Vance Gilbert
8.19.2011
Folks Festival, Planet Bluegrass Ranch, Lyons, CO

Source:  MBHO KA200N [DINa] (A81WS screens) > Active Cables > MBP 603A > GAKables Interconnect > 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. Boy On A Train
3. Dragonfly Wings
4. Castles Made of Sand > Little Wing
5. Improv >
6. Goodbye Pluto
7. Unfamiliar Moon
8. banter
9. My Bad
10. banter
11. Old White Men
12. You Should Be Here *
13. banter
14. Dear Amelia
15. Spencer The Rover

Notes:
* = with Bob Hemenger on saxaphone

A zipfile of the MP3s is available here.
FLAC files are available upon request.

Like what you hear?  Please show your support for this artist by purchasing some official releases:

• Old White Men (2011) – [CD]
• Up on Rockfield (2008) – [CD]
• Angels, Castles, Covers (2006) – [CD]
• Unfamiliar Moon (2005) – [CD]

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 Tom Murphy via Westword.)

With the level of chatter present on this recording, I had decided to shelve it.  But someone mentioned wanting a copy the other day, so here’s Damon and Naomi opening for A Hawk and a Hacksaw last fall.

Damon and Naomi
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. intro
2. Song to the Siren
3. Eye of the Storm
4. Ueno Station
5. Lilac Land
6. New York City
7. Turn of the Century
8. I’m Yours
9. Bird on a Wire [Leonard Cohen]

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be found via BitTorrent at Dime.

Thirty years after their original 40 Watt show, Mission of Burma returned to close out the final night of Athens PopFest with a set of songs that celebrated their entire catalog.

Mission of Burma
8.14.2010
40 Watt Club, Athens PopFest, Athens, GA

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’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. Donna Sumeria
2. (banter and mic repairs)
3. The Setup
4. 1, 2, 3, Partyy!
5. Good Cheer
6. Mica
7. This Is Not A Photograph
8. Einstein’s Day
9. Hi-Fi
10. Eyes Of Men
11. 1001 Pleasant Dreams
12. That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate
13. 2wice
14. Let Yourself Go
15. Spider’s Web
16. Dirt
(Encore I)
17. Red
18. Max Ernst
19. Academy Fight Song
(Encore II)
20. Secrets
21. The Ballad Of Johnny Burma
22. That’s When I Reach For My Revolver

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