerts available in trading circles.  I’ve never once seen a Tears for Fears show out there, and thus I find it interesting.

Led Zeppelin – San Francisco, CA (04/27/69)

Led Zeppelin
1969.04.27
Fillmore West
San Francisco, CA

Track List:

01 The Train Kept A Rollin’ (CD1)
02 I Can’t Quit You
03 As Long As I Have You
-Fresh Garbage
-Shake
-Cat’s Squirrel
-No Money Down
-I’m A Man
04 You Shook Me
05 How Many More Times
-The Hunter
-Mulberry Bush
06 Communication Breakdown
07 The Lemon Song
08 Babe I’m Gonna Leave You (CD2)
09 Sitting And Thinking
10 Pat’s Delight
11 Dazed And Confused

Master>DAT>CDr(2)>EAC(secure m./read offset corr.)>WAV(Adobe Aud.1.5 rem.)>FLAC(level7/verify/test)

Best Sound Quality So Far Any Version Any Format

Quality: Excellent Stereo Soundboard

Comments from the original uploader: Remastering consists of very light sound equalization and denoising.I swapped the channels on the first set’s tracks in order to restore the guitar on the right channel that is where we’re prepared to hear its sound coming from.

Software used: Adobe Audition 1.5
Sound quality of the source is stunning.