Beck & the Flaming Lips
The Chicago Theater, Chicago, IL
18 October 2002

Sony ECM-MS907 stereo mic> Sharp MD-MS702 minidisc> Echo Mia sound card> Sonic Foundry Vegas Pro> MKW compression to SHN

18 December 2021:
xACT > shn > flac + .md5 + .ffp

Disc 1
The Flaming Lips
01 Race for the Prize
02 Fight Test
03 Yoshimi Pt. 1
04 Lightning Strikes the Postman
05 She Don't Use Jelly
06 35,000 Feet of Despair
07 Do You Realize?
Beck
08 Cold Brains
09 One Foot In the Grave
10 Guess I'm Doing Fine
11 Sunday Morning
Beck w/the Flaming Lips
12 The Golden Age
13 Tropicalia
14 Lord Only Knows
15 The New Pollution

Disc 2
Beck w/the Flaming Lips
01 Lost Cause
02 All In Your Mind
03 We Live Again
04 Lonesome Tears
05 Nothing I Haven't Seen
06 Get Real Paid
07 Loser
08 Nobody's Fault But My Own
09 Little One
10 Round the Bend
11 Jack-Ass
12 Pay No Mind
13 Paper Tiger
14 Where It's At
15 Devil's Haircut

Original notes: recorded from the front of the left side of the balcony.

-----------------------------

Notes from gjfatty: When I downloaded this from Dime in November 2008, AlienRendel commented "I taped this!�Haven't listened to it in a long time, but from what I remember it was a bit boomy in the balcony. Thanks for uploading."

It is indeed boomy for the first Flaming Lips set (my advice is to lower the volume), but not so harsh during Beck's acoustic set and the rest of the show. It sounds like the Chicago Theatre is a big space, designed before rock bands were even thought of.

All up, it's a good souvenir from a special tour when Beck was riding his wave of popularity. Some audience comments are audible but not too obtrusive.

No alterations to the originally captured music were made. Tracking is the same. A simple conversion from SHN to FLAC is all that was done.

Different things to 2008 share from biever: flac, md5 and ffp files.

Enjoy!