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Cracker Live at Petrillo Band Shell - Grant Park on 2007-07-07

by Cracker

Publication date: 2007-07-07 ( check for other copies)

Collection: Cracker

Band/Artist: Cracker

01. One Fine Day
02. One More Chance
03. Low
04. Movie Star
05. Teen Angst
06. Sweet Thistle Pie
07. Happy Birthday To Me
08. St Cajetan

Notes

This fileset originally torrented at: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=508059

Taper: Richard Simms (sullen)
Source: AT853s > SP-SPSB-2 (Roll Off 69hz) > iRiver h120 with Rockbox CVS-060514
Transfer: iRiver h120 > Computer via USB 2.0
Processing: Adobe Audition 1.5 > Increase volume > CD Wave Editor 1.94.5 > FLAC FrontEnd (Level 8, Align SB)

Set List:
01. One Fine Day
02. One More Chance
03. Low
04. Movie Star
05. Teen Angst
06. Sweet Thistle Pie (JH - harp) *
07. Happy Birthday To Me (JH - harp)
08. St Cajetan *

(* = Frank on backing vocals)

Notes:
1. Keep live music free for everyone! DO NOT SELL THIS RECORDING!
2. Cracker and Soul Asylum opened for Cheap Trick at Taste Of Chicago
3. Cracker personnel for this show was:
David Lowery - Guitar, Vocals
Johnny Hickman - Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals
Sal Maida - Bass Guitar
Frank Funaro - Drums, Vocals

shntool results:
length expanded size cdr WAVE problems filename
7:09.73 75847340 --- -- ---xx cracker2007-07-07t01.flac
4:43.48 50034140 --- -- ---xx cracker2007-07-07t02.flac
4:36.53 48811100 --- -- ---xx cracker2007-07-07t03.flac
3:34.39 37841372 --- -- ---xx cracker2007-07-07t04.flac
4:25.65 46898924 --- -- ---xx cracker2007-07-07t05.flac
5:05.06 53816156 --- -- ---xx cracker2007-07-07t06.flac
4:08.45 43853084 --- -- ---xx cracker2007-07-07t07.flac
6:43.22 71140988 --- -- ---xx cracker2007-07-07t08.flac
40:27.51 428243104 B (totals for 8 files, 0.6074 overall compression ratio)

Addeddate: 2007-07-23 19:26:55

Identifier: Cracker2007-07-07.AT853

Lineage: iRiver h120 > Computer via USB 2.0

Location: Chicago, IL

Run time: 40:28

Source: AT853s > SP-SPSB-2 (Roll Off 69hz) > iRiver h120 with Rockbox CVS-060514

Taped by: Richard Simms (sullen)

Transferred by: Richard Simms (sullen)

Type: sound

Venue: Petrillo Band Shell - Grant Park

Year: 2007

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Reviewer: lbjans - - July 27, 2007
Subject: A Hot, Spicy Taste of Cracker

A good, but not great recording quality (better than earlier postings) captures Cracker rocking hard enough to make young punk poseurs take notice. There’s been some noise concerning “festival shows,” and song selection, but when you’re tired of the Jimmy Buffett wafting from every neighbor’s barbecue, blast this one from your deck and it will send the pseudo pirates running for cover and Guitar Hero wannabe’s running for a notepad.

The sound mix is well-balanced, although the bass drum doesn’t kick in until song 3; the cymbals don’t ring much as the high end falls off. Compared to 7/5/07 St. Louis show, the mediocre drum sound is more than countered by the superb guitar, vocals, and bass.

Johnny’s guitar is amped up with heavy reverb and sustain – his guitar fills have real grit as he wrings the neck and bends strings to greater effect than even the Berlin 2006 postings (check out first 30 seconds of liquid guitar godhood on St. Cajetan vs. a 60’s sound in St. Louis). Mr. Lowery’s voice is more ragged than usual but his impassioned delivery even on his near millionth playing of Teen Angst makes you wonder just what girl there at the Taste of Chicago he needs Ole Blue Eyes’s help with. Sal’s bass is sublime and subterranean vs. just plain subliminal in most other postings.

I’m a new fan, and I dragged my doubting 12 year-old son to Grant Park for this show; in less than 45 minutes, Cracker had him converted. If they rock this hard when they return to Chicago in August for another festival show, even a set chock full of Jimmy Buffett covers would be a great show.

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