(Photo by ultimate engineering badass Tim Weilert.)

Special thanks to John and Rose from KGNU, and also Airshow, for covering the bases and capturing most of Friday-night’s Hi-Dive shows at UMS last year, including this performance by The Wheel!  (I was occupied at Michelangelo’s and Rule Gallery that evening.) Both audience and board versions have been provided below…note that the board feed suffers from occasional distortion.

The Wheel
7.24.2009
Hi-Dive, Denver Post Underground Music Showcase, Denver, CO

Audience Source:  Oktava MK-012’s > Edirol R-09HR > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave
Taped by:  John Schaefer and Rose Brunning

Setlist:
1. unknown
2. unknown
3. Whimper and Wail
4. Boil and Fight
5. Brakeman
6. A Lamb on the Stone
7. You Should’ve Seen the Other Guy
8. Once in a Great While
9. Early Spring Till
10. Laughing
11. Pounds and Pounds

A zipfile of the audience mp3s is available here.
Audience FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

SBD Source:  SBD > ? > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave
Board Feed Provided by:  Airshow Mastering

Setlist:
1. unknown
2. unknown
3. Whimper and Wail
4. Boil and Fight
5. Brakeman
6. A Lamb on the Stone
7. You Should’ve Seen the Other Guy
8. Once in a Great While
9. Early Spring Till
10. Laughing
11. Pounds and Pounds

A zipfile of the SBD mp3s is available here.
SBD FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

Science Partner
7.24.2010
Michelangelo’s Wine Bar, The UMS, Denver, CO

Source: DPA 4060’s  > Lunatec V3 (opti-mod) > Nomad JB3 @ 16/44.1 > Firewire > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Sad Clowns
2. The Golden Age
3. A Little Sound
4. Bee Is a Bee
5. Clearwater
6. Ground Fault Interruptor
7. Rule One (story)
8. Rule One
9. Put It Down (Pootie Tang)
10. banter/teases
11. Paradigm

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

(Photography braved by Lori Wolfson!)

Love it or hate it, last weekend’s Machine Gun Blues reunion at 3 Kings Tavern was one for the books.  With lighting fixtures are instrument parts still strewn throughout the venue the next morning, I’m just happy my gear survived the ordeal!   (p.s. Can anyone identify tracks 4, 7, and 9?)

Machine Gun Blues
7.24.2010
3 Kings Tavern, The UMS, Denver, CO

Source:  [Oktava MK-012’s > Shure A15AS > Apogee Mini-Me] + [SBD > 1/4″] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. (Sid Pink intro)
2. We Fucked It All Up
3. An Inconvenient Song
4. unknown
5. A Rabbit Named Bunny Stratton
6. Rock Song No. 1
7. unknown
8. unknown (take #1)
9. unknown (take #2)
10. Wanna Be My Baby
11. (chaos #1)
12. 20th Century Boy
(Encore)
13. (chaos #2)
14. I Wanna Be Sexy

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

Here’s another great songwriter-in-the-round showcase from last year’s UMS.

Robyn Aasmundstad, Dan Craig, and Jessica Sonner
7.26.2009
South Broadway Christian Church, Denver, CO
Denver Post Underground Music Showcase

Source:  Oktava MK-012’s (card capsules) > Lunatec V3 (opti-mod) > Nomad JB3 > Firewire > Adobe Audition > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. unknown (Robyn)
2. Solid Ground (Dan)
3. Most Beautiful Thing (Jessica)
4. unknown (Robyn)
5. unknown (Dan)
6. Best You Can/The Bicycle Song (Jessica)
7. Bird Song (Robyn)
8. unknown (Dan)
9. Best Kinda Way (Jessica)
10. Love Song (Robyn)
11. Sunday Morning (Dan)
12. Rescue Me (Jessica)

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

(Photo taken by Tim Weilert.)

Directly following their opening set for Josh Ritter, Langhorne Slim hurried over to the Hi-Dive to headline night one of The UMS.

Langhorne Slim and the War Eagles
7.23.2009
Denver Post Underground Music Showcase
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Mix [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax] + [SBD > RCA > 1/4″] > Oade Mod Edirol R-44 @ 24/48 > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Honey Pie
2. Back to the Wild
3. Restless
4. Mary > Cut It Down
5. Diamonds and Gold
6. In the Midnight
7. Blown Your Mind
8. The Electric Love Letter
9. For a Little While
10. I Love You, But Goodbye
11. Hello Sunshine
12. unknown
13. Rebel Side Of Heaven

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be found via BitTorrent at Dime.