Torrent Of The Day: Sonic Youth (7-6-2007)
Here’s a Daydream Nation show for you:
Sonic Youth, 2007-07-06, Ferrara, FLAC (AUD > R09; Daydream Nation show)
Sonic Youth, 2007-07-06, Ferrara Sotto Le Stelle Festival, Piazza Castello, Ferrara, Italy
Recording by Nic: hung around neck in strap (see sy2007-07-06.jpg) > built-in stereo mic > Edirol R-09 (16-bit, 44.1 kHz) > USB > PC hard drive > Audacity (switched left and right channel, track splits) > .wav files
Conversion and seed by rappard [at] gmail [dot] com: .wav files > Trader’s Little Helper 1.1.1.90 (fixed sector boundary errors) > FLAC Frontend 1.7.1 (verify, align on sector boundaries) > flac 1.1.4 (level 
> Mp3tag v2.37a (renamed, tagged); added ffp and md5 files; took the liberty of correcting and editing the taper’s original text file slightly
01 Teenage Riot
02 Silver Rocket
03 The Sprawl
04 ‘Cross The Breeze
05 Eric’s Trip
06 Total Trash
07 Hey Joni
08 Providence
09 Candle
10 Rain King
11 Kissability
12 The Wonder
13 Hyperstation
14 Eliminator Jr.
15 first encore call
16 Reena
17 Incinerate
18 Jams Run Free
19 Pink Steam
20 Or
21 second encore call
22 What A Waste
Taper’s notes: I was in the second row center for the first 4 songs, but the pogo/pushing/screaming/blasphemous shouts 
were just unbearable, so during the ‘Cross The Breeze coda I moved back a bit to the side of the stage in front of the left speaker stack. There I stumbled into some good friends of mine and everything became a sort of celebration, a bit of small talking, screaming and singalong added by the surrounding crowd (not too good for the recording….sorry), but we didn’t talk while they played, so you’ll hear a bunch of banter and stupid sentences in Italian/local dialect between the songs. All in all I think this is a pretty decent audience recording, especially considering this has been my first “taping” experience ever without a soundboard input and I never tried the Edirol “on the field”. The sound was pretty good, Kim’s voice a bit too low in the mic maybe and the drums not too clear, but no major issues. I had to switch the channels because I “wore” the recorder with a sort of necklace, and could not point it towards the stage as you’re supposed to do with it.
- Posted by Davy Minor on July 24, 2007 at 11:25 am
