Crime and the City Solution @ Casino Cabaret, Denver CO, 1988-11-29

 

Going way back for this one.  A 34 year old show from the Lantz Barbour cassette archive.  He recorded this show back then and it was one of the tapes in a box he entrusted me to transfer for him.  I've posted a bunch of his recordings already but just got around to working on this one.

Casino Cabaret was on Welton and is now called Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom.  Not too long ago they took down the old Casino Cabaret marquee and some people were upset to be losing that historic signage.

If your not familiar. Crime and the City Solution are a Australian band started in 1977 by Simon Bonney. He is the only constant in the various memberships over the years and they relocated to London and other places over time .  He was friends with Nick Cave and the Birthday Party guys and has had members of that band in various incarnations.  This show has Mick Harvey on drums. They were mostly active until about 1990 when they disbanded and Simon put out some solo albums.  

In the mean time there was a reunion in 2011 with some touring and a new album in 2014.  Doing some research for this post I see that they have reformed again and have a bunch of 2022 dates in Europe.

Lantz managed to capture some pretty good recordings with his cassette recorder setup.  This one is another where the fidelity isn't amazing but the mics remained in a fixed position for the entirety of the performance and other than sounding a bit distant I think it's quite a nice listen.  Other than a few cassette dubs I think this has never really been widely circulated.  Enjoy

Crime and the City Solution

Casino Cabaret

Denver CO (USA)

1988-11-29

Recorded: Lantz Barbour

Transfered and Presented: SxPxDxCx

Source: Realistic SCP-29 > cassette 

Transfer: cassette > line-in > Adobe Audition > CDWave > FLAC 

Run time: (44:57.05)

01 All Must Be Love

02 The Greater Head

03 Stone

04 Angel

05 Keepsake

06 On Every Train (Grain Will Bear Grain)

07 New World

08 Hunter

09 The Dangling Man

10 KCSU Station IDs #

# from Simon Bonney, Mick Harvey, & Bronwyn Adams

Simon Bonney (vocals)

Bronwyn Adams (violin)

Alex Hacke (guitar)

Thomas Stern (bass)

Chrislo Haas (analog synthesiser)

Mick Harvey (drums)

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mssv @ Lion's Lair, Denver CO, 2022-04-17

 

mssv is Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges, Mike Watt.  I honestly didn't know anything about the band other that Mike Watt was involved.  My friend talked me into going to the show on a Sunday night and it was at the tiny Lion's Lair.  Which I love and enjoy seeing shows at.

mssv is Mike Baggetta's band.  He wrote all the music for this Main Steam Stop Valve project and enlisted Mike Watt and Stephen Hodges to play on it.  Baggetta has a master of music degree from Rutgers in jazz studies.  He's been active in that jazz, free jazz world since 2003.

Stephen Hodges is a very accomplished drummer.  His resume includes being on 5 Tom Waits albums, David Lynch soundtracks, he as played with Wanda Jackson, Jonathan Richman, & John Hammond, among others.  

And I would hope you know who Mike Watt is.

The set is mostly songs from the mssv album but they squeeze in a little Minutemen and Sun Ra in there too.  The setlist showed "Poem Song" after "Wig Jig" but the crowd was a bit chatty and "Poem Song" is pretty quite.  They played the louder song "Human Reaction" in it's place.

I ran the mics really high so the chatty crowd noise is pretty minimal.  Enjoy.

Main Steam Stop Valve "mssv"

Lion's Lair

Denver CO (USA)

2022-04-17

Recorded and Presented: SxPxDxCx

Source: MBHO KA-200N > JK Labs DVC-V12 > M10 

Transfer: M10 > USB > Audition > CDWave > FLAC 

Time: (64:10.44)

01 The Mystery Of

02 Every Growing Thing

03 June 16th

04 Econo Waltz

05 Say What You Gotta Say

06 The Italian Seven Inch  

07 Wig Jig

08 Human Reaction

09 If Anybody Else Could Help

10 Chartacourse

11 Old Crow

12 The Eureka Moment

13 Little Doll > Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt > Lonely Woman

  

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Mudhoney @ Ogden Theater, Denver CO, 2001-08-18

 

When I was posted last week's Mudhoney show I realized that I had never posted this 2001 Mudhoney show from the Ogden in Denver.  I guess they were touring for "Tomorrow Hit Today" but that had come out in 1998.  "Since We've Become Translucent" didn't come out until the next year.  They do play a few songs from it though.

Good setlist on this one.  Nice deep cut Alice Cooper cover of "Long Way To Go" and the more often heard covers of the Angry Samoans and Dicks songs.  Locals Super Bees and Black Lamb opened up this show.   Good times great oldies.  Enjoy.

Mudhoney

Ogden Theater

Denver CO (USA)

2001-08-18

Recorded by: Tom Chaffin

Presented by: SxPxDxCx

Source: Microtech Gefell m300s > Sonosax SX-M2 > Sharp 722 minidisc

Transfer: Sony MDS-JE330 > Audition > CDWave > FLAC

Time: (79:18.39)

01 In 'n' Out Of Grace

02 Into The Drink

03 A Thousand Forms Of Mind

04 Inside Job

05 Let It Slide

06 Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More

07 Touch Me I'm Sick

08 Make It Now Again

09 I Have To Laugh

10 This Is The Life

11 If I Think

12 The Straight Life

13 You Got It

14 Suck You Dry

15 Long Way To Go (Alice Cooper)

16 - encore -

17 Here Comes Sickness

18 Beneath The Valley Of The Underdog

19 You Stupid Asshole (Angry Samoans)

20 Hate The Police (The Dicks)

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Mudhoney @ HQ, Denver CO, 2022-05-03

 

I first saw Mudhoney on a bonkers bill in 1992 at Redrocks Amphitheater.  They played after Pavement, then Sonic Youth and Primus headlined.  I'm sure I was a fan by then.  I have this funny memory of my first wife really hating their song "Into The Drink" and the video for it.  Caught them again in 1993 opening for Pearl Jam along with Urge Overkill.  I try to never miss them.

Was super excited when the announced a date at HQ in my neighborhood.  HQ is where the beloved Three Kings Tavern was.  It certainly isn't the same but the shows that are getting booked into that space are hard to pass up.  Wasn't going to miss this one.

The grunge label kind of diluted what Mudhoney always was and continues to be.  A punk rock band at heart.  Certainly the put their own unique stamp on it.  Just look at the set list.  A lot of pointed punk rock statement pieces in there.  With so many songs in their catalog your never going to hear every song that you would hope to at one of their shows.  But this set felt pretty close to perfection.  Thanks Mudhoney.  That was cathartic.  Enjoy.

Mudhoney

HQ

Denver CO - (USA)

2022-05-03

Recorded and Presented: SxPxDxCx

Source: MBHO KA-200N > JK Labs DVC-V12 > M10 

Transfer: M10 > USB > Audition > CDWave > FLAC 

Time: (90:57.39)

01 When Tomorrow Hits

02 In 'n' Out of Grace

03 Hey Neanderfuck

04 Inside Job

05 Nerve Attack

06 The Farther I Go

07 Prosperity Gospel

08 Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More

09 Good Enough

10 Judgement, Rage, Retribution and Thyme

11 Touch Me I'm Sick

12 Vortex of Lies

13 Suck You Dry

14 Creeps Are Everywhere

15 Next Mass Extinction

16 F.D.K. (Fearless Doctor Killers)

17 Oh Yeah

18 I'm Now

19 Paranoid Core

20 Chardonnay

21 21st Century Pharisees

22 One Bad Actor

23 - encore -

24 You Got It

25 If I Think

26 Here Comes Sickness

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Bad Brains, @ Ogden Theater, Denver CO, 2001-02-03

 

This was my first time seeing Bad Brains.  Or Soul Brains as they were going by at the time.  I can't recall why that was.  Some legal issue no doubt.  They dropped the Soul and went back to Bad in 2005.

This was before the updated the Ogden and the sound inside the venue.  It has a tall ceiling and always sounded kind of boomy in there.  This brought me right back to that sound.  It is what it is.  I had some mic issue at the end of track 6 and into 7.  A little bit of static there for a little bit.

I know I traded this out on CDR back in aughts a fair amount.  This is a fresh transfer from my MD master.  New EQ, tracking, and tagging.  I consider it an upgrade if you had this before. Enjoy.

Bad Brains

Ogden Theater

Denver CO (USA)

2001-02-03

Recorded and Presented: SxPxDxCx

Source: Coresound CSB's > Sharp 722 minidisc

Transfer: Sony MDS-JE330 > AAE-9 > Audition > CDWave > FLAC

Time: (79:17.70) 

01 - warm up -

02 Right Brigade

03 Attitude

04 Coptic Times

05 Sailing On

06 Day Trippa - band introductions #

07 Let Me Help #

08 Re Ignition

09 Tongue Tee Tie

10 The Youth Are Getting Restless

11 - interlude -

12 Soulcraft

13 Popcorn

14 I & I Survive

15 Jah Love

16 - interlude -

17 Sacred Love

18 Pay To Cum

19 I Against I

# some mic static on these tracks.

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