Horribly recorded, cassette-sourced bootleg.

[screw_ball]

I downloaded this from the old Hundredth Meridian and can't remember where it was from. I think it may have been a Montreal show but all of the Montreal bootlegs I've downloaded since haven't been of any help. This was obviously recorded by some guy one a tape recorder. The band is barely audible over him and his buddies singing along and the cheering of the crowd. It was possibly the worst non-cell phone cam bootleg I have ever heard and, yet, it had this amazing charm to it. You could just feel how much fun these guys were having and how the taper had no clue how to tape a show but decided that he wanted to do it anyway, to preserve the feelings he was experiencing at the time more than the music itself and even if that wasn't intent (it probably wasn't; he probably just didn't know anything about taping) it's how it ends up sounding to me. It may sound like ass and be a horrible recording of the band, but it's the closest I've come to a real concert experience with an audio bootleg. Most bootlegs are recorded at a distance to avoid distortion or to get a good view of a stage and all of that but they end up sounding so... distant. This is negligible, though, if the music is clear because that's usually the point of listening to a bootleg: the music. Still, there's just something special about this one, and it isn't the music.

...or maybe it really just sucks and I'm making all of this up based on something I heard once, ages ago. Does anyone have this?

[chris]

Most, if not all, of the files from the original - Jerremy hosted - hundredthmeridian are still available on my server: http://thehundredthmeridian.com/ftp.html

The description doesn't wring a bell, unless it is a recoding from Syracuse where the taper is wearing his mics and goes to get a beer, and the washroom... and as the listener you go along.

[Tthip]

What is the setlist?

[screw_ball]

No, Chris, it's not the Syracuse show since it's like this the whole set and the guy doesn't go anywhere, though I'd love to hear the Syracuse bootleg, hahahaha.

As far as the setlist goes... I don't remember. This was a few years ago when I first discovered the FTP. I'll check agai0n, but I didn't find it last time. Maybe it wasn't Montreal like I remembered...

[sean.bonner]

Most, if not all, of the files from the original - Jerremy hosted - hundredthmeridian are still available on my server: http://thehundredthmeridian.com/ftp.html

The description doesn't wring a bell, unless it is a recoding from Syracuse where the taper is wearing his mics and goes to get a beer, and the washroom... and as the listener you go along.

Two blue, vodka and 7-Up?