8 posts tagged “music”
After a day off came the lovely pairing of Workingman's Dead first set and American Beauty for set two. These albums were released back to back so it makes sense to see them together in a show.
The second self titled Dead album otherwise known as "Skullfuck" or "Skull and Roses" followed on the next night. For the second set Phil skipped ahead a decade for a little Dead Set. Go to etree to get aud copies of these shows, although Phil is likely to release soundboards of the whole Warfield run as he has for other multi-night stands in the past.
With renewed energy the band explored choice album cuts while debuting two new songs. "Already There," a Storm in Heaven cut sounded lovely as well as a spontaneous "Gravity Grave," from the Verve EP. Lead man extraordinaire Richard Ashcroft already had the acoustic guitar on for "Drugs Don't Work" but bassist Simon Jones, clearly enjoying himself played a bit of the "Gravity Grave" bassline drawing anxious pleas from the audience. Ashcroft picked up on it saying how Simon wanted to play a "15 minute" version. He handed his acoustic back to the roadies and they were off into the song. Just the type of interplay that shows when a band is enjoying themselves. The complete setlist is here.
Check out Richie Lewis's new band Richie and the Creeps . With a professed interest in 50's horror film and playing a type of swamp-stomp rock, this effort by the former lead singer of Tumbleweed is worth the listen.
The usefulness of the MP3 is at its end. Before the world went high-speed internet and storage space was measured in megabytes people needed a shortcut around the relatively large Audio Wave File used on audio compact discs like that Eagles Greatest Hits Vol 2 on your shelf. Thus the MP3, which at standard compression (128kb/s), is about 1/10 the size of its source wave file was introduced. The only problem is that MP3's loose data, that is to say data is simply discarded in order to shrink them down so small. This loss of data is why MP3's are termed lossy and the effects are most noticeable in the high end; in the interplay of the ringing cymbals for example. Live recordings sound especially bad which led the live music community to adopt lossless compression long ago, first with Shorten (SHN) and now with the superior Free Lossless Audio Code) FLAC.
It's really high time everybody switched over to FLAC now because we have the room. Many of us have the high-speed internet. We don't actually have to listen to mutilated music any longer. This is the future, it's time to embrace it.
Also it's good news for Hookah fans in Alaska and Hawaii cause the boys are coming soon to a venue near you.
