lowlight79 wrote:Listened to the MSG 2 show today. The band actually sounds very good despite all the hate these shows got due to the setlists. The crowd is non existent at this show. I've been to a few garden shows, I was not at this one, but it sounds like there playing a 10,000 seat arena
it was pretty loud and a pretty wonderful crowd. Though, i was in the GA section.
tragabigzanda wrote:Re: Toronto 5-10-16: The track listing for the boot has the entire set in reverse. Is this just a typo on the site, but it's normal once I download it? Or would I have to reorder the whole thing in itunes?
tragabigzanda wrote:Re: Toronto 5-10-16: The track listing for the boot has the entire set in reverse. Is this just a typo on the site, but it's normal once I download it? Or would I have to reorder the whole thing in itunes?
Audio question. I'm listening to the Lexington, KY bootleg (since that's the show I saw) and with headphones on, it sounds like half the songs aren't panned. All the guitars are just right in the middle of the mix rather than the longstanding McCready panned left, Gossard panned right. It definitely makes it hard to differentiate what's going on which I'm a little bummed about. Has anyone else heard this? I did rip them from CD to my computer in order to listen to them with headphones, so perhaps something went wrong there (though it's hard to imagine what that could be).
tragabigzanda wrote:I listened to the Toronto Binaural show in its entirety yesterday, the first 2016 set I've heard apart from a few nights on Periscope. Overall, the band sounds fantastic. Matt and Mike are both on fire; there are only a few noticeable lyric flubs; and Ed's pipes sound pretty great. I do find the recording to be on the boomy side, and it seems like they're putting Ed a bit lower in the mix these days. My one big complaint is the greatest hits and covers vibe that has come to dominate the last third of their shows. Too many songs I'm not interested in hearing. Oh, and the call-and-response breakdown bit on Corduroy, and a lot of Ed's phrasing and warbling throughout the set also suck.
Sadly, I don't think this will change anytime soon. Luckily, the band still sounds great and has good energy.
These have been the most intense Porch jams since the '94 tour. They need to cut the Ed guitar intro. They've been doing it too long. Bring back 1-2-3-4.
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wease wrote:These have been the most intense Porch jams since the '94 tour. They need to cut the Ed guitar intro. They've been doing it too long. Bring back 1-2-3-4.
I complete agree. The guitar intro deprives the song of its immediacy, which is perhaps its best attribute.
