United States | 2007-11-18 | Smashing Pumpkins

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Sound Professionals Premium AT Slimline Cardioids (3-Wire Hyperplane mod) > Hyperplane 3-Wire Mini Battery Box > M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96(@24/48)

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View Notessource: Sound Professionals Premium AT Slimline Cardioids (3-Wire Hyperplane mod) > Hyperplane 3-Wire Mini Battery Box > M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96(@24/48)
location: section 309, row CCC, seat 7 (way back there)
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The Review: A special thanks to Stephan for going to this show with me.  We got to our 
seats a song or so into EITS's set.  Show started earlier than I realized but EITS 
were really bad, in my opinion.  Between the two of us, we had three audio rigs 
going and on video rig.  The Pumpkins came out shortly before 9:30 opening with 
United States, which I think is a pretty rocking opener.  They played a pretty 
solid non-stop set with a little bit of witty banter here and there.  Over all, 
I think the set list was OK.  I was really hoping for Starla or Gossamer, but I 
will not complain.  It had been eleven years since I had last seen the Pumpkins 
and I was really not familiar with much of the material, so it was quite fun listening 
to many of these songs for the first time.  It was nice to hear a few `golden oldies' 
off of the S.D. album (but no Gish alas).  The set itself was a little shorter than I 
had hoped. If you remove all the banter and encore break, it almost becomes a 105 
minute show. All in all, we got three decent audio recordings and a nice video 
recording (Stephan did all the hard work on that one).  

The Recording: The recording came out decent, sounds a little distant but I will not 
complain.  I faded out the beginning of the encore break on track 20 after Heavy Metal
Machine was over.  I had to start a new track at that point or my MicroTrack 24/96 was 
going to start a new one for me. I kept all of the encore break in the recording as well, 
which starts on track 21 with a fade in.  Billy does a small amount of talking at the end
of the outtro track so I decided to leave that in as well.  Over all, the recording is 
decent.  I am sure there are several out there better than mine, but hey, this is ok.