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)

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

(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.

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 the first show of Fol Chen’s fall 2010 tour with The Apples in stereo.  The LA group has several releases available from Asthmatic Kitty.

Fol Chen
10.22.2010
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. intro
2. C\U
3. Winter, That’s All
4. They Came to Me
5. In Ruins
6. Red Skies Over Garden City (The Ballad Of Donna Donna)
7. No Wedding Cake
8. Men, Beasts or Houses
9. The Idiot
10. Cable TV
11. Under Pressure
12. The Holograms

(Photo by Kristie Gripp.)

The Railbenders are playing a rare show tonight at Bender’s Tavern.  Hopefully you can make it down.  Here’s their release show for 2009’s self-titled CD, where they played the album in its entirety (sans “Gone Fishin”, saved for the ride home).

Railbenders
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. intro
2. Hellbound Party Train
3. Like A Wheel
4. Black Chrome Horse
5. Drive Away
6. Saturday and Sunday
7. I Drive A Truck
8. Drop Me Off at the Honky Tonk
9. Big Diesel
10. Glass Picket Fence
11. It’s Time To Party
12. Whiskey and Me *
13. O.D.’d In Denver *
14. Leavin’ Song *
15. I-70 Westbound
16. One Foot In the Grave
17. The Dope Smokin’ Song
18. Whiskey Rain
19. Country Song
20. (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding **
21. Drivin’ Back to Denver
22. Payphone
23. band thanks
24. Crazy Train
25. Sweet Caroline
26. Minus One
27. La Grange
(Encore)
28. Drinkin’ Buddies (fades out)

Notes:
* = with John Macy on pedal steel
** = with Aaron Beavers on guitar and vocals

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

Tennis will be releasing their debut album with Fat Possum in a week and a half.  Cape Dory can be pre-ordered here.  Here’s the Thanksgiving-eve show played in Denver, which contains performances of all songs from the album!

Tennis
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. Take Me Somewhere
2. Seafarer
3. Cape Dory
4. Marathon
5. Bimini Bay
6. Pigeon
7. Long Boast Pass
8. South Carolina
9. Is It True?
10. Baltimore
11. Water Birds

Notes:
Occasional wind noise in right channel, due to a fan positioned behind the mics.

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

I ran across this little gem on the end of a DAT tape the other day:  a snippet of Jack Redell opening up for Joshua Novak and Filmstrip Series at the Bluebird.

The Late Jack Redell
9.23.2004 (Partial set)
Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Geffel M300’s > Lunatec V2 > Apogee MiniMe > ODL-276 > Nomad JB3 > Firewire > CoolEdit Pro > CDWave
Taped/Transferred by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. unknown
2. Summer Teeth
3. unknown

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