Live music in SF/Oakland, and maybe elsewhere...
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taped by: thehappyone
using: Sonic Studios DSM-6s/L mics, into an Olympus LS-5
NOTE: this is audio-only
Setlist
0:00 intro
0:38 "Waste Your Time"
5:21 Bloodstone
8:38 "Your Hunger"
13:46 Dark Of The Night / New World Order
22:37 White Knuckles
25:26 Bougainvillea
29:08 "My Generation"
Notes
Great set by SF's Mane, whom I had a copy of their 7" already, but bought it again in all of its monaural glory.
In support of W.A.M. (Women's Audio Mission), which strives to promote the advancement of women in music production and the recording arts, visit their website at http://www.womensaudiomission.org/ to learn more.
Please also support the group by checking out some tunes at http://manesf.bandcamp.com
There's simply a plethora amazing female-fronted groups plying their trade in SF/Oakland, as Women's Audio Mission proves, not to mention other bands like Cruel Summer, Quaaludes, and The World...none of whom sound alike...but this Silver Shadows video of one of my fave tunes of theirs (called "Faultlines") was a high point. Enjoy!
Going in performance (forward) order....this is an archival record of everything that I've turned up for this show.
To date, no footage or recordings appear to exist for GRASS WIDOW / NODZZZ / WEAVE... There's one track for VIV ALBERTINE, which I'd make up for in LA.
While FOR AGAINST was listed on the flyer, they had to pull out at the last minute due to logistical issues.
While I was up in the mezzanine hearing Viv practicing on her guitar, there's no documentation of her set either. "Gang Of Four" was indeed just Hugo Burnham DJ'ing as the flyer says, and while we videoed nearly all of Section 25, it's only via the horrible overloaded digicam audio (a Kodak unit)
And even The Raincoats recording got cut off, due to...read on... *sigh*.
Death Sentence: Panda!
2009-10-09 'Part Time Punks' mini-fest The Mezzanine SF
The first track (or second) "In Love With Witches" was videoed...
The rest of the set was captured, more or less.
[0:00] Fight Or Flight (start cut)
[1:50] Lips Of Chaos
[4:03] Insects Awaken
[9:28] Dessert Parade
Doves 2009-05-18 The Fillmore San Francisco CA USA
taper: lammah gear : Sonic Studios DSM-6/L mics > Edirol R-09HR loc : About 15-20' behind left-hand side stack prep : Adobe Audition 1.5 (normalization, clap suppression, bass EQ) > CD Wave (tracksplits) > FLAC(6)
Tracks
6:40 01. Jetstream 4:14 02. Snowden 5:30 03. Winter Hill 3:51 04. Rise 4:33 05. Pounding 6:12 06. Almost Forgot Myself 4:41 07. 10:03 6:03 08. Compulsion 5:06 09. Words 4:07 10. The Greatest Denier 5:01 11. Kingdom Of Rust 3:30 12. Ambition 4:44 13. Black And White Town 4:34 14. The Outsider 6:00 15. Caught By The River 3:18 16. (Crowd) 4:17 17. Firesuite 5:53 18. Here It Comes 4:05 19. The Last Broadcast 1:31 20. There Goes The Fear (cut) 4:24 20. There Goes The Fear (continued) [*]
Total: 98:23
* = used iPhone, very poor quality, about 30 seconds is missing from this track
2009 notes:
The Doves live at the Fillmore in "San Fran", as Jimi referred to it continually.
Unfortunately, this didn't come out as good as some of my other recent efforts, could be because Doves were LOUD, as this was one of the few recent shows I kept earplugs in, the other of course being MBV...or due to poor acoustics even though I was relatively close to the front stacks, was on the other side the last time...or perhaps I'm unfairly comparing this to the superior Seattle recording that cut_here did with his AT853's that was shared here on (a certain Bittorent live music sharing site)...
In any event, I reckoned I didn't have enough battery power to tape the opening act, as I ran off in a rush and forgot to take an extra set with me. I was right, and I didn't have enough to capture all of the set either, as I ran out of juice a minute and a half into 'There Goes The Fear'...I had the wherewithal to then use my iPhone to capture the rest of it in extremely poor, distorted quality.
There were a few other distractions, but it's otherwise still an OK listen.
Also note that I have switched to a generic filename format and am now properly utilizing FLAC tags. (undone for this share) Good review:
* Leveraging this recording for material gain will result in bad karma for thee! * Redistribution in lossy format is OK, but retain this info file and reference back to this original seed, please * Above all, enjoy! Life is too short and brutish for anything else.
Recording sounds a bit thin, which is probably due to the sheer volume causing the Edirol limter to compress if I had to guess. I could probably do some EQ tricks, but it becomes making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, so best just keep it as it is...I've certainly heard worse in my time....was a very good show, but probably one of the loudest five shows I've ever been to...
As stated above, openers Wild Light were not taped.
Here are some videos of this performance that I found...I played "Almost Forgot Myself" to my audio recording, was very enjoyable...
"Pounding" from none other than "Karen" (how mad):
Stunning footage of "Almost Forgot Myself" from 'bayareanorthernsoul':
Poorer quality "Black and White Town" from "gaae2000":
And finally, a quartet of videos from "AdmiralNeeda" who has captured quite a few shows over the years...
Yes, you read that right. An iPhone. And the sound quality is absolutely atrocious.
What happened?
Simple. I got caught. I was asked to check in my Edirol R-09HR, which I think I had just acquired. So I did. Arrived way too late to see the openers...
As I detailed an a later email....
I've been caught once. Trying to tape Wire at the Fillmore back in 2008. The staff just held the recorder for me and gave it back to me. Very nice about it too...think it was the band/touring manglement instructed the venue to put up no-taping signs, other shows I've been to there didn't have these... Ended up being one I "recorded" on my iPhone, with the built-ins. It's horribly distorted, all it's good for is hearing Colin Newman talking between songs and figuring out the setlist.
Our Time Mr. Marx's Table Comet Being Sucked In Again Mekon Headman Perspex Icon Advantage In Height The Agfers Of Kodack Silk Skin Paws All Fours One Of Us Boiling Boy The 15th 106 Beats That I Don't Understand He Knows Pink Flag Lowdown Underwater Experiences 12XU
(Thanks to Lee McFadden for these)
I never bothered, but here's an Atlanta setlist from the 12th to compare this to if you want to try...i included an MP3 version because I was fiendishly contemplating sharing this on YouTube and the program I use is limited to 100Mb filesizes. Luckily, sanity won the day.
I'll instead feature my friend Mike's recording from 2000, which was shorter and from some accounts I've read, a much better set.
NOTE: this is audio-only
