Depeche Mode 5-5-17 Stockholm, Sweden

Depeche Mode
5-5-17 (May 5. 2017 / 2017-05-05)
Friends Arena
Stockholm, Sweden

Dave Gahan – lead vocals
Martin Gore – keyboards, backing and lead vocals, guitars
Andy Fletcher – keyboards, backing vocals, bass guitar
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Christian Eigner – drums, keyboards
Peter Gordeno – keyboards, piano, bass guitar, backing vocals

Going Backwards
So Much Love
Barrel Of A Gun
A Pain That I'm Used To
Corrupt
In Your Room
World In My Eyes
Cover Me
Home
A Question of Lust
Poison Heart
Where's The Revolution
Wrong
Everything Counts
Stripped
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again

- encore(s) -

Somebody
Walking In My Shoes
"Heroes"
I Feel You
Personal Jesus

Lineage:
AT 943 External Stereo Microphones >> SP-SPSB-10-80020 - Sound Professionals -
Micro-mini microphone power supply with mini 12vdc battery >> Olympus LS- 10 >>
30m from stage >> WavePad Editor >> 48 / 24 Bit >> Dithered 44.1-16 Bit >> 
Songsplit >> Tracking >> Wave >> FLAC Level 8

Very first show of Depeche Mode's 2017 Global Spirit Tour.  Lotta songs I did not know since I'm mainly an 80's/early 90's DM fan.  Not that I dislike music of theirs from the mid-90's to now, I just haven't really listened much so no, I'm not a huge fan of this band but I do like a listen from time to time.  Really nice recording!  Buncha crowd clap-along which (mostly) isn't too terribly annoying to me since the music and vocals really shines through the entire time.  Some light talkers but not close to the mics and always brief.  I'm pretty impressed with this capture.  This is no Lincoln Center music hall type of theater built for sound -- the former Swedbank Arena is actually an indoor (retractable roof) stadium that seats like 60,000 for a concert!  Don't know where the "taper" was sitting but these are great mics used and the sound mix was nearly perfect!  Definitely impressed and totally diggin' it!  Really love the tribute to David Bowie when they played "Heroes."  Dave's voice has still got it, band sounds great!  Givin' this one a good solid 9.5 out of 10 for an A grade!

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Willie Nelson & Family 5-2-17 San Francisco, California

Willie Nelson & Family
5-2-17 (May 2, 2017 / 2017-05-02)
The Fillmore
San Francisco, California

Willie Nelson (guitar, vocals)
Lukas Nelson (guitar)
Micah Nelson (percussion)
Bobbie Nelson (piano)
Mickey Rafael (harmonica)
and ???

Whiskey River
Still Is Still Moving To Me
Beer For My Horses
Good Hearted Woman
Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
Angels Flying To Close To The Ground
On The Road Again
Always On My Mind
Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
Move It On Over
(intrumental -- title???)
Shoeshine Man
Georgia On My Mind
Georgia On A Fast Train
Funny How Time Slips Away
Crazy
(another instrumental -- title???)
"Happy Birthday To Willie"
It's All Going To Pot
Still Not Dead
Little Old Fashioned Karma ->
Will The Circle Be Unbroken ->
I Saw The Light

Equipment DPA 4061s-battery box-Sony pCM-m10
Transfer M10-usb-cdwav editor-FLAC
Taped from mid floor

I'm sorry, this just isn't a great recording.  But it's okay, certainly listenable.  The "taper"'s location was not ideal to get beautiful sound with little crowd noise.  Also, and this is something I oughta learn to fix, the volume is way too low. I'm listening now at FULL volume with my DAP (Digital Audio Player) and I never have to play shows at full volume, I mean for goodness sake, I can hear myself typing and that's never the case when playing other shows.  Ah well.  Lotta talkers, too, (usually) not super close to the mics but you can hear them from time to time.  Maybe that doesn't bother everyone (how could it not?!) but it bugs me.  And in between songs the crowd is definitely louder than the music, not so much you gotta reach for the volume to protect your ears but there's still a noticeable difference.  That's not right.  What do I have good to say about this since I just spent quiet awhile on a lot of negatives?  Willie's a legend.  And the show is short at an hour and fifteen minutes so there's not long wishing it was a pristine recording.  Gotta still gives thanks to the "taper" for trying and then sharing 'cause at 84 what if Willie croaked before his next show and there was no "taper" there that night?  We'd have no recording of his final show and that would be a shame.  I almost don't wanna grade this but it's what I do . . . 8.9 out of 10 (B+) for the very below A grade here at Boot Hill Boots.

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Sleater-Kinney 4-30-15 Hollywood, USA

Pic from this show, all credit to someone else, I wasn't there.

Sleater-Kinney
4-30-15 (April 30, 2015 / 2015-04-30)
Hollywood Palladium
Hollywood, California

Corin Tucker (vocals, guitar)
Carrie Brownstein (guitar, vocals)
Janet Weiss (drums)

Price Tag
Fangless
Turn It On
What’s Mine Is Yours
Oh!
Surface Envy
No Anthems
Rollercoaster
Ironclad
Bury Our Friends
No Cities To Love
The Fox
Start Together
A New Wave
One Beat
Words and Guitar
Entertain
Jumpers

- encore(s)-

One More Hour
Dig Me Out
Modern Girl

Source: Schoeps MK41’s > Nbob actives v2 > Naiant Tinybox v2.5 (OT) > Sony PCM-M10 24/44.1
Mastering: Adobe Audition (edits) > iZotope Ozone 5 (Exciter,Imaging,Dynamics) > MBIT+ (dither to 16 bit) > WavePad (tracking) > xACT (tags) > FLAC
Taper: BLG

Great band!  Great show!  Great recording!  Schoeps mics!  Enough said!  Okay, I'll say the capture here is quite often sounding like a freakin' soundboard!  Again.  You surely have the crowd ambiance and a presumably lesbian fan screaming how much she loves them, but the noise between tracks is never louder than the music.  How important that is to create an excellent audience recording.  I've heard some where as soon as the song is over, people are yelling it up, screaming and clapping super loud right near the taper and you gotta reach for the volume to crank it down until the next song starts.  Not here.  And not with a lot of recordings I've listened to lately.  Some stellar captures that have me in awe.  Some people are all about the soundboard but some auds are just fantastic y éste es otro!  9.7 out of 10.  Grab it, play it LOUD!

Download -- FLAC 16/44 ~~ 320 kbps mp3 -- Enjoy!!

Bob Dylan 4-30-17 London, England

Bob Dylan
4-30-17 (April 30, 2017 / 2017-04-30)
The Palladium
London, England, Great Britain

Bob Dylan — vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica
Charlie Sexton — lead guitar
Stu Kimball — rhythm guitar
Tony Garnier — bass guitar
Donnie Herron — pedal steel, lap steel, electric mandolin, banjo, violin
George Receli — drums, percussion

Things Have Changed 
To Ramona
Highway 61 Revisited
Beyond Here Lies Nothing
I Could Have Told You
Pay In Blood
Melancholy Mood
Duquesne Whistle
Stormy Weather
Tangled Up In Blue
Early Roman Kings
Spirit On The Water
Love Sick
All Or Nothing At All
Desolation Row
Soon After Midnight
That Old Black Magic
Long And Wasted Years
Autumn Leaves

- encore(s) -

Blowin' In The Wind
Ballad Of A Thin Man

Sonic Studios DSM-6>PA6-XP>M Audio Microtrack>
Wavelab>CD Wave Editor>FLAC Level 8
An EBR Recording

Yet another excellent audience recording.  Music and vocals both shine through with next to no crowd distraction whatsoever.  Just fantastic!  My gripe: old Bob is keeping basically the same setlist all tour which to me is boring.  People probably wouldn't have seen the Grateful Dead 500 times if they played the same setlist every tour.  U2 adds a few different songs in from the previous night.  So does Springsteen.  Pearl Jam the same.  Bob used to.  But he's 75.  It's just easier for him nowadays, I guess.  The answer, my friend is: there just isn't a need to listen to every show of a tour anymore for those rare gems he might play.  Find one good quality recording and you're set.  Or two good ones as this is fairly identical to the one I posted  a couple weeks ago from this tour.  This one: about a 9.7 out of 10 for the highest A grade there is before A+.  Some people would even go ahead and give this an A+.  What's keeping me from?  Actually, I'm really tired right now as I type this and I'm not exactly sure what's keeping me from saying A+.  The honor of A+ for an aud is something that just has gotta really really be earned.  Maybe a little too much audience between songs here.  It's not bad at all, really not!  But a quieter audience and no one talking or coughing near the mics would get this to A+.  STILL this is EXCELLENT quality that anyone should be happy with.

Download -- FLAC 16/44 ~~ 320 kbps mp3 -- Enjoy!!!