Guided By Voices
Minneapolis, MN
First Avenue
Saturday, 9 March 2002
[direct-to-CD-R stereo SBD/audience matrix recording; total running time: ]

master CD-R one (74:42):
001 start - comments (2:34)
002 Eureka Signs (3:19)
003 Skin Parade (2:44) [check about 2 mins in - digital glitch?]
004 Lethargy (1:20)
005 Things I Will Keep (2:24)
006 Cut-Out Witch (3:23)
007 Everywhere With Helicopter (2:41)
008 Twilight Campfighter (3:30)
009 Wire Greyhounds (0:38)
010 The Enemy (4:13)
011 Game Of Pricks (2:15)
012 Back To The Lake (2:38)
013 Submarine Teams (3:48)
014 The Brides Have Hit Glass (2:45)
015 comments (1:16)
016 The Weeping Bogey Man (1:37)
017 Christian Animated Torch Carriers (4:05)
018 comments (1:10)
019 Alone, Stinking and Unafraid (3:13)
020 Glad Girls (4:02)
021 Universal Truths and Cycles (2:18)
022 I Drove A Tank (2:27)
023 comments (0:54)
024 In Stitches (3:29)
025 comments (2:03)
026 Waved Out (1:23)
027 Zap (1:20)
028 Cheyenne (3:17)
029 Edison's Memos* (4:32)

master CD-R 2 (74:39):
030 From A Voice Plantation (2:25)

[ - - - - - this would be a good place to evenly split these files for two CD-Rs: disc 1: 01:17:43; disc 2: 01:13:14 - - - - - ]

master CD-R 2 [continued]:
031 Skills Like This (2:45)
032 Fair Touching (3:12)
033 My Valuable Hunting Knife (2:22)
034 Watch Me Jumpstart (3:02)
035 comments (0:53)
036 Car Language (5:39)
037 Teenage FBI (2:57)
038 Love 1 (0:55)
039 Storm Vibrations (4:54)
040 Psychic Pilot Clocks Out (3:03)
041 Shocker In Gloomtown (1:41)
042 Don't Stop Now (3:04)
043 Tight Globes (2:51)
044 Father Sgt Xmas Card (1:49)
[end of set]
045 applause (3:17)
encore#1 - "The Bee Thousand set":
046 comments (0:20)
047 Tractor Rape Chain (3:12)
048 Gold Heart Mountaintop Queen Directory (2:18)
049 Hot Freaks (2:52)
050 Smothered In Hugs (3:59)
051 Echoes Myron (2:16)
052 I Am A Scientist (2:37)
053 Peephole (1:49)
[end of set]
054 applause (1:11)
encore #2:
055 comments (0:36)
056 Pop Zeus (2:19)
057 Motor Away** (2:07)
058 Baba O'Riley*** (5:38)

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*[end truncated on master CD-R;
00:03:38.836 - 00:04:32.233 patched from simultaneous cassette master;
cassette patch:
00:03:39.513 - 00:04:32.910
cassette levels adjusted to match CD-R:
L ch: +5.0dB gain
R ch: +5.50dB gain]
[-25.0 cents pitch shift applied to cassette segment]
additional patch at end from orig CD-R master:
00:04:28.677 - 00:04:32.233
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**glitch removed
L ch: at 00:01:31.191
R ch: at 00:01:31.190
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***[end truncated on master CD-R;
00:04:22.183 - 00:05:38.377 patched from simultaneous cassette master; 
cassette levels adjusted to match CD-R:
L ch: +3.0dB gain
R ch: +3.50dB gain]
[-25.0 cents pitch shift applied to cassette segment]
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Simultaneously recorded direct to CD-R [Aiwa XC-RW700 stand-alone writer] and cassette [Sony home stereo deck, model unknown]; using two Tandy PZMs mounted in V-formation on a stereo bar, on a 15 ft. mic stand; combined with L + R SBD feeds; all inputs running through a 4-channel sub-mix console [model unknown], all outputs direct to CD-R unit and cassette deck.

The idea for running a deck and a burner was to capture anything that might be missed when I had to write each CD-R, and insert a new disc. In this situation, the discs missed the ends of tracks 029 (on disc 1), and 058 (on disc 2), which I have patched together here from the cassette source. You will note that the cassette has a bit of hiss to it, which is what I was trying to avoid by recording the show direct to disc in the first place; but at the time, I only had access to 74-minute CDR-W discs. I do have the bulk of the same show on cassette as well, but it is unlikely that I'll do anything with that - at least not at this time, since I'm satisfied with the way the disc recording turned out.

CD-R source:
digital extract from CD-Rs to hard drive converted from .aiff to .wav with Audacity > 
[the .aiff file was a result of extracting the files onto a mac, but as I do my audio work on a PC in SoundForge, I converted the files to .wav]
> tracked with CDWav editor > minor patches and DC offset with SoundForge > SBE check/repair; .flac conversion (level 8) with Traders Little Helper

cassette source [only]:
Azimuth-optimized digital transfer from master cassette > analog/digital transfer to hard drive > captured and tracked with CDWav editor > minor patches and DC offset with SoundForge > SBE check/repair; .flac conversion (level 8) with Traders Little Helper

This was our introduction to Kevin Martch: drums.
This was also our introduction to Universal Truths and Cycles, AND I had the privelege of introducing a couple of good friends to the GBV live experience at this show, as well! Not that I wouldn't have expected them to be completely bowled over under ordinary circumstances, but this turned out to be an exceptional GBV show by any standards. I can't say enough good things about it - not only was the band in excellent form, and the new material mesmerizing on its' own, but we got an encore set consisting entitrely of Bee Thousand songs to boot! Really, this seems like a hard one to top. Enjoy!

I always ask only one thing on any torrents I upload to the DIME tracker: please don't post "artwork" here. I know someone's going to make some, I'm just asking that you don't post it here on my torrent. It's not asking much, and that's all I need to make it worth my time to keep posting shows here. Please appreciate that, and just enjoy the music, okay?