Monthly Archives: December 2009

[photos taken for nyctaper by Kate Ehle – many more here]

As expected, John Darnielle pulled out all the stops for the final night of the Mountain Goats tour. At Bell House on Wednesday, obscure songs were plentiful, encores were many, and John even whipped out a first third-time-played cover song (Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back In Town”). As the set opened with “Handball” from 1999’s Protein Source, the setlist went as far back as John’s second 7″ (“Alphabetizing”). The packed house was treated to a bunch of rare treats that also included four songs from personal favorite 2004’s We Shall All Be Healed. As opposed the the previous night’s show at Webster Hall, this setlist relied less on the material from the new album The Life Of The World To Come. John accepted the crowd’s adulation and returned three times for encores, assisted by both members of Final Fantasy, and concluded with “The Sign”, much of which was performed in the front row off-microphone.

We recorded this set from our standard location in this venue, in the elevated area next to the soundboard booth. We captured a four-track soundboard/audience mix of exceptional quality. Enjoy!

This Recording is now available for Download in FLAC and MP3 at Archive.org [HERE].

The Mountain Goats
2009-12-02
Bell House
Brooklyn, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Neumann KM-150s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2 x 16bit 44.1kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2009-12-04

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:43:04]
01 [introduction]
02 Hand Ball
03 Old College Try
04 Cotton
05 Isaiah 45:23
06 [banter]
07 Letter from Belgium
08 Deuteronomy 2:10
09 [banter]
10 Enoch 18:14
11 1 John 4:16
12 Alphabetizing
13 Woke Up New
14 Quetzalcoatl Eats Plums
15 The Boys Are Back In Town (Thin Lizzy)
16 There Will Be No Divorce
17 Hebrews 11:40
18 Quito
19 Romans 10:9
20 Hast Thou Considered The Tetrapod
21 Song for Dennis Brown
22 This Year
23 [encore break]
24 Psalms 40:2
25 No Children
26 [second encore break]
27 The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
28 Against Pollution
29 [third encore break]
30 The Sign (Ace of Base)

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT The Mountain Goats, visit their website, visit their MySpace page, and purchase Mountain Goats official releases from their website.

[photos taken for nyctaper by Kate Ehle – many more here]

Last November, the Mountain Goats at Webster Hall was a tour-ending night and one of the best shows we saw all year. On Tuesday at a packed Webster, the Mountain Goats returned with a new album, a new band member (guitarist Perry Wright), but the same intensity. On tour in support of The Life Of The World To Come, the band performed nine of the twelve tracks from that album. But as with all Mountain Goats shows, there were rare tracks performed — this night’s treats included “Going to Bristol”, “Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?” and “Going to Port Washington”.

Our recording of this set would not have been possible without the work of Mountain Goats’ sound engineer Brandon. We set up inside the soundboard area with the R-44 and captured an excellent balanced feed from the board and also a recording with the Neumann microphones. The distance from the stage (200 feet) created a delay (4 milliseconds) between the two recordings which was remedied in post-production. The result is a recording of tremendous pro-quality sound. Enjoy!

This Recording is now available for Download in FLAC and MP3 at Archive.org [HERE].

The Mountain Goats
2009-12-01
Webster Hall
New York, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Neumann KM-150s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2 x 16bit 44.1kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2009-12-03

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:38:56]
01 [introduction]
02 1 Samuel 15:23
03 Old College Try
04 Psalms 40:2
05 Love Love Love
06 [banter]
07 Romans 10:9
08 [banter]
09 Genesis 3:23
10 Deuteronomy 2:10
11 [banter]
12 Enoch 18:14
13 Genesis 30:3
14 Going to Port Washington
15 Song for Dana Plato
16 From TG&Y
17 Going to Bristol
18 Hebrews 11:14
19 Song for Dennis Brown
20 Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?
21 Quito
22 See America Right
23 Against Pollution
24 [encore break]
25 Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace
26 This Year
27 No Children
28 [second encore break]
29 Going to Georgia

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT The Mountain Goats, visit their website, visit their MySpace page, and purchase Mountain Goats official releases from their website.