 | The Sunday Concert: Halloween!November 1st, 2009 |
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. 
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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…
- Some prefatory blues noodling before the actual show started
- Thriller – Michael Jackson
- Black Horse and the Cherry Tree – KT Tunstall
- Are You Happy Now? – Richard Shindell
- Creepy Doll – Jonathan Coulton
- Meanies – Jim Infantino
- Black Magic Woman – Santana
- Every Breath You Take – The Police
- Robert Johnson – Bill Morrissey
- Johnny Rottentail – Amy Ray
- Down by the River – Neil Young
- In the Air Tonight – Phil Collins
- Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash
- Phone Call From Leavenworth – Chris Whitley
- Devil Inside – INXS
- Blow ‘Em Away – Chuck Brodsky
- Werewolves of London – Warren Zevon
- Mallon’s Bridge – Mustard’s Retreat
- Jonas and Ezekial – Indigo Girls
- Waiting for the Rain – Bill Morrissey
- Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door – Bob Dylan
- Moon Over Bourbon Street – Sting
- My Wife Thinks You’re Dead – Junior Brown
- Paint It Black – The Rolling Stones
- Goin’ Down Judah – Dana Cooper
- Long Ride Home – Patty Griffin
- Ghost of a Dog – Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians
- Mad World – Tears for Fears originally, but this one sounds more like Gary Jules
- Velvet – a-ha
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