Guided By Voices
Minneapolis, MN
First Avenue
27 June 2002
[direct-to-CD-R stereo SBD/audience matrix recording; total running time: 02:13:16]

master CD-R one (78:10):
001 start - comments (1:22)
002 intro (0:48)
003 Wings Of Thorn (1:47)
004 Steeple Of Knives (1:54)
005 Universal Truths And Cycles (2:17)
006 Everywhere With Helicopter (2:42)
007 Back To The Lake (2:45)
008 Hardcore UFOs (2:08)
009 Eureka Signs (3:13)
010 comments (0:23)
011 Things I Will Keep (2:28)
012 comments (2:41)
013 Wire Greyhounds (0:43)
014 Skin Parade (2:46)
015 Short On Posters (2:13)
016 Zap (1:15)
017 Christian Animated Torch Carriers (4:01)
018 Get Under It (2:50)
019 Do Something Real (3:00)
020 Factory Of Raw Essentials (1:34)
021 From A Voice Plantation (2:02)
022 Skills Like This (2:39)
023 The Brides Have Hit Glass (2:48)
024 comments (0:34)
025 I Drove A Tank (2:30)
026 comments (0:23)
027 My Wife [aborted] (1:08)
028 comments (1:01)
029 Cheyenne (3:10)
030 Tight Globes (2:49)
031 Pretty Bombs (3:40)

[ - - - - - this would be a good place to evenly split these files for two CD-Rs: disc 1: 01:05:45; disc 2: 01:07:30 - - - - - ]

032 Buzzards and Dreadful Crows (2:01)
033 The Weeping Bogey Man (1:43)
034 Car Language (5:37)
035 Game Of Pricks (2:11)
036 comments* (0:58)

master CD-R two (54:24):
037 The Official Ironman's Rally Song** (3:02)
038 Love 1 (0:50)
039 Storm Vibrations (4:39)
040 Tractor Rape Chain (2:54)
041 The Ids Are Alright (1:25)
042 The Enemy (4:19)
043 Twilight Campfighter (3:18)
044 Alone, Stinking and Unafraid (3:27)
045 Glad Girls (3:47)
046 Teenage FBI (2:54)
047 Father Sgt. Xmas Card (1:44)
[end of set]
048 applause (2:38)
[encore]:
049 comments (1:02)
050 Chasing Heather Crazy (2:48)
051 My Valuable Hunting Knife (2:31)
052 Watch Me Jumpstart (2:30)
053 Cut-Out Witch (3:09)
054 Baba O'Riley (4:45)
055 A Hard Day's Night (3:08)

*[end truncated on master CD-R;
00:00:50.425 - 00:00:58.346 patched from simultaneous cassette master;
+3.0dB gain applied to cassette levels] 

**[beginning truncated on master CD-R;
00:00:00.000 - 00:00:34.612 patched from simultaneous cassette master;
+3.0dB gain applied to cassette levels]

Recorded direct to CD-R, using two Tandy PZMs mounted in V-formation on a stereo bar, on a 15 ft. mic stand.
Although I sometimes combined SBD feeds with mic pulls in this venue, I can't tell if I was doing that for this show. If I was, the sources are pretty tightly matched. At any rate, there are no tell-tale phasing patterns here that would suggest any issues that sometimes arise with on the fly SBD/AUD mixes.

I was also running a cassette deck, which I believe was the primary capture and pass-through device, which would mean the CD-writer was basically getting an auxillary feed from the cassette deck. I can't be sure at this point - I didn't leave myself any notes, and I have only my ears to go by. 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 dsics missed a few seconds between tracks 036 and 037, 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. 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*** > tracked with CDWav editor > minor patches and DC offset with SoundForge > SBE check/repair; .flac conversion (level 8) with Traders Little Helper
***[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]

cassette source [end of 036 and beginning of 037 only]:
Azimuth-optimized digital transfer from 1st-gen (presumably) cassette (mic and deck unknown) > 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

Touring with My Morning Jacket
This year, we had two GBV appearances - one on March, and this one in June.
This night was an "early" show - not an "all-ages" show, but early, as the venue had a regular "dance" night that actually generated most of their revenue, so the bands had to finish by around 9 or 10 p.m., I believe.
John Entwhistle had passed away this same evening, so GBV attempted to play a cover of "My Wife";  although they gave it a good try, had to bail after a verse. There weren't a lot of surprises at this show, but a few: Short On Posters" and a final encore of "A Hard Day's Night".

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?