Vetiver
9.22.2011
The Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO

Source:  MBHO KA200N [DINa] > Active Cables > MBHO MBP 603A > XLR > 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. intro
2. Wonder Why
3. Strictly Rule
4. Hard To Break
5. Right Away
6. Everyday
7. unknown
8. It’s Beyond Me
9. You May Be Blue
10. Here Tonight *
11. I Must Be In A Good Place Now *
12. Rolling Sea
13. Can’t You Tell
14. More of This

Notes:
* = with Eric D. Johnson, Ron Lewis and Graeme Gibson from The Fruit Bats

FLAC files can be found via BitTorrent at Dime.

Fruit Bats
9.22.2011
The Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO

Source:  MBHO KA200N [DINa] > Active Cables > MBHO MBP 603A > XLR > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. You’re Too Weird
2. Tony the Tripper
3. Heart Like an Orange
4. Dolly
5. The Blessed Breeze
6. Being on Our Own
7. Lives of Crime
8. So Long
9. Tangie and Ray
10. Primitive Man
11. Tegucigalpa
12. When U Love Somebody
(Encore)
13. The Ruminant Band
14. La Di Da

A zipfile of the MP3s is available here.
FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.

Meat Puppets
6.29.2011
The Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO

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

Setlist:
1. I’m a Mindless Idiot
2. Plateau
3. The Monkey and the Snake
4. Up on the Sun
5. Comin’ Down
6. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
7. Oh, Me
8. Touchdown King
9. Sam
10. Lost
11. Hey Baby Que Paso
12. Confusion Fog
13. Light
14. Lantern
15. Backwater
16. Swimming Ground
17. Seal Whales
18. Sloop John B
19. Lake of Fire
(Encore)
20. My Baby’s Gone
21. The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Notes:
Black Box Revelation and Bad Weather California opened the show.

A zipfile of the MP3s is available here.
FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.

Gauntlet Hair just kicked off their tour with The Dodos last night at the Bluebird.  Enjoy this recording from last fall (also at the Bluebird), and go check them out if they are coming through your city:

06-02 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
06-04 Iowa City, IA – The Mill
06-05 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall
06-06 Chicago, IL – Cabaret Metro
06-07 Cleveland Heights, OH – Grog Shop
06-09 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
06-10 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
06-11 Philadelphia, PA – Theater of Living Arts
06-12 Washington, DC – 930 CLUB
06-14 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
06-15 Montreal, QC – La Tulipe
06-16 Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Theater

Gauntlet Hair
11.24.2010
Bluebird 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. Heave
2. unknown
3. All Eyes
4. Our Scenery
5. unknown
6. I Was Thinking…

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

Akron/Family
7.31.2009
The Bluebird Theater, 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 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Meek Warrior >
2. River >
3. The Alps & Their Orange Evergreen
4. Gravelly Mountains of the Moon >
5. Jam >
6. Lake Song / New Ceremonial Music For Mothers >
7. Ed Is A Portal >
8. Everyone Is Guilty
9. MBF >
10. Woody Guthrie’s America
11. I Know You Rider

Notes:
Members of Bad Weather California and Pee-Pee joined Akron/Family throughout the show.

A zipfile of the MP3s is available here.
FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.

Bad Weather California
6.19.2009
The Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO

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

Setlist:
1. Sid Pink intro jam > I Don’t Know
2. Give Me Love
3. I Dreamed > Let’s Go to Bed
4. Love Will Be My Home >
5. New Religion
6. This is My Country Too
7. Two Ways
8. “Two Young Girls”
9. 1992
10. When I Die (Ain’t No Grave Deep Enough To Keep Me Down)

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

Tinker’s Punishment, who changed their name to The Films back in ’04, still remain one of my favorite pop rock acts from Denver in the 2000′s.

Tinker’s Punishment
5.30.2002
The Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300′s > Lunatec V2 > Sony D8 > DAT Master > Sony D8 > digi-coax > Edirol R-44 > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. I Hope You’re Right >
2. Stay Awake
3. Trouble
4. Standing Under a Road
5. Slow Down
6. It’s Not OK
7. Muscle Museum
8. Fourth
9. Reasons
10. Grey
11. Why Can’t You Ever Let It Go
12. When You Wake
13. You Shook Me All Night Long (tease) > Just
14. What You Say
15. Holly
16. Lucy’s Song (Millenios)
17. Kill Daisy
(Encore)
18. banter
19. Sweet Caroline

A zipfile of the MP3s is available here.
FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.

Foma
6.19.2009
The Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO

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

Setlist:
1. Arrival
2. Seraphim Succubi
3. Gray’s Elegy
4. Control Panel
5. Kurt’s Theme
6. JM Sebastian
7. Departure
8. Hannah! It’s Finished!
9. Another Day in Paradise
10. Ess-ther’s Victory

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

(Photo by Vicki Robison.)

Shurman
12.11.2009
Bluebird 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. Best You Ever Had
2. She’s the One
3. I’m Not Crazy
4. So Happy
5. Lonesome LA Blues
6. banter
7. Small Town Tragedy
8. Wonder Where You Are
9. Here’s to Rock-N-Roll
10. Drownin’
11. Three Chords
12. Country Ain’t Country
13. Is It True?
14. 2 a.m.

Notes:
Opening for the Railbenders.

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

Here’s Gangcharger opening for Tennis last fall.  The band has two releases available on its bandcamp page.

Gangcharger
11.24.2010
Bluebird 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. Soaking Quiet
2. Cellular Memory
3. Lead Sips
4. Snipers
5. All My Shirts are Black
6. Vapor

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