Mammatus
Bottom of the Hill
San Francisco, CA
2022-10-15 (Saturday)

Recording:
Sound Professionals SP-BMC-12 AudioTechnica binaural mics > SP-SPSB-10-13005 battery box >
Andrea Electronics C1-1021450-1 Model USB-SA-1 (stereo mic input) > phone > USB Audio Recorder Pro > FLAC
Processing: FLAC > Audacity [levels adjusted, -6db at 80hz bass rolloff, normalize, soft limit -2.0db, track splits] > FLAC 8 > acxi (tagging, image embed, checksums)

Tech:
* I included an edited, shortened version of their soundcheck, because, well, they were playing some pretty cool stuff in it. If you don't like it, just delete the 00.flac file, or move it somewhere else.

FLAC: 16/44.1 (2 channels)
Quality: 3/4 (22khz, very good)
Time: 1:10:22.35
Size: 391.6 MiB
Average kb/s: 778
Tracks: 6

Setlist:
00. (soundcheck)
01. Ornia
02. Nicholas, break >
03. (new?)
04. ?
05. Driving Up the Coast

Band:
Nicholas Emmert - guitar, vocals
Chris Freels - bass
Aaron Emmert - drums

Notes:
* This was a great triple bill, Carlton Melton > Terry Gross > Mammatus. All the bands were really good.

* Ornia is off of Sparkling Waters (2015).

* Band website: https://headymental.com/
""Mammatus has been conjuring up a heavy blend of riff laden, space trippin, proggy, hazy far out rock and roll for ten years now. Since forming in the shadows of the Santa Cruz Mountains of California in 2005, they've delighted the ears and minds of adventurous listeners around the world. Their wizard and dragon themed self titled debut LP became a cult classic among the stoner rock crowd, drawing rave reviews from music lovers who were mesmerized by the psychedelic jam sandwich of Sabbathy riffage, swirling kraut grooves, and thundering space drones. In 2007 Mammatus released The Coast Explodes, and continued their ascent into heaviness while introducing more prog into the mix and creating a blissful yet intense spiritual rock experience. They traversed North America, garbing themselves in bizarre floral wizard robes and waving redwood staffs foraged from Corralitos Creek, turning people on to their sound and leaving many a sore neck behind them.
* Band Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mammatusband
* Bandcamp: https://mammatus.bandcamp.com/

* Includes photos, show posters.

* About Bottom of the Hill (1233 17th Street (17th @ Missouri), San Francisco, CA):
* Website: http://www.bottomofthehill.com/info.html
"Chosen by Rolling Stone magazine (RS 813) as "the best place to hear live music in San Francisco," the Bottom of the Hill presents some of the finest original artists, seven nights a week. Featuring up and coming acts from around the globe as well as in our own backyard, the music spans the spectrum from alternative, rock-a-billy, punk, and hard rock, to folk and funk and pop. The Bottom comes fully-equipped. It offers a full bar, a kitchen that stays open late and a patio area where guests can escape the crowd and have a smoke."

* The club has a solid sound system, and has a good calendar, worth tracking them for the next great show. Very 'rock club', in the good sense of the word, informal, comfortable vibe, a place to go to see music and have a good night. Support these independent venues, they are the lifeblood of living underground music.

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No distribution in lossy formats!!
No selling!!
No bootlegging!!
Yes sharing. Definitely share.

Support the artists when or if they play, and buy their records/merchandise.

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Dan Healy (Grateful Dead sound engineer), on audience recordings:
“I learn a lot from hearing those tapes... The axiom that ‘microphones don’t lie’ is a true one. If you put a microphone up in the audience and pull a tape and it doesn’t sound good, you can’t say, ‘It was the microphone,’ or ‘It was the audience.’ You’ve got to accept the fact that it didn’t sound good. When you stick a mic up in the audience and the tape sounds cool, it’s probably because the sound was cool. So it’s significant to pay attention to the tapes.”
[assuming decent quality powered mics, of course...]
source: https://www.prosoundweb.com/the-grateful-dead-a-continual-development-of-concert-sound-circa-1983/

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