The Allman Brothers Band, Syria Mosque, Pittsburg PA 01/17/71

Awesome shirt, but the corresponding show on Sugarmegs is a little weak. I know it's one of Duane Allman's last one, but there have to be better versions elsewhere. What Sugarmegs does have, is an awesome show from earlier in 1971. 

My only trip to the Syria Mosque was to see Joe Satriani in 1989 or 1990. Don't remember much about it. Can't tell you why. 

Download the show on Sugarmegs.

Allman Brothers Band

01/17/71
Syria Mosque, Pittsburg PA

Statesboro Blues
Trouble No More
Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
Midnight Rider
You Don’t Love Me
Whipping Post

Beastie Boys, Lollapalooza, Molson Park, Barrie, Ontario, Canada, July 28, 1994

Wrote a little eulogy for MCA over at IMJ.com.
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Beastie Boys, Lollapalooza, Molson Park, Barrie, Ontario, Canada, July 28, 1994

Download Arcade Fire, 25th Bridge School Benefit, Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA, October 23rd 2011

"And the last thing, I think, is that somehow I'd like to be a part of music forever. Real music, the kind people never forget. I'm afraid life--real life--like jobs and taxes will tear me away from what I love. I'm afraid if I lose music I'll be just like everybody else. And that scares me." I forced a laugh. "Is that too much to ask?"

-Preston Black, THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK

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Arcade Fire
25th Bridge School Benefit
Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA
October 23rd 2011

Lineage: Sony ECM-121 => iRiver H340 (ROCKboxed) => USB => SoundBlaster X-Fi => Adobe Audition 2.0 => FlacFrontend (level 6 - Align on sector boundaries)

Recording position: Section 203 - the rustrows

Setlist:
01. Intervention
02. Half Light II (No Celebration)
03. We Used to Wait
04. Empty Room
05. Helpless (Neil Young cover) (with Neil Young)
06. Rebellion (Lies)
07. Wake Up
-------------------
Total time: 38:28

I recorded all acts, both days. Some are NAB and some songs might be available through official channels. I'll do my best to check and not upload any official stuff, but else I plan to share all the recordings here through the next days.

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Download Mumford and Sons, 25th Bridge School Benefit Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA, October 23rd 2011

Music lets you write your own checks. Don't ever forget that.
-Preston Black


Mumford & Sons
25th Bridge School Benefit
Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA
October 23rd 2011
Download at Sugarmegs.com.

Lineage: Sony ECM-121 => iRiver H340 (ROCKboxed) => USB => SoundBlaster X-Fi => Adobe Audition 2.0 => FlacFrontend (level 6 - Align on sector boundaries)

Recording position: Section 203 - the rustrows

Setlist:
01. Sigh No More
02. Roll Away Your Stone
03. Lover's Eyes
04. Sister
05. Dance, Dance, Dance (Neil Young cover) (with Neil Young)
06. Awake My Soul (With Sarah Neufeld and Marika Shaw from Arcade Fire on violin)
07. The Cave
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Total time: 32:19

THE MUSIC AND JASON JACK MILLER U2, Soldier Field Chicago, Illinois, July 5, 2011

In honor of Tuesday's how at Heinz Field...

Download the show at Sugarmegs. It's a decent-sounding show. I'm sure it'll sound better on Tuesday.

U2
Soldier Field
Chicago, Illinois
July 5, 2011

Source: Church Audio CA-11 cards => UGLY pre-amp => Tascam DR-2D (24/48)
Transfer: DR-2D => WAV => Audition 1.5 (dither to 16-bit) => WAV => Magix Audio Cleaning Lab => WAV => FLAC (level 8)

Location: Field, slightly in front of soundboard, in line with right speaker stack

Disc one (67:36):
(1) Even Better Than The Real Thing (4:39)
(2) The Fly (5:07)
(3) Mysterious Ways(/Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World/Independent Woman) (4:42)
(4) Until The End of the World (6:12)
(5) Out of Control (4:58)
(6) Get On Your Boots (4:02)
(7) Banter (3:37)
(8) I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For(/The Promised Land) (4:20)
(9) Banter (0:57)
(10) Stay (Faraway, So Close) (4:58)
(11) Intro (1:42)
(12) Beautiful Day(/Space Oddity) (5:11)
(13) Elevation (4:20)
(14) Pride (In The Name Of Love) (4:27)
(15) Miss Sarajevo (4:24)
(16) Zooropa (3:52)

Disc two (73:49):
(1) City of Blinding Lights(/My Kind of Town) (5:34)
(2) Vertigo(/Miss You) (4:11)
(3) I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (remix) => Discotheque(/Life During Wartime) (6:27)
(4) Sunday Bloody Sunday (4:15)
(5) Scarlet (2:18)
(6) Walk On(/The Battle Hymn of the Republic) (6:31)
(7) Encore break (1:49)
(8) One (5:48)
(9) Where The Streets Have No Name (5:34)
(10) Encore break (3:12)
(11) Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me(/My Kind of Town) (5:11)
(12) With or Without You (5:37)
(13) Bono Banter (3:25)
(14) Moment of Surrender(/One Tree Hill) (8:03)
(15) One Tree Hill (5:47) *

* patch from alternate source (DPA 4060 => Edirol R-09 HR (24/44.1)

Md5 signature file is included. Sorry, no artwork (feel free to make some)

Comments:

Good performance by U2 at Soldier Field near the close of their 360 tour, 364 days after the originally scheduled date. Many changes have been made to the setlist since the North American tour opened in Chicago nearly two years ago -- all but three of the new songs have been dropped from the set, and the opening sequence showcases the nearly 20-year-old "Achtung Baby," which is a big improvement in my opinion. Overall, I thought the performance and song selection was a lot more compelling than the first leg of the tour. The band gave a high-energy performance all the way through, fueled by a vocal sellout crowd of 60,000 -- there was not an empty seat to be seen all the way to the top of the stadium.

The emotional highlight, of course, was "One Tree Hill," performed in honor of the 25th anniversary of Greg Carroll's death. This was clearly tentative and under-rehearsed, but it didn't matter. One of the coolest moments I've seen at any U2 show over the years.

The recording is pretty good, although I have no doubt that there are better recordings out there. I was in line with the right speaker stack about halfway back on the floor, and the sound was great. Vocals are prominent in the mix, and there isn't too much crowd interference near the microphones. As luck would have it, my flash card errored out and the deck shut off about 30 seconds into OTH, so the last track is patched from the source recorded by my friend standing next to me. The cutover is pretty seamless, though you might notice that the last track has more clarity on the upper ranges and a little more crowd noise due to the audience members to his right.

Many thanks to u2setlists.com to help me fill out all of the tags. Mp3 samples are included in the comments.

THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK Alison Krauss and Union Station, BBC Radio2 In Concert, Mermaid Theatre, London, May 12, 2011

Since today's a day when we think about what it means to be American, I found it appropriate to commemorate the holiday with some Americana. Maybe a hundred years ago, music like this would've been on the nation's collective setlist for an evening of fireworks and pie. Today you'd still hear it, and music descended from the same seeds as bands like Union Station. But, depending on where you live, you'd also hear cumbia, salsa, hip-hop, jazz...

Everybody has their idea of what it means to be American. With political season coming up, we're going to hear over and over what our Founding Fathers had in mind. But I'm certain Thomas Jefferson had no idea what the United States would look like over 200 years after he wrote The Declaration of Independence. (Saw an article in Newsweek that suggested he wouldn't even receive a party nomination, let alone win a presidential election if he were alive today.)

That's why summer vacations go so well with Independence Day. Get the hell out there and see what we have, that people in other countries are still dying for. Step into a national park--YOUR park and breath deep the air your taxes help to maintain. Step onto a national battlefield and be grateful for the fight to shape the country and hold it together. Rub elbows with your new brothers and sisters, people our great-grandparents wouldn't have recognized as American. No matter what you do, pursue happiness like only we can.

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ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION
BBC Radio 2 In Concert
Mermaid Theatre
London
Thursday 12th May 2011

FM radio broadcast > DR07> WAV > audio cleaning lab, edits, volume > TLH > flac 8

1. Paper Airplane
2. Dust Bowl Children
3. Instrumental
4. Lay My Burden Down
5. Sinking Stone (?) (Dan Tyminski)
6. Every Time You Say Goodbye
7. Baby, Now That I've Found You
8. Ghost in This House
9. Dobro instrumental (Jerry Douglas)
10. Hold Corn (Jerry Douglas)
11. Jacob's Dream
12. Rain Please Go Away (Dan Tyminski)
13. Sawing on the Strings

Alison Krauss - vocal, fiddle
Jerry Douglas - Dobro, Lap Steel, vocals
Dan Tyminski - Guitar, Mandolin, Lead Vocal
Ron Block - banjo, guitar
Barry Bales - bass, vocals

THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK Dave Matthews Band, October 08, 1994, The Avalon Ballroom, Boston, MA

From THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK:

    Jamie shrugged his shoulders. "Your turn." He rubbed his eyes and set his fiddle in his case on the table. He shut his recorder off.
    "I'd just as soon turn in to bed hungry and get going as early as possible." I said it loud enough for Ernie to hear, but not loud enough that Jamie'd figure out I'd said it loud enough for Ernie to hear.
    Jamie poured us each another finger or two of whiskey.
    I saluted him and threw it down. I whooped, and Ernie came over and said he didn't want us getting too far ahead of him, so we all drank another.
    "Requests?" I asked Jamie.
    "Play what you feel, son," he said.
    "What I feel? That's a tough one. Let me try this on for size." I strummed a slow D and played the opening to "Grace is Gone."
    Jamie nodded, eyes closed. After I finished the first chorus he accompanied me with his fiddle, playing just like Boyd Tinsley. When we finished he said, "That's a very nice song."
    "Dave Matthews Band. Haven't played that in a long time."
    "Give us another, maybe something I can sing along with."

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This show is a crystal-clear soundboard from an early (pre-Crash) Dave Matthews Band show. I know there are a lot of Dave haters out there, and you know what I say? F*ck them. Dave is awesome. Check out the teases in Recently, or stick around for the Halloween at the end. Dave can do it all--melody, heavy, jibberish. That's why he's huge. Because he can write songs.

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Dave Matthews Band
October 08, 1994
The Avalon Ballroom
Boston, MA

Taper: Unknown
Source: DSBD

DAT>CD: Jon Ice (jond_ice@hotmail.com)
Equip: Tascam DA-30 > Digi Coax > Midiman DIO2448

Resamp: 48kHz > 44.1kHz via Samplitude
SHN: MKW Audio Compression Tool

Disc 1
1: Intro 00:58
2: Seek Up 12:50
3: Dancing Nancies 08:23
4: Best of What's Around 06:55
5: Song That Jane Likes 04:43
6: Satellite 05:25
7: Jimi Thing 10:57
8: Dave Speak 01:15
9: Say Goodbye 07:10
10: Get In Line* 07:31
Total 66:07

Disc 2
1: Tripping Billies 05:02
2: Rhyme and Reason 05:27
3: What Would You Say 05:00
4: Recently$ 11:04
5: Encore Break 01:00
-Encore-
6: Drums-> 01:29
7: Halloween 04:55
Total 33:57

* First time played
$ Pretty, Pretty Girl, Take Me to the River, On Broadway
compiled by Jon Ice (1.26.01)

THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK Grateful Dead, Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA, February 26, 1977

From THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK:

    Jerry strummed a banjo. As he plucked he said, "Satan's already been defeated, he just don't know it yet. He'll soon get all he has coming to him. Woe to my children for the devil's coming down on you with great wrath, because he knows that he ain't got but a short time."
    In the hospital room the air kicked on, chilling the sweat that had formed on my skin. I folded my arms over my t-shirt, a shirt I had when I was little. Optimus Prime held up a laser pistol with one hand. With the other he waved with a half pointed finger, like Bumblebee, Jazz and Bluestreak would appear on the horizon any second to kick Megatron's whiny ass. The red shirt, worn thin and soft by thousands of washings had been my favorite.
    I asked, "What do I have to do? To save myself?"

Buy the THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK on Amazon.

For so many years the Grateful Dead were summer to me. Probably had a lot to do with the moving of rafting operations from the Cheat in West Virginia to the Lower Yough in Ohiopyle. Being closer to home gave the guides more time to hang out and goof-off before and after trips. Life at the campgrounds was in full-swing. Days got warmer. Laurels bloomed. You saw the same group of guys over and over. The guys you worked with, and relied on, became your family.

This show opens with TERRAPIN STATION, which is my ultimate GD song. I can't listen to it in January unless I'm in a self-punishing type of mood. When I hear this song wildflowers burst open in wide, sunny mountain meadows. A giant moon rises over the pines followed by an even bigger Venus. Maybe there's a campfire. Tea is brewing.

From TERRAPIN STATION lyrics by Robert Hunter:

Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color,
Hold away despair.
More than this I will not ask, faced with mysteries dark and vast.
Statements just seem vain at last.
Some rise, some fall, some climb to get to Terrapin.

Counting stars by candlelight, all are dim but one is bright,
The spiral light of Venus, rising first and shining best.
On, from the northwest corner, of a brand new crescent moon,
Crickets and cicadas sing, a rare and different tune,
Terrapin Station.

This sbd sounds amazing. Worth a stream or download.

Grateful Dead Live at Swing Auditorium on 1977-02-26 (February 26, 1977)



1 Terrapin Station 10:57
2 New Minglewood Blues 04:56
3 They Love Each Other 07:05
4 Estimated Prophet 07:09
5 Sugaree 11:04
6 Mama Tried 02:44
7 Deal 05:50
8 Playin' in the Band 14:00
9 The Wheel 04:58
10 Playin' in the Band 05:31
11 Samson and Delilah 06:07
12 Tennessee Jed 08:42
13 The Music Never Stops 06:19
14 Help on the Way > Slipknot! 13:22
15 Franklin's Tower 13:23
16 Promised Land 04:13
17 Eyes of the World 11:45
18 Dancin' in the Streets 10:00
19 Around and Around 07:00
20 U.S. Blues 06:11

Collection: GratefulDead
Band/Artist: Grateful Dead
Date: February 26, 1977 (check for other copies)
Venue: Swing Auditorium
Location: San Bernardino, CA

Source: Soundboard
Lineage: SBD > Master Reel > PCM > DAT > CD-R
Transferred by: AlphaDog
Keywords: Live concert

Description

Terrapin Station, Minglewood Blues, They Love Each Other, Estimated Prophet, Sugaree, Mama Tried, Deal, Playing In The Band > The Wheel > Playing In The Band Samson & Delilah, Tennessee Jed, The Music Never Stopped, Help On The Way-> Slipknot!-> Franklin's Tower, Promised Land, Eyes Of The World-> Dancin' In The Streets-> Around & Around, E: U.S. Blues