So in the last two weeks I have seen three shows. I got behind with blogging because I still have a hard time doing this (it seems so much easier to constantly check my emails and my mypspace page, though I usually don’t get anything new in those 
). Plus I decided to change my main blog program from Mambo back to WordPress. Anyways, I thought at first I would write three separate blogs for each concert, but decided to just do one big blog.
Melefluent & High Ceiling 2007-04-13
Great to see these two play together again. It was over a year ago that I was first introduced to High Ceiling. This is the third time I have caught High Ceiling and it was the best so far. They played a lot of their “classics” including High & Lifted, Illusions, and Water Rushes On along with a few new songs and a great cover of Pink Floyd’s Breathe. Melefluent also played a great show. Some of the songs from their set included Waiting for Change, O.C., Time Ticks By, & Chinese Eyes. They also played several covers: Judge Not (Bob Marley), Freedom 76 (Ween), and Olympia (Rancid).
Both bands played for about 90 minutes. This was my second time taping at the Eastside Club Tavern and I decided to run a different setup. My first time around the vocals ended up being a bit distant and unfortunately this time wasn’t that much different. I ran my MBHO’s Omnis split into the Warm Mod part of the R4 while I ran the LSD2 right in the middle. The vocals sound great in some parts while others they are a bit distant. Everything else in the recording sounds great. The High Ceiling recording is up on the archive (Flac16 Link) and the Melefluent set will end up here.
MC Frontalot, MC Lars, Optimus Rhyme, Beefy, and Dust Collector 2007-04-18
Great night of Nerdcore. First time seeing a lot of these artists (except for Beefy & Optimus Rhyme) and I was pleased by all of them. Dust Collector opened the show. He was different from the solo MC Nerdcore artists I have seen. Most of the MC’s I have seen had either iPods or CDs with them that contained their music, while Dust Collector had a DJ record player. He played a great 17 minute set. Beefy was next. This was my second time seeing Beefy by himself (if you want to count the two Mediocre Tour shows then it would of been the fourth). This was the best one. He set included Nerdcore for Life, Applesauce Baptism (new song), and I Don’t Wanna Be Right. After Beefy was done with his set, Optimus Rhyme came up. The played a kick ass set that included some guests appearances (Beefy came up for Sick Day and MC Frontalot joined them for Ping Pong Song) and two new/unrecorded songs (Click Click and Segmented Annelid). MC Lars was fourth. As I mentioned earlier this was my fist time seeing him and his band and I was completely blown away. His Nerdcore sound was very punk/rock and I was pulled in by the first song. I also enjoyed watching the videos that he played during the set. MC Frontalot closed the night. I have had a hard time getting into this guy as far as Nerdcore artists go in the past and this set wasn’t different. I did though get into him after the show thanks to the new CD. He opened his set with the Penny Arcade Theme and the rest of set included Hassle: the Dorkening, Secrets From The Future, and I Heart Fags. He closed his set with Nerdcore Rising, which was joined by MC Lars and Wheelie Cyberman.
For the recording I ran the MBHO’s cards NOS WMod by the board and ran the sbd TMod. The mix of the two came out really great (considering that I haven’t had a great SBD pull in a long time). I have posted a link to the Beefy and Optimus Rhyme sets at the end of this blog. Also, the Applesauce Baptism mp3 is posted from Beefy’s set.
Rocky Votolato, Slender Means, Drag the River, & Street to Nowhere 2007-04-20
Neumos has started to become the hardest place to tape a show. I know that these bigger venues do have to check before they allow tapers to come in but I think the security and staff need to come up with a plan how exactly to deal with tapers (maybe some advice from the Showbox would be great). As soon as I entered I had some problems. The security guard wasn’t able to get the OK from Rocky then but after I decided to leave the venue until I did get the clear to tape, a guy who seemed to be the head of the security asked me what I was doing. I gave him the whole nine yards about how I do this as a hobby and not for profit. He also asked me that if I was asked to stop recording that I would and I complied to it. After that I was able to get in but I did have a few hiccups during the Steet to Nowhere set (I wasn’t able to record their set due to time) with the security guards checking the taping policy. After a while they left me alone and I was able to record the rest of the night.
The parts of the Street to Nowhere set that I caught were pretty good. Hopefully I can catch them again (don’t know how they feel about taping though). Drag the River played a good set. Pretty mellow set. Slender Means & Rocky Votolato both played great sets. Rocky played a few new songs from his upcoming album and covered Plastic Jesus. For the recording I ran the MBHOs WMod NOS and LSD2 TMod Blumien for DTR & SM and ran off the board TMod for the Rocky set. The Slender Means and Rocky sets are available on the downloads page along with all the other Rocky shows I have taped.
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