[MMouse]: anyone need extra tickets to the Columbus show?
Due to poor communication between my friends and I, we ended up with 9 tickets for 7 people for the show tonight in Columbus. They cost us $16.50 each, and are at least $19 each today through ticketmaster. If anybody sitting in around in the great midwest needs 2 tickets for $20 total, email me back ASAP and we can set up the swap. Remember, the show doesnt start till 8:15pm EST, so anyone of you sitting around in Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland or Huntington can come see a show still. First come,Fisrt Serve. -Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [MMouse]: Columbus OH Venue?
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, JSayre wrote: Hey all, Anyone in the Columbus area familiar with the venue MM is playing sat? Im in MI thinking of driving down if its a swell place (and it isnt sold out). It's at the Newport Music Hall on High St. (the main drag at Ohio State Uni.). Tickets are $13.50 + service charge, $15.50 day of show _ service charge. The venue... is well if the balcony is open you can sit down and drink $5 beers. -Jamie
Re: [MMouse]: RE: More recording..
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So lemme get this straight, you just go up to the sound guy and say hey, I want to plug in to your board and record this show? What do you tip - %20? Do you buy them drinks? They don't care? I don't know why they would care, I've just never thought about it or how one went about doing a soundboard recording like that. That would be cool because you could probably leave the recorder there and go enjoy the show.. come back and switch tapes if Well, I should clarify... The shows I've taped off the soundboard have not been exactly huge shows.. Off the top of my head, I've taped Silver Scooter, Number One Cup, Tiara (many times), Moviola (many times) off the board at the same venue. It's always the same sound person that works the venue and they dont care if I tape (I always have an OK from the band anyways). I dont tip, and up until last April, I couldnt even buy alcohol for myself.. so if anything, I was just really polite, and stayed out of the way. However, you might want to check with the band if it's at a larger venue, like Mouse seesm to be hitting on this tour. Does anyone (Eric Satnik?) know if Mouse has a traveling sound guy? Phil Ek? I'd also say that soundboard recording is going to be pretty hard to get done since they're on Sony and Sony will have this fear of people selling $40 copies of SBD CDR's, so they wont let anyone tape. This happend to Wilco back in the mid 90's.
RE: [MMouse]: Recording Live Shows
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Chris Stratton wrote: thats very informative i appreciate it...i'd like some info from someone who can recommend a good lapel mic alsoi'm not as much concerned in price..just quality... My mind is drawing a blank as to what 'lapel' mic is... but in my 4 years of taping shows, I've come to some conclusions... 1) You can never afford the mic you like. 2) You can never get away from noisy people. I dont have the specific model numbers of the mics I'm going to refer to, but some quality mics in my opinion are... The Audio Technia 822 - I think this runs around $300? It's a small handheld mic I believe? It is kinda bass heavy in booming venues. Sony EMS-907 (?) - This is a mic about the size of a fudgesicle. It sounds pretty remarkable for it's $100 price tag. Core Sounds Binauruals - These are 2 small mics that are used optimally when you are close to the PA. For an extra $50, you can get a bass roll-off filter which eliminates the low-end rumble. Total costs usually run in the neighborhood of $260 or so. Sonic Studio something something 6. These are similar to the Core Sound mics but run about $500. These have a clear, rich sound and produce a very true sound. I cant afford these. I have a pair of Core Sounds, another pair of 'generic' core sounds, and a very old mic that came with my sony d3 pro-analog deck, and I like the sony mic the best. It lacks some of the low end, but it sounds true to the environment. I currently record on a Sony D8 dat deck with some type oh mic. I'm going to try to get the Modest Mouse show in Columbus on DAT/MP3. -Jamie
Re: [MMouse]: RE: more recording
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Chris Stratton wrote: the mono feature...seems to me that if you could increase the recording time significantly by using mono, that would be the way to go..i mean you really hear ultimately one sound when your standing there listening to it anyway...how stereo could it really be?? looking into some equipment so i would like to know.. If you plan on doing any editing to the recording, go for it in stereo. I've taped some shows off the soundboard where the right channel has 'clipped' and the left channel is fine. Afterwards, you can just mix the left channel into both channels so you dont have a flawed recording. 10 seconds of mono is better than one loud pop or scratch. In audience tapes, I can tell the stereo.. Usually one channel will record 2 to 4 decibels than the other channel. So if some drunk is yelling on your right, the left will barely pick it up. -Jamie
Re: [MMouse]: Recording Live Shows
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, spudlee wrote: as for the recording level, make sure its not just a volume control. i thought mine could adjust levels during recording too, but apparently it cant, becoz i recorded an entire show on 0 level and it still came out distorted. its more important to make s ure that the levels arent peaking constantly (ie hitting the last level indicator every two seconds). if i remember right, the Sony MD recorders dont let you adjust recording levels on the fly. You have to hit pause, then mess with the levels. This is the big advantage of the Sharp recorders, where you can soften or louden the recording level while it's recording. as for recording into the soundboard, its not hard, there's usually an auxiliary out line for you to plug the mono cable into, but having spoken to a lot of sound guys they say the sound isnt as good, becoz the soundboard focuses predominantly on the voc als, bass drums and guitar amps which makes it a little uneven. Most soundboards I've seen half 1/4 inch jacks, so usually you need two 1/4 to 1/8 inch adapters. They're had for about $2 each at Radio Shack. Some soundboards also have seperate mixes for the aux output. When I tape at one venue in town, I always push the bass and gtr up in the mix going to my DAT machine. -Jamie
Re: [MMouse]: Space Ghost~~ HAHAH
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Neil Johnston wrote: Space Ghost is a great show!!! I love it. Brak is also great. He is a cool. I guess Pavement was on Space Ghost once. I missed that one. Did anyone out there see it? And now the Beatles... What Pavement did to the SG theme song at the end of the show was either genius or awful. I can't decide which. -Jamie
RE: [MMouse]: FLips/90210
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, George Booze wrote: That is indeed a weird moment in indie-rock history. When asked about it in a recent interview, the flips guys said they would do it agin at the drop of a hat. On a related note, It was pretty weird seeing those huge Archers of Loaf and Superchunk / Shiner posters through the movie 'Road Trip'. I mean, that's what I heard, since I'm too cool to goto an AMC. ;) -Jamie
Re: [MMouse]: the ohio thing...or i think its called spring fest
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i guess its like a two day thing at ohio state...i didnt bother writing down If it's anything like last year, it's on the 'oval' at Ohio State. That's the big grass circle in the middle of campus. It's a free show most importantly. guided by voices jimmy eat world rainer maria You sure this is up to date? I saw the exact same bands play at last year's springfest... With GBV being 'removed' from the stage at 12 sharp due to noise ordinances. -Jamie
[MMouse]: Dirty Fingernails Live
I got my sound card to function somewhat properly, and I went ahead and encoded some of the more interesting live mouse songs I have on tape... First up... The 8 minute ver. of Dirty Fingernails live in Bowling Green, OH. The last 5 minutes is basically Isaac making up new verses on the spot. And it has the first usage of the words 'premature ejaculantern' that I know about. http://www.corsmith.yi.org/~jamclark/mp3/mouse/modest_mouse-dirty_fingernails(1997.10.26-ohio).mp3 If there's demand, I can encode some more stuff... like a very bizarre version of 'Ohio' from Ontario 98, and the 'I Want All Your Transformers' jam. -Jamie
Re: [MMouse]: Looking for specific songs.
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Russ Sweetser wrote: i have all of these except dirty fingernails. the positive negative is from the GAMH show (sanfran) on my page. mice eat cheese is in 50 minute demos. the rest of these i will slap up momentarily for your downloading I've got the Yo-Yo version of Dirty Fingernails that I encoded from CD. I just need someplace to upload it to. I've also got the Magic Eye version of 'Mice Eat Cheese' that I encoded. Is that the same as the demo version? I havent listened to them in ages. -Jamie
Re: [MMouse]: lick the loser, just dont make him stiff
thinks chapel hill is the "next big thing", on that note... superchunk is playing here w/ eric bachman (lead archer) tonight. but i've been assigned the wonderful duty of passing out candy to future welfare receiptents. god bless ohio. about don cab is anyone into the speaking canaries? and somewhat related... is anyone going to the trans am shows in ohio this november (oberlin and bowling green). best/worst musical experiences of 99: best show: smog and moviola at the grog shop in cleveland. 2nd best show: flaming lips pulling off the drummerless show.. funniest show: guided by voices getting thrown off the stage at midnight at ohio st. worst show: sebadoh in march 2nd worst show: sebadoh in july no shows: modest mouse, ash, stereolab most interesting show: olivia tremor control and elf power at a sports bar. cd revitalized: duster 'stratosphere' sick of hearing about: mogwai bad break ups: number one cup favorite cd of the year: masters of the hemisphere (self titled) runner up: silver scooter (orleans parish) -Jamie
Re: [MMouse]: fuit
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the hoopla is about the fruit that ate itself import cd from japan, which contains the blue cadet 3, do you connect? K single on it. and believe it or not, but the album is actually self titled, issac said so. if there's no place on-line selling the japanese fruit CD, i can get copies here in town for about $18 (+ postage/tax). and, i really dont care for the album that much. dirty fingernails is great, but otherwise, it's just 'okay'. -jamie
Re: [MMouse]: Re: Digest modestmouse.v001.n258
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on the built to spill front, why didn't keep it like a secret come out today as planned? cus it already did. at least, it was out erlier this week when i went record shopping. according to the warner brother's page it was SUPPOSED to come out today (2/2). But the 'midnight madness' event at the record store for it that was supposed to happen last night, was delayed till next monday night. ugh. -Jamie
Re: [MMouse]: Album of the year:kleenex girl wonder
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Robin Hood wrote: 'graham smith is the coolest person alive' by the Kleenex Girl Wonder in my opinion, is thee album of the year hands down. its sad more On an interesting note, I traded graham a copy of a Guided By Voices live tape from here, for free nachos and a copy of his cd. weirdest trade i've ever done. almost. albums recently released i need to hear first(new karate, metronome, silver jews, stereolab..) but other great releases are the albums by tiara, boyish charms, princeton reverbs, and elliott for anyone that hasn't checked out Karate live, do yourself a favor and see them. (tiara opened up to boot). Also, Metronome's new tape 'lime green' tape came out, and the 12" split with Orange Cake Mix is out now as well. no new smog album this year??? strange. Jan 19th (?). -Jamie
