The Hand that Rocks the Dreidel called it quits earlier this summer, but you can bet that Yuzo Nieto will remain on the local scene performing solo, with Pink Hawks, or guesting in other outfits.  Here’s a throwback show from last October.

Yuzo Nieto & The Hand that Rocks the Dreidel
10.16.2009
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300′s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R-44 @ 24/48 > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Elongating the Foreshortened Perceptions: An Illusion of ‘S p a c e’
2. Track #02
3. Villa Del Mar
4. Track #04
5. I Wanna Be a Gangster
6. Track #06
7. Bumblebee
8. Love Isn’t Enough
9. Track #09
10. Baby Got Back

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

Ethan J. Perry & The Poet’s Row
7.13.2009
Meadowlark Bar, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300′s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > WAV > Channel Mix in Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Many Years Ago
2. Concordia Discorse
3. There Are Children Here
4. I Wish I Were a Fish
5. unknown
6. Chasing Bells
7. unknown
8. Touch Me

Notes:
The right PA speakers went out, so I heavily panned the left channel to the right.

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

Every Doo Crowder performance bring something different, and this show was no exception.

Doo Crowder
5.31.2009
The Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO

Source:  Mix [Microtech Gefell M300's > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax] + [SBD > XLR] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Love Needs a Quivering, Restless, Aching, Fire to Lay Its Head On
2. The Doo Crowder Song
3. Candy
4. unknown
5. Life Song

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

Widowers
6.05.2009
Oriental Theater, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300′s > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Stalwart Ships
2. unknown
3. Moonshining
4. Pistol
5. Interstate Eighty
6. Sunken Ships
7. Space Never Strays

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

Bongo Fury performed in the back room of Yellow Feather Coffee amidst the (sold out) art of Kee Kopps and Avery Rains.

Bongo Fury
9.06.2010
Yellow Feather Coffee, Denver, CO

Source:  DPA 4060′s > DAD6001′s > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. soundcheck/intro
2. Jam

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

Another solo set from Erin Roberts, with some percussion backup by Golden Shoulders.

Porlolo
9.16.2010
Yellow Feather Coffee, Denver, CO

Source:  [DPA 4060's > DAD6001's > Lunatec V3] + [SBD > 1/4"] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Clinton and Elva
2. “Noticed”
3. Abnormal Me *
4. “Thirty-Two” *
5. “Little Something” *
6. Tread Softly
7. “Turn My Head”
8. “Become”

Notes:
* = w/ Adam and Brett of Golden Shoulders

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

Apologies on this one: It was a great show and the last of their tour, but you better like tambourine…the microphones were only a couple of feet away from Brett’s percussion!

Golden Shoulders
9.16.2010
Yellow Feather Coffee, Denver, CO

Source:  DPA 4060′s > DAD6001′s > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. The Honey, the Power, the Light
2. Do You Know Who You Are?
3. Patience Darling, Patience *
4. banter
5. Golden States *
6. This Is a Test
7. What You’re Proposing
8. Let My Burden Be
9. I Will Light You on Fire

Notes:
* = w/ Erin Roberts on trumpet

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

Opening for Kria Brekkan, Sarah H.Dot and Jason Corder took the stage (altar) as Pillow Garden at Surfacing #10, with an ambient instrumental set fit for a church.

Pillow Garden
9.11.2010
First Unitarian Society of Denver, Denver, CO

Source:  DPA 4060′s > DAD6001′s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Ambient Set

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.