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4/14/11
Soundcheck
3:22
"Space Ritual Jam"
2:07
Guitar Solo #1
1:50
Pink Lady Lemonade
13:35
The Flying Teapot
6:12
Chinese Flying Saucer
7:53
Guitar Solo #2
2:16
"Washington: Dynamite City"
0:39
Chinese Flying Saucer
1:03
Pink Lady Lemonade
6:11
Cometary Orbital Drive > Speed Guru
10:13
Audience
2:22
FIN
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Taper: ZaPenguin
57:43
Rating:
10.00 / 1 rating
Taper:
ZaPenguin
Transferrer:
ZaPenguin
SHNID:
amt2011-04-14.r09
Source:
roland Edirol R-09 (onboard mics)
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Roland Edirol R-09 (onboard mics, low-cut on, AGC off) > WaveLab (Puncher (hard density, 75% effect, 0% output gain) + SL-1 StereoExpander (100%)) > GoldWave (volume brought up to 97.5% of maximum peak) > CDWAV (tracks split and saved as .FLAC level 8 ) > foobar2000 (Tags + ReplayGain)
Taper Notes:
View NotesAcid Mothers Temple April 14th, 2011 The Red Palace Washington, D.C. Source: Roland Edirol R-09 (onboard mics, low-cut on, AGC off) > WaveLab (Puncher (hard density, 75% effect, 0% output gain) + SL-1 StereoExpander (100%)) > GoldWave (volume brought up to 97.5% of maximum peak) > CDWAV (tracks split and saved as .FLAC level 8 ) > foobar2000 (Tags + ReplayGain) Location: House back-center, resting on odd slanted board that forms the ceiling of the stairwell area. Taper: ZaPenguin (zappa.penguin(AT)gmail.com or http://db.etree.org/ZappaPenguin) SBD man: N/A (soundman's policy is that only he has the right to plug into his soundboard. Laptop recording furnished to the band upon request) SOUND QUALITY: A/A- (I don't think the drums went through the PA, so this does have a bit of a "small club feel" to it, but in all honesty this recording turned out a lot better than I feared. Not as "dead" as my recordings at the old Red & Black - the renovation / remodel / rearrangement has definitely improved the venue's sound) THE BAND: Tsuyama Atsushi: monster bass, voice, cosmic joker Higashi Hiroshi: synth, guitar, voice, dancin'king Shimura Koji: drums, latino cool Kawabata Makoto: guitar, voice, speed guru TRACK LIST: CD1 [57:47] 01. Soundcheck [3:22] 02. "Space Ritual Jam" [2:07] 03. > Guitar Solo #1 [1:51] 04. > Pink Lady Lemonade [13:35] 05. > The Flying Teapot [6:12] 06. > Chinese Flying Saucer [7:53] 07. > Guitar Solo #2 [2:17] 08. > "Washington: Dynamite City" [0:40] 09. > Chinese Flying Saucer [1:03] 10. > Pink Lady Lemonade [6:11] 11. > Cometary Orbital Drive > Speed Guru [10:14] 12. Audience [2:23] MINI BIO: "Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. (and subsequent offshoots) is a Japanese psychedelic band founded in 1995 by members of the Acid Mothers Temple soul-collective. The band is led by guitarist Kawabata Makoto and early in their career featured many musicians but by 2004 the line-up had coalesced with 4 core members and frequent vocal guests. The band have a reputation for phenomenal live shows, and releasing frequent albums on a number of international record labels, as well as the Acid Mothers Temple family record label which was established in 1998 to document the activities of the whole collective." - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia which every 14 year old has edited. BAND PAGE: http://www.acidmothers.com SHOW NOTES: The only show of the 2011 tour that didn't involve interstate driving for your intrepid recorder was certainly an oddball affair. "Short, sweet, and to the point" was the theme of the night - a theme somewhat foisted upon the band by the Red Palace's somewhat oddball curfew policy. Let's set the stage here: After a blistering show for the blistering, out of control Philly Phanatics, with the prospect of another blistering show in Baltimore - and reunification with the long-absent Cotton Casino - looming in the future, the band comes down I-95 to play in a half-full club (I blame the off-Metro nature of H Street - streetcar tracks have officially been laid, but no cars yet run along those tracks. Not that it'll make much of a weeknight difference, I'm sure the whole thing will shut down at 10pm!) with all the stage character of an existentialist film, except without all the glitter and glitz of your Un chant d'amour. Throw in the fact that this would be the first live Acid Mothers experience for two erstwhile colleagues of your humble servant (Rossbot and Dancap), and D.C.'s reputation for quiet standoffishness (Dedicated Chinscratchers), and a venue that, for whatever reason, sees nothing amiss in giving a headlining act a one-hour set (forty-five minutes or so after soundcheck), and this has all the essential ingredients needed to create a good old-fashioned Disaster Comedy. Give the Acid Mothers some Deserved Credit, though - they took this basket of lemons and gave D.C. nothing but (pink) lemonade in return. From the very first few minutes, as the typical strains of the opening jam gave way well before their usual length to a quiet, moody, droning guitar loop, your Determined Concertgoer (who knew nothing of the Red Palace's 11pm set curfew) knew -SOMETHING- was in the air. Imagine how his eyebrows Danced Curiously above his browline as Kawabata gently guided his acapella efforts closer and closer to That Tone - the tone which every young person knows can only mean one thing: Pink Lady Lemonade. Was this a mere fluke, or was he actually intending to start the show with the traditional Destined Climax number itself? Oh, he most Damned Certainly was! Pink Lady was just as beautiful as always, and surprise was still blazing in my Domed Cranium when, fifteen minutes later, Pink Lady gave way to a dissonant acapella guitar effort (much like in Philly the night before, except tonight it turned into a guitar loop), and the next thing you know, the band was in the middle of an upbeat number which seemed strangely familiar. The fact that it had chorus vocals from Tsuama, Higashi, and Kawabata - along with the Distinct Conclusion that I had heard this tune before - lead me down the path of assuming this was a pre-composed song of some sort. Yet no matter how I tried to describe it to the band afterwards, I could only get two answers: Either this was Chinese Flying Saucer (it wasn't!), or it was a jam (but with vocals!?!? How can this be!). It wasn't until I had Mr. Shimura listen to my recording that I was finally assured that, yes, this WAS a jam - and it was only in going back and re-listening to the recording of the Chicago show that I realized that I HAD heard this "song" before, and it WAS in fact a jam. Yes, ladies and gents, "From Outer Space (What Do You Know)" makes its second confirmed appearance here in D.C.! It's altogether possible that the band played it somewhere in between Chicago and tonight's show, as tonight's version is much more "driven" and up-beat than the Chicago version, coming across as the lo-fi hardcore alternative to Chicago's Dixieland jazz. Very unexpected, and very refreshing! EDIT: It turns out this number I refer to is in fact a rearranged cover of Gong's "The Flying Teapot". The rest of the show quickly falls into the pattern of "refreshing and off-kilter" already established by the band's choice of set-openers. Tsuyama's traditional Dynamite City rant (with helpful interjections from the District Crowd) falls at the midway point of the set, and aside from this brief interlude, the entire set flows without a single word being spoken on-stage - not even gesticulations for "more monitor, please". It's as quirky as it is brief, and while I could well bemoan the paltry set length (while I'm sure the under-18 set who come for Battle of the Band nights appreciate the venue's curfew being in line with that of D.C.'s infamous youth curfew law, shows like this highlight the idiocy of sweeping "One Size Will Fit All, God Damn It" policies), the fact remains that this prescribed berevity forces the Acid Mothers to step out of their routine comfort zone, and the risks they take make tonight's show an absolute keeper six ways from Sunday. REQUESTS & REMINDERS: Do not sell this recording. Do not buy this recording. Do not sell this recording, then buy it from yourself. If under 18 and caught outside in D.C. after 11:30pm, remember that you were exercising your first amendment right of peaceful assembly, and are therefore included as an exception to the nefarious heavy-handed law. CREDITS: Rossbot & Dancap - Comraderie & Conversation Washington - Dynamite City Torrented by the taper: ZaPenguin email - zappa.penguin(AT)gmail.com web - http://db.etree.org/zappapenguin (always woefully out of date) Band page: http://www.acidmothers.com