Friday, March 31, 2023

Laura Jane Grace @ Ratio Beerworks, Denver CO, 2023-02-24

 







I've seen Against Me and Laura Jane Grace a dozen plus times over the years.  Always fantastic.  When they announced this show for Ratio Beerworks 8th anniversary I jumped on it immediately.

Great crowd in a small space in the back of the brewery and Laura played a hell of a set full of solo and Against Me! songs.    

In a room like this, where it isn't exactly set up for music, you never know how a recording is going to sound.   But I got my mics pretty high up on a tank midway back and I think it sounds really nice.  Enjoy.


Laura Jane Grace

Ratio Beerworks
Denver CO (USA)
2023-02-24

Recorded and Presented: SxPxDxCx
Source: AT933 C > SP-SPSB-1 > M10
Transfer: M10 > USB > Audition > CDWave > FLAC 
Run time: (74:06.44)

01 - intro -
02 I'm Not A Cop
03 Pints of Guinness Make You Strong
04 Unconditional Love
05 Tacos and Toast
06 Because of the Shame
07 Cavalier Eternal
08 I Hate Chicago
09 Hard Feelings
10 Tonight We’re Gonna Give It 35%
11 Black Me Out
12 Reinventing Axl Rose
13 True Trans Soul Rebel
14 White Crosses
15 Two Coffins
16 Anna Is a Stool Pigeon
17 Holy Shit!
18 Jordan's 1st Choice
19 Joy
20 Walking Is Still Honest
21 Baby, I’m an Anarchist!
22 Sink, Florida, Sink

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Friday, March 24, 2023

Jesse Malin @ Larimer Lounge, Denver CO, 2003-04-13

 










Not too long ago I posted an 2003 Unsane show from the Larimer Lounge and here is another 2003 show.  This time a Jesse Malin show.  Jesse, like Unsane is from New York City and what could be more NYC than Dinero's Taxi Driver monologue used as set intro.  I wonder if they were aware that they both were using it.

Jesse was on tour with a full band to support his newly released album 'The Fine Art of Self Destruction'.  It happens to be celebrating it's 20th anniversary this year.  What a fantastic album.  I listened to it a lot back in the aughts.  I revisited it after reading some of the recent press about the anniversary and fell in love all over again.  After listening to it front to back a few times I decided to revisit this Larimer Lounge show recording.  

I had forgotten how good this sounded.  I might have traded this out on CDR back in the day a little bit but this is a fresh transfer from the MD master and the first time sharing it digitally for sure.

Jesse tells a lot of stories about the songs and plays some fun covers.  The band included Rob Clores on keyboards, Johnny McNabb on guitar,  Paul Garisto on drums, and Johnny Pisano on bass.  

This one has it all, good sound, good crowd, great performance.  What more could I want from a recording I haven't listened to in 20 years.   Enjoy.


Jesse Malin

Larimer Lounge
Denver CO (USA)
2003-04-13

Recorded and Presented: SxPxDxCx
Source: AT933 C > SP-SPSB-1 > Sharp 722 minidisc
Transfer: Sony MDS-JE330 > UAC222 > Audition > CDWave > FLAC 
Time: (76:10)  

01 - intro -
02 Downliner
03 About You
04 Wendy
05 TKO
06 - Brooklyn intro -
07 Brooklyn
08 - D Generation KISS story -
09 Arrested
10 - interlude -
11 Queen of the Underworld
12 The Fine Art of Self Destruction
13 Almost Grown
14 High Lonesome
15 - Subway intro -
16 Riding on the Subway
17 - encore -
18 Basement Home
19 Hungry Heart (Bruce Springsteen) 
20 Solitaire
21 - band intro -
22 (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding (Nick Lowe)


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Sunday, March 19, 2023

The Cure @ SDSU Open Air Theatre, San Diego CA, 1986-07-23

 



Back in the early aughts I did a big cassette transfer project for my friend Randy Bird.  Lots of X, Replacements, and Minuteman shows that his friend Kat recorded with her Panasonic RQ-J36 cassette recorder back then.  I shared some of those online back then. Well before I started my blog.

A few months ago I ran across another box of tapes that I immediately recognized as being from Randy.  I can't remember why this didn't get transferred with the others back then.  But fast forward 20 years later and I got to work on them.   In that box is this fantastic Cure show from 1986.  After I finished up with cleaning up and tracking the show it turned out that The Cure was announcing a new tour.   Really good timing so I figured I would get this recording posted to share.

Other versions of this show have circulated before but this is the first time Kat's version has seen the light of day.    It's an audience recording so there is plenty of show atmosphere on her but Kat did a great job keeping the recorder in one place and it is very listenable.

I'm in the process of working through the other tapes and there is some more X, Replacements, and KD Lang on deck soon.  I'm planning on re-transferring all the tapes I did in the early aughts and getting them shared more widely too.  Stay tuned.


The Cure

The Beach Party Tour
SDSU Open Air Theatre
San Diego State University
San Diego CA (USA)
1986-07-23

Recorded: Kat Georges
Transfered and Presented: SxPxDxCx
Source: Panasonic RQ-J36 > cassette 
Transfer: cassette > PT-649D > AAE-9 > Audition > CDWave > FLAC
Time: (119:59.33)

01 - intro - 
02 Shake Dog Shake
03 Piggy in the Mirror
04 Play for Today
05 A Strange Day
06 Primary
07 Kyoto Song
08 Charlotte Sometimes
09 In Between Days
10 The Walk
11 A Night Like This (tape flip)
12 Push
13 One Hundred Years
14 A Forest
15 Sinking
16 - encore 1 -
17 Close to Me
18 Let's Go to Bed
19 - encore 2 -
20 Six Different Ways
21 Three Imaginary Boys
22 Boys Don't Cry
23 - encore 3 -
24 Faith
25 Give Me It
26 10:15 Saturday Night
27 Killing an Arab


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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals @ Fox Theatre, Boulder CO, 2007-08-02

 



Talk about a guy that is tough to like but who makes great art.  I've been a fan since the Whiskeytown days at he as always come off as an asshole and would prove it to you.  Never liked that but he can write a hell of a song. Or could.  Nothing on the big dump of releases he put out last year did anything for me really.  He set the bar really high early with some iconic Whiskeytown and early solo songs.  Nothing will ever be as good as those or have the mental connection to a time for me.  The deck is stacked against him.

It sounds like he is sober now and has been doing a ton of solo shows the last few years and just got a version of The Cardinals band back together for a bunch of dates.  I wish him luck on his journey but I'm not sure I would go see him again.

That said.  This show has found time and place memories for me.  After hearing the tour announcement I went back and listened to this 2007 recording I had made of a stripped down mostly acoustic Cardinals at the Fox in Boulder Colorado.  I really liked it and saw that it wasn't up on the LMA either, well not my version, so I decided to post it up.

I think this show was for a radio convention.  The Fox did a lot of those and very few tickets went  on sale for the general public.  My buddy Dan Utter schmoozed his way into two tickets and then got us access to the upper balcony.  The only time I have ever been up there.  I set up on the edge of the balcony railing and pulled a really nice recording I think.   

I was glad to be up there because my experience with these radio convention shows is that all the attendees could generally give a shit about whoever is playing and just want to drink and talk though the whole show.  Which is fine but it can make for a challenging atmosphere in which to make a decent audio recording.   Enjoy.


Ryan Adams and the Cardinals 

Fox Theatre
Boulder CO (USA)
2007-08-02

Recorded and Presented: SxPxDxCx
Source: MBHO KA-200N > JK Labs DVC-V12 > JB3
Transfer: JB3 > USB > Cooledit > CDWave > FLAC
Time: (51:55)

01 Sun Also Sets
02 Goodnight Rose
03 Oh My God Whatever, Etc
04 Dear John
05 Let it Ride
06 Blue Sky Blues
07 Two
08 Wildflowers
09 Cold Roses
10 Blue Hotel
11 Goodnight Hollywood Boulevard

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Saturday, March 4, 2023

Dead Low Tide @ Bluebird Theatre, Denver CO, 2002-03-31

 

Dead Low Tide formed after the breakup of the Murder City Devils back in 2001.  Dead Low Tide was Spencer Moody, Cody Willis, and Nate Manny from MCD & Mike Kunka from God Head Silo and Enemymine.   They only ever released one album and one 7 inch single in the 2 years they were together.    

I was lucky enough to catch them live twice.  Once at the 15th Street Tavern in summer of 2002.  That show is posted here.

The first time thought was this March of 2002 show when the played with  Pleasure Forever, Sparta, and Thursday at the Bluebird.  We were probably hanging out across the street and missed the beginning of Dead Low Tide's set that night.  I managed to record the last 17 minutes of it though and it sounds pretty good.  There aren't very many DLT recordings out there so I decided to share this one too.

We caught DLT and watched most of Sparta then we decided that we could probably make it up to Boulder to catch Coalesce at Tulagi's.   We made it just in time to see them too.  Fun night.

I know I traded this out on CDR with the 15th St show back in the early aughts.  So there are versions out there.  This is a fresh transfer from the master with new processing.  Enjoy.


Dead Low Tide

Bluebird Theater
Denver CO 
2002-03-31

Recorded and Presented: SxPxDxCx
Source: CSBs > Sharp 722 minidisc
Transfer: Sony MDS-JE330 > AAE-9 > Audition > CDWave > FLAC
Time: (17:34.03)

01 White Flag (fades in)
02 Vivain Girls
03 Shake & Slide
04 Ill Eagle
05 Blues Come Easy
06 Lazer Lazer Lazer Love


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