The B-52s
San Francisco, CA
The Masonic
October 30, 2022
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Lineage:
Multiple IEM receivers > Multitrack Recorder(s) @ 24bit 44.1khz
Recorded & mixed by hoserama
Dithered using Izotope MBIT+
Flac'ed using Trader's Little Helper
Mix version 20221102
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01. Intro
02. Private Idaho
03. Mesopotamia
04. Give Me Back My Man
05. Love in the Year 3000
06. Revolution Earth
07. 52 Girls
08. Roam
09. Good Stuff
10. Dance This Mess Around
11. Is That You, Mo-Dean?
12. Whammy Kiss
13. Band Intros
14. Love Shack
15. Encore
16. Planet Claire
17. Pump
18. Rock Lobster
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Show Notes:
Nice fun high energy show by the B-52s. Lots of fun costumes in the crowd and band since Halloween is the next day. Final show of a three show stand for the B-52s in SF for their "farewell tour" (I never quite believe those proclaimations but could be true).
Recording Notes:
As I figured, no soundcheck for an aging band during a three night stand. So I knew I had eight feeds to deal with, but didn't have any clue which was what. Know the B-52s lineup, I figured missing a key feed would sink the whole mix. Imagine doing a mix but you're missing one of the female vocalist...just no thanks. So decided to go big and recorded all eight feeds. Had a friend also backing me up on a few feeds, but they all turned out well. Ended up using six out of the eight feeds, but worked out well. Drummer appeared to be hard-wired, but plenty of drums in other feeds. Only the lead guitarist had click and counts, which was pretty easy to strip out. Only thing missing is an audience recording, which would have been awful in my location due to lots of people dancing and screaming in the hallway behind me.
If anybody knows of a half-way decent audience recording of this show, let me know and I'll integrate it into the mix.
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As always, encouraging people to get into taping and mixing. Just take the craft seriously and it will reward you many times over. There's no point in complaining about missing recordings or subpar quality if you're not contributing--pushing 1's and 0's around on the internet is no comparison for taping.
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IEM recordings are not for everyone. If not they're not your thing, either sonically or ethically, well at least you didn't spend any money on this.
Similarly, I'm mixing primarily for my ears. This is what sounds best to me. This may not sound best to you. That's a fair statement. I'm open to honest criticism (although you should have caught me when I was working on the mix!), but pointless complaining is unappreciated (naturally). Let's play nice.
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Please don't sell this recording in any way - no cash for blanks, 2:1s, or any other form of "getting paid for your time". Just share it freely.
Please don't convert to mp3, then back to wave, and then trade it around. This stuff is too easy to find on torrents now.
Feel free to remaster/remix this recording. Just keep it to your own computer and iPod.
Also, please don't torrent or share on other sites without at least dropping me a line and asking. I may want to just torrent/share it there myself. This means you, guitar101!
Please ask (and wait for permission!) before putting it into any matrix + video production. If you ask nicely for a quality high-res video project, I will likely say “yes”. If you put it on YouTube or cell phone video production without asking, I will send my cats from hell to chew your computer cables.
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Enjoy y'all!
- Hoserama/Sharebear