Cruel Summer - 2015-04-03 - The Chapel SF

Cruel Summer
2015-04-03
The Chapel
San Francisco CA

Opening for Mourn.  Look for that one soon.

taper: thehappyone, video is an iPhone 4, audio uses outboard Sonic Studios DSM-6s/L mics into an Olympus LS-5

Setlist

intro
Around You, Around Me
Dusted
Spun
Lavender
Carquinez
Leeches

Been following this group and have seen them several times since one of their first shows back at the end of 2011, but have to say that for me, this was their best performance yet, and hope that great things continue to happen for them, as they are lovely folk.

This video encompasses the last four songs...

I also recorded the first two (audio-only though) as "Around You, Around Me" and "Dusted" are really strong as well.  I've augmented these with all the photos I took.

Another recording of "Spun", from Wayne Jessup, from a different angle...

Can't wait for when their album lands.

Some more photos...

Back to the start: My very first recording, Lush at Union Square, 1992

I'm changing up things around here somewhat.  Think I'm going to just put out every one of my recordings, in chronological order...still aiming for once or twice a month, but may end up being more often.

This is a first-gen VHS dub of my Sony Handycam CCD-F70 8mm recording, and is indeed the very first thing I ever recorded.   What a hell of a way to start.  Too bad the world would have to wait another thirteen years before my next recording, and that would be as different to this as one could get.

Copious notes are to be found in the YouTube post.

By the way, there are no less than four different video recordings of this show.  Here are the other three, courtesy of "Roy Oh" and coolerthanjesus.webs.org.

See the Light From A Dead Star writeup for more information.  These are listed in version order. What's scary is that I may actually have a fifth one kicking about, but have the tape in storage.

Unfortunately, I had to remove the original links because the hosting accounts have all been terminated, so there's only a couple of clips from Version #2 and Version #4 is gone.

Luckily, somebody ran all four in parallel so we can still see them, and must have synced up audio to boot, though I haven't studied in detail what they did.

Version #3 is still online:

Version #2 clips:

Scarlet

Nothing Natural

And for kicks, here's video featuring my most recent recording, of a group called Wooden Shjips at the Chapel last Friday the 23rd of January.  This song is called "Lazy Bones".



If you're interested in the full audio recording, it's here (membership required).