2009-11-18
(6:31pm) currently listening to: Grateful Dead - Live/Dead
I think Live/Dead is better than I gave it credit for in my review.
The Dark Star > St. Stephen > The Eleven is awesome.
October
2009-10-12
(3:45pm) currently listening to: nothing
I finished tracking the Relapse show from 2009-09-04.
The flac files have been uploaded to the ftp site.
I'm not going to convert them to mp3, so feel free to do so on your own.
I also uploaded setlists for whatever shows I've downloaded since August to the Tape Trading page.
2009-10-09
(10:00am) currently listening to: The Allman Brothers Band 2009-08-22
I've been busy lately so I haven't gotten a chance to track the Relapse show from 2009-09-04 yet.
I'll try to track the show soon since it's already been a month and I know everyone but Phil wants to hear Tony the Tiger.
In the last month or so, I started climbing at Planet Granite.
I managed to make it up my first 5.10a climb yesterday.
September
August
2009-08-08
(10:00pm) currently listening to: nothing
The Tape Trading page is now updated with everything I've downloaded for the last couple of months.
2009-08-07
(2:00pm) currently listening to: Phish - 2009-08-05
Here are my Phish song stats. You can figure out yours at ZZYZX's Phish Stats.
There are 2 shows chosen:
Wednesday 7/9/03
Wednesday 8/5/09
Shows by year:
* 2003- 1
* 2009- 1
32 songs have been played (4% of songs Phish have played).
The average number of songs per show is 18.0.
The average amount of times each song was played is 1.12.
There were 28 onetimers
Total Times Played:
Chalk Dust Torture - 2 (100%)
Mike's Song - 2 (100%)
Simple - 2 (100%)
Weekapaug Groove - 2 (100%)
AC/DC Bag - 1 (50%)
Backwards Down The Number Line - 1 (50%)
Bathtub Gin - 1 (50%)
Bold As Love - 1 (50%)
Boogie on Reggae Woman - 1 (50%)
Cities - 1 (50%)
David Bowie - 1 (50%)
Divided Sky - 1 (50%)
Down With Disease - 1 (50%)
Golgi Apparatus - 1 (50%)
Halley's Comet - 1 (50%)
I Am Hydrogen - 1 (50%)
Let Me Lie - 1 (50%)
Limb By Limb - 1 (50%)
Loving Cup - 1 (50%)
Maze - 1 (50%)
Mountains in the Mist - 1 (50%)
Oh! Sweet Nuthin' - 1 (50%)
Piper - 1 (50%)
Scents and Subtle Sounds - 1 (50%)
Scents and Subtle Sounds (Intro) - 1 (50%)
Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan - 1 (50%)
Suzy Greenberg - 1 (50%)
Time Turns Elastic - 1 (50%)
Twist - 1 (50%)
When the Circus Comes - 1 (50%)
Ya Mar - 1 (50%)
You Enjoy Myself - 1 (50%)
First Set Openers:
Golgi Apparatus - 1
You Enjoy Myself - 1
First Set Closers:
Bathtub Gin - 1
David Bowie - 1
Second Set Openers:
Backwards Down The Number Line - 1
Boogie on Reggae Woman - 1
Second Set Closers:
Weekapaug Groove - 2
Encores:
Bold As Love - 1
Let Me Lie - 1
Loving Cup - 1
Here's a few pictures of the crowd from Wednesday's Phish show taken with my iPhone.
5:55pm:
6:40pm:
7:01pm:
Here's Waldo at 7:23pm
7:37pm:
Setbreak 9:17pm:
5:55pm:
6:40pm:
7:01pm:
Here's Waldo at 7:23pm
7:37pm:
Setbreak 9:17pm:
July
June
2009-06-11
(8:10pm) currently listening to: The Dead - 2009-05-14
I uploaded some new setlists. I'm working on my tapes from the NIN/JA show at Shoreline still.
I've heard at least two tapes that are way better than mine, so I probably won't torrent my recordings.
If people are interested, they can ask me for a BNP.
Beware of the screaming girl behind me during NIN and Jane's Addiction.
Luckily, she wasn't there during Street Sweeper Social Club's set.
I watched The Hangover
today after work with most of my co-workers.
It was pretty funny, but I didn't think it was as funny as people have told me it was.
I haven't posted much lately, if you want more updates than I give here, you can follow me on
twitter.
May
2009-05-21
(10:00am) currently listening to: The Dead - 2009-05-10
The flac files of tape of The Dead from Shoreline on 5-10 are now on the archive
here.
Derivatives should be coming soon.
I signed up for Twitter recently to get some news feeds from various people.
If you care about whatever I may have to say, you can follow me or just read whatever I have to say at
http://twitter.com/davehora.
April
2009-04-06
(10:45am) currently listening to: The Dead - Roseland Ballroom 2009-03-30
My motherboard was delivered at 8:43am this morning. Now I get to wait and see what ASUS does.
Here's my mini summary/review of all of the Grateful Dead albums that I wrote last summer.
There's not much review, but you can at least see what I thought of the album.
Here's the format:
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box set Name, Artist, Year
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Album Titile, Artist, Year (I just cut and pasted this info, obviously it's all the Dead)
if the disc is a compilation of live material, I marked it as <LIVE>
"Rating": maybe a quick comment about the album
Here's my "rating" scale. I wasn't really doing any direct
comparisons. Some of these comments I wrote a few days and/or albums
after I heard some of the previous albums I was reviewing, so the
ratings may be a little off, but here's a general guideline of what I
thought. I also tried not to take the bonus live and studio tracks into
account when I was reviewing the albums. The bonus tracks were often
better than the rest of the album was.
smokin / really good
good
pretty good
ok
terrible
At the end, are my recommendations if you want to pick up a few albums.
They're broken into a section for studio recordings and a section for
live recordings.
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The Golden Road (1965-1973), Grateful Dead, 2001
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Birth Of The Dead, Grateful Dead, 2003 The Warlocks & Early Demos
pretty good
The Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead, 1967
Good Bluesy Record (3rd or 4th best)
Anthem Of The Sun, Grateful Dead, 1968
Smokin. I really liked this one. (1st or 2nd best)
Aoxomoxoa, Grateful Dead, 1969
Terrible. Obtuse.
Live/Dead, Grateful Dead, 1969 <LIVE>
ok: don't remember much
Workingman's Dead, Grateful Dead, 1970
eh, ok.
American Beauty, Grateful Dead, 1970
really good stuff with a few throw aways (1st or 2nd best)
Grateful Dead (AKA: Skull & Roses, AKA: Skullfuck), Grateful Dead, 1971 <LIVE>
good
Europe '72, Grateful Dead, 1972 <LIVE>
good
History Of The Grateful Dead, Vol. 1 (Bear's Choice), Grateful Dead, 1973 <LIVE>
pretty good
Wake Of The Flood, Grateful Dead, 1973
pretty good
Grateful Dead From The Mars Hotel, Grateful Dead, 1974
ok
Blues For Allah, Grateful Dead, 1975
Really good (3rd or 4th best)
Terrapin Station, Grateful Dead, 1977
ok: overproduced
Shakedown Street, Grateful Dead, 1978
ok: nothing exciting
Go To Heaven, Grateful Dead, 1980
meh ok
Reckoning, Grateful Dead, 1981 <LIVE>
good: mellow acoustic
Dead Set, Grateful Dead, 1981 <LIVE>
good: rockin set goes w/ the mellow Reckoning set. nice short Rhythm Devils > space
In The Dark, Grateful Dead, 1987
pretty good: better than the last few for sure
Built To Last, Grateful Dead, 1989
surprisingly good: I liked In the Dark better, but they're about the same.
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Recommendations
Here are my "studio" album recommendations:
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Anthem Of The Sun, Grateful Dead, 1968
American Beauty, Grateful Dead, 1970
Blues For Allah, Grateful Dead, 1975
The Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead, 1967
In The Dark, Grateful Dead, 1987
Built To Last, Grateful Dead, 1989
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Live recommendations:
=============================
download a full show. Skip all of these. I prefer the feel of a full
show and not just a mishmash of songs put together on a disc.
2009-04-04
(5:45pm) currently listening to: The Grateful Dead - In The Dark
I sent my motherboard to ASUS on Monday. Right now it's somewhere between Indianapolis, IN and Jeffersonville, IN.
Hopefully they'll get it and start processing it on Monday.
I'm hoping to get my replacement from them before the Left 4 Dead survival pack comes out.
If not, I'll have to play the update on my work laptop which isn't very good for gaming.
Looks like we're about to leave for Jessica's birthday dinner. Hope everyone has a fun weekend. Go Sharks.
March
2009-03-25
(11:00am) currently listening to: nothing
I fixed some typos on the setlists page. Some have probably been there for awhile.
I'm still having computer problems. I think I've finally tracked it down to the motherboard.
I'll have to give ASUS a call later to see what their RMA process is.
2009-03-12
(6:45pm) currently listening to: Soulive - 2009-02-12
I haven't been up to much lately. I broke my left pinky playing football the day of the Super Bowl. I just started to type with my pinky within the last week. It's surprising how much stuff you need your pinky for. My whole left hand was pretty much worthless for about a month. My friends and I went on a snowboard trip to Tahoe at the end of February, and I didn't even get to go boarding because I didn't want to hurt my hand more than it already was, so I just hung out in the cabin and drank for the weekend.
LivePhish.com has free mp3s of this past weekend's Phish comeback shows. Phish played 85 different songs over three nights. I listened to the first two nights so far, and they seemed pretty good for a group who hasn't played together for 5 years.
February
January
2009-01-22
(12:15am) currently listening to: nothing
So my webhosting company has managed to screw up my links again.
My links have only been working this way for about a year. Check
1/23/2008's
entry if you don't believe me.
If they are still broken, let me know and I'll work on fixing them later.
My new computer has been having problems lately. I think there is a Ghost in the Machine.
It's working tonight, but I bet it will be down again tomorrow. It hasn't reliably worked since 12/24/2008.
