(Photo credit: Sarah Slater)

Olivia Demetrisa Anderson (aka DeMeat) of Occasional Detroit
7.10.2010
Titwrench Fest, Glob, 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. “Life”
2. Hideous Men announcement
3. Track #03
4. Track #04
5. Track #05
6. Track #06
7. outro

Check out this live set, and then grab one of the many excellent 200 Million Years EPs over at bandcamp.

200 Million Years
11.24.2010
Hi-Dive, 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. intro
2. Brain Body Disconnect
3. Tokyo Daydream
4. Closer
5. Ma
6. Watched It All Just Happen
7. Hear It in the Noise

Notes:
Part of the Loss Prevention Thanksgiving, a benefit to help raise funds to replace the band’s stolen gear.

Caldera Lakes
7.10.2010
Titwrench Fest, Glob, 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. Track #01
2. Track #02
3. Track #03
4. Track #04

Here are some great jamz from Nick Ray (aka Speculator), who came out from Los Angeles to support Woodsman at their album release show.

Speculator
2.11.2011
Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO

Source:  [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3] + [SBD > XLR] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC >
Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave > LAME > mp3
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Track #02
3. Track #03
4. Track #04
5. Track #05
6. Track #06
7. Track #07

The Lumineers won over many audiences on their winter West Coast tour, including this small crowd at Hollywood’s Hotel Cafe.

The Lumineers
12.06.2010
The Hotel Cafe, Los Angeles, CA

Source:  DPA 4060’s > DAD6001’s > Marantz PMD661 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave

Setlist:
1. Oh, My, My
2. Charlie Boy
3. Classy Girls
4. Darlene *
5. Morning Song
6. Elouise
7. Flapper Girl
8. Stubborn Love
9. Flowers In Your Hair
10. Ho Hey

Notes:
* = unplugged in audience

Here’s the Avi Buffalo show from Denver last fall.  The band is currently taking some downtime to focus on studies, the next record, and so forth.  If you don’t yet have their self-titled debut, you can order it through the band’s online store.

Avi Buffalo
10.25.2010
Hi-Dive, 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. intro
2. Coaxed
3. Five Little Sluts
4. Summer Cum
5. We Can’t Try This Again
6. Truth Sets In
7. Can’t I Know?
8. Margaux
9. Wah-Wah [George Harrison]
10. What’s In It For?
11. Remember Last Time

(Photo by Vicki Robison.)

Cracker (Acoustic Duo)
3.25.2011
Daniels Hall at Swallow Hill, Denver, CO

Source:  [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3] + [SBD > RCA] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
(Set I)
1. intro
2. Been Around the World
3. Teen Angst
4. End Times story
5. Raise ‘Em Up on Honey
6. Friends
7. Lucky
8. banter
9. Big Dipper (Take 1)
10. Big Dipper
11. Hey Bret (You Know What Time It Is)
(Set II)
12. banter/New Jersey story
13. Eurotrash Girl
14. Iraq stories
15. I Sold the Arabs the Moon
16. Sad Lovers Waltz
17. Mr. Wrong
18. Jerry Garcia story
19. Loser
20. wedding story
21. Wedding Day
22. Low
(Encore)
23. Victorian era banter
24. Deep Oblivion
25. One Fine Day

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

Puddin’ Tang tried something different at Athfest 2009, devoting their entire set to Bo Diddley.  Originally scheduled for the Georgia Theatre, these evening performances were relocated to the Morton Theatre after the fire.

Puddin’ Tang
6.27.2009
Morton Theatre, AthFest, Athens, GA

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. intro
2. unknown
3. unknown
4. Road Runner
5. Cookie Headed Diddley
6. Background to a Music
7. Nursery Rhyme
8. Deed and Deed I Do
9. I Can Tell
10. Diddley Daddy
11. unknown
12. unknown

Though they remain inactive these days aside from an occasional show, The Slip remain one of my favorite acts to come out of New England in the 90’s.

The Slip
10.03.2002
Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO

Source (Set 1): Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V2 > Apogee MiniMe > Sony D8
Source (Set 2): Microtech Gefell M300’s > Apogee MiniMe > Sony D8
Taped by: Lance Stack

Setlist:
(Set I)
1. Seventy-Four
2. unknown
3. Driving Backwards with You
4. Rainmaker
5. Jumby
6. unknown

(Set II)
1. Jam >
2. Tenfold >
3. Love and Tears > Wade in the Water
4. Johnny’s Tune
5. Sometimes True to Nothing
(Encore)
6. (Take A) Beetle to the Badlands >
7. Beetle Jam >
8. Lord, I Just Can’t Keep From Crying > Beetle

(Photo by Sarah Slater!)

European Dream Collection
7.10.2010
Titwrench Fest, Glob, 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. Full Performance

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

Here’s more from Titwrench 2010.  Ft. Collins’ Origami Hands is no longer performing, and this may have been their last show.

I just finished up tracking out the remainder of last year’s festival, so look forward to new Titwrench postings every Tuesday and Thursday until the well runs dry!

Origami Hands
7.10.2010
Titwrench Fest, Glob, 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. intro
2. unknown
3. Half Full
4. unknown
5. unknown
6. Rosy Cheeks
7. Worms
8. Caves
9. Bastard Child
10. unknown
11. outro

(Photo by Jeff Wenzel.)

Here’s the final of three nights on the West Coast:  The Donkeys opening at Casitone for the Painfully Alone’s farewell show.

The Donkeys
12.05.2010
Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA

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

Setlist:
1. Nice Train
2. Bloodhound
3. Come On Virginia
4. Boot on the Seat
5. I’ll Explode
6. Born With Stripes
7. Refrigerator
8. New Blue Stockings
9. East Coast Raga

Notes:
Supporting Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.

Night two of The Donkeys‘ West Coast run with CFTPA.  My audience recording for this one was unusable, but luckily the board feed sounds half-way decent.

The Donkeys
12.04.2010
The Partisan, Merced, CA

Source:  SBD > 1/4″ > 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. Nice Train
3. Bloodhound
4. Come On Virginia
5. Boot on the Seat
6. I’ll Explode
7. Born With Stripes
8. Refrigerator
9. New Blue Stockings
10. East Coast Raga

Notes:
Supporting Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.

After just flying into Denver from SXSW, Dan Bern was at the top of his game last night at the Soiled Dove Underground.

Dan Bern
3.19.2011
The Soiled Dove Underground, 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. Black Tornado
2. Tiger Woods
3. Lou Gehrig’s Disease
4. Vin Scully
5. I Need You
6. Long as I Can Hear You Breathe
7. My Phone
8. Fried Chicken
9. Grandma Blew a 0.2
10. One Piece at a Time
11. God Said No
12. See You on the Moon
13. If the World’s Still There
14. String Theory
15. Osama in Obamaland
16. Albuquerque Lullaby >
17. Turning Over >
18. It Won’t Hurt
19. My Way > New York, New York
20. Jerusalem
(Encore)
21. unknown (Janos cover)
22. The Fifth Beatle

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