Low Archives Project

[JamesTravis]

Hello all. I'm currently undertaking the mammoth task of putting
together my own Low Archives. Kind of similar to Neil Young's new(ish)
box set.

I am currently gathering all the bootlegs off Archive.org. This is
going to be in VBR mp3 form, so there are going to be some that are
currently only in flac that I would be grateful if someone could
upload in mp3 when I get to them. At the moment I have had no
troubles, and I know that some have notes requesting they are not re-
encoded but this is for a bigger project than just wanting to listen
to it.

Also, any video/dvd bootlegs that might be around. I have heard of
plenty but never got hold of any apart from the official dvds and
video. There is that brilliant pro-shot on youtube from around long
division/curtain but the uploader is seemingly unwilling to send me a
full dvd without the bands permission. I don't think he believes I
already asked Alan if he had any objections (which he obviously
didn't). But yeah, any live videos would be great too.

This is a stupid task but I wanted something to keep me occupied when
I'm bored, which is a lot these days. Anyone that knows of any shows
unavailable at the moment I would like to hear so I can find them
somehow. I wont be copying these til I have as many as possible. I
might even make a nice package for them. Demos would be a great find
too but as far as I understand, Alan didn't want them sharing when
they surfaced. Unfortunately for me, I never got hold of them!

Thank you all,
JT

[Phil Salathe]

>Anyone that knows of any shows unavailable at the moment I would
>like to hear so I can find them somehow.

I think these probably number in the low hundreds! There are dozens
of recorded Low shows from before 2001 that I don't have. Some of
which were recorded by listmembers but which I never got around to
acquiring, back when I was trying to keep an archive of the band's
live performances.

I oould try to make a list at some point; I know there were at least
two more shows around from 1994 (one of them in Danbury, CT), five or
six from 1995, and so on.

I hope you're able to scare some older shows up with your post. It's
a bit of a shame to do this project in MP3, but I understand why
you'd want to. If you do unearth anything new, be sure to get FLAC
copies too!

There are also a bunch of tapes in my own collection that aren't up
on Archive.org yet. I think this is all of them:

1995-02-25 - Let It Be Records, Minneapolis, MN (poor sound)
1995-03-05 - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA
1996-01-xx - KUMD-FM, Duluth, MN
1996-01-20 - Lounge Ax, Chicago, IL (video)
1996-04-05 - Pioneer Square Theatre, Seattle, WA
1996-04-11 - KCRW-FM, Morning Becomes Eclectic, Santa Monica, CA
1996-06-08 - Highbury Garage, London, U.K.
1996-09-18 - The Black Cat, Washington D.C. (video)
1996-11-10 - Camden Underworld, London
1997-02-05 - Lucy's Records, Nashville, TN (video)
1997-03-20 - Bottleneck, Lawrence, KS (video)
1997-03-28 - Westbeth Theatre, New York, NY
1997-09-05 - Speak In Tongues, Cleveland, OH (video)
1997-11-03 - The Point, Atlanta, GA
1997-11-05 - Sudsy Malone's, Cincinnati, OH
1998-01-27 - Random Radio, Duluth, MN
1998-05-10 - Highbury Garage, London
1998-05-12 - Nijdrop, Opwijk, Belgium
1998-09-15 - 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle, WA
1998-10-07 - Proud Larry's, Oxford, MS
1998-10-26 - Bluebird Theatre, Denver, CO
1999-03-25 - 400 Bar, Minneapolis, MN (incomplete copy)
1999-09-15 - Charles Theatre, Baltimore, MD (MP3)
2000-11-10 - Union Chapel, Islington, U.K.
2001-01-25 - Gypsy Tea Room, Dallas, TX

I'd like to transfer and upload them at some point, but it's tricky
to find the time. Maybe I'll try to do a few sometime soon.

In any event, if listmembers have made recordings that aren't on the
Archive, please consider uploading them! There are several posters
here who would be happy to help guide you through the process.

Best,
Phil

[porter gieske]

I think that an archive is a solid idea, I know that most folks would
benefit from it.

In other news, I went to the RGC show last night in Washington DC.
I was fully impressed, as I expected to be, from the level of
intensity of the band.
They played the regular set list from previous nights, in different
order and ended up drenched in sweat.
After hearing repeated calls for a reggae song from one audience
member, they obliged with one of the encore tunes.

I talked with Alan after the show, he was upbeat and happy about the
solid crowd.

later-

[JamesTravis]

Hey Phil, thanks for your list. Maybe what would be easier for you,
rather than uploading to a site, would be to copy them onto a dvd disc
and post that? Of course it's up to you whether you want to do that,
if not I obviously still appreciate the list cause it shows me what I
should look for. The London shows in 96 I have not seen before
anywhere for sure.

I've got a bootleg from 1993, but I got that off archive so you
probably still have that.

I have an excellent quality recording from Kilkenny last year which me
and my friend recorded and he has finished mastering. I did promise to
post this a lot sooner but rest assured it will surface as soon as my
friend sends it me (he lives miles away from me these days). I also
recorded the soundcheck and they played Words!

[Cormac Phelan]

Good to hear that the Kilkenny show is still in the pipeline, I've been looking forward to hearing the recording since you mentioned it last year.

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[JamesTravis]

Yeah sorry about the delay, I haven't had a computer since just before
that show. I've finally just replaced the old broken desktop with a
nice macbook pro. The downside is that you can't run soulseek on mac,
so I can't search for any uncovered shows on there. So, again, if
anyone else has a list of shows that arn't on archive or phils list, i
would appreciate to see them. Video or Sound. Thanks everyone.

[jan-willem]

About soulseek hunting for low:
could you share what kind of filters you use, if you do use anything special. if I search for simply "low" my PC will crash because the results are just too much. The last time I found a lossless show on Soulseek was coincidentally when I browsed someone's library who was just downloading a black-eyed snakes show from me.
Aren't there alternatives for soulseek on the mac? I for instance only learned last week that there are alternatives for Windows PC's, I need to check on my PC back home for the exact name (I'm at work now)

The only show I've never shared is the Xmas show in London, because it sounds quite awful.

[joshua *]

Ssx is what I use on the mac. it's ok.

Sent from my Commodore 64

[Aaron Thorne]

I used something called Solarseek on my mac a few years ago.

As for Phil, anytime you see a show on archive.org or dime by
goldenband, that's him (and there are a lot of them!). Archive.org is
absolutely ideal as it's not in any danger of being shut down, has
nearly unlimited storage and bandwidth, and intends to keep the
archive online indefinitely. I have a few shows that aren't up there
and really have no good excuse why I haven't shared them. I will
eventually though.

Good luck with your project!

Aaron

On Feb 5, 2010, at 6:36 AM, JamesTravis
<perfectp...@hotmail.com> wrote:

[JamesTravis]

Hey Jan, wondering if you'd be interested in sharing the London show?
My friend who I record with is actually a sound tech and our aim is to
eventually clean up all the shows that need it. This should mean that
eventually you could all have some really good quality 94/95 shows
even if they were a bit noisy beforehand.

Obviously this is going to be a long running project. Finding the
recordings is probably the easiest part. Hopefully we can do a good
job on the ones that need it.

Don't hold your breath for this to be finished any time too soon, but
if I uncover any unheard gems I will share without hesitation!

[jan-willem]

that would be great :-) I'll send you a link later this weekernd, will also include the Ida set if that's ok with you.Haven't listened to it in a long time, but from what I recall it's very distant

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[JamesTravis]

The Koko has bad enough sound in real life so it's not surprising it
doesn't sound great from an audience boot. I would love the Ida set
too, the song they opened with was amazing and I can't seem to find it
anywhere...?

[jed]

ooh i heart ida so so so much!!! what song did they open with??

[jan-willem]

the one that goes "like an oasis on the desert floor, I have not been before"
or something like that ;-)

it's very beautiful, and still unreleased as far as I know. Steve shared his recording from Manchester a while ago here.

[JamesTravis]

Yeah it was that one. I was at the Manchester show too. I was a bit
drunk that night, hopefully we didn't annoy many people.