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Marco Benevento’s Quartet the Killer
perform the music of Neil Young
February 24, 2009
Yoshi’s Jazz Club
Oakland, CA USA

Late Set

01 - Needle and the Damage Done (05:26)
02 - Powder Finger>Cowgirl in the Sand (18:57)
03 - Cortez the Killer (12:54)
04 - Hey Hey My My (07:29)
05 - Stage Banter (00:44)
06 - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (05:34)
07 - Words (Between the Lines of Age) (09:01)
08 - Band Intros/Applause (02:10)
09 - Old Man (10:44)

73:03

Marco Benevento - Steinway Concert Grand Piano-Model D, Keyboard, effects
Peter Apfelbaum - Tenor Saxophone
Josh Roseman - Trombone, Melodica
Joe Russo - Drums
Cochran McMillan - Percussion
Leslie Helpert - Vocals (tracks 04-06)

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Traffic
November 23, 1970
Anderson Theater
New York, NY
SBD

Steve Winwood - organ, guitar
Jim Capaldi - drums, vocals
Rick Gretch - bass
Chris Wood - sax & flute, keyboards 

Setlist

1. Medicated Goo
2. Pearly Queen
3. Empty Pages
4. Heaven Is In Your Mind
5. Forty-Thousand Headmen
6. John Barleycorn
7. Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring
8. Every Mother’s Son
9. Freedom Rider
10. Shootout At The Fantasy Factory [filler: London 1972]
11. The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys [filler: London 1972]

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It is, to say the least, a little unexpected to discover Scott Walker having an obsession with the current crop of American mavericks. But if the likes of Fassbinder chanteuseHanna Schyglla, avant-jazzster Evan Parker and a lot of Swedish films represent the more predictable side of his selection for the Meltdown festival, it’s Elliott Smith, Smogand now Jim O’Rourke who’ve proved the crowd-pullers thus far. 

O’Rourke, for those who haven’t had the stamina to follow his hyperactive and eclectic career thus far, is something of a Renaissance man of the current American underground. He’s produced Smog and Stereolab, tried his hand at modern classical composition, free improv and powerbook electronica, and is currently sitting in on bass with the eternally-marvellous Sonic Youth. 

Tonight, though, he’s playing at being the artful singer-songwriter. Backed by a stellar band featuring High Llama Sean O’Hagan on piano and the ace Rob Mazurek doing the Miles Davis business on cornet, O’Rourke sits hunched over his guitar and picks out songs mainly drawn from his brilliant ‘Eureka’ LP of last year and the equally beguiling ‘Halfway To A Threeway’ EP. 

It’s terrific, too. O’Rourke’s usual modus operandi is one of ruthless improvisation underpinned by a reluctance to ever do the same thing twice, so the sight of him playing these gentle, crafted hunks of Americana - much in thrall to the work of John Fahey andVan Dyke Parks - is a rare treat. 

For all the apparent sweetness, however, there’s a pretty sick twist to these songs.O’Rourke’s the kind of writer who delights in charming his audience with his pretty tunes before they slowly realise exactly what he’s singing about. To be specific: the profound misanthropy of ‘Ghost Ship In A Storm’ and the mightily sick of ‘Halfway To A Threeway’, a seduction of someone in a coma that’s in such extravagant bad taste it’d do The Bloodhound Gang proud. 

Proof, if you needed it, that allegedly serious musicians (i)can(/I) have a sense of humour, however ‘experimental’ it may be.

NME Live Reviews

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Tortoise
April 28th, 2012 | Early Show
Empty Bottle | Chicago, IL 

Taper: John Dewey (hammerhorror AT sbcglobal DOT net)
Uploader: John Dewey (hammerhorror AT sbcglobal DOT net) 

Source: Schoeps MK41 (DINa) > KCY > Schoeps VMS5U > Tascam DR-680 (Channels 1 & 2), Soundboard > Tascam DR-680 (Channels 3 & 4)

Conversion: Transcend SDHC Card > Transcend Card Reader > Adobe Audition > CD Wave Editor > Trader’s Little Helper>320kbps mp3s

Setlist 

01. Gigantes
02. Tin Cans and Twine
03. Eros 
04. Blackjack
05. Charteroak Foundation 
06. Dot/Eyes
07. Along the Banks of Rivers
08. Monica
09. In Sarah, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Women and Men
10. Five Too Many 
11. Prepare Your Coffin
12. Crest 
13. Encore Break 
14. Eden 1
15. Salt The Skies

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Tortoise
April 28th, 2012 | Late Show
Empty Bottle | Chicago, IL 

Taper: John Dewey (hammerhorror AT sbcglobal DOT net)
Uploader: John Dewey (hammerhorror AT sbcglobal DOT net) 

Source: Schoeps MK41 (DINa) > KCY > Schoeps VMS5U > Tascam DR-680 (Channels 1 & 2), Soundboard > Tascam DR-680 (Channels 3 & 4)

Conversion: Transcend SDHC Card > Transcend Card Reader > Adobe Audition > CD Wave Editor > Trader’s Little Helper>320kbps mp3s

Setlist 

01. High Class Slim Came Floatin’ In
02. Prepare Your Coffin
03. The Suspension Bridge at Iguazu Falls 
04. Benway
05. Jetty
06. Swung From The Gutters
07. Stretch (You Are All Right)
08. Blackjack
09. Speakeasy
10. Minors
11. I Set My Face To The Hillside
12. Seneca
13. Encore Break 
14. Tin Cans And Twine
15. Glass Museum
16. Crest

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