It was about eighteen months ago when the Mountain Goats played an epic show at Brooklyn Steel that we were fortunate to attend and capture. So the band’s return to the venue on the tour to support their excellent new album In League with Dragons, came with some real anticipation. And man, did the band deliver. John Darnielle was particularly loquacious on this evening (check out the number of “banter” tracks), but his comments were all on point. The Mountain Goats have achieved a level of stature that’s been earned in years of tours and albums, and it seems like the band has reached that point where it can enjoy and revel in its well-deserved respect. And while Dragons dominated the setlist early-on, the band did still deliver the types of old rare nuggets that still satisfy the grizzled veterans of tMG shows. Indeed rare songs like “Jaipur” (played less than 10 times in the last 10 years), “Spilling Toward Alpha” (3 times in the last decade) , and “The Coroner’s Gambit” (played two times before 2019) are the types of setlist surprises that make us keep coming year after year. But ultimately this night was about the new album, the strength of which makes us believe that the Mountain Goats will continue to be the gift that keeps giving.
I recorded this set with the Schoeps cards raised high inside the soundboard booth and mixed with a board feed mixed expertly as always by longtime tMG FOH Brandon. The result is another superb recording of this band from this venue. Enjoy!
Download the Complete Show at Archive.org [HERE]
Stream the Complete Show:
Mountain Goats
2019-04-30
Brooklyn Steel
Brooklyn NY
Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix
Soundboard [Engineer: Brandon Eggleston] + Schoeps CCM4u Cardioids > Sound Devices 744t > 2 x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (post-production) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar
Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
Setlist:
[Total Time 1:38:40]
01 [Vivaldi introduction]
02 Done Bleeding
03 Younger
04 [Coroner’s intro]
05 The Coroner’s Gambit
06 Jaipur
07 In League With Dragons
08 Sax Rohmer 1
09 [banter – old song partisans]
10 Spilling Toward Alpha
11 [banter – seeds]
12 Going to Port Washington
13 [banter – play what you want]
14 Maybe Sprout Wings
15 [banter – not going to die]
16 Waylon Jennings Live
17 [banter – country album]
18 Clemency for the Wizard King
19 [banter – pitchfork review]
20 Cotton
21 [banter – inner ear monitors]
22 Cadaver Sniffing Dog
23 [banter – Ozzy]
24 Passaic 1975
25 Lion’s Teeth
26 Sicilian Crest
27 [encore break]
28 Have to Explode
29 Possum by Night
30 See America Right
31 Game Shows Touch Our Lives
32 [banter – the long encore]
33 No Children
34 The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
35 Spent Gladiator 2
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Thank you!
Yay! Thanks so much!
This recording is fantastic – sounds awesome!
Thank you for this! I was lucky enough to be at their 2017 show at Brooklyn Steel and love the recording you made that night. I was hoping you’d be back for this show, too!