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Mermen Live at The Independent on 2008-01-19

by Mermen

Publication date: 2008-01-19 ( check for other copies)

Topics: Rock, Psychedelic, Surf

Collection: Mermen

Band/Artist: Mermen

(Disc 1) Intro> Jungle Rot, Ocean Beach, The Goodbye, Last Forever, There Is A Tear, Unto The Resplendent, Intro> Emmylou Rides Clarence West Then South, To Be Naked And French Is Always Hard. (Disc 2) Blue Xoam means..., Blue Xoam, Trapeze, Over The Falls, Bondage Of The Sea, Under The Kou Tree, Intro> The Whales, The Intractable Boy, What Am I Always Waiting For? (Disc 3) Obsession For Men, wild applause, (encore) Intro> White Trash Raga. (soundcheck) Bass - Check!, Unto The Resplendent, Trapeze, Last Forever, There Is A Tear, Joni Mitchell's House, Dragonfly

Notes

The Players:

Jim Thomas guitar, Allen Whitman bass, Martyn Jones drums

Premiere of Grant Washburn's film Quest For Fear

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Addeddate: 2008-02-21 02:19:18

Identifier: mermen2008-01-19.flac16

Lineage: Adobe Audition 2.0 (mix to 2-ch, normalize with Waves L3 Ultramaximizer)>R8Brain Pro (resample to 44.1)>Wavelab 6 (dither to 16-bits using MegaBitMax)>CDWav1.94>FLAC Frontend>.flac (no DAE)

Location: San Francisco, CA

Source: 4-channel multitrack: stereo pair Schoeps MK4 ORTF on-stage>M222>NT222DC (tube direct)>Lunatec V3>Sound Devices 744T plus Schoeps MK4>Neve Portico 5012>Sound Devices 744T (guitar and bass amps), all at 24/96

Taped by: Steve Brown

Transferred by: Steve Brown

Type: sound

Venue: The Independent

Year: 2008

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Reviewer: Dudley - - August 14, 2008
Subject: excellent, as always

excellent recording, as always...and an even better show.

Reviewer: batzi - - August 10, 2008
Subject: A High Energy Show.

More straight ahead surf rock vs their psychedelic feedback sonic youth/pink floyd mood music - more pickn'n'strummin than whammy bar and pedals, not that there's none, just less. It's a celebration of their lifestyle, their friends and the effusive banter shows it - sounds like a special night for a lot of old friends. They played for them at Mavericks and now for the premiere of the movie

Standouts - Jungle Rot (the other reviewer is right they came out screaming), an epic Unto the Resplendent, a rollicking Emmylou, a Hendrix nosedive into Blue Xoam, the best workout of Obsession for Men I've heard on archive and a straight-ahead White Trash Raga. That's my burn list for the car and I'm sticking to it...I'll be cruisin down Manhattan Beach Blvd with the windows rolled down blasting this Emmylou Rides Clarence West and then South any minute now

Reviewer: very Great oRb - - April 15, 2008
Subject: superb show with great sound

I was fortunate to be at this performance and this recording captures well the energy of that sold-out show. The band hit the ground running, almost in that cartoon way, with smoke coming off them before the big whoosh. You can see for yourselves with this jam with followed on the heels of Jungle Rot.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HSJs9b3-Cok

And that was the start of one gianormous set over two and a half hours long. Great job by Steve Brown on this recording.

Reviewer: danzeb - - March 30, 2008
Subject: Recording quality mediocre

The music is great. The recording quality is not. The first time I downloaded this the recording quality was bad. I saw the reviews so I downloaded again. It's now better but only mediocre with distortion in the low end. Too bad since it was a good show.

Reviewer: ragnar1 - - March 27, 2008
Subject: very good sound

Thanks for the recording. It´s very enjoyable.
The surf-population is growing over here.
I wish they would tour Europe and play in Gernmany.
I´ll probably will never make it to the States.

Reviewer: ji rules - - March 14, 2008
Subject: Better Quality Sound

This recording has better quality sound than the other version of this show that's already on archive. Thanx so much for posting, and thanx to archive for hosting. More Mermen please!

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