GUIDED BY VOICES
"THIS AIN'T NO PICNIC (IN THE VALLEY)"
Live at Irvine Meadows (Oak Canyon Ranch)
Irvine, CA
July 4th, 1999

Lineage:
SDBD > recorder (minidisc?) > untracked CD-R (gen?) > .wav (Exact Audio Copy) >
Audacity 1.2.3 (fades, normalization, edits) > Peak 4 (compression) > CD Wave Editor >
FLACFrontend > flac8

gbvdb reference:
http://www.gbvdb.com/album.asp?albumid=1430

photos:
http://www.guidedbyrobertpollard.com/gbv/07049901.htm
http://www.gbv.com/irvine7499.html
http://www.gbv.com/nopicnic.html

Notes:
This short festival set came to me as one long, untracked audio CD-R from someone who was
looking to have it tracked.  It's a decent soundboard recording - and uncirculated, as far
as I can tell.  The real gem here is a great version of "Far Out Crops" and some funny Bob
banter regarding .mp3's not working "in the valley"!

The sound person was apparently still setting the levels during the first few songs, as 
the mix doesn't seem to gel until part of the way into the set.  There are a few clicking 
noises here and there; looking at the waveforms, these don't appear to be peaks or 
diginoise, just Bob lighting cigarettes a little too close to the mic.  I deleted a few 
mysterious zero samples throughout the source; most of them were during song breaks, except 
for one during "Tractor Rape Chain" which fortunately appears to have been an *additional* 
zero sample, not a missing sample.  "Submarine Teams" is slightly cut-in and lacks Nate 
Farley's ringing, sustained chordal intro.  I used a light pass with compression to bring 
the volume up, but otherwise this is the unadulterated source.  There's not much else to 
tell; enjoy the rock! 

Total Time: 33min 53sec
01. SUBMARINE TEAMS (slightly cut-in)
02. TIME MACHINES
03. ALONE, STINKING AND UNAFRAID
04. TEENAGE FBI
05. (IN THE VALLEY #1)
06. GAME OF PRICKS
07. IN STITCHES
08. (WE ONLY GOT SO MUCH TIME)
09. FAR OUT CROPS
10. TRACTOR RAPE CHAIN
11. (I CAN'T EVEN ROLLERSKATE!)
12. I AM A TREE
13. (IN THE VALLEY #2)
14. HOLD ON HOPE
15. SHOCKER IN GLOOMTOWN

Lineup: Robert Pollard / Doug Gillard / Nate Farley / Tim Tobias / Jim MacPherson

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