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    It's a late one but I'm gonna try to make this one. jgoods, you still around? I know tous has another commitment ;(
    • CommentAuthorjgoods21
    • CommentTimeOct 14th 2010
     
    Hi Reckless,


    I am there!! its my birthday today (pause for applause...), and my brother in law Derek's b-day today! So we are celebrating with family and friends on Saturday night. going early for dinner there (cajun food!), and then ready for a big show. my first in a good long stretch. We have 8 going so far, and probably a few more.

    so looking forward to it. I love this venue and the sound in there. See you there!

    -jgoods
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      CommentAuthortous
    • CommentTimeOct 14th 2010
     
    Man, the best birthdays are in October, ain't they?

    :-)
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    Yup!

    See ya tomorrow jgoods~
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    Shit tous, I hope that big event you attended kicked as much ass as this one did! jgoods, thanks for the hospitality....it was great to see the whole jgoods extended Yarn family again and terrific that you folks snagged that area.

    So old GPS-less Reckless headed out to the show armed with hand-witten directions. Directions that clearly enough guided me to a rotary that's not actually there. Hmmmm.....some wandering West found me stumbling upon Asylum St and at the end of a couple blocks, what do you know? Black Eyed Sally's on the right parking just past. Done. Sweet.

    Nice venue with high cielings and great sound. Sound dude was cool with taping and I was able to get a great snag from the center wall. I'll get out a copy to go up to tous and jgoods and it's gonna be a new fave. It was a very well played show with a pretty big crowd thus there's some chatter early but it's pretty cool that by disc 2 it's the kind of crowdiness that happens when everyone gets into the show. Dynamics are excellent.

    Disc One:

    Empty Pockets
    Ain't That A Sin
    Mama I'm So Sorry
    Abeline (Jason on trombone)
    Bad bad Man (Jason on trombone)
    Tired Of Everything
    Can't Slow Down
    On The Road
    Alone On The Weekend
    NYC Found
    Bottle Of Wine
    It's All Over Now

    Disc Two:

    More...drumsolo
    Roadhouse
    Cat & Mouse
    Wanted To Get High
    Tennessee
    Helpless

    Just another fantastic Yarn show~
    • CommentAuthorbuckheart
    • CommentTimeOct 17th 2010
     
    Hey Reckless...Is this show going to make it to archive.org?? Let me know I need to hear Bottle of Wine again.
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    Yes, I have extras to mail out today and if tous is kind enough to post 'em, I'll try to get him this one and Albany.
    • CommentAuthorjgoods21
    • CommentTimeOct 18th 2010
     
    Thanks for taping Reckless! This was indeed a great, great, show. I have been out of the loop for a few months with traveling to these shows, but one in my backyard (5 min. from my house!) two days after my birthday was just perfect. As Reckless described, thee setlist was fantastic, the band tight, and the crowd up and dancing hard by the end of the show.

    On a cool personal note, Jason, the trombone player, is my brother in law Dereks' brother (follow that?) He is a professional trombone player who was in town for a few hours (driving through) on his way back to Indiana where he is getting his doctorate in music. He stopped in to help celebrate mine and Derek's birthday and didn't plan on staying long. That changed quickly... While talking with the band before the opener, they connected, and invited him up for a few songs. While low in the mix, it was a thrill to see him up there jamming with Yarn!

    He is a Berkeley trained musician who has been traveling with the show 'Blast' for the past few years. Its kinds like Stomp, only with Brass instead of drums, and a very good show if you ever get a chance to see it...

    So, it was great to catch up with Reckless, and the band just keeps getting better. Can't wait for the next one!
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    Well I'll get this out to you folks today......sounds fantastic!
    • CommentAuthorearlbny
    • CommentTimeOct 18th 2010
     
    Sounds like a another killer show.
    • CommentAuthorbuckheart
    • CommentTimeOct 19th 2010
     
    Thanks Reckless you da man. And thanks to Tous for being the high speed connection.
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    Got caught up at work and this didn't get mailed yesterday.....will def go today.

    What a great show~
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      CommentAuthortous
    • CommentTimeOct 19th 2010
     
    Eff work, man.

    Admit it, you're old and you forgot! :-)

    76 1/2 hours !
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    tous, remember how busy you were when you were still in your 40s? Got this postal to you today and I hope you get this in time to time to get it up. Sent it to jgoods so he can hook up jgoodnation ;) in case tous gets caught up before the weekend....he is in his 50s you know. Well I haven't done a Reckless review in a spell so here's a few ramblings:

    Empty Pockets - Opening song that fights some chatter
    Ain't That A Sin - A personal fave, this one is nice and the sound started to pick up.
    Mama I'm So Sorry - Riiiipin'. I've got a mic pointed into Andrew's monitor.
    Abeline (Jason on trombone) Jason not pointing his horn into the mic prolly had to do with the low sound.
    Bad bad Man (Jason on trombone)
    Tired Of Everything- Tired of one great song after another. First time heard.
    Can't Slow Down- agreed with jgoods that the slow version was great but coolness that it's also played fast again.
    On The Road - another fave...things got loud and I lowered levels a tad....prolly didn't need to. The quiet "and it can't and it won't fade away" part was done instrumentally without vocals and it worked splendidly.
    Alone On The Weekend - Recklessness.
    NYC Found - Love the newish dance jam.
    Bottle Of Wine - A true gem. This one has it all, lyrics, hooks, vocals......let's leave it at that.
    It's All Over Now - Go ahead and laugh but another great tune.

    Disc Two:

    More...drumsolo - Interesting to have Rob's solo in between songs which also worked out well.
    Roadhouse - I always think of poor yarnfollower losing her favorite club! :( ....buit damn it riiips!
    Cat & Mouse - An old fave that I haven't caught in a while....that got 'em up and dancin'.
    Wanted To Get High - Andrew shreds this one and is LOUD on the recording. Sadly, Rod wasn't nearly loud enough all night. I had the right mic into the main bank but this place is weird with the soundboard fully off to the side of the stage...Rod's side so sound dude prolly heard him clearly while the rest of the hall didn't although he's not absent.

    Band left the stage but a rousing cacaphony of ONE MOOOOORE!!!! from me and jgoods and a few others got 'em back on stage.
    Tennessee - You would think it an odd thing to return late to but again, it soared nicely and fit well.
    Helpless - A great closer. Andrew again shreds it up and it also occurs to me hearing this one that I don't comment enough about Blake's vocals. You know we deify all sorts of classic singers but what Hank Williams has over Blake Christiana misses me.

    I hope they return to this venue~
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    Thanks for the reviews gents! Sounds like another ripper!

    Cant wait to get my hands on it!
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      CommentAuthortous
    • CommentTimeOct 20th 2010 edited
     
    Got it, old man. First attempt at importing says there's a disc error.

    :-(
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      CommentAuthortous
    • CommentTimeOct 20th 2010 edited
     
    Yup, 1st disc is bad. 2nd one is fine. Maybe you can do another burn and give it to me Friday?
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    GOD DAMMIT! Was thinking as I was off to the PO that I shold check 'em but didn't have time. I'll be sure to have a clean disc 1 tomorrow. Grrrr.....disc one has all the new stuff.

    Sounds pretty decent though, no?
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      CommentAuthortous
    • CommentTimeOct 21st 2010
     
    More than decent.

    However, not as good as the sound in about, what?, 35 1/2 hours?
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    Well hopfully. It's a really beautiful hall and I guess I'll have the authority to crack skulls on anyone talking through Bottle Of Wine!
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      CommentAuthortous
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2010
     
    Thanks once again to RC for this fine recording:

    http://www.archive.org/details/Yarn2010-10-16
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      CommentAuthorant5marching
    • CommentTimeOct 28th 2010 edited
     
    Got this one on now... thanks RC & tous!

    Great start! Empty pockets > Aint a sin, couple of my fav tracks right there.
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      CommentAuthorhoppedup
    • CommentTimeOct 28th 2010
     
    From the Live Music Archive FAQ:

    What file formats are accepted for contributions to the Live Music Archive?

    Currently, the Live Music Archive will only accept audio files in either of two lossless formats: FLAC (.flac) or Shorten (.shn). Please Note that MKW files (.mkw) are *NOT* an acceptable file format for your contributions because they lack cross-platform compatibility (Mac users are unable to play or decode MKW files)

    In addition, please do not upload the lossy files (MP3 or OGG) next to your FLAC or SHN format files - the Archive creates those files automatically, provided that the contributor agrees to having them available. This ensures that all the files here have uniform quality options selected.
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      CommentAuthortous
    • CommentTimeOct 31st 2010
     
    Here's the deal.

    RC sends me audio discs that have .cda files. My understanding is that those "files" are only pointers to the audio files. When I rip these files, I get .mp3 files in iTunes and that's what I've been uploading.

    I understand they're not lossless.

    Is there a way to do it differently than what I'm doing or should I get different files from RC?

    Appreciate any help.
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      CommentAuthorhoppedup
    • CommentTimeNov 1st 2010
     
    Yeah. You can change your import settings on itunes (Edit > Preferences > General > click on import settings button and change from mp3 encoder to WAV encoder). Then you could encode to flac using flac frontend or Trader's Little Helper (what I use, has intuitive GUI). There may be a way to encode to flac directly in itunes, but I don't know. I didn't see flac as an option in the dropdown and I don't use itunes much. The easiest way would be to have RC send you the lossless files (preferably flac) on a data disc versus one burned as CD audio. That leaves less steps in the lineage.

    If you have any trouble post here or email me at sneakrouteATgmail.com. I'd be happy to help.
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      CommentAuthortous
    • CommentTimeNov 1st 2010
     
    Thanks. I have both of those TLH is great.

    I didn't think ripping to wav and then back to flac was the way to go. Starting with the source files is obviously the best.

    I'll re-rip to wav and re-up tonight.
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      CommentAuthorhoppedup
    • CommentTimeNov 1st 2010
     
    LMA should only accept flac or shn. But I don't think there is anything in place with their software to stop people from uploading wav,aac,mp3 etc. Exact Audio Copy may work a little easier for ripping if you want to go the .cda route versus data disc. WAV to flac and back is no issue as they are both lossless.

    You can rip directly from .cda to flac with a player like Foobar2000 (what I use for all playback and tagging) , but I haven't used it for that yet. Winamp with a flac encoder plugin will work as well I believe.

    I tag all my flacs with the Live Show Tagger plugin for Foobar2000. I just put my text file in the folder with the flac files, select all the files in the playlist, right click and select LST. Easy to do and now each file has the title, artist, date, venue etc. on it. This information is lost when burning an audio disc, though.
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    Oh man, I just read a page of Greek!

    Until I get off my damn dial-up, I just don't have any reason to learn this stuff. I also just run an old D8 DAT deck so the only way I can convert it is to the standalone burner. I'd be more than happy to mail the DAT master to someone who could grab the proper file format but I don't know anybody who still runs DAT.
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      CommentAuthorhoppedup
    • CommentTimeNov 1st 2010
     
    There is a DAT taper here in Greensboro who tapes locally and sends the tapes to a friend in Vermont for transfer/processing. I do not have a DAT deck or I would help out.

    RC, am I correct in assuming you are transferring realtime to a burner that is not connected to any type of PC? Are you tracking these out or just sending tous one big raw file? I'm not sure on the workflow for transferring from DAT, but seems like you'd only need broadband internet to upload.

    My biggest hurdle is doing my processing on a 7 year old PC with 512 megs of RAM. Doing a matrix of a 3+ hour show really sucks.
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    Yup I run the master onto a Sony standalone burner. I place tracks manually either at the show by hitting the record button or during post production as I'm laying it down. That explains the few that are occasioanlly off by a second or two. I'd rather be a tad late than a tad early though. tous' bud made a nice soundboard of Worchester last spring but he unfortunately (small complaint) placed the tracks at the ends of songs. Although I commonly play Yarn sets straight through, if I do jump to a song, I don't want to wait out the banter.

    If you can research the cat from Vermont who will upload the proper files, I'd be glad to contact him and mail him my master when I'm done making my copy.
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      CommentAuthorhoppedup
    • CommentTimeNov 1st 2010
     
    I can check into it. I think the guy in Vermont just does it as a favor for an old friend. There are people on taperssection.com who offer to transfer DATs. I'll see if I can dig up a thread. It's my understanding you need a good sound card on your PC for these types of transfers. I leave all banter at the end of a track or track it separately if it's over a minute or so.
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    itunes doesnt support flac.... cause it sucks ass!

    .cda to wav is still going to be a lot better than straight to MP3 and I dont trust itunes to play my files, let alone convert them for me.

    I'm in between PCs at the moment, but more than happy to help out with coverting/uploading RC.

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