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| Subject | Mission of Burma Blog… The Conclusion |
| DateCreated | 6/13/2008 7:40:00 AM |
| PostedDate | 6/13/2008 7:11:00 AM |
| Body | I was counting on a set break that would let me post another on-the-scene blog, but the set break only lasted a minute or so and the second set ended up being more like a long encore. It appears as though the show started late enough that they were up against the club’s closing time wire.
Lots of old gems last night. Peter Prescott said it best when he announced that we were going to party like it’s 1979. Blazing, ferocious, frantic, cacophonous renditions of songs like Playland and Anti-Aircraft Warning and Eyes of Men were the early highlights for me. As advertised they played the newly reissued Signals, Calls, and Marches in its entirety. Complete with the bonus tracks. The second set was all from Obliterati except for one song I didn’t recognize that I think was a cover. There were two very minor downsides to this show. One was that they all seemed to have a case of the mumbles when talking between songs. In most cases I couldn’t make out a single word. Not a big deal, but it means I don’t know what that one possible cover song was. The other was mic feedback. It wasn’t too bad. When it happened it was short and not interrupting, but it just seemed to happen a lot. One of my great mysterious guitar questions was answered. I could never quite figure out how Roger Miller voiced the first chord in Eyes of Men. It never sounded right to me. I sort of thought that maybe it was an alternate tuning. Last night my question was answered… it was an alternate tuning. Damn! I did not take the super camera to this one. I took the new 10 mega pixel, 3x zoom almost-as-small-as-a-credit-card camera that Jen bought us a few weeks ago. I wanted to give it a go in a terrible lighting concert situation. It performed… okay. I got the burst function to work at full resolution and a few decent shots came from that. During the choruses in That’s When I Reach for My Revolver they flooded the stage with light. I put the burst function on and just held down the shutter and it just kept snapping. I got a bunch of good ones during that song. I also tested out the video function by recording This is Not a Photograph. I figured it was probably going to be the shortest song in the set, and because its on Signals… I knew when it was coming. It came out okay too. Here are the results.
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