Cruel Summer - 2016-04-20 - The Knockout SF (w/Shark Toys and Bent Shapes)

Cruel Summer
2016-04-20
The Knockout
San Francisco, CA

With Landlines (not taped), Shark Toys, and Bent Shapes

Taped by thehappyone, a blend of Edirol R09-HR and Olympus LS-5 recording devices.

Setlist

'home taping is killing music', soundchecking
Leeches
Dusted
Lavender
Trust
Eraser
Skyless

Sound clears up a bit from track 3 onwards as I positioned the Olympus more advantageously.

New tracks "Trust" and "Skyless" are now my favorite tracks from them.  Now that Young Prisms are no more, these guys are setting the bar for what you'd call "shoegaze" in the City.

Support them by seeing them live and buying merch:  https://cruelsummmer.bandcamp.com/

A 7" is coming out in a few weeks with "Around You / Around Me", backed by "Crazy", from their Part Time Punks session, I believe.

Listen to their performance here:

Shark Toys
2016-04-20
The Knockout
San Francisco, CA

(Olympus LS-5)

Many tracks still unidentified, these guys are way ahead of their releases!

Bent Shapes

2016-04-20
The Knockout
San Francisco, CA

(Edirol R-09HR)

Setlist

pre-gig PA, soundchecking

Realization Hits

Xerox Voids

Behead Yrself, Pt 2

Samantha West

Bites And Scratches

What We Do Is Public

Big Machines

Girl U Want [Devo]

New Starts In Old Dominion

Total: 31:15

An AMH production.  Please visit https://bentshapes.bandcamp.com/ to support the group or see them on tour!

Will Ivy - 2015-06-25 - The Knockout SF

Will Ivy

25 June 2015

The Knockout

San Francisco, CA

Setlist

soundchecking

unknown #1

unknown #2

unknown #3

unknown #4

Good Night

unknown #6

Link to complete recording 

(MP3s in zipfile - right click, save as on your PC/Mac)

Pictures

The Mallard - 2012-01-29 - The Knockout SF

The Mallard
2012-01-29
The Knockout
San Francisco CA

Recordist: thehappyone
Kit: Church Audio CA-11 cards > Olympus LS-5

Setlist

PA music, soundchecking
Intro (the name of the song)
Mansion
Shallows
Lying In The East
Candy For Brains
I Listen To Lyrics Last
Fog
Vines
outro

Download FLACs in zipfile


This show was for me when the Mallard *really* started to quack through my thick skull and sear my brain with their face meltin' songs. Really liked this capture as well.  All the material here is from "Yes On Blood", please visit the Castle Face website to order your copy.

Here's a vid of Greer and the Dylans performing "Vines":

Burnt Ones - 2011 shows

I feel bad that I missed these guys at yesterday night's show playing with The Mallard at the Hemlock, but have to energize my batteries before a spate of shows later this month and beyond.


Anyway, I did catch them a couple times last year, and quite enjoyed their fuzzed out garage/psych jams, so without much further ado, here are the recordings of these fine practitioners of "hologram rock".


Burnt Ones
2011-12-04
TKT004
Oakland CA


Setlist


Luv
Gonna Listen To T.Rex (All Night Long)
Kaleidoscope Eyes
?
Bury Me In Smoke
Do The Spell
?
?


[last two songs feature Mark playing with a different drummer]


Download FLACs (zip)

And my recording from earlier last year, at The Knockout in SF.

Burnt Ones
2011-07-21
The Knockout 
San Francisco CA


Kaleidoscope Eyes
Gonna Listen To T.Rex (All Night Long)
Luv
Real Gone
Black Leather Or Furs
Do The Spell
Bury Me In Smoke
Meet The Golden One (intro has lyrics from Norman Greenbaum's 'Spirit In The Sky')


Download FLACs (zipfile)


If you feel like being further Burned, check out their sites:


FACEBOOK
BANDCAMP

Terry Malts / Melted Toys / Permament Collection - 2011-06-02 - The Knockout

Terry Malts
The Knockout
2011-06-02 

blend of two sources (TZ0TH1)

1) Sonic Studios DSM-6s/Ls > Edirol R-09HR 
2) Sound Professionals CMC-SP-4 > CA-9100 > Sony PCM-M10


Setlist


intro
California [Lookouts]
Something About You
Mall Dreams
Where Is The Weekend
Tumble Down
What Was It
I'm No Good For You
I'm Neurotic
No Sir, I'm Not A Christian
Distracted
In The Waiting Room
No Big Deal
Fun Night
Suzy Is A Headbanger [The Ramones]


Malts it up




Opening acts:


Melted Toys


Setlist:


?
?
?
?
?
Rose Again
Come On


Permament Collection (one of the members of Young Prisms I think)


Setlist:


?
?
?
?
?

Wax Idols - Noisepop and Knockout shows

 

NEW: Order WAX IDOLS debut 7"!

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(you know you want to!)

Wax Idols on Facebook

Wax Idols on Myspace

I'm going out on a limb here.

I just pledged thirty simoleans for the Wax Idols album on Kickstarter, and am hoping that somebody goes for the gold and pledges the $200 to snag the free show.  It's totally worth it!  I'd do it except that I'm out in the cultural wasteland known as the Peninsula and don't think it would be very cool to drag anybody out here against their will.

The money was well worth it considering the strength of their material...I had the good fortune (no pun intended) of catching Hether's other group, Blasted Canyons, whom I caught opening for Thee Oh Sees at the Eagle Tavern last November) and being blown away by her stage presence and the juggernaut of "Ice Cream Man".  It's not enough to have looks, you need the chops, and the force of will to preserve in the face of indifference and sometimes even outright hostility so mad props for making music that matters.

So we showed up early to catch their Noise Pop set, which I was looking forward to, since we couldn't get in to the sold-out Weekend show at the Hemlock Tavern (which Wax Idols opened), and were disappointed by the fact that everybody seems like to arrive late to these Noise Pop shows.  Well, their loss...the SF Weekly reviewer didn't even mention them, so I guess he was one of the ones who who missed out, I won't bother to link his write-up, as it's complete garbage. 

We caught them again a couple of weeks later at the Knockout in the Mission and were rewarded with a great set.  Was really cool to stand next to Tamaryn, though I was way too shy to actually say something to her (or Heather for that matter) that wouldn't have sounded stupid, besides "thanks".

Hether Fortune (and group) shine on...

Wax Idols

2011-02-25

Noise Pop

Cafe Du Nord

San Francisco CA

Recorded with dual Sonic Studios mics

and blended with an old version of Adobe

Audition.  Linked files feature video

shot with my Flip Ultra HD which was off

to one side, though I held it later on

as somebody almost knocked it over.

Setlist

Bad Pajamas

Gold Sneakers

Uneasy

Hotel Room

Sand In My Joins [Wire]

Hitman

All Too Human

Dead Like You

Human Condition

Dilno

Wax Idols

2011-03-12

The Knockout

San Francisco CA

Recorded with Sony PCM-M10 with built-in

mics and Sonic Studios mics plugged into

an Edirol R-09HR and blended together with

an old version of Adobe Audition.

My attempt at video is best described as

an abject failure.

Setlist

All Too Human

Gold Sneakers

Uneasy

Hotel Room

Sand In My Joints [Wire]

Hitman

Bad Pajamas

Dead Like You

Human Condition

Dilno  

NOTE:  If you download these, please be generous and donate to the group and help them make their album, because I want to hear it! 

We've listened to our live recordings quite a bit (my compatriot almost never does this after he tapes a show)...and now you can listen to this too...normally, I wouldn't put out pre-release material in this way (and expect that I will have to remove it very soon) but this is too good to keep under wraps, seriously!

We also recorded opening act Jealousy...the only song we could ID was the last one "Palm Tree".  Really liked the reel-to-reel that took them like forever to set up, though I'm not sure if it was merely a prop or actually was used for the background noises.   
Grand stuff.

Dead Souls - 2010-12-10 - The Knockout SF

 

Prior to Peter Hook's set at the Mezzanine (which for various reasons I won't cover here in this blog), I caught Joy Division tribute band 'Dead Souls' at the Knockout, a bar on Mission at the end of Valencia, performing "Closer" in its entirety in an acoustic set...well, except for the bassist, he was plugged in, and was wearing a very cool Unknown Pleasures shirt with Arabic script.

Kudos to Dave "Ian Curtis" Tibbs for permission to record, the Skibitzke brothers, Sonja Treho, Ray Welter from Carta, and string section(!) as well as a percussionist and sitar player for putting on an entertaining free show.

Ray from Carta guests

Dead Souls
2010-12-10
The Knockout
San Francisco CA

taper:  thehappyone
equip:  Sony PCM-M10 with built-in mics

(linked songs feature video I shot with my iPhone 4 with audio blended in from my recording)

Paul and that UP shirt!

Setlist: (soundcheck, intro) / Atrocity Exhibition / Isolation / Passover / Colony / A Means To An End / (end of side one, band intros) / Heart and Soul / Twenty Four Hours / The Eternal / Decades / (end of side two, intro to rest of set) / Transmission / Love Will Tear Us Apart / From Safety To Where (interlude) / Atmosphere


Download in FLAC format