THE GOLDEN GRASS
Freak Valley Festival Vol. 5
AWO Gelaende, Netphen-Deuz, Germany
May - 28 - 2016
Day # 3 - Act # 5 (15:55 -> 16:40)
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A BLUESHACKS, MIRO, RACKHIR, LORD DIE and SPACEBANDIT taping cooperation
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Rec. Info:
Sony ECM 717 -> ZoomH2n (@ WAV 16/44) -> MemoryCard -> HD -> Audacity (edit/remaster) -> WAV 16/44 -> TLH8 -> FLAC -> DIME -> YOUR EARS AND MIND...so far away in outer space...
Recorded by dear MIRO close to the stage edge almost dead center. Very fine recording, almost nothing to complain. The vocals are a bit low in the mix and a few hollers here and there.
Sorry, no setlist for this show (yet)...

FREAK VALLEY FESTIVAL 2016:

Admission fee: 69 Euros in advance
Attendence: 2500 people from all over the world. Sold out since November 2015
Catering: A variety of food booths, breakfast tent on the campground (which was 3 kms UP away), prices slightly above last year. A slice of Pizza at 2.50, other food more expensive.
Some beer booths, a cocktail bar and - to my personal surprise - a small winery slot with "Met" (which I only discovered the last evening, so no chance to get full advantage of it).
Security: Very low, very mellow. Almost no controls at the gate, if you didn't try to roll a barrel of alcolhol into it...
Loos: Acceptable quality both on the festival and on the campground. This is something that makes a difference, if you're staying for three nights...
Weather conditions: Exceptional fine on thursday, some rain during the night, fine again on friday as well as the saturday until 19:45 (probably) when a massive rainfall (no, it was
buckets of rain washing over you) for 90+ minutes went down. Nice for the plants to be removed from those wild bushes pissers, but defintely not fine for tapers...
Crowd behavior: That's kind of serious thing to me. The later the day, the more rule and ruthless and agressive against others a few drunken assholes (please stay at the campground,
if you're already filled up) were. A real strange thing also happened to me and the Lord...never experienced that on during TOUNDRA...

Personal thanks...
To the crew at Freak Valley Festival...again another fine job done. Thank you.
To the reliable taping crew, friends Reinhard and Dietmar at the campground for the nice pavillion (who had gone for good, but survived 4 Burg Herzberg Festivals) and company.
Always been a pleasure and will be...forever...

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A band which calls both american heavyboogie rock band CACTUS and english poppsychedelic band THE MOVE as their main influences sound quite interesting to my ears. So I definitely wanted
to see and tape them, but unfortuntely I underestimated the long walk from the campground to the stage, as they were already five minutes into their set when I arrived. Luckily dear MIRO
decided at last moment to jump in for me lazy loon. Anyway, these 45 minutes were a bit different music from most of the other heavy70's or stonerpsych rock bands onstage. I would call
their sound "airy" and though they come from Brooklyn, NY, I feel a distinct laidback relaxed "westcoast" mood swinging. Definitely a band worth checking out again at a club show! SB.
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ALMOST FULL SHOW (45:13 min.)

01. Get it together (9:18) *
02. Stuck on a mountain (7:35)
03. Shadow traveler -> Please man (13:12)
04. ... -> Sugar and spice (11:07)
05. Boogie with my baby (4:00)

* jumps straight in, unknown (few) time missing.

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Do not convert to lossy files, unless for personal use only. No lossy net use! Flac rules!
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If you sell...meet your fate in hell!

THE GOLDEN GRASS are...

Adam Kriney - drums, vocals
Michael Rafalowich - guitar, vocals
Morgan McDaniel - bass

Uploaded to DIME by Spacebandit 2016/06/10

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