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Animal Collective   03/24/2006

Recher Theatre, Towson, MD
Source Radioshack 33-3021 Unidirectional (in waistband of pants for 1st song,then breast pocket, straight in front of house right stack) > Sony MZ-R500 (AVLS on) > .WAV (GoldWave) - 16 bit mono signed > .WAV (GoldWave)- 16 bit stereo signed > 0.01 s
Media FLAC   1 disc
Notes on disc with Flock of seagulls - 8/4/82
Tech Notes id:

Animal Collective 2006-03-24Recher Theatre - Towson, MD
Source: Radioshack 33-3021 Unidirectional (in waistband of pants for 1st song,
then breast pocket, straight in front of house right stack) > Sony MZ-
R500 (AVLS on) > .WAV (GoldWave) - 16 bit mono signed > .WAV (GoldWave)
- 16 bit stereo signed > 0.01 second delay added to right channel for
faux stereo and depth > CD-WAV > .FLAC level 8 > foobar 2000 (ReplayGain
added)

Location: Floor, between five and ten feet from house right / stage left stack

Taper: ZaPenguin (pjzyhfz02@sneakemail.com or
http://db.etree.org/ZappaPenguin)


TXT FILE BEST VIEWED WITH SOME COMBINATION OF WORD WRAP AND POSSIBLE WINDOW MAXIMIZING


Requests and Ego:

Do not sell this recording. Like a statement in a text file ever stopped
anyone - here, how about this - sell this recording anywhere you possibly can,
make sure to sell it for LOT$ OF MONEY, and please, make sure to let the
band know - they might want to buy it from you, and certainly wouldn't
contact any appropriate authorities, because they're hippies, all musicians
are hippies, and hippies don't trust authority, and love getting ripped
off. Everyone knows that.

Include this source information when trading.

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UNDER ABSOLUTELY NO CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER MAY YOU, THE ALLEGED DOWNLOADER
OF THIS HERE FILE, AS REGISTERED BY THE USA GOVERNMENT TRACKING PERMIT
#0421416891, CONVERT, ENCODE, DECODE, OR RECODE TO THE UNTRUSTWORTHY,
SHAMEFUL, MALODOROUS, AND DOWNRIGHT UNETHICAL FORMAT KNOWN AS ".SND"!
IT IS THE FORMAT OF SHYSTERS AND MALIGNANT CROOKS! IF I, THE TAPER
AND TORRENTER OF THESE HERE FILES, DONE CATCH YOU CONVERTING IT, I
WILL DO SOMETHING SO HORRIBLY VIOLENT THAT JUST THINKING ABOUT TYPING
IT WILL CAUSE YOU EMOTIONAL SUFFERAGES AND CONDENSATION DAMAGE ON YOUR
UPPER LIP AREA! ALL CAPS MEANS YOU HAD BETTER TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY BECAUSE
IT IS SERIOUS!
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On the other hand...

Feel ABSOLUTELY FREE to convert to MP3, OGG, or even, under dire circumstances,
WMA/AAC, even though those last two formats can be safely categorized as "wretched
week old dog shit".

<SOAPBOX> If there's one thing that strikes me as arrogantly clueless, it's lossless traders' ?Purity of Essence? demands. The way I see it, there are plenty of people who are either too low on hard drive space, too slow on bandwidth, or simply too casual to seek out a gigantic lossless bittorrent that may not even be active a year from now. These people can be fans too.
Step back and think about it - are we in this for our egos or for the bands we love? I imagine we can agree that the bands come before the ego.
So, this ?here's a wonderful rare underground concert showing a different side of the band BUT DON'T YOU DARE BLAH BLAH BLAH? garbage is like 60s bands demanding that they don't get played on AM radio. Or more accurately, the mysterious agents of the 60s bands demanding that they don't get played on AM radio.
Yes, there is quality difference between lossless and lossy, just as there is a quality difference between FM and AM radio - but, let's face facts - aren't we really in this for the bands? And, assuming that as a given - are we really willing to deny Enrico Caljdreas-Edn-Amadntr-Atantlr, the mythical Crown Prince of the Sultanland Empire (total bandwidth 4K/sec and counting), the opportunity to check out what a band sounds like live (and possibly convince his father to offer a princely, quite lucrative sum to the band in exchange for a private show), just because our dicks are implanted deep within the wretched confines of our collective bowels? As an utterly ridiculous man, I implore you all to stop being so utterly ridiculous. </SOAPBOX>

I only ask that, if and when you convert this to MPREG ASS-IO "LOSSY" 3, you keep this text file in the same directory, so that future downloaders can be made aware of a better quality, tradeable version out there in the ether. If you wish to append your own comments regarding the mp3 conversion process, please do so at the very bottom.

Those of you uneasy about ending up with MP3 sourced material in trade (thanks to dangerous, sassy rebel upstarts like myself allowing the new owners of this file to do as they please) should do yourselves a favor, and visit http://www.audiohub.org/get/fa/fa.htm - a webpage that explains, on pretty idiot-friendly level, how to detect lossy sourced audio, using free programs such as EAC and TAU. When setting up your trades, ask for a minute long .FLAC sample, if you're that utterly paranoid, and you can see just what kind of lineage you're getting.

And, finally, to borrow a line from one of the classics of American TV: Keep circulating the tapes [/CDs/Hard drives/DVDs/Shows]

Setlist, Show, and Superego:

Setlist:
#1
Banshee
Rev. Green
BBB
Street Flash
Chores
Safer
Peace Bone
We Tigers
Cuckoo
AMV
Grass

Show Notes:
Animal Collective played first. The opening act, Storsveit Nix Noltes, played after the Animal Collective.
Comparing this show to my only other Animal Collective experience - the Seattle show recently torrented - is like comparing something to something else, one of which is much less as good than the first. The band was either having an off night in Seattle, or was on absolute -fire- tonight - or possibly the Recher's sound system is much better, or maybe it's all of the above. Songs that sorta came, did their thing, and dipped out in Seattle are barging through the front door of your consciousness, torching your brain's porno mags, and then freestyling at one hundred fifty words per minute while their girlfriends firedance in the background at this show. It's a pity the recording quality on this isn't pristine - this show deserves to be cranked to the maximum levels allowed by science.
Enough said.

Torrent notes:

Track list:
01) intro
02) #1
03) Banshee
04) Rev. Green
05) BBB
06) pause
07) Street Flash
08) Chores
09) Safer
10) Peace Bone
11) We Tigers
12) encore
13) Cuckoo / AMV
14) AMV
15) Grass

Recording Notes:
There are three known audio recordings from this date. Of the three tapers who descended into the murky depths of the Recher that night, I had the worst equipment, but the best luck. I secured a spot right next to the left stacks, in a dark corner far from the watchful eyes of the crack frat security squad, and managed to tinker with my wires in relative peace and quiet. At first, I took the windshield off the microphone and stuck it in the waistband of my pants. Paranoid logic soon prevailed, however, and before the band started I had screwed the windshield back on - creating some audible noise during the band intro, which impatience and lack of professionalism have conspired to compel me to leave as-is. Sometime between Banshee and Safer I had moved the microphone to my breast pocket, and though she was not pointed at the stack, she still did a more than sufficient job in capturing the variety of squeals and pooms that emanated from those lovely, large speakers. This being a very crude microphone, I would not approach this recording expecting the same quality as your average Flying Frog Brigade recording, but to this taper, weaned on the audience recordings of Frank Zappa, it is more than listenable.
Of the other two recordings, one has lovely, crystal clear high end - and complete distortion and crud that basically kills the low end. The other, not much is known of he, but will probably be of higher quality than this, being recorded on actual "equipment", as opposed to mere "stuff".
I like this recording. Granted, not perfect, but it has a nice mix of music and audience - especially in the very beginning. I left the entire intro in, complete with the sublimely deranged commentary of a beer drinker to my front-left. During the intro, you can hear me fiddling with the mic head - rest assured that this isn't a consistent noise.
The tracking was definitely a challenge - as every single torrenter thus far has mentioned. The AC has a way of fading from track to track without a distinct ?start? of any sort - so do forgive me if your ears hear a different beginning or ending than mine. The absolute worst part was the end - Peace Bone into We Tigers, and Cuckoo into AMV. I left some (~5 seconds) of what could be considered AMV on the end of Cuckoo, just to have a nicer beginning to AMV proper. We Tigers was a bitch, but fared better.
A bit more on the sound quality - this could probably benefit from some re-EQ, but see first paragraph in re: impatience and lack of professionalism on my part. The low end could use a punch, the mid range could use some seperation, the high end could definitely stand to be turned down a notch. Should anyone wish to remaster this, do so with my, the taper's, blessing.
Remember that the right channel has 0.010 of silence at the very beginning - to recreate the original mono master wav, combine all .flacs into one .wav, delete the first 0.010 of the right channel, and save as a 16 bit mono file - then tinker away.
And now, the major reason to include this here text file in future reconfigurations: I'm always looking to trade shows and share banter. Visit my etree.org page and go nuts.

(by Taper: ZaPenguin (pjzyhfz02@sneakemail.com & http://db.etree.org/zappapenguin))

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