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The Mars Volta   04/04/2008

House of Blues, Myrtle Beach, SC
Source external mics/battery box/device (.wav format) > .wav file transferred via USB & "normalized" in SoundForge > track indexing with CD Wave Editor > FLAC'd with FLAC Frontend (Level 8)
Media Flac CDR   2 discs
Notes "If You Don't Like It, Go Home..."
Tech Notes "BAND: The Mars Volta
DATE: April 4, 2008
TITLE: "If You Don't Like It, Go Home..."
VENUE: House of Blues
LOCATION: North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
QUALITY: c+ audience recording


Archivists: The Dover Boys

A lossless recording - external mics/battery box/device (.wav format)

.wav file transferred via USB & "normalized" in SoundForge &
track indexing with CD Wave Editor & FLAC'd with FLAC Frontend (Level 8)

The sound quality is not very good. Bad position for recording behind band's
soundboard - the music was too loud and knocked down recording levels. Original
.wav file was nearly flat-lined - some normalizing made it listenable.

Due to mistakes made by the taper, most of Aberinkula was lost and all of Drunkship
is missing. However, everything else is there including a nice Cedric rant. You
can hear a guy in the crowd yell something like "What are you doing?!" which sets
off Cedric. I looked at the setlist at the soundboard, and it appears that the
night was cut short, maybe due to Cedric being upset. The following three songs
were after Drunkship on the setlist at the soundboard, but were not played ---

Ilyena
Meccamputechture
Day of the Baphomets.


There's also a bit of digi-noise somewhere in the recording, and it is also on the
master recording - sorry!




TRACKS:
intro music
Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)
Viscera Eyes
Wax Simulcra
Goliath
pre-Ouroboros
Ouroboros
Tetris
Tetragrammaton 1
Tetragrammaton 2
"if you don't like it..."
Agadez
"that's what we're doing"
Cygnus.... Vismund Cygnus
Aberinkula (cut short due to taper error)


not there - Drunkship (recorded, but then lost due to taper error)
no encores



This is how the song names were listed on the setlist
at the soundboard.

Roulette
Viscera
Wax Simulcra
Goliath
Obourboros
Tetris
Agadez
Cygnus
Arinkula
Drunkship
Ileyna
Mecca
Baphomets"
Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Show: A    Sound: A--
Owned by Andrew · Last Updated May 23, 2023