Ty Segall - 2011-02-09 - Great American Music Hall

Quite a few updates coming your way, including a couple of Thee Oh Sees shows, including their headlining spot here, but first wanted to start in on the one of the opening acts, one that I shamefully missed when he played a free show at Serra Bowl, so was glad to finally get a chance to catch him and his group play.  

"Girlfriend" in particular rocked the house, check out the link to watch Ty and band get everybody hopping around like mad.


Any IDs of songs I don't have identified greatly appreciated!

Ty Segall
2011-02-09
Great American Music Hall
San Francisco CA
Coalition on Homeless benefit show

taped by: thehappyone, using Sony PCM-M10 w/built-in mics
          WAV > Adobe Audition 1.5 (heavy re-EQ'ing, tracksplits,
          downsample to 16/44.1 > FLAC

tracklist

intro / Finger / ? / Girlfriend / Standing At The Station / Sad Fuzz / Caesar / (new song) / Imaginary Person / ?

Video of the last four songs, filmed from the balcony.

Download FLACs (thehappyone recording, zip archive) 

Matrix mix (Two recordings blended together, FLAC format, zip archive)

Lots of other good stuff online:

Daytrotter Session
Amoeba Performance 12/2010

Thee Oh Sees - 2010-02-09 - Benefit For Coalition On Homelessness - Great American Music Hall SF

Thee Oh Sees
2011-02-09
Benefit For Coalition On Homelessness
Great American Music Hall
San Francisco CA

tapers:  TH1:  Sony PCM-M10 w/built-in mics
         TZ0:  Sonic Studios DSM-6L/s > Edirol R-09HR
               Flip Ultra HD

Setlist

Crushed Grass
Tidal Wave
Contraption
Meat Step Lively
I Was Denied
Enemy Destruct
A Heavy Doktor
Dead Energy
Block Of Ice
Crack In Your Eye
The Dream
-
Mega-Feast

(individual videos recorded by megandabkowski)


Complete video of entire show is also on YouTube

Audio recordings:

TZ0 version (pCloud FLACs, zipfile, balcony)

TH1 version (pCloud FLACs, floor, down in front)

TZ0+TH1 blended version (pCloud FLACs)

Tri-source version (LINK DEAD, TZ0+TH1+FLIP, audio of complete video)

Sic Alps
2011-02-09

Benefit For Coalition On Homelessness
Great American Music Hall
San Francisco CA

Setlist

Song one is 'Wake Up It's Over'
Song three is new.
Song thirteen is 'Bathman'
Song sixteen is 'Do You Want To Give Money'.
I couldn't ID the rest.


TZ0 version (pCloud FLACs in zipfile, balcony)
TH1 version (pCloud FLACs in zipfile, floor) 
TZ0+TH1 blended version (pCloud FLACs in zipfile)


Gig report after the jump...

Sandwitches - 2010-02-09 - Great American Music Hall SF

Here's my recording of the Sandwitches set from their Great American Music Hall show.  I enjoyed their set, and will enjoy it even more once any of you who download the files also pledge to check out their upcoming album, as I plan to do once it's out!

Sandwitches

2011-02-09
Great American Music Hall
San Francisco CA
Coalition on Homeless benefit show

taped by:  thehappyone, using Sony PCM-M10 w/built-in mics.  WAV > Adobe Audition 1.5 (heavy re-EQ'ing, tracksplits, downsample to 16/44.1 > FLAC

Download (pCloud FLAC files in zipfile)

Alternate version, last three tracks only (pCloud FLACs in zipfile)

I only know the names of the second and third tracks (Lightfoot and Relax At The Beach), as I believe all the other songs are off their forthcoming "Mrs Jones Cookies" album, which you'll be able to pre-order here.

There's also some videos I've upped on YouTube:

 
First two songs, filmed from the balcony.

First four songs, filmed on the left side of the stage.

And the last song of the set, upped by 'megandabkowski'.

You can find older post about Sandwitches by clicking on this link.

Crocodiles - 2011-01-15 - Slim's SF

Crocodiles
2011-01-15
Slim's SF

taper: thehappyone
equip: Sonic Studios DSM-6/L's > Sony PCM-M10
locat: near the front somewhere

setlist: Sleep Forever / Neon Jesus / Hearts Of Love / Summer Of Hate / Mirrors / All My Hate and Hexes Are For You  / Stoned To Death / I Wanna Kill // I'm Not A Young Man Anymore [Velvet Underground] (w/Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls on backing vox) / outro
 
A pretty stunning wall of sound from San Diego's finest new act...they pretty much played this as one continuous song, with feedback stringing the songs together.    If you listen to the recording you can hear people compliment the performance, even before the show was over.  Nearly the same songs as their Popscene performance from August, but with a substitution and an additional encore track with Brandon's wife Dee Dee doing backing vox...

It's been a somewhat uphill climb for me from outright dismissing these guys as slavish JAMC imitators when I first saw them open for Ladytron back in 2009 (got there mid-set, so wasn't able to tape them) to actually appreciating their songcraft and noisepop hooks.  But we're here now, so enjoy the view!

Listen (FLAC format)

Also up on YouTube

Bonus! 

Crocodiles

2010-08-19

Popscene

330 Ritch Street

San Francisco CA

tapers: thehappyone + tomzero

equip: Sonic Studios DSM-6/Ls > Sony PCM-M10 (thehappyone) 

       Sonic Studios DSM-6s > Edirol R-09HR (tomzero)

blended together in Adobe Audition 1.5 by thehappyone

setlist:

Sleep Forever / Neon Jesus / Hearts of Love / Summer of Hate / Mirrors / Billy Speed / Stoned To Death / I Wanna Kill

Had to wait nearly an hour for them to come on, and this was a short set that clocked just north of 35 minutes.  We were pretty annoyed at the time, but it gave the proceedings an edge which proved to make it all good.  This story is good too...better than snakes on a plane in my opinion...maybe it's what inspired them to call themselves that...

Listen (FLAC format)

The Fresh And Onlys - 2011-01-15 - Slim's SF

 

The Fresh and Onlys

2011-01-15

Slim's SF

taper:  thehappyone

equip:  Sonic Studios DSM-6/L mics > Sony PCM-M10

locat:  behind a pillar stage right-ish 

tracks:  intro / Invisible Forces / Grey-Eyed Girl / ? / Until The End Of Time / Waterfall / Fascinated / (new song #1) / I'm A Thief / ? / Tropical Island Suite / ? / ? / Diamond In The Dark

Pitchfork gave their album an 8.0, and mentioned 'By My Hooker' as one of the standout tracks, to quote from the article: 'My favorite line comes on "Be My Hooker": "I can hear the open sea calling me, but I don't know, I don't know"-- wanderlust and indecision rendered in one quick, direct stroke.' 

However, the presence of this song title would cause another blogger some degree of consternation, with the fallout detailed here.  My opinion is that while this brings up interesting issues involving what certain sites will allow from their hired writing help before they conclude that biting the hand that feeds them free releases isn't conducive to the new realm of pageviews and impressions, and allows those who feel constrained to score sympathy with the blogosphere though that disclosure, it should come as very little surprise to know how any of this stuff actually plays out, and more importantly, has naught to do with The Fresh And Onlys actual material or motivations.  Heck, I almost want the worst about "Be My Hooker" to be true, since that would help them get some more notice, under the guidelines of any press being good press, though I suspect anybody truly in their camp would want them to earn praise through less sensational means, entirely on the basis of their art. 

Which is why I am presenting this to you here, so that you can form your own opinion, as it's through sharing which allows Tim Cohen and company to be appreciated for their "lazy-arsed garage-psych", rather than slammed for it by some random reviewer either looking for an angle or who was genuinely disturbed by the song title.  It's a disturbing world, after all; given all that is truly obscene (just look at US foreign policy for starters), trying to hang one's hat on a song title seems a bit trite.  

Anyway, enough of my spiel, please download (FLAC zipfile) and enjoy!

(you can also check out my previous recording of them playing at Serra Bowl back in July 2010)