Giant� Sand
2015-05-23
Manufaktur
Schorndorf

Sound Professionals SP-CMC-8 Cardioids > Sony RH1 (PCM-mode) > Hi-MD > Sonic Stage > wav > Audacity (level adjustments, trackmarking, some leveller for loud clapping) > TLH > flac level 8

recorded 8 meters from stage, central

TRT: min

- Giant Sand in segments - opening set -
- Howe Gelb -
01. Ain't Misbehaving (Louis Armstrong cover)
02. As Time Goes By (Dunja Ercegovic (Louis Armstrong cover))
03. talk
04. Train Singer Song
05. talk
- Maggie Bj�rklund -
06. instrumental
07. > Sleep With The Angels (?)
- Brian Lopez -
08. talk
09. I Don't
10. I Pray For Rain
- Gabriel Sullivan -
11. talk
12. Fall Apart
13. talk
14. The Love Inside
- Dunja Ercegovic "Lovely Quinces" -
15. Don't Say Goodnight (?)
16. No Room For Us

- Giant� Sand - main set -
01. intro
02. Transponder
03. Man On A String
04. The Eye Opener
05. Song So Wrong
06. Every Now And Then
07. band introduction / talk
08. Home Sweet Home
09. Lost Love
10. Shiver
11. talk
12. The Unlucky (Maggie Bj�rklund)
13. Vagabundo (Brian Lopez (Martin Buscaglia cover))
14. How Far Down (Gabriel Sullivan)
15. When I'm Gone (Dunja Ercegovic)
16. Pen To Paper
17. Gipsy Candle
18. Chunk Of Coal
19. talk
20. Stranded Pearl
21. House In Order
22. Hurtin' Habit
23. Texting Feist

- encore -
24. intro
25. Heaventually
26. Tumble And Tear
27. talk
28. Forever And Always

Howe Gelb - vocals, guitars, piano
Th�ger Lund - electric bass
Gabriel Sullivan - guitars, drums, vocals
Brian Lopez - guitars, vocals
Maggie Bj�rklund - pedal steel
Dunja Ercegovic "Lovely Quinces" - vocals, belly dancing
Klaus Kuntz - driving the tour bus and drums on track 1

After Giant Sandworms, Giant Sand in all it's permutations, and Giant Giant Sand: now Giant� Sand - not to mention the dozen sidelines - all in all it's just Howe Gelb and whoever is around to join in.
I didn't like the newest Giant Sand record (Heartbreak Pass) that much - so my expectations regarding the show were not too high - which is sometimes good, as low expectations are easy to surpass, in this case by a mile. Most of the new album got played and in fact I liked it much better live.
Howe was in excellent and very relaxed mood, lots of talk and interactions with the audience.
It was an extremely long show, the longest GS show I've seen in many years, and although the lineup and the music were much different from the shows 30 years ago there were some similarities making it a worthy anniversary show, the coming and going on stage, the different people contributing vocals or songs - not a boring minute.

The club was nicely filled but not packed, the audience well behaved, making it good recording conditions - but there are some shortcomings as well: there was a nasty buzz from one of the amplifiers, the levels between and during the songs were changing a lot, so I tried to adjust the recording levels accordingly, creating a some handling noises (where only one channel was effected I corrected that by the better one), had the levels way to high for Tumble & Tear, so the first 5 seconds are somewhat distorted and the md ran out during the instrumental outro of Texting Feist, mended that by a crossfade, it's very noticeable - but all in all it's a nice recording.