The Good Life @ The Triple Rock

320kbps mp3s are available here.

The Good Life
The Triple Rock
Minneapolis, MN
Monday December 28th 2009

Taper: empty (emptystapes AT gmail DOT com)
Location: DINish (cm, º), right drink rail, 25' back, ~10' ^
Source: Milab VM-44 (Link) > Silver Quad customs > UA-5 (BM2p+) > iRiver h120 (Optical @ 16bit 44.1kHz WAV)
Transfer: h120 > USB 2.0 > PC [WAV > RazorLame > 320kbps mp3]
Edit: CD Wave (tracking) Sound Forge 9 (fades)
TRT: 80:28

This Recording is for Promotional & Archival Purposes Only.

01. Needy
02. Some Bullshit Escape
03. Your Share of Men
04. Lovers Need Lawyers
05. Playing Dumb
06. O'Rourke's, 1:20 a.m.
07. Inmates
08. Keely Aimee
09. Album of the Year
10. A Little Bit More
11. Don't Make Love So Hard
12. ...encore
13. Friction
14. Heartbroke
15. The Chain *
16. The Competition
17. Notes In His Pockets

* Fleetwood Mac

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This should have been out a month ago but I wasn't ready to sit down with the recording. Tim played a big part in the keeping of my sanity this past year so when I say it was a honor to record this set I mean it. At the risk of breaking out my trusty bag of hyperbole it was an exorcism of sorts. Old Canes and Where Astronauts Go To Hide supported. If you missed any of the 3 sets you missed out.

I also recorded The Good Life at The Triple Rock in 2005 but at the time I was recording onto HiMD and Sony was brilliant enough to have this proprietary software SonicStage which in it's infancy was infamous for trapping recordings onto discs. For whatever reason you were only allowed to transfer a recording one time and if something went wrong for no reason than bam...no more Triple Rock '05 recording. Let's not live in the past, eh? Please enjoy a rare recording from The Good Life's December '09 four city midwest tour. The Good Life have releases available through Saddle Creek Records.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

May 2010 be better than 2009!

Live musics to follow from the likes of; The Good Life (holy shit?!), Old Canes, Where Astronauts Go to Hide, Face Candy, No Bird Sing, Kristoff Krane, Puppy Dogs & Ice Cream.

What I'm perhaps most excited about at the moment is NYE. Pretty sure I chose The Turf Club. Third Annual New Year's Eve Cover Night with Vampire Hands (Television), Leisure Birds (Monks), Daughters of the Sun (Jesus and Mary Chain), Marijuana Deathsquads (Brian Eno). Unfortunately Secret Language (Fleetwood Mac) was not recorded...it was however very Punk and uplifting. You missed out? It happens. Later on, at the dawn of the new year Finger Pressure's annual NYE set at Community Gardens was recorded into a little metal box. Let me just say that these 1s & 0s are far to good for the likes of MTV or top 40 radio. Be excited to check this out!

The Good Life coming back to The Triple Rock.

Hear, hear. The Good Life is closing out the year with a Midwestern run that includes a show at The Triple Rock. After two years with no visits it's time to pay respect to the folks who raised me. While I'll certainly miss being at Crunkmas 2009 (The Nomad) and the Heiruspecs "Home for the Holidays" shows (The Triple Rock) I'm jazzed to be flying back into town Monday afternoon in time for The Good Life.

Dec 27 Slowdown Omaha, Nebraska
Dec 28 Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, Minnesota
Dec 29 Subterranean Chicago, Illinois
Dec 30 Nutty’s Sioux Falls, South Dakota