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Giant SandGiant Sand Live at U4 on 1989-05-10 (May 10, 1989)

Collection: : GiantSand
Band/Artist: Giant Sand
Date: May 10, 1989 (check for other copies)
Venue: U4
Location: Vienna, Austria

Source: FM > RR > CDR
Lineage: CDR(m) > EAC (secure) > WAV > FLAC [7]
Taped by: Unknown
Transferred by: Jim Blackwood
Keywords: Live concert

Description

1: Interview..
2: Dreamville New Mexico
3: Uneven Light Of Day
4: Wearing The Robes Of Bible Black
5: Mountain Of Love
6: Almost The Politician's Wife
7: Love Like A Train

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Reviewer: hotslutz - - July 27, 2005
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The first Giant Sand album I fell for from start to finish was 1989's _Long Stem Rant_. Although this show pre-dates that album by a few months, it has a very similar feel, and feature the same line-up. An excellent representation of where Giant Sand was at at the time, and quite enjoyable to boot. While the audio sounds a bit compressed (which is only to be expected given the broadcast source), this is as good a sounding FM recording as one could hope for from '89.

If you're only familiar with turn of the century Giant Sand, do yourself a favour & give this show a shot.

Reviewer: jedimastermojave - - July 17, 2005
Subject: It's not Giant Sand
It's misleading to describe this download as 'Giant Sand.' The listener will most likely be disappointed if he expects Giant Sand style south-western psychedelic acoustic rock. This Gelb & Convertino show is straight ahead alt-rock. Giantarchivist accurately compared it to the White Stripes. While good, it's not as dynamic as the actual Giant Sand shows such as 10-15-04 (Muhle Hunziken, Rubigen, CHE). I appreciate having this here due to the IA's classification system, but listener beware. The sound quality is excellent and the music is good for what it is; appreciate it as yet another of those Tucson off-shoots.

Reviewer: GreenManaleshi - - December 3, 2004
Subject: it just gets betta...
every time i listen to Giant Sand/Howe i feel that i get another insight as to what he's tryin to do, but of course i'm just fooling myself. it's alot like goin' after a chick, the chase is the fun part...
and i'm completely satisfied here with the chase...
5 stars for Excellent Sound
5 stars for the insight
5 stars for the chase

i'm not sayin' his/their music is for everyone
but i can't wait for the next feed

Reviewer: giantarchivist - - September 30, 2004
Subject: Classic 2-Piece GS
A great sample of Howe Gelb + drummer John Convertino (now w/ Calexico). 2 piece guitar/drums set. Way before the White Stripes and the Black Keys were doing it.. Quality is very very good on this one!

Enjoy..

Notes

FLAC and 1st seeding for archive.org on 9-25-04 by Jim Blackwood

Howe Gelb - Vocals, Guitar
John Convertino - Drums


Note: also avaliable as part of the official Giant Sand/Howe Gelb cdr tree 'The Sandman Series' as part of the release 'Make It Sound Like Hendrix'.

Join the Sandman Series by visiting http://www.sa-wa-ro.com/Sandman/sandman-main.html

Thanks to Howe Gelb for letting this out of the archives and for allowing this to be seeded into the community!

Please visit our website for tour dates and official releases at http://www.giantsand.com

Adios until next time,

Jim