THE PIXIES
2014/01/26 - The Music Center at Strathmore; North Bethesda MD, USA

Source: CA-14's (Cards) > Church Audio ST-9100 > Edirol R09-HR @ 24/96
Location: *STEALTH*
Editing: Tracking and fades were done while the show was laid in Sony Soundforge 9.0a (Build 297) as a wav file. Periodic loud points were gently enveloped to allow for more headroom in normalization. Normalization performed on each channel independently to -0.10dB.
Conversion: Trader's Little Helper v.2.7.0 (Build 172)



TRACKLIST: TIME:

01. Intro 00:22
02. Bone Machine 02:53
03. Wave of Mutilation 02:06
04. U-Mass 02:51
05. Head On * 02:15
06. Magdalena 03:16
07. Cactus 02:37
08. Gouge Away 03:26
09. Bagboy 04:46
10. What Goes Boom 03:16
11. Monkey Gone to Heaven 02:47
12. Crackity Jones 01:39
13. Isla de Encanta 02:15
14. Havalina 03:05
15. Velouria 04:16
16. Silver Snail 03:24
17. Mr. Grieves 02:00
18. Nimrod's Son 02:20
19. Vamos 04:54
20. Indie Cindy 04:37
21. Here Comes Your Man 03:29
22. La La Love You 03:13
23. Brick Is Red 02:00
24. Ed Is Dead 03:06
25. Motorway to Roswell 03:56
26. In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song) 02:25
27. Andro Queen 03:12
28. Greens and Blues 03:39
29. Where Is My Mind? 08:35
30. Caribou 03:09
31. Debaser 02:45
32. Hey 03:24
33. Ana 02:32
34. Planet of Sound 02:59

GRAND TOTAL- 107:27

* - Originally performed by The Jesus and Mary Chain



MISC NOTES:
Not my first time seeing The Pixies, but certainly my first time seeing them (or ANYONE for that matter) at Strathmore! The venue is less than 10 years old and was built to be the home of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra, and other such classical music acts. It seemed a very odd choice for this booking, however as both a Pixies fan and a fan of live music, I figured I would take this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, by seeing both a band I love and a new venue! Strathmore is renowned for its phenomenal acoustics, but all the same I decided to run cardioid instead of omnis on account of my assumption that a room built for classical music may still have a bit of "boom" to it. I am happy that I did end up going for the cards.

I have a little bit of phasing and crackling in the first half of the first song-- there were a couple of late arriving patrons who pushed past my stealthily arranged rig. The rest of the recording is free of any distraction.

The Pixies were a band in turmoil at the bass position at the time of this show. Founding member Kim Deal left The Pixies in June 2013 and was replaced by Kim Shattuck two weeks later for the sake of the impending tour. Shattuck played only a few months with The Pixies and was dismissed in late November 2013. I made this tape less than two months after Shattuck left, and by this time The Pixies had filled the position with Paz Lenchantin. I had hoped that after Shattuck's dismissal that Deal might be brought back into the fold, however I was pleasantly surprised with Lenchantin's performance and she shared a seemingly pleasent chemistry with the other band members.

The show was opened by "Fidlar," whom I also recorded.