No, no new European tour yet, although they have just announced details of their new album release and American tour. But having written about their last Amsterdam show at Paradiso, today I noticed a link on Largefartingboy linking to a bootleg, which is both good and bad news.
It’s a nice keepsake, and has the potential to make one person reading this a little bit happier. Plus the quality is okay. In bootleg terms, I’d rate it as a B. But I also get frustrated when bootlegs are only made available in FLAC and not both FLAC and mp3 - especially as archive.org facilitates that.
I spent many years studying audio technology and I know fine well the benefits of a lossless codec, but in the bootlegging world, where often the audio quality is limited by the quality of a room, speaker cabinets, microphones and the people around you, I generally feel that a decently encoded mp3 won’t disrupt the sound quality. I can live with re-encoding files at home (as I see no point in storing it in FLAC), but it feels like a waste of time when you have to do it often. Of course, what really bugs me are those bootleggers who request you don’t convert the files, and to them I’d say ‘bugger off’. But this page doesn’t say that, and I am grateful yet another gig I was at this year is available. The only negative was using much more bandwidth than seemed necessary.
Anyway, the whole batch of files can be grabbed from here.
Track 18 is mine, MINE I TELL YOU. Or, my note gets read in it. Still, that was pretty good.
And yes, I’m converting it to mp3 as well. I guess some bands don’t like lossy formats to be distributed, like it matters for an audience recording anyway… which is the case for the Decemberists as well, as can be read at the policy notes.
Comment by Onno — July 28, 2006 @ 8:39 am
it’s a fair point. i should maybe have kept my complaining separate, as it’s long running annoyance to me. i just get really frustrated when some freak who’s recorded 90 minutes of audience chatter and bad karaoke makes you download 500mb and warns you not to convert it to any other format.
i had forgotten about the note. what about marie speaking? did she make it on there?
Comment by stevenmc — July 28, 2006 @ 9:23 am
I haven’t listened to the whole thing yet, but I think the taper was too far back to pick up what we were yelling. Only Colin’s replies are audible.
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