Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Concerts I've listened to, June 2009
2009-05-11 Bruce Springsteen St. Paul MN Xcel Energy Center - Yet another Bruce show I missed. Nothing wrong with the sound.
1990-05-02 Roger Waters London UK Town House Post-Production Studio - Soundboard rehersals for the Berlin Wall show. Pretty much perfect.
2009-03-28 Prince Los Angeles CA The Conga Room - 2nd show that night (but nearly as hot as THAT show). Not a bad aftershow. Nice to hear some guitar.
1970-09-22 Pink Floyd Montreaux Switzerland Casino - A restoration project of both shows to try to make complete shows out of all sources. What great performances! Finally listening to the 22nd.
1969-xx-xx Pink Floyd [1969-05-02 Manchester UK College of Commerce & Birmingham UK Mother's (Ummagumma Live Sessions) - Holy Crap. Always rumored, never circulating. Perfectly mixed board tapes. Wow.
2009-03-24 Peter Gabriel Santiago Chile - Offical soundboard. I wonder what happened to Peter's higher range. Hot band!
2009-06-05 Prince Family Reunion III Minneapolis MN The Cabooze - I must be super jonesing for some good Prince to listen to. Why else would I listen to 3 hours worth of former Prince sidemen doing Prince songs.
2009-06-09 Passion Pit Washington DC - NPR is cool and lets you download shows. Who knew?
2008-07-22 The Ting Tings Washington DC 9:30 Club - More NPR.
1997-12-31 David Gilmour/BB King London UK BBC Television Center - DG backing up BB. Sweet.
2009-05-22 Girl Talk Chillicothe IL Summer Camp Sunshine Stage - What was once a very interesting live experience is starting to show its repetition. But he's supposed to be fascinating to see.
2009-06-12 Beastie Boys Manchester TN Bonnaroo What Stage - A very very loose show! With Nas! Seriously! Nas! (really... like I care...) Great sound though. Almost board quality.
2009-05-29 Nine Inch Nails Chicago IL Charter One Pavilion - Nice recording with just a little bit of audience.
1980-09-30 New Order Boston MA The Underground - One of the rare 3 man shows. Not horrible sound.
2009-06-14 Phish with Bruce Springsteen Manchester TN Bonnaroo - Just the Bruce part. Hot! Very bar band.
1970-08-08 Pink Floyd St. Tropez France Les Nuits Musicales - Complete(ish?). Nearly perfect soundboard since it was for a French TV broadcast. Nice stuff.
2009-06-19 Eric Clapton and Steve Windwood St. Paul MN Xcel Energy Center - Oh that Blind Faith magic...
2009-06-13 Nine Inch Nails Manchester TN Bonaroo Which Stage - Last US NIN show? Possibly the longest on this part of the tour.
2006-06-17 Prince New York City Butter Resturant - Probably one of the worst "modern" recordings I've heard. Almost like an AM broadcast.
1977-01-21 Talking Heads Boston MA The Rat - Wow... The three man/woman line up without Jerry Harrison. Pre-TH '77 release. And surprising well recorded and clean for a little known band in a small basement club.
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Monday, June 1, 2009
Concerts I've listened to, May 2009
2009-04-22 Bruce Springsteen Boston MA TD BankNorth Garden - A little muddy.. but a crazy show!
1987-10-11 Sting & Gil Evans - Perugia Italy Jazz Festival - I don't know why I haven't heard this before. I love Sting's version of Up From The Skies with Gil Evans.
2009-05-12 Bruce Springsteen Chicago IL United Center - ust slightly quiet, like someone needs to pump it up in audacity. Otherwise, pretty clear. Some good crowd ambiance but not annoying.
2009-05-08 2 Many DJs Swindon UK Blowpop Radio 1 Big Weekend - A party like only 2 Many DJs (Soulwax) can provide.
2009-04-18 Chemical Brothers Indio CA Coachella Sahara Tent - Audience recording. Slamming set, and not horrible sound considering: audience recording... in a tent.
2009-05-13 Counting Crows Birmingham UK National Indoor Arena - It's close to summertime, so Counting Crows are tour... again... without new product... again. Some annoying diginoise.
2009-05-09 Nine Inch Nails Tampa FL Ford Ampitheater - Finally a NIN tour with a changing set list! Now I'm Nothing and Physical!
1971-10-28 Pink Floyd Ann Arbor MI Hill Auditorium - 2nd gen, speed corrected but hissy. OTOH, 9 songs, including Blues, over 132 minutes is awesome!
2009-03-28 Prince Los Angeles CA Nokia Theater - First of three shows that night. A little muffled and distant.
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Friday, May 22, 2009
My First Floyd Story
Found this in the archives. Check out the date!
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1993 12:15:28 -0400
From: astanley@world.std.com (Adam Stanley)
Subject: My First Floyd Story
To: echoes@fawnya.tcs.com
I haven't posting in a long time, and I have to admit that I usually do not
get into posting stories about concert trips and stuff like that, but I
thought I'd throw in my story anyway. I have been a serious fan since a
little after The Wall was released. I remember the night before I went
to camp Summer of '82 I went to go see Star Trek 2 (not that I'm a Trekkie)
and I saw the preview for The Wall movie. Then later that summer at camp
I was in the shower and someone came a got me out because the radio station
was premiering When The Tiger Break Free. Anyway... Summer of '87 my friends
and I went to get ticket to see Roger on the KAOS tour. We got tix in
Minneapolis, but I went to college in Iowa 300 miles away from the venue. We
got sixth row and I was pumped. So I went off to school only to learn that I
was supposed to have a mid-term the day after the Minneapolis concert. Being
the severe advocate of education that I am I decided not to go to the concert.
I was crushed. The day of the concert came and it was about Noon and I was at
lunch and a guy had a Waters concert shirt on. (Roger had been in Chicago the
night before.) I left. I drove 300 miles there by myself. Did the concert.
Made eye contact with Roger several times. And then I drove back to school,
300 miles only to sleep for two hours before I took my mid-term. I got a B-.
So now it's like the end of the school year. I got tickets to see Pink Floyd
in Cedar Falls Iowa at the UNI-Dome. I great tickets right as they went on
sales. The concert was the night of the last day of school. So that will
be a nice way to celebrate the end of the school year - seeing Pink Floyd
for the first time. To make things even better the night before I got to go
see OMD (my second favourite band) in Cedar Rapids in a very small arena with
general admission seating (except that there were no seats). So I've got four
tix and I can't find anyone to go with me to Cedar Falls (about 75 miles away
from my school) since everyone is partying because its the end of the school
year. So off two friends and I go with an extra ticket. We get up to Cedar
Falls and start finding our way toward the UNI-Dome (University of Northern
Iowa, BTW). We decided to stop at McDonald's for some food. The place is
packed because everyone else had the same idea. We finally order and I am
quite perplexed as to why the McDonald's staff is not in their usual uniforms
but rather wearing pink hats and shirt. About five minutes later while my
friends and I are eating it dawns on me. (This from a guy who has ECHOES
license plates on his car). I didn't know if it was cool or lame that
they were all wearing pink. Anyway we go to the venue and park (me being
nervous about my PF related plates) and find our seats. We are right along
the side of the stage about 20 rows up, however, the angle is so tight that
we can't see anything. We go and complain and this nice lady gave us new
tickets on the other side about a section back and only four rows up. I had
left our fourth ticket in the car since I didn't know what else do to with it.
Good move since I have started to collect unused tickets. (Besides about 13 PF
tickets I have a set of Clapton and Lollapolozza tickets from last year, but
those are two different stories). The show starts and we find out just how
great our seats are. The concert was great. One of my friends asked if
Great Gig was going to be played and I said no because all the tapes and
boots I had were only from the Fall North American tour and I didn't know that
it had been added in Japan. So we were happy about that. No eye contact with
Dave (or anyone else) because we were so far away. BUT, while we are clapping
and yell before the encore one of friends notices someone right next to us
(three people away from me) video taping the show. My friend says, "There's
your boy." I am so excited. I had just started doing video trades (most
difficult when you don't have a VCR!) We all walk out and I start talking to
this guy. He was pretty nice and receptive. I start talking to him about a
trade, but the only really interesting thing I have is a copy of U2 in Iowa
City the previous fall. I then find out that he taped it. I thought that I
was dead. But like I said, he was a very nice guy and saw how excited I was
and about two weeks later I had a tape of my first Pink Floyd show. (Funny
side note: Watching the tape you can hear me all over the place which is
embarassing, but the funny thing is that when the pig comes out you can hear
the taper's friend say, "Here comes the pig!" which ends up being like the
loudest talking to can hear. It's hilarious!) About a week later I saw Pink
Floyd at the Metrodome in Minneapolis and it was not nearly as exciting.
Thanks for listening to me ramble on and on, but I thought you'd like to hear
about it.
Adam Stanley
astanley@world.std.com
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Friday, May 8, 2009
Day 5: 2009 IBM Impact and Inner Circle
Someone I missed posted on days 3 and 4. And at this point the conference is pretty much over. Good stuff though. And it's always nice to see people that I only see at events like this.
Outstanding food at Bouchon last night! I had the best gin and tonic ever. How could one G&T be so much better than the rest? Home made tonic. Wow.
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Day 2: 2009 IBM Impact and Inner Circle
Today was a little bit better than the day before. The main tent was less interesting and not as full of annoucements, however, the Audi CTO talked. Not that he talked about anything relavant to the conference, but it was nice to hear him talk. Heard some good stuff today about CloudBurst and WebSphere Hypervisor Edition. Also got some good info on WebSphere Message Broker V7.
Big party tonight. Played some good Elvis pinball and then KC and the Sunshine Band showed up. Ugh. So we left and went to a party at Tao hosted by someone. Got cornered by a sales exec who is a former boss of my current boss. Not a very comfortable situation.
Wednesday night is Blue Man Group and Angie comes into town so things will be better. Must go to bed, it's way too late! (Oh, and no gambling today, so I didn't lose any money).
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