Champagne Socialists / Girls / The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - 2009-07-21 - Rickshaw Stop SF

 

from "jingleSF" video

 

The Pains Of Being Pure at Heart

2009-07-21

Rickshaw Stop

San Francisco CA

taper: lammah

kit:  Sonic Studios DSM-6/L mics > Edirol RO9-HR > Adobe Audition (limiting/normalization) >
      CD Wave (tracksplits) > FLAC(6)

location:  2nd floor balcony front/center

Tracks

00 1:52  soundchecking
01 2:48  Doing All The Things That Wouldn't Make Your Parents Proud
02 3:03  This Love is Fucking Right!
03 4:52  Young Adult Friction
04 2:14  103
05 3:55  The Tenure Itch
06 5:33  Stay Alive
07 3:53  Come Saturday
08 3:59  Higher Than The Stars
09 3:29  Everything With You
10 3:21  The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
11 1:40  ---
12 5:38  Gentle Sons

Total: 46:23

First time for me visiting the Rickshaw.  By happenstance, found a good place to tape, albeit
a bit distant.  Only real glitch is 1:25-1:35 of track 7 gets a bit muffled.

The bad news is the opening groups were really awful.  I did tape the Champagne Socialists'
sub-Siouxie fronted Smithslike jangle(*) but decided that Girls was not worth wasting battery
on, one set of Nelson twins is enough.

 

However, this was more than made up by The Pains, who while sounding like every 80's/early90s band you know and love (with a huge vocal nod to Chapterhouse), they were impressive.

I can understand why these guys are building a following.

(...)

Indeed they did, and did very well for Mike Schulman and Slumberland, so glad for their success, even if they eventually called it a day.  I saw their bassists's new band Massage recently at the Bottom Of The Hill and thought it was pretty good.

STREAM / DOWNLOAD - pCloud

Here's "Come Saturday" from YouTube poster jingleSF.  Only video footage of this show, though there was another performance from Feburary when they played a secret show to open for Deerhunter.

 

 

(*) Note that was my opinion at the time, which doesn't hold up, as I quite enjoyed listening to them again now, and didn't realize their only 7" was released on Slumberland!  

 

Know they later changed their name to Neverever but don't think they lasted much longer, I don't think.  Girls, on the other hand...not for me.  I included the one song I taped of them before I stopped the recording.  I may have been overly harsh here too...not sure whatever happened to Christopher Owens from that group.

 

Speaking of which, here's my live recording of them, linked below:

 

Champagne Socialists - ? / ? / Blue Genes / ? / Young Runaways / ? / ? / Girls set (incomplete)

 

Their Slumberland 7" SLR 98 single (playlist of tho songs)

 

 

 

Savage Republic / The Urinals / Brilliant Colors / Rank/Xerox - 2009-07-18 - Hemlock Tavern SF

 

Rank / Xerox

Brilliant Colors

The Urinals

Savage Republic

 

@Hemlock Tavern 2009-07-18

taper: thehappyone
kit: Sonic Studios DSM-6L > Edirol R-09HR (w/o batbox)

There is nothing in the way of photos from the show or posters or videos, just these recordings from the now dearly departed Hemlock Tavern.  An absolutely brilliant set of bands, too.  Recordings linked to via the band name.  

Was the second night in a row seeing Savage Republic play with other legendary bands like Flipper and Toiling Midgets the previous night, and The Urinals for this present show, along with local promising groups Brilliant Colors and Rank/Xerox

Rank/Xerox - soundchecking / Discipline / Turn To Stone / Our Early Time / Basement Furniture / Drips / Nausea / Stairs / outro

Brilliant Colors - soundchecking / Mythic / I Searched / Should I Tell You / English Cities / Short Sleeves At Night / Over There / Yell In The Air / Absolutely Anything

The Urinals - intro + soundchecking / Strip Club / Close Our Eyes / Girl Before / Water/Blood / Bring Me Joy / This Love Is Impossible / Rocket To The Moon / Insomnia / Shut Yr Trap / Black Hole / The President & King Shake Hands / Unblackmailable / (sounds like a Sonic Youth cover) / This Song Is a Virus / outro

Savage Republic - soundcheck (w/chatter) / Year Of Exile / Procession / Mobilization / Next To Nothing / Andelusia / Viva La Rock n' Roll [Alternative TV] / 1938 / Siege / outro

Enjoy!

 

Flipper w/Savage Republic & Toiling Midgets - 2009-07-17 - Cafe Du Nord, SF

 

Flipper

2009-07-17

Cafe Du Nord

San Francisco CA

taper: lammah

equip: Sonic Studios DSM-6/L mics > Edirol R-09HR

loc:   stage left-ish, about 5-10' away from the band

prep:  32/48 WAV > Adobe Audition 1.5 (normalization, bass EQ, conversion to 16/44) > CD WAVE (tracksplits) > FLAC(6)

tracks

00 - intro - [0:25]

01 The Lights The Sound The Rhythm The Noise [5:47]

02 Sacrifice [6:29]

03 [4:13]

04 The Way Of The World  [5:19]

05 Ha Ha Ha Ha [3:01]

06 [5:06]

07 - Bruce improv tune -  [0:11]

08 Ever [4:59]

09 Survivors Of The Plague [7:01]

10 (I Saw You Shine)  [10:09]

11      Get Away [4:37]

12 Life Is Cheap  [faded out] [5:42]

(contemporaneous write-up)

There's a couple of songs (03 and 06) I can't identify, much appreciated if you could help a brother out.  Apparently they played nothing from Love, which is quote weird considering it came out in June 2009.

Unfortunately, my recording cuts out before the encore of "Sex Bomb", and I may have missed "Talk Is Cheap" before that, so if anybody else here has another version of this that is complete, please share.  

Can't complain how this came out otherwise.

Mr. Calderwood was in "fine" form and was so pissed off he didn't bother to come back on for the encore.  I don't think the crowd hated him quite enough for his liking, even once the moshpit started going.  New bassist Rachel Thoele availed herself well, though during the start of one of her songs, Bruce started going off on her playing out of tune.  That man can down a beer faster than

anybody I've ever seen though...not Dumweiser even but one of those thick foreign brews...I think everybody was actually impressed by that.

Probably not a show you'd re-play frequently, but a good, even if  incomplete, document.

AS USUAL

*  No leveraging for material gain, unless you're Bruce Loose or an authorized representative thereof.  Simply uncool otherwise.

*  I don't mind MP3 transcodes (not on the lossless torrent site of note of course), but please retain this info file!

*  Have fun.  Life is too short otherwise.

lammah

REPPLIF  (pCloud stream/dl)

 

 

 

"The Lights The Sound The Rhythm The Noise " - Filmed by 'BayAreaMusicLens' for their 2008 Cafe Du Nord show, with Krist from Nirvana instead of Rachel from Frightwig on bassist duties...for Flipper, this instrument is the equivalent to drummers for Spinal Tap, it is said.
 

Doves - 2009-05-18 - The Fillmore, SF

 

Doves
2009-05-18
The Fillmore
San Francisco CA
USA

taper:  lammah
gear :  Sonic Studios DSM-6/L mics > Edirol R-09HR
loc  :  About 15-20' behind left-hand side stack
prep :  Adobe Audition 1.5 (normalization, clap suppression, bass EQ) > CD Wave (tracksplits) > FLAC(6)

Tracks

6:40    01. Jetstream
4:14    02. Snowden
5:30    03. Winter Hill
3:51    04. Rise
4:33    05. Pounding
6:12    06. Almost Forgot Myself
4:41    07. 10:03
6:03    08. Compulsion
5:06    09. Words
4:07    10. The Greatest Denier
5:01    11. Kingdom Of Rust
3:30    12. Ambition
4:44    13. Black And White Town
4:34    14. The Outsider
6:00    15. Caught By The River
3:18    16. (Crowd)
4:17    17. Firesuite
5:53    18. Here It Comes
4:05    19. The Last Broadcast
1:31    20. There Goes The Fear (cut)
4:24    20. There Goes The Fear (continued) [*]

Total: 98:23

* = used iPhone, very poor quality, about 30 seconds is missing from this track

2009 notes:

The Doves live at the Fillmore in "San Fran", as Jimi referred to it continually.  

Unfortunately, this didn't come out as good as some of my other recent efforts, could be because Doves were LOUD, as this was one of the few recent shows I kept earplugs in, the other of course being MBV...or due to poor acoustics even though I was relatively close to the front stacks, was on the other side the last time...or perhaps I'm unfairly comparing this to the superior Seattle recording that cut_here did with his AT853's that was shared here on (a certain Bittorent live music sharing site)...

In any event, I reckoned I didn't have enough battery power to tape the opening act, as I ran off in a rush and forgot to take an extra set with me.  I was right, and I didn't have enough to capture all of the set either, as I ran out of juice a minute and a half into 'There Goes The Fear'...I had the wherewithal to then
use my iPhone to capture the rest of it in extremely poor, distorted quality.

There were a few other distractions, but it's otherwise still an OK listen.

Also note that I have switched to a generic filename format and am now properly utilizing FLAC tags.
(undone for this share)
Good review:

http://popwreckoning.com/2009/05/20/doves-the-fillmore-san-francisco/ (from archive.org)

GENTLE REMINDERS

* Leveraging this recording for material gain will result in bad karma for thee!
* Redistribution in lossy format is OK, but retain this info file and reference back to this original seed, please
* Above all, enjoy!  Life is too short and brutish for anything else.

lammah


DOVES LIVE IN SF 2009 - pCloud FLAC


2021 commentary/additions:

Recording sounds a bit thin, which is probably due to the sheer volume causing the Edirol limter to compress if I had to guess.  I could probably do some EQ tricks, but it becomes making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, so best just keep it as it is...I've certainly heard worse in my time....was a very good show, but probably one of the loudest five shows I've ever been to...

As stated above, openers Wild Light were not taped.

Here are some videos of this performance that I found...I played "Almost Forgot Myself" to my audio recording, was very enjoyable...

"Pounding" from none other than "Karen" (how mad):

Stunning footage of "Almost Forgot Myself" from 'bayareanorthernsoul':

Poorer quality "Black and White Town" from "gaae2000":

And finally, a quartet of videos from "AdmiralNeeda" who has captured quite a few shows over the years...

"Black and White Town"

 

 

"Caught By The River"

"Firesuite"

"There Goes The Fear"

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum w/Fred Frith - 2009-05-10 - Great American Music Hall SF

 

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
2009-05-10
Great American Music Hall
San Francisco CA

taper:  lammah
equipment:  Sonic Studios DSM-6/L > Edirol R-09HR
postion:  stage right, in front of Carla, and 1" in front of front fill stack
editing:  Adobe Audition 1.5 (normalization/balancing/attenuation of audience clapping/re-EQ) > CD Wave (tracksplits > FLAC(6) > here

Tracks

01 - (entrance march) 5:29
02 - bring back the apocalypse 7:12
03 - headless corpses enactment 5:50
04 - phthisis 7:06
05 - (luciano vox) 3:41
06 - norgarden nyvla [Fred Frith on bass guitar] 6:21
07 - the salt crown 9:02
08 - the last human being 6:01
09 - salamander 8:04
10 - the only dance 7:47
11 - the old grey heron 9:37
12 - a hymn to the morning star 5:26
13 - the donkey-headed adversary of humanity opens the discussion 7:35
__
14 - angle of repose 10:21
15 - 1997 (tonight we're gonna party like it's...) 10:23

TOTAL  110:02

bonus: FF01 Fred Frith (opening act)  35:23

I've heard SGH's albums, and thought they were good, but they pale compared to catching them
live.  Wow!

This was a tour-end show so had a few special additions, like the absolutely unforgettable entrance march, still something I've not see any other band try to pull off.

Took a very interesting position, right in front of Carla Kihlstedt, who is just an amazing musician and performer.  The others are talented too. :)  Thus, the original recording is unbalanced toward the left channel, as that was picking up the fill stack 1" in front of my left mic.  Along with re-EQing some bass, I've fixed this in the mastered version.

A photo of the setlist can be found here, taken by my friend Jason:

There's also other photos of the band you can peruse at your leisure.   Haha, I'm joking, these were *only* available via the Wayback Machine, which I've managed to collect and extract for your convenience.

I've also included Fred Frith's opening set, which was a single long 30+ minute song.
Apologies for any talking you can hear during this...it is what it is.  As for video there are bits from other Great American shows but none from this as far as I've been able to search.

REMEMBER

* Do not leverage this recording for material gain.  Not cool.

* MP3 transcodes are fine (but not on DIME of course), just keep the original info file...

* Above all, enjoy!


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