Showing posts with label Kevin Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kevin Johnson. Show all posts

2011-12-19

Weekend - 2011-12-03 - The Bay Brewed - Verdi Club SF


Weekend
2011-12-03
"The Bay Brewed"
Verdi Club SF

taper: tomzero



equipment: Sonic Studio mics -> Edirol R-09HR (24 bit / 48 kHz) -> Nero (level boost & downsample to 16 bit / 44.1k) -> cd wav -> flac level 8

setlist

Falling Away
Veil
End Times
Afterimage
The One You Want 
Untitled
Hazel
Coma Summer



"And finally Weekend, who were well worth the wait.  thehappyone points out that this setlist wasn't as good as that from the apartment show. Still a great show. Oddly enough, the hall had emptied out a little by the end, and it was over by 7pm. It might have had something to do with the fact they stopped serving beer just after Weekend took the stage. Then again, anyone who'd like the previous two bands..."

Note:  There were two other bands that played "The Bay Brewed", we have exercised our editorial perogative in choosing not to cover them here at this time.

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2011-12-08

Weekend and The Soft Moon - 2011-11-09 - Secret Show, Oakland CA

Durkan, Johnson, Pedroza

Weekend
2011-11-09
Secret Show
Oakland CA
Kevin J.

Setlist

Falling Away
End Times
Sweet Sixteen
Hazel
untitled new song
Veil
The One You Want
Age Class
Coma Summer



Incubation bittorrent (FLAC files in zipfile).


I've added in my compatriot's recording, which sadly, ends at the start of Sweet Sixteen.

Video (Falling Away/End Times/last half of Coma Summer)


Anastasi, Vasquez, Way

The Soft Moon
2011-11-09
Secret Show
All smiles all the Way
Oakland CA

Setlist

Joy Divsion - As You Said intro
We Are We (alt vid of end)
Breathe The Fire
Circles
Out Of Time
Dead Love
Parallels
Alive
Tiny Spiders

Incubation bittorrent (FLAC format)

I'm not sure what this was about...


Two things about the 'secret location' (in effect, a house show) that caused a bit of trepidation right off the bat:

(1) there was a lot of people crammed in the small space
(2) we were up on the 2nd floor, how much weight can the floor bear?

But there was really nothing (well, not much) to worry about, everything turned out great in the end, and you couldn't beat the price (free).  Both these three-pieces have been getting some seriously good (and deserved) press, so that they would even consider doing this is cool beyond words.  

The Soft Moon went on and played a really good set, though I had seen them a few days before and so I wanted to give others a chance to get up close, at least that's my excuse, the truth was it was so crowded I got pinned a bit further back than what I was hoping for.  Weekend's set was amazing, and for that I was down in front, the video footage I shot should give you some idea, Kevin could have easily brained me with the head of his guitar, and probably *should have* for my impudence.

Due to getting bumped, my compatriot only recorded the first two Weekend songs, so we only have mine to go from, heavily re-EQ'ed as the mics were under somebody's purse at one point.  The Soft Moon effort is the usual dual-source blend.


Some more pics:


The location

This was pinned on the wall

80's era boombox somebody had brought for tunes


For more photos, see my Flickr collection.