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Thinking Plague   09/05/1999

The Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC
Source soundboard > ? > CDR > EAC > WAV > CoolEdit (to mix with aud) > FLAC Frontend > FLAC & portions: aud (cassette) > CoolEdit > WAV > CoolEdit (mix with sbd)
Media Flac CDR   1 disc
Tech Notes "This recording is mostly soundboard, with bits here and
there mixed in from my mono audience tape recorded with
a hand-held tape recorder and a decent external microphone.

The excerpt from Moonsongs, and the full songs Behold the
Man and Warheads had to be removed from this torrent because
they were officially released on the "Encore" boxed set.
Those who own the box and some audio editing software
should be able to piece the whole set back together...


Notes:

A few years after this performance, I managed to snag a
soundboard copy of the set, but unfortunately it was
incomplete. The first couple minutes of "Dead Silence"
were missing, and there were other small gaps here and
there. Plus, being a soundboard, you couldn't really
hear the stage annoucements or audience response all
that well. Since rumors persist that half the audience
fled after the band played their opening notes, I felt
compelled to mix in my audience recording of the ROAR of
approval that followed almost every song, and I also
patched in the missing bits of music and stage banter.

This was one of the few ProgDay performances that had to
be held indoors due to rain, but that probably increased
my enjoyment of this set. Seeing the band from about
five feet away in a small club with a really entusiastic
crowd all around made it a very memorable performance.

The set list is very similar (possibly identical?) to
what appears on the band's live disc from NEARFest a
year or so later, but this performance has a few
differences here and there. Personally, I prefer this
show, but that's probably because it was my introduction
to the band.

Oh, and the reason Dave Kerman says "Don't look at my
body" early in the set is because he took his shirt off
due to the warm temperature inside the club.


About ProgDay:

If you enjoy this torrent (or any of the many other ProgDay
torrents), then please help support the festival. Buy a
ticket, even if you aren't sure you can attend. ProgDay
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can. It's always a great time - good bands, friendly people,
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About Thinking Plague:

This great avant prog band has been around for decades, but
CD releases and live performances are rare. As far as I
know, all their albums are still available on CD: A Thinking
Plauge and Moonsongs were re-released not long after this
show as a 2-albums-on-1-CD deal. In This Life and In
Extremis are both great discs (the latter is probably my
favorite). The more recent History of Madness didn't grab
me as much, but it's still pretty good. And, as mentioned
above, there's the live album from NEARFest, "Upon Both Your
Houses".

Here's Cuneiform's web page for the band:

http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/thinking.html"
Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Show: A    Sound: A/+
Owned by Andrew · Last Updated May 23, 2023