A show needing no intro, this was this half-way point in The Elephant 6 Orchestra’s extensive Holiday Surprise tour!

The Elephant Six Orchestra’s Holiday Surprise
3.12.2011
Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 (w/ SBD for Sets 2-3) > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 >
SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave > LAME > mp3
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
(Set I)
1. When Father Was Away On Business [1]
2. The Separating Fault [2]
3. Yesterday’s World [3]
4. Green Typewriters: Wake Up! [4]
5. Majesty [5]
6. Life Form (Transmission Received) [1]
7. I Have Been Floated [4]
8. Spiral Stairs [2]
9. banter/tuning
10. “Nothing But Love” [6]
11. “Dirty Little Birdy” [6]
12. Mechanised Organ Playing Tower [5]
13. “The Code”
14. Spare the Dark Streets [5]
15. My Honor [7]
16. As Time Passed [7]
(Set II)
17. “The Snowman Game”
18. Like a Rolling Stone [8]
19. They Broke the Speed of Light [9]
20. Rabbit’s Ear [9]
21. Hideaway [4]
22. Hide in the Light [10]
23. Sail Beyond the Sunset [10]
24. John solo
25. Holiday Surprise 1, 2, 3 [4]
26. Define a Transparent Dream [4]
27. To All Who Say Goodnight [5]
28. Nothing For Sunday [11]
29. Days Remain [11]
30. Can You Come Down With Us? [4]
31. Out Of The Water [12]
32. Party With Me Punker [13]
(Set III)
33. An Old Familiar Scene [2]
34. Candy For Everyone [9]
35. Lucky Girl [7]
36. White Sky [7]
37. Yellow Kid [14]
38. The Opera House [4]
39. Enlightenment [15]

Key:
[1] – Major Organ and the Adding Machine
[2] – Elf Power
[3] – Circulatory System
[4] – The Olivia Tremor Control
[5] – The Music Tapes
[6] – Dressy Bessy
[7] – The Gerbils
[8] – Bob Dylan
[9] – The Late B.P. Helium
[10] – The Sunshine Fix
[11] – Pipes You See, Pipes You Don’t
[12] – M Coast
[13] – Minutemen
[14] – Royal Trux
[15] – Sun Ra

Lineup:
Derek Almstead, Laura Carter, Robbie Cucchiaro, Bill Doss, Tammy Ealom,
Pete Erchick, John Fernandes, Rob Greene, Will Hart, Dan Korn, Julian Koster,
Bryan Poole, Andrew Rieger, Scott Spillane

Notes:
Occasional distortion on vocal and drums mics.
Tracks 10-11 omitted pending an official release.
FLAC files can be found via BitTorrent at Dime.

Three weeks after the release of Cape Dory, Tennis made a short stop in Denver for a hometown show.

Tennis
2.10.2011
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3] + [SBD > 1/4″] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Seafarer
2. Cape Dory
3. Robin
4. Take Me Somewhere
5. Pigeon
6. Long Boat Pass
7. Marathon
8. Baltimore
9. New Year
10. Bimini Bay
11. South Carolina
12. Hard Times
13. Waterbirds

FLAC files can be found via BitTorrent at Dime.

Woodsman’s album release party for Rare Forms:  get the album now from Fire Talk or Lefse!

Woodsman
2.11.2011
Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO

Source:  [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3] + [SBD > XLR] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Insects
2. Dead Awake
3. No Dialougue
4. When the Morning Comes
5. Balance
6. Burial Ground
7. Inside/Outside
8. Serfer
9. Beached

Notes:
CD Release show for “Rare Forms”.
Vitamins, Speculator, and Milton Melvin Croissant III opened the show.

FLAC files can be found via BitTorrent at Dime.

Here’s a recording from Nathaniel Rateliff’s renowned Leonard Cohen residency at Lost Lake.  The first set mostly covers the Songs of Love and Hate album, and the second set draws heavily from Live Songs.

Nathaniel Rateliff
10.21.2010
Lost Lake Lounge, Denver, CO

Source:  Mix [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 + DPA 4060’s > DAD6001’s] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by: Lance Stack

Setlist:
(Set I)
1. Avalanche
2. Last Year’s Man
3. Dress Rehearsal Rag
4. Diamonds in the Mine
5. Love Calls You by Your Name
6. Famous Blue Raincoat
7. The Partisan
8. Iodine
(Set II)
1. Minute Prologue
2. Passing Through
3. You Know Who I Am
4. Bird on the Wire
5. Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
6. Story of Isaac
7. Tonight Will Be Fine
8. Lady Midnight (aborted)
9. Take This Longing
10. Who By Fire
11. I Tried to Leave You
12. The Stranger Song

Here’s the second night of Fol Chen’s tour with The Apples in stereo.  (Again, you can purchase the bands releases from Asthmatic Kitty Records.)

Fol Chen
10.23.2010
Armstrong Hall at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. C\U
3. Winter, That’s All
4. They Came to Me
5. In Ruins
6. Red Skies Over Garden City (The Ballad Of Donna Donna)
7. No Wedding Cake
8. Men, Beasts or Houses
9. The Idiot
10. Cable TV
11. The Holograms