Meat Puppets
6.29.2011
The Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO

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

Setlist:
1. I’m a Mindless Idiot
2. Plateau
3. The Monkey and the Snake
4. Up on the Sun
5. Comin’ Down
6. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
7. Oh, Me
8. Touchdown King
9. Sam
10. Lost
11. Hey Baby Que Paso
12. Confusion Fog
13. Light
14. Lantern
15. Backwater
16. Swimming Ground
17. Seal Whales
18. Sloop John B
19. Lake of Fire
(Encore)
20. My Baby’s Gone
21. The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Notes:
Black Box Revelation and Bad Weather California opened the show.

A zipfile of the MP3s is available here.
FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.

Gin Blossoms
5.29.2011
The Soiled Dove Underground, Denver, CO

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

Setlist:
1. Found Out About You
2. Somewhere Tonight
3. Fool For the Taking
4. Allison Road
5. Miss Disarray
6. Go Crybaby
7. Until I Fall Away
8. Dead or Alive on the 405
9. I’m Ready
10. 29
11. Long Time Gone
12. Lost Horizons
13. Learning the Hard Way
14. Wave Bye Bye
15. Til I Hear It from You
16. Follow You Down
(Encore)
17. banter
18. Hey Jealousy
19. Think I’m in Love
20. Pieces of the Night

Notes:
The band started playing without warning with the stage curtain still closed,  catching me off-guard for the first few seconds.

A zipfile of the MP3s is available here.
FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.

(Photo by Vicki Robison.)

Here’s one of 2010’s Tres Amigos shows, just in case you missed it when they circulated last year.

Roger Clyne, Johnny Hickman, and Jim Dalton
2.05.2010
Road 34, Ft. Collins, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R-44 @ 24/48 > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave > Flac16
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Mexico
3. ¡Americano!
4. Hello New Day
5. Counterclockwise
6. Tell Yer Momma
7. Switchblade
8. Better Beautiful Than Perfect
9. Maybe We Should Fall in Love
10. Easy
11. City Girls
12. Leave an Open Door
13. Down Together
14. Leaky Little Boat
15. Fonder and Blonder
16. Lemons *
17. Mañana *
18. Preacher’s Daughter
19. Sleep Like a Baby
20. Mekong
(Roger and Jim)
21. Jack v. Jose
22. Banditos
23. Contraband
24. I Do
(The Three Amigos)
25. The Great Decline
26. Don’t Fear the Reaper (tease)
27. I-70 Westbound
28. Listen to the Music
29. Sweet Caroline
(Encore)
30. American Girl
31. Green and Dumb

Notes:
* = w/ Jason Boots on trumpet

A zipfile of the MP3s is available here.
FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.

Dedicated to David “Mexi” Andrew Ramirez, 4/20/1981 – 2/24/2010.

Roger Clyne, Jim Dalton, and Johnny Hickman
2.18.2011
Road 34, Ft. Collins, 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:
(Roger solo)
1. intro
2. Mexico
3. Down Together
4. I Do
5. ¡Americano!
6. Fonder and Blonder
7. Bury My Heart at the Trailer Park
8. Wanted
9. Tell Yer Mama
10. Maybe We Should Fall in Love
11. Buffalo
12. Sleep Like a Baby
13. Never Thought
(Roger and Jim)
14. Blue Collar Suicide
15. Feeling
16. Mercy
17. Banditos
18. Suckerpunch
19. My Best Friend’s Girl > Easy
20. Girly > Yahoos and Triangles
21. Marie
22. Mekong
(The Three Amigos)
23. Whiskey Rain
24. Lonesome Johnny Blues
25. Yer So Bad
26. Teen Angst
(Encore I)
27. Wild World
28. Sweet Caroline
29. Blister in the Sun
(Encore II)
30. Green and Dumb

A zipfile of the MP3s is available here.
FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.

I ran across this little snippet at the end of a DAT tape yesterday–a handful of tunes performed by Andy Hersey in Boulder.  (This was probably just a line-level check in preparation to record Mike Doughty and Roger Clyne.)

Andy Hersey
3.02.2002 (Partial)
Tulagi’s, Boulder, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > PS2 > Sony D8 > DAT Master > Tascam DA-20mkII > S/PDIF > Edirol R-44 > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Partial Setlist:
1. Horses, Hitches and Rocky Trails
2. Bye-Gone Blues
3. (Next Time) A Diamond Won’t Cut It
4. El Llano Estacado

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