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The Lemonheads   05/11/2012

Fritzclub @ Postbahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Media CDR   2 discs
Microphones Church Audio CA 14 Cardioids
J-Card Comment The Lemonheads
2012-05-11
Fritzclub @ Postbahnhof
Berlin

Church Audio CA 14 Cardioids > Sony RH1 (PCM-mode) > Hi-MD > Sonic Stage > wav > Audacity (level adjustments, trackmarking, some leveller for close clapping) > TLH > flac level 8

recorded 7 meters from stage, slightly right of centre

TRT: 90:19 min


- The Lemonheads -
01. intro
02. Down About It
03. Hospital
04. Break Me
05. The Great Big No
06. Rockin' Stroll
07. Confetti
08. It's A Shame About Ray
09. Rudderless
10. My Drug Buddy
11. The Turnpike Down
12. Bit Part
13. Alison's Starting To Happen
14. Hannah & Gabi
15. Kitchen (Nic Dalton)
16. Ceiling Fan In My Spoon
17. Tenderfoot

- Evan Dando solo -
18. Frying Pan (Victoria Williams)
19. Big Red Sun Blues (Lucinda Williams)
20. The Outdoor Type (Tom Morgan)
21. It's About Time
22. No Backbone
23. Frank Mills * (J. Rado/J. Ragni/A. MacDermot)
24. Shaky Ground (Tom Morgan/Nic Dalton)
25. Sam Stone (John Prine)
26. All My Life
27. Hard Drive

- The Lemonheads -
28. Pittsburgh
29. Mallo Cup
30. Die Right Now
31. Stove
32. Sir Greenbaum's Madrigal ** (Allan Sherman)
33. Style

- encore - Evan Dando solo -
34. Being Around
35. Your Home I Where You're Happy (Charles Manson)

* a capella
** aborted

Why see Evan Dando twice in 10 days?
Would not have traveled for that, but being in Berlin with nothing better to do why not? And having seen a show when he was "off" there was the hope of a chance to see him "on".

And on he was, definately enjoying himself and the show, even saying so on one occasion. Compared to Hamburg much more eye contact with the audience, a couple of comments, even a smile once in a while.
And a much longer show ('though he confessed to be tired, and looked it), different as well, "Shame about Ray" got played of course but not right at the beginning. A much longer solo set, with electric guitar this time (which suits him better), with a couple of covers strewn in including a heartrendering version of the great John Prine song "Sam Stone" (there's a hole in daddy's arm where al the money goes...).

The Club not sold out but nicely filled with an appreciative audience, very appreciative, quite a few people knowing the songs by heart and singing along during the solo part, Dando sometimes moving away from the mic and letting the audience do the job. At one point, when he was doing "Frank Mills" a capella a girl close to me sang along nearly the whole song, creating on the recording a somewhat shaky duett - these are the moments for which I like audience tapes.

There was even a short encore after about 5 minutes of cheering. The house music had long begun, but the lights were still down, so I kind of hoped for an encore and changed the md, resulting in an incomplete recording of the break - mended the gap as seemless as possible.

Recorded 7 meters from stage, slightly right of centre, recording levels were right, no clipping, lowered a few volume spikes, raised the overall levels by 1,5 dB, applied some leveller manually to close clapping. For the solo part I had raised the recording levels, so this part is a little louder than it was actually. I left this as it was, but lowered the cheering between the songs a little as long as he didn't start the next song.

The recording sounds nice, very little chatter, an enthousiastic shouter to my left (but I didn't grudge him his enthousiasm, he really enjoyed himself).
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