Red Mosquito

They played a nice little special on the 95 tour, with the live recordings below, and pretty interesting commentary between. Interviewed a bunch of people who shared their memories of the shows, including a bunch of information I didn't previously know (or at least had forgotten). Very entertaining listen. Best thing I've ever heard them pull of on the Sirius channel. Link to download of a single .mp3 rip of the whole show is below.

https://mega.co.nz/#!XQtjDJwT!Cm0R0-t6E ... 5Zgk0pWmW0
(updated link)

Song list:

Falling Down - 6/20/95
No Jeremy - 6/20/95
Powderfinger - 6/24/95
Truth Be Known - 6/24/95
Whipping - 7/8/95
I Only Play For Money - 7/9/95
Act Of Love - 7/9/95
Little Wing > Maggot Brain - 7/9/95
Habit - 7/11/95
Even Flow - 7/11/95
Everyday People - 7/11/95
Let My Love Open The Door - 7/11/95

Are these from existing sources or new soundboard sources?

I had a quick listen and what I heard sounded like the existing sources, nothing new.

As expected.

Nothing new from the recordings.

The interesting parts were the people talking about their experiences on the tour. Although I do always enjoy that mike solo from Little Wing at Summerfest

I do know for a fact that the Summerfest "I Only Play 4 Money" was not recorded from the soundboard at all. Pearl Jam's soundman provided The Frogs with a half-ass audience recording of their set on DAT. I don't know if they weren't making straight board tapes then, if they were being dicks, or if they just didn't give a shit, but The Frogs were not happy about it when they took it home and played it, as they assumed it would be a nice board tape. There's some inside info for you fuckers.

Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:I do know for a fact that the Summerfest "I Only Play 4 Money" was not recorded from the soundboard at all. Pearl Jam's soundman provided The Frogs with a half-ass audience recording of their set on DAT. I don't know if they weren't making straight board tapes then, if they were being dicks, or if they just didn't give a shit, but The Frogs were not happy about it when they took it home and played it, as they assumed it would be a nice board tape. There's some inside info for you fuckers.

Fucking PJ.

First time I ever heard Vedder open his mouth in person. Such a great performance.

Strat wrote:

Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:I do know for a fact that the Summerfest "I Only Play 4 Money" was not recorded from the soundboard at all. Pearl Jam's soundman provided The Frogs with a half-ass audience recording of their set on DAT. I don't know if they weren't making straight board tapes then, if they were being dicks, or if they just didn't give a shit, but The Frogs were not happy about it when they took it home and played it, as they assumed it would be a nice board tape. There's some inside info for you fuckers.

Fucking PJ.

First time I ever heard Vedder open his mouth in person. Such a great performance.

They also started recording late, missing half of the first song...on both nights! Professional.

Don't we have enough evidence now to definitively state that PJ's sound crew didn't give a shit about recording until about 1998? I mean, either they don't have complete tapes of anything, or they're lazy and don't want to dig them out...or more likely, both.

The Vault shows we've gotten so far were already known quantities, and WCT's story above isn't shocking in the least. And for that matter, you'd think they would want to reissue the 2005 tour since it's already basically mixed, and would just require perhaps new mastering. But it doesn't happen, and I'm not sure it ever will.

After all, it's easier to make money selling crap that can't be distributed for free, as music inevitably will be.

Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:

Strat wrote:

Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:I do know for a fact that the Summerfest "I Only Play 4 Money" was not recorded from the soundboard at all. Pearl Jam's soundman provided The Frogs with a half-ass audience recording of their set on DAT. I don't know if they weren't making straight board tapes then, if they were being dicks, or if they just didn't give a shit, but The Frogs were not happy about it when they took it home and played it, as they assumed it would be a nice board tape. There's some inside info for you fuckers.

Fucking PJ.

First time I ever heard Vedder open his mouth in person. Such a great performance.

They also started recording late, missing half of the first song...on both nights! Professional.

I remember only wanting o hear 21st Century Digital Boy by Bad Religion. I had to piss so i went and pissed. They played 21st century digital boy while i was pissing. I missed it.

hlniv wrote: Little Wing > Maggot Brain - 7/9/95

After the song ends, Stone exudes "Let's hear it for Chad Smith!"

Chad Smith!? Chad Smith?! Let's hear it for the motherfucking guitar player who just hit it out of the park on a back-to-back combo of iconic electric guitar songs! I don't care about the guest drummer!

matt reeder wrote:Don't we have enough evidence now to definitively state that PJ's sound crew didn't give a shit about recording until about 1998? I mean, either they don't have complete tapes of anything, or they're lazy and don't want to dig them out...or more likely, both.

The Vault shows we've gotten so far were already known quantities, and WCT's story above isn't shocking in the least. And for that matter, you'd think they would want to reissue the 2005 tour since it's already basically mixed, and would just require perhaps new mastering. But it doesn't happen, and I'm not sure it ever will.

After all, it's easier to make money selling crap that can't be distributed for free, as music inevitably will be.

Well, it appears that they properly recorded many 1995 shows, since properly mixed tracks from various shows have appeared in PJ20 (movie & soundtrack), the unreleased movie, holiday singles, etc... except for the show in the Philippines, which seems to be an audience recording. Maybe they had to pay a fee to record at these particular places, and they didn't want to? Who knows. They have no problem recording at festivals now, but maybe it was an issue back then?

Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:

matt reeder wrote:Don't we have enough evidence now to definitively state that PJ's sound crew didn't give a shit about recording until about 1998? I mean, either they don't have complete tapes of anything, or they're lazy and don't want to dig them out...or more likely, both.

The Vault shows we've gotten so far were already known quantities, and WCT's story above isn't shocking in the least. And for that matter, you'd think they would want to reissue the 2005 tour since it's already basically mixed, and would just require perhaps new mastering. But it doesn't happen, and I'm not sure it ever will.

After all, it's easier to make money selling crap that can't be distributed for free, as music inevitably will be.

Well, it appears that they properly recorded many 1995 shows, since properly mixed tracks from various shows have appeared in PJ20 (movie & soundtrack), the unreleased movie, holiday singles, etc... except for the show in the Philippines, which seems to be an audience recording. Maybe they had to pay a fee to record at these particular places, and they didn't want to? Who knows. They have no problem recording at festivals now, but maybe it was an issue back then?

What I wonder is whether or not the shows are complete - because if they have complete SBDs from 1995 and they're choosing to release Vault shows from different eras that aren't complete, it's complete and utter laziness.

I'd give an internal organ for a different complete SBD from Australia / New Zealand 1995. I mean, it's almost impossible to overstate how awesome this band was 20 years ago:



Or even better, just a performance cut of the 1995 tour movie, rather than the 3rd generation or so video we have. Oh my god.

matt reeder wrote:

Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:

matt reeder wrote:Don't we have enough evidence now to definitively state that PJ's sound crew didn't give a shit about recording until about 1998? I mean, either they don't have complete tapes of anything, or they're lazy and don't want to dig them out...or more likely, both.

The Vault shows we've gotten so far were already known quantities, and WCT's story above isn't shocking in the least. And for that matter, you'd think they would want to reissue the 2005 tour since it's already basically mixed, and would just require perhaps new mastering. But it doesn't happen, and I'm not sure it ever will.

After all, it's easier to make money selling crap that can't be distributed for free, as music inevitably will be.

Well, it appears that they properly recorded many 1995 shows, since properly mixed tracks from various shows have appeared in PJ20 (movie & soundtrack), the unreleased movie, holiday singles, etc... except for the show in the Philippines, which seems to be an audience recording. Maybe they had to pay a fee to record at these particular places, and they didn't want to? Who knows. They have no problem recording at festivals now, but maybe it was an issue back then?

What I wonder is whether or not the shows are complete - because if they have complete SBDs from 1995 and they're choosing to release Vault shows from different eras that aren't complete, it's complete and utter laziness.

I'd give an internal organ for a different complete SBD from Australia / New Zealand 1995. I mean, it's almost impossible to overstate how awesome this band was 20 years ago:



Or even better, just a performance cut of the 1995 tour movie, rather than the 3rd generation or so video we have. Oh my god.

So true for the above...

I listened to the special today on Sirius/XM...it was awesome.

matt reeder wrote: I'd give an internal organ for a different complete SBD from Australia / New Zealand 1995. I mean, it's almost impossible to overstate how awesome this band was 20 years ago:



Or even better, just a performance cut of the 1995 tour movie, rather than the 3rd generation or so video we have. Oh my god.

http://wegotshit.blogspot.com.au/2012/0 ... aster.html

Liver please, I could do with a spare.

Seriously though, did you know there was a digital version of the 1995 tour film released online by the director a couple of years ago?

https://vimeo.com/68588977

hlniv kindly ripped the audio for us

Cool shit about the stage design/setup

And yea that is embarrassing they are using fan taped bootlegs for most of the songs here. They should have had a Ssoundboard of Neil taking over at Polo fields.

Im loving te walk down memory lane for the 7/9/95 show.

The getting tickets and staning in line at a department store, the radio station doing a pj a-z, the marcus ampitheatre, collective soul playing at the festival, ed coming out with the frogs with a wig

lol. "I was certainly aware of Sly and the family stone. and i certainly liked them but I didnt necessarily investigate and educate myself until after they did that"

Oh c'mon. That is like their biggest hit. Just admit you didnt know the fucking band at all until Ed turned you on.

ridleybradout wrote: Liver please, I could do with a spare.

Seriously though, did you know there was a digital version of the 1995 tour film released online by the director a couple of years ago?

https://vimeo.com/68588977

hlniv kindly ripped the audio for us

I did know that, but I was hoping somebody would rip the audio. This sounds amazing - thanks!

My dream is a box set of the 1995 Pacific Rim tour, but I don't know that will ever happen. Oh well.