At My Heels: My Bloody Valentine + Spectrum - 2008-09-30

This post is to fully document the MBV/Spectrum Concourse Design Center SF show, which is probably the loudest show most people who went have ever been to!

For more recollections, please visit the Alternapop site.

Spectrum
2008-09-30
Concourse Design Center
San Francisco CA USA

taper: lammah
location: About 20' in front of the mixing desk in the center of the warehouse
equipment: Sonic Studios DSM-6L mics > bat box > iPod 5th gen classic w/Belkin Tunetalk mic/line-in > Adobe Audition > CD Wave Editor (tracksplits) > FLAC(6)

tracklist:
01 - Transparent Radiation (7:47)
02 - How You Satisfy Me (5:27)
03 - When Tomorrow Hits (5:13)
04 - Revolution (11:51)
05 - Suicide (11:32)

Total 41:46

SPECTRUM - DOWNLOAD / STREAM on pCloud

Peter Kember and company playing as "Spectrum"...almost lost in the Noise that is MBV.

The last gasp for this particular iPod as it had enough of being subjected to the aural assault of MBV and locked up. Ended up having to pull out the HD and having to hook it up and recover the data on there, unfortunately damaging the internal cable soldered to the unit. I did recover the MBV set (recorded up to midway of 'Soon') but the copy dmaster shared on DIME is far superior to mine, so I don't think I'll be seeding it. [note: mine will make its debut here!]

I had do some tweaking with this to get it to sound listenable, involving dealing with brickwalling due to overdriving the mic-in, parametric re-EQ and notching out an annoying 8500hz whine that for
some reason I was picking up. I did shortly afterwards purchase an Edirol... There's also a brief stutter at 3:55 of 'Transparent Radiation' no idea what caused that. Nor can I explain the slagging-off of EAR at the start, to each their own I guess.

obEarplugs: yes, I did take out my earplugs for MBV, which weren't the venue-supplied ones. For about 5 seconds. One would have to have been insane or stoned (or at the very back) to listen to Shields and Co. without them, even to the songs before YMMR's 'holocaust' section.

PLEASE: Do not redistribute for material gain or make MP3 transcodes of this recording publicly available

Video recordings

Transparent Radiation (1:30, the second half audio-only) (chasingphantoms)

This is the only known video for Spectrum, though I did find a clip from them playing at the Hemlock Tavern that got missed in my original compilation of Hemlock live clips.

Revolution, live 27 Sept 2008, Hemlock Tavern, 8:31, filmed by ymousavinia

Excellent quality!

MBV after the break....

My Bloody Valentine
2008-09-30

Concourse Design Center
San Francisco CA USA

taper: lammah
location: About 20' in front of the mixing desk in the center of the warehouse
equipment: Sonic Studios DSM-6L mics > bat box > Sony MZ-RH10 Hi-MD > Adobe Audition > CD Wave Editor (tracksplits) > FLAC(6)

tracklist:

01 - I Only Said (7:17)

02 - When You Sleep (4:05)

03 - You Never Should (4:16)

04 - (When You Wake) You're Still In A Dream (3:56)

05 - Cigarette In Your Bed (4:09)

06 - Come In Alone (3:48)

07 - Only Shallow (start cut) (3:44)

08 - Thorn (cut) (3:14)

09 - Nothing Much To Lose (cut) (1:56)

10 - To Here Knows When (cuts) (3:45)

11 - Slow (cuts) (1:52)

12 - Soon (cuts) (2:43)

Total 44:45

DOWNLOAD / STREAM on pCloud

Because of the AGC (auto gain control), it's a pretty crappy recording.

And that was the end of life for my Hi-MD recording. Lasted all of 5 shows.

Here's the better quality recording, using fairly high-end mics for the SPLs (sound pressure levels) at this show, which were ridiculously loud...

Source: DPA 4061 > MMA6000 > Edirol R-09 (@24-bit/48Khz)

Transfer: SD Reader -> PC, Adobe Audition (EQ/Volume) -> CDWave -> FLAC

tracklist:

01 - I Only Said (5:40)

02 - When You Sleep (4:30)

03 - You Never Should (4:14)

04 - (When You Wake) You're Still In A Dream (3:58)

05 - Cigarette In Your Bed (4:11)

06 - Come In Alone (3:11)

07 - Only Shallow (3:52)

08 - Thorn (4:16)

09 - Nothing Much To Lose (4:11)

10 - To Here Knows When (6:12)

11 - Slow (3:31)

12 - Soon (9:19)

As above but all tracks are complete, and this includes the following tracks:

13 - Feed Me With Your Kiss (4:17)

14 - You Made Me Realize / Holocaust (24:22)

"DMASTER" recording - DOWNLOAD / STREAM on pCloud

Total 86:44

...continue on for video recordings....

Video recordings

Here's a near-chronological presentation of all extant YouTube video recordings. There's a couple of 20 second clips included in donte's Flickr archive, but I'll let those stand on their own.

I haven't included some of chasingphantom's clips, since they're mostly-audio only, but they're linked here:

Come In Alone 2:09

Only Shallow 3:55

Soon 8:57

You Made Me Realise 2:53

I Only Said (clip, 0:13) (dongoose)