The Sunday Concert: Halloween!

Here’s the 2 hour and 20 minute recording of the concert I did yesterday for Halloween on Metaplace. It’s all covers, and there’s plenty of awkward silences between the songs, because you can’t hear and see anything that the audience said and did while I was playing. You only get what went up the stream. Some of my answers to text chat may seem out of context. 🙂

No download link — it’s almost 200MB. 🙂 Edit: here’s a download link for the concert broken up into individual MP3 tracks, in a ZIP file. It’s around 170MB this way.

Before anyone asks, this is just me singing and on solo guitar, plus a harmonizer pedal. Most of the songs are fingerpicked, actually, but I used a flatpick on a few that asked for more of a strum. The recording setup is moderately complicated — mic and guitar into a harmonizer pedal which added some EQ and reverb and of course harmonies sometimes; then guitar further into a multi-effects pedal to add some reverb and punch. I also had a large diaphragm mic, dry (meaning, no reverb or effects at all), sitting close to add detail and some wood back into the guitar. From there, into BUTT and thence up to a Shoutcast station. BUTT did the recording locally.

I tried to make each song lead into the next narratively, and to cover a nice wide range of genres for everyone who was there. Here’s the set list, which was selected to fit the holiday: horror songs, creepy songs, songs about death and madness, prison tunes, and murder ballads and silly songs. It has a bunch of the stuff I usually do — blues, a lot of singer-songwriter material, 80s covers that it’s weird to tackle on acoustic…

1. Some prefatory blues noodling before the actual show started
2. Thriller – Michael Jackson
3. Black Horse and the Cherry Tree – KT Tunstall
4. Are You Happy Now? – Richard Shindell
5. Creepy Doll – Jonathan Coulton
6. Meanies – Jim Infantino
7. Black Magic Woman – Santana
8. Every Breath You Take – The Police
9. Robert Johnson – Bill Morrissey
10. Johnny Rottentail – Amy Ray
11. Down by the River – Neil Young
12. In the Air Tonight – Phil Collins
13. Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash
14. Phone Call From Leavenworth – Chris Whitley
15. Devil Inside – INXS
16. Blow ‘Em Away – Chuck Brodsky
17. Werewolves of London – Warren Zevon
18. Mallon’s Bridge – Mustard’s Retreat
19. Jonas and Ezekial – Indigo Girls
20. Waiting for the Rain – Bill Morrissey
21. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door – Bob Dylan
22. Moon Over Bourbon Street – Sting
23. My Wife Thinks You’re Dead – Junior Brown
24. Paint It Black – The Rolling Stones
25. Goin’ Down Judah – Dana Cooper
26. Long Ride Home – Patty Griffin
27. Ghost of a Dog – Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians
28. Mad World – Tears for Fears originally, but this one sounds more like Gary Jules
29. Velvet – a-ha