What a difference for someone near the front row. Here is pussycat1974 showing what a modern Iphone can do. You can even hear every little melody being played which I could not hear from the top row:
This is truly the end of an era for audio recorders like the Tascam DR-05. This show will be the retirement for mine. How can an audience taper compete with someone equipped with a thousand-dollar mobile phone?
Pussycat has uploaded most, but not all, of the songs from this show. I guess they didn't want to record the new songs?
With all due respect, it's still a low end recording. You are probably using the internal mics of your Tascam? Not a problem of your Tascam per se, but I would recommend buying decent mics like this: SP-CMC-8 – Miniature Cardioid
or if you have a budget you can go for Neumann KM140 or Schoeps MK4, all mentioned mics are battery / phantom powered and you need a pair of them.
Secondly you can't polish a turd. If you have a bad recording, just ditch it, because it is wasted time, no software is able to vastly enhance your recording. Do you think it was possible for the Abbey Road engineers to make the Quarryman tapes sound like temporary recordings for e.g.?
I also failed at a very few occasions, Shirt happens, as I am a human not a robot. But all in all it's just a hobby not my real life.
With all due respect, it's still a low end recording. You are probably using the internal mics of your Tascam? Not a problem of your Tascam per se, but I would recommend buying decent mics like this: SP-CMC-8 – Miniature Cardioid
or if you have a budget you can go for Neumann KM140 or Schoeps MK4, all mentioned mics are battery / phantom powered and you need a pair of them.
Secondly you can't polish a turd. If you have a bad recording, just ditch it, because it is wasted time, no software is able to vastly enhance your recording. Do you think it was possible for the Abbey Road engineers to make the Quarryman tapes sound like temporary recordings for e.g.?
I also failed at a very few occasions, Shirt happens, as I am a human not a robot. But all in all it's just a hobby not my real life.
I had to lay the Tascam DR-05 on a table while I unlocked my "tickets" on my mobile phone for the security guard at the entrance. Then I had to walk through and be checked at the metal detector by a second guard. The idea of showing up with a massive microphone tangle of cords was out of the question. I considered myself lucky to walk through with the Tascam which looks like a taser or some sort of bomb.
In a perfect world, event security loves you bringing in ideal gear with a front row ticket. Real life is not so straightforward.
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It's been a busy summer, but that's good as we got a new tour and I see our South American friends will finally get some well-deserved shows for the Fall.
I cannot leave 2018! Currently listening again to Hyde Park 07.07.2018 - Edouard audience recording. Love hearing a show open with Plainsong.
It's been a busy summer, but that's good as we got a new tour and I see our South American friends will finally get some well-deserved shows for the Fall.
I cannot leave 2018! Currently listening again to Hyde Park 07.07.2018 - Edouard audience recording. Love hearing a show open with Plainsong.
I feel the same. Although I have no pipe dreams of seeing any of the SA shows, I'm just really happy those lovely people will have the experience. Ah, that's going to be mega love.
Enjoying the 2019 shows for the first time. There was a Nova Rock festival at 2019-06-14 Nickelsdorf - Pannonia Fields II (Austria). This seemed like a soundboard engineer's recording, I didn't know those were still being made.
Had the most amazing live rendition of Wendy Time I've heard the band perform in decades. Robert can clearly enunciate the songs when he feels like it.
I was most surprised by Primary. Robert traditionally would insert some new lyrics when he would "change the tune". This time it was
"He rapped all night about his suicide."
It wasn't until I heard it performed at the Freddie Mercury Tribute from 1992 that I knew this song. A David Bowie song written for Ian Hunter and Mott the Hoople:
Of course it's part of The Cure's shared British musical heritage.
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Enjoying the 2019 shows for the first time. There was a Nova Rock festival at 2019-06-14 Nickelsdorf - Pannonia Fields II (Austria). This seemed like a soundboard engineer's recording, I didn't know those were still being made.
Had the most amazing live rendition of Wendy Time I've heard the band perform in decades. Robert can clearly enunciate the songs when he feels like it.
I was most surprised by Primary. Robert traditionally would insert some new lyrics when he would "change the tune". This time it was
"He rapped all night about his suicide."
It wasn't until I heard it performed at the Freddie Mercury Tribute from 1992 that I knew this song. A David Bowie song written for Ian Hunter and Mott the Hoople:
Of course it's part of The Cure's shared British musical heritage.
Wendy Time is great, I really don't understand why it gets so much hate around here. Diff'rent Strokes for Different Folks, I suppose. Even if their opinions ARE wrong hahhaha
If you have a lead on Brisbane 21 August 1992 - CT version, for the love of Bob, let me know. Please!
Well, if Robert is enthusiastic about a song, it makes a difference. Shake Dog Shake was never a single, yet he loves having the band play it live. As a concert opener, it has no equal.
Same for a live version of Wendy Time. But on the Wish album, it's the audio equivalent of a jellyfish on the beach burning in the sun.
Well, if Robert is enthusiastic about a song, it makes a difference. Shake Dog Shake was never a single, yet he loves having the band play it live. As a concert opener, it has no equal.
Same for a live version of Wendy Time. But on the Wish album, it's the audio equivalent of a jellyfish on the beach burning in the sun.
Jellyfish ahahahahahh. Love it.
If you have a lead on Brisbane 21 August 1992 - CT version, for the love of Bob, let me know. Please!
Welcome to my final audio recording upload to youtube, The Cure 01-July-2023:
This is an audio-only recording, so I put up my travel footage from Australia, The Philippines (briefly from the back of a Jeepney), and The Netherlands. I was the world traveler a decade ago, now firmly fixed at home a domesticated father.
I like how The Cure was treating 2019 as a farewell tour. I mean, who knows? Every show could be the last.
That makes 2019-05-24 Sydney - Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall (Australia/NSW) so special.
A playing of Disintegration, plus b-sides and unreleased tracks not seen in record stores (ahem) until the release of Disintegration Deluxe 3-CD edition.
(Not sure if the following link is legit or ripped off but here goes)
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It's taken me 30 years, but I finally figured out the lyrics to Babble. This was a song I played on repeat from my Fascination Street CD single. (along with Out of Mind).
They featured it at the 2019-05-28 Sydney - Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall (Australia/NSW) show.
Oh nothing ever changes, nothing ever moves And I swim around in circles in the same old lifeless room And talk about the mirror man, the whispers in my ear again The hot and sticky pillow man is smothering my face again Oh nothing ever changes, nothing ever moves And I run around hysterical in dead persistent gloom And babble out in simile like dog, head, monkey, music me Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up and let me breathe Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up and let me breathe
The lyrics only make sense if you are a parent. The perspective is that of a baby trapped in a crib, a changeless room. The mirror only shows the baby's face ("The mirror man"). The pillow man is smothering you. The baby wants them all to shut up!
It's taken me 30 years, but I finally figured out the lyrics to Babble. This was a song I played on repeat from my Fascination Street CD single. (along with Out of Mind).
They featured it at the 2019-05-28 Sydney - Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall (Australia/NSW) show.
Oh nothing ever changes, nothing ever moves And I swim around in circles in the same old lifeless room And talk about the mirror man, the whispers in my ear again The hot and sticky pillow man is smothering my face again Oh nothing ever changes, nothing ever moves And I run around hysterical in dead persistent gloom And babble out in simile like dog, head, monkey, music me Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up and let me breathe Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up and let me breathe
The lyrics only make sense if you are a parent. The perspective is that of a baby trapped in a crib, a changeless room. The mirror only shows the baby's face ("The mirror man"). The pillow man is smothering you. The baby wants them all to shut up!
You could have saved yourself a whole 30 years & just looked here
Post by nausearockpig on Oct 6, 2023 5:34:51 GMT 1
I absolutely loved it when I found the Integration Box Set at the Second Hand outlet of Rocking Horse Records. I remember seeing it in the window on a Saturday arvo, when the shop was closed, and I went back on the following day (also closed on the Sunday) and i slid a note under the door asking them to hold it for me as I was such a HUUUUGGGEEE CureFan, and would be back in the shop Monday lunch time.
I can't remember if they got my note and held it for me or not, but I did buy the box set. I went and got the poster laminated and have it on the wall of my study/WFHoffice right now!
I listened to those "B-sides" so SO SO many times, that I fear I may have worn out the CDs!
Good times.
Also, that lyrics page on TheCure.com is busted AF. you need to google search for a track, the A-Z and Chron links are cactus. Stupid!
If you have a lead on Brisbane 21 August 1992 - CT version, for the love of Bob, let me know. Please!
Weirdly, I waited 15 years to buy Disintegration. I bought every Disintegration CD single as they came out, but avoided purchasing the album until after I bought Wild Mood Swings...