From: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com (edheads-digest) To: edheads-digest@smoe.org Subject: edheads-digest V4 #164 Reply-To: edheads@efohio.com Sender: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Errors-To: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Precedence: bulk edheads-digest Friday, August 3 2001 Volume 04 : Number 164 Today's Subjects: ----------------- FRFF '01 Mainstage available as SHN - not tracked [Jason Reiser ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:06:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Reiser Subject: FRFF '01 Mainstage available as SHN - not tracked Okay - I'm going through all my Falcon Ridge tapes, and I've converted the EFO set to SHN format. I have another 35 hours of music to go through, so I haven't had a chance to seperate it into unique tracks. If someone wants to download it and provide me with a CDRWin cue file, I'll gladly make it available and spread it. Or if you guys don't mind having one big track and dealing with it yourself, I've got it as either SHN (329MB) or MP3 (65MB). Worse come to worse, I can probably find some time to track it by the weekend. I also have 2600+ photos to go through from the weekend, so I'm just a little swamped. ;) Source: Schoeps MK41 > Sonsoax SX-M2/ls > Sony SBM-1 mics @ ~7", 90 degrees, 11 feet high, just behind the soundboard Rycote Baby Ball Gag windscreens with BBG WindJammers Conversion to WAVE and SHN without resampling via Zefiro ZA-2. - - Jason On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Bertram Tunnell wrote: > Why are the most recent live recordings of EFO from 1999? Does no one record > them anymore? I would love to have more recent live MP3s of them! (Because, > as I believe we all agree...EFO, although has produced good albums...nothing > compares with them live...) > > Yours, sincerely... > > - Bert (who is still really sad that he could not come down from NYC to go > to Wolftrap) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:04:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole Carlson Subject: EFO: Wolf Trap/FRFF review "But wait," I hear the huddled masses cry, "was it worth it to miss Friday night of Falcon Ridge to see EFO/GBS at the Filene Center?" I am pleased to report that it was *totally* worth it. Flew out to DC, spent the better part of a week sightseeing, etc., and, on Friday night, found our way after much wandering to Wolf Trap Filene Center. If I had to pick one word for the evening, it would be "surreal". EFO plays small venues out here [1]; last time I saw EFO was in a coffee house that seats about 200. So I'm wandering around Filene Center, which is *huge* and was as busy as a circus midway, and I'd have been convinced that I'd accidentally wandered into the wrong concert if it hadn't been for the 5,000 EFO t-shirts I saw. It was rather as if I'd stumbled into an alternate dimension or something--a *cool* alternate dimension, one where good bands had appreciation commensurate with their talent. I heard later that Filene Center management insisted on the triple bill out of concern that EFO alone couldn't draw enough people; based on an admittedly unscientific t-shirt index, this is utter bosh. Fighting Gravity was... well... kinda repetitive, IMHO. Also quite loud--I was glad I had earplugs. Energy picked up towards the end, but by then my party had found ourselves a bottle of a respectable cabernet and a quiet bit of lawn. Back to our seats (row DD, rear orchestra) for GBS. I love GBS, and they come so rarely to California that I was delighted at the chance to see them. They put on a great, boisterous set, large portions of which I spent dancing in the aisle. Highlights included a new song (though when they first said "throwing [one's] fear into the sea of no cares" in the intro, I thought it was a humorously overblown metaphor; I was a bit dismayed when it turned out to be part of the chorus), giant sing-a-longs for Mari-Mac, General Taylor, and a couple of others (and people actually knew the words out there!). It was great fun. Then a brief break, EFO came on, and my sense of the surreal returned. At all the shows I've been to, they've just walked on normally amid cheering. Here the stage stayed dark until Julie started Old Dominion, at which point a single spotlight picked her out from the still-dark stage. Very dramatic. Very neato effect. Very completely totally different (and therefore really exciting, but also weird-feeling) from anything I'd seen at any prior concert. All of this was accompanied by raucous cheering (frequently enough to interrupt the song) from 7000 revved-up Edheads. Have I mentioned that I last saw EFO in a mellow, 200-seat coffee house in Berkeley and thought "Hey, big crowd tonight!" But enough of that. We heard nearly everything off of Quick, as one would expect at a CD release party. (When I saw Fighting Gravity's marimba, I was hoping we'd hear Cantering On Fool; alas, it was not to be.) Several of the guest musicians from the album sat in, including half of DVN for Candido & America and at least one member (Alan) of GBS for Tom Burleigh's Dead. (I have crummy eyesight, but I think I saw him flipping his hair around.) The show being over, we milled around formulating driving plans until about midnight, got food, then drove up to Hillsdale. We made it around eight, plenty of time to stake out blanket space for Saturday's shows (albeit not great seats, and WHAT was up with all the high-backed chairs in the low-backed chair zone? Jessica says I ranted excessively about this, and she's probably right, but it really did annoy me. I showed up with my low-backed chair, ready to play fair, only to be thwarted by people who weren't.) Saturday I mostly stayed at the workshop stage, feeling like a Bad Fruhead for missing most of Jian's set, but I liked the bluegrass workshop too much. EFO only did one workshop, the gargantuan Nod To Bob set that featured pretty much every band at the festival. Hats off to whoever kept that sucker on track. Saturday night saw EFO headline. They started a bit late as the prevous groups had gone over, so the set felt a bit rushed. But it all turned out OK, and everyone seemed to get a charge out of them. Sunday morning saw the Gospel Wake-up Call. EFO's contribution was Great Day, Operator, and--my favorite--a gorgeous version of Down To The River To Pray, with help from Gillian Welsh. It was so cool I didn't even sing along as requested; I was too busy listening. As it turned out, I didn't meet anyone at FRFF that I didn't already know. I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to see more of you fine people. I must have been in a sleep-deprivation-triggered stealth mode. So--as I say every year--next year in quiet camping! :) But seriously. It was a kick-ass weekend, and I'm already looking forward to next year. - --nicole twn [1] Though they've graduated to the alternate location that the Freight uses for high-draw bands. *** "640K of RAM ought to be enough for anybody."--Bill Gates, 1981 Visit Nicolopolis! http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~carlsonn nmcarlson@ucdavis.edu ana.ng@tmbg.org carlsonn@seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu ------------------------------ End of edheads-digest V4 #164 *****************************