Sunday, December 5, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Don't Panic
There's no need to panic. There are hundreds & hundreds of shows sitting here, just waiting for their opportunity to be shared. The limiting factors are mainly fairly predictable. But, there is one that I should, perhaps, share. I decided to learn a bit from a fellow named Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged. He was an immortal who decided to insult every being in the universe - in alphabetical order. I'm not so callous as to wish to insult everyone - especially after he's already done so - but I thought it might be nice to upload the shows in chronological order. This involves actually renaming every folder one at a time... which has taken rather longer than I'd anticipated. No wonder Wowbagger used it to fill infinity.
Go make yourself a cup of really hot tea & stay tuned. Loads of shows will be coming soon!!
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Jill Sobule & The Kennedys - 1999-12-19 - Acoustic Cafe
This is the appearance of Jill Sobule & The Kennedys on Acoustic Cafe. I saw the Kennedys at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival last Summer. They were much better than I'd expected. (All of my friends had talked them up relentlessly and I'm a skeptic - so sue me.)
I had some trouble ripping CD1. I tried lots of different drives and EAC settings. Eventually, I got very close to a clean rip, but never quite got a perfect copy. Happily, only the first two tracks have any flaws - and those tracks are pretty forgettable. None of the live, in-studio material was problematic.
original CDs -> EAC -> CDWave Editor -> flac -> rar -> you
Here
Some Trees
This shot was taken from the top of a huge crane at my place of employment. I took quite a few other shots like this one.. So, I am sure that I'll have to share them here & there through the winter - just to remind everyone how pretty the Fall can be. B-)
Friday, November 12, 2010
The Duhks - 2005-02-21 - Acoustic Cafe
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Vote - Don't Be An Idiot
You may or may not know that the English word "idiot" comes to us from the Ancient Greek word "idiotēs", which was used derisively in ancient Athens to refer to one who declined to take part in public life.
If you live in the USA, today is your day. Use it wisely.
citation
If you live in the USA, today is your day. Use it wisely.
citation
Monday, November 1, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
MB - 1970-12-03 - Philadelphia (sbd)
Genesis - 1972-11-18 - Imperial College
Title: Imperial College 11/18/72 (Night Sun 001)
Date: 18-Nov-1972
Venue: Imperial College, London
Country: England
Type: Audience
Quality: A-
1 Watcher Of The Skies 10:50
2 The Musical Box 11:40
3 Get 'Em Out By Friday 08:52
4 Supper's Ready 22:32
5 Return Of The Giant Hogweed 09:53
6 The Knife 08:44
1 2 3 4 5
Date: 18-Nov-1972
Venue: Imperial College, London
Country: England
Type: Audience
Quality: A-
1 Watcher Of The Skies 10:50
2 The Musical Box 11:40
3 Get 'Em Out By Friday 08:52
4 Supper's Ready 22:32
5 Return Of The Giant Hogweed 09:53
6 The Knife 08:44
1 2 3 4 5
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Jill Sobule - Secretive Life
Coming Back To Life
I've just returned from seeing the Columbus and Detroit shows. They were wonderful. I had a chance to meet up with lots of the leaders of the Underground. Most importantly with regards to this blog was my meeting with a fellow that the ladies all call ... Jim. He gave several boxes of DVDs to me. These are all audio files. There must be hundreds of them. It's not all Pink Floyd related material, he cautioned. So, in the coming weeks and months, you'll see quite a few non-Floyd posts. No complaints!!
As you know, the folks at RS went insane. So, we won't be going down that road again. I wanted to use Mega. However, in using them in the recent past, my computer registered 2 cyber attacks from an IP in the Ukraine. Plus, of course, I'm not a fan of the pop-up adverts. Therefore, I will give "hotfile" a try. Hopefully, things will go smoothly.
Give me a day or two to get the first posts uploaded. See you then!!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
How to not impress concert security
I went to see the first two Roger Waters concerts in Chicago. During the second night, I stuck my ticket in my wallet - to keep it safe and on my person. I left my seat during the intermission. As I was returning, I saw that everyone was being asked to present their tickets before being allowed back into each given section. So, I promptly extracted my ticket from my wallet and presented it. Unfortunately, I presented them with this ticket -
The security person was ... unamused. I was totally baffled myself, to be completely honest. I had *no* idea that I had been carrying that particular item around for all this time. Eventually, after some ... conversation ... I was able to produce the appropriate item. I returned to my seat in time for the second half, which is really the only important thing. All is forgiven! Sorry for the confusion!!
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
GD ticket
I've only been to just the one Grateful Dead show... But, the thing that really tickled me was the price. $27.50 is not at all bad, considering what I've recently laid out for Roger Waters tickets...
Syd's Birth Certificate
Been digging through the archives. Here's a birth certificate that I got about 15 years ago.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
I have recently returned from spending a little less than a week on the road, attending the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. One of my favorite bands, Gandalf Murphy, played some five times over three days. I discovered that, despite having travelled across the country, I was by no means the most dedicated fan at the festival. I took the above photo of a fellow who, clearly, took his recordings very seriously. He is holding a chair over his camera during the rain to protect the camera. The very nice young woman seated nearby is holding an umbrella over the fan to shelter him from the rain. I have never before seen anyone use a chair as an umbrella. Naturally, I asked the obvious question. And, yes, he is an engineer.
The scenery was stunning.... when it wasn't raining.... which happened rather a lot. We were wet and covered with mud by the end of each day. Heck, a few times, we didn't even get out to a decent seat without first being covered with mud.
This is a shot taken in the "dance tent" where some people danced and some people sought shelter from the rains. I especially enjoyed the umbrella with the christmas tree lights on it.
Friday, July 9, 2010
The Hit!!!
Well, I finally got a copy of The Hit. It's out now as a "Criterion" DVD, so I thought it was as good a time as any to take the plunge. Unfortunately, as with most of the films to which the Floyd have contributed soundtrack music, this one is a real piece of crap. Oh, I know, there was that Fractal documentary that was pretty decent. TLAMLIL was a gem. The Magritte documentary wasn't at all bad. But, the others are all really pretty awful. And, true to form, this one didn't fail to spoil my evening & waste my money. The characters are all insipid, unmotivated, uninspired, and poorly written. The very worst thing that an action movie can be is boring - and believe me - this one is so boring as to actually be tedious. The Committee is an excruciatingly tedious movie. But, even it has Arthur Brown in the middle to wake the audience back up - and to let you know just who exactly is the god of hell fire. (It's Mr. Brown.) This movie has a tedious conversation near a waterfall - right in the middle of what might otherwise have been a decent chase.
As to the subject of the music... I guess any contribution by Mr. Waters is highly doubtful. This thing was released in 1984, so that fits with Mr. Clapton & Mr. Waters working together. But, the credits (above) clearly do not emphasize any contribution that Mr. Waters might've made. Even Mr. Clapton only features on 2 or 3 minutes of guitar doodling used for the opening titles. It's hardly enough to brace oneself for the tedium that is soon to follow.
My advice? Seek out a copy of "The Last Mimzy". At least it comes with the promotional film right on the DVD with the feature film. Now, that's worth spending some money.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Shutting it down.
It has been my pleasure to share live recordings and other weirdness here over the past 2 years. However, the fact is that the folks who run Rapidshare are, well, idiots. I could rant on about it, but I won't.
Just know that I regret having to make the decision to scrap this whole project. Hopefully, though, it hasn't been a complete waste. I have enjoyed these recordings - and did not make very many of them myself. That means that I have benefitted from the kindness and effort of many, many strangers. I hope that I have been able to pay that debt forward a little by sharing these goodies with you.
Shine On You Crazy Diamonds. Maybe we'll bump into each other at a Roger Waters concert. B-)
Just know that I regret having to make the decision to scrap this whole project. Hopefully, though, it hasn't been a complete waste. I have enjoyed these recordings - and did not make very many of them myself. That means that I have benefitted from the kindness and effort of many, many strangers. I hope that I have been able to pay that debt forward a little by sharing these goodies with you.
Shine On You Crazy Diamonds. Maybe we'll bump into each other at a Roger Waters concert. B-)
Sunday, July 4, 2010
New times coming...
As you probably now, rapidshare arranged new rules - since 1st july. The impact on uploaders simple - smaller storage (i used more than 200gb, now it is restricted to 50gb). I dont care that i am not benefited for uploads (rapidpoints for downloading rapidshare files are canceled as well), but i want to provide stuff (and i want to do), we have to change system here as well:
1. No more reuploads. If you want new stuff, i cant revive old stuff because of limit mentioned above (i can have only 50gb of live links on my account, maybe it will be necessary to reduce it on 10gb)
2. imagine it as 50GB HDD, when new stuff shall coming, old stuff has to be deleted so:
we can make agreement:
a) how long shall i let the stuff uploaded (a week or two? or?)
b) how can you select what you want (for example we could let you know what stuff we donwloaded recently, or we can settle som kind of vote, etc...)
We get this stuff because someone shared it, so we would like to share it forward. So please help us to provide better services :) Any suggestions are welcomed.
Peace
1. No more reuploads. If you want new stuff, i cant revive old stuff because of limit mentioned above (i can have only 50gb of live links on my account, maybe it will be necessary to reduce it on 10gb)
2. imagine it as 50GB HDD, when new stuff shall coming, old stuff has to be deleted so:
we can make agreement:
a) how long shall i let the stuff uploaded (a week or two? or?)
b) how can you select what you want (for example we could let you know what stuff we donwloaded recently, or we can settle som kind of vote, etc...)
We get this stuff because someone shared it, so we would like to share it forward. So please help us to provide better services :) Any suggestions are welcomed.
Peace
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Jill Sobule - 2004-10-02 - Martyr's - Chicago
This was a strange one. I went with a friend who had a professional microphone & mic stand. We got in a little bit late, had to fuss around for batteries, but got the rig together before the show started. The opening act was a bit of a downer, to be honest. But, Jill's show was great - really something special. I was very pleased with the recording. Then, I heard that someone had filmed the show and was going to release the film. Long story short, he shared four songs, but the rest was never shared. *sigh* If you look closely at the top image - you can see my friend's microphone stand. We had *no* idea that we were in the guy's shot. It's not like he ever came to say anything. I kinda feel bad about it sometimes... But, hey, he never did share his film. So, sometimes, I don't feel badly. I am going to share everything that I have from this show - the guy's 4 films and my audio recording. I'm even going to include the opening act and a review of the show I found much later. Enjoy!
Jill Sobule - 2003-08-27 - Pittsburgh
This is another show in support of Mr. Tilbrook. He's one goofy individual. If you ever get a chance to meet him - don't.
DVD - great quality!!
Jill Sobule - 2003-08-23 - Canal Street Tavern, Dayton
This show was supporting Glenn Tilbrook from Squeeze. This was one of the first shows that I ever tried to film. It didn't turn out all that well. Ah, well, technology moves forward... Still, the audio recording came out really, really well.
Monday, June 28, 2010
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