Friday, April 28, 2017

Social Distortion 4-28-15 Cologne, Germany


Social Distortion
4-28-15 (April 28, 2015 / 2015-04-28)
Palladium
Köln, Deutschland

Mike Ness - guitar, vocals
Jonny "2 Bags" Wickersham - guitar
Brent Harding - bass
David Hidalgo, Jr. - drums

So Far Away
Let It Be Me
Story Of My Life
Sick Boys
Ball And Chain
It Coulda Been Me
She's A Knockout
A Place In My Heart
Drug Train
Cold Feelings
Machine Gun Blues
Wild Horses
I Won't Run No More
99 To Life
Gimme The Sweet And Lowdown

- encore(s) -

Ring Of Fire
Don't Drag Me Down

minimax master-series #453
Master - Audience recording
Taping-location: front row, about 1,86 meter from the stage, a bit on the right side
Equipment: Zoom H4N – Sound professional microphones SP-CMC-8

Pretty darn fine recording . . . except the vocals are halfway buried most of the time.  Perhaps that's the taper's fault for not being in an optimal location to pick up the perfect sound as it should be heard, or perhaps maybe some fault of the sound guys who did a terrible job mixing?  Who knows.  Vocals aside, this is an exceptional recording.  You can hear crowd stuff now and then but shouldn't ever really be distracting, wasn't to me.  Guitar and drums are loud and clear!  The bass might also be a bit buried.  This had so much potential to be an A+ recording.  Still it's a good listen!  I'm goin' with about a 9.6 out of 10 for a solid A grade.


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