Tortoise

5/25/96
Bimbo's 365 Club, San Francisco, CA
Source: unknown (but still looking)
Coversion: Mike Roeder (mike@easychair.net)
Lineage: DAT->XLII->HD via BIAS Peak LE on Mac G4 400->WAV (ripped 1/26/02)

1. Gamera
2. A Survey
3. The Equator
4. Glass Museum
5. Wait
6. Tin Can & Twine
7. The Taut and Tame
8. Djed pt 2
9. ?
10. Cornpone Brunch
11. (Encore) Spiderwebbed
12. (Encore) Grazing In The Grass *

*Hugh Masekela cover

This show is from the tour supporting "Millions Now Living Will Never Die" and even has an early version of "The Equator" from "TNT." This version is even better, IMHO. Back when I got this show, I was trading with DAT-Heads who didn't have CD burners, so my copy is XLII from the DAT. I hope that someone will SHN this show if they have the DAT! But, here is my version. Originally, I made a 1 CD 74 Minute version of this. This show originally clocked in around 81 Minutes, so I edited the WAV's so that it would fit on an 80. I took the liberty of shortening up the "looped" recording after "Cornpone Brunch" (the yelling voice backwards and forwards) as well as starting a fade early on "Grazing In The Grass" while Tortoise was breaking it down at the end. In my opinion it does not detract from the show.

Tortoise
5/25/96
Bimbo's 365 Club
San Francisco, CA

01. Gamera
02. A Survey
03. The Equator
04. Glass Museum
05. Wait
06. Tin Can & Twine
07. The Taut and Tame
08. Djed pt 2
09. ?
10. Cornpone Brunch
11. (Encore) Spiderwebbed
12. (Encore) Grazing In The Grass *

* Hugh Masekela cover




Source: unknown (but still looking) DAT clone
per the person I traded with.
Coversion: Mike Roeder (mike@easychair.net)
Lineage: DAT->XLII->HD via BIAS Peak LE on Mac G4 400->WAV (ripped 1/26/02)

This has to be one of the best Tortoise shows I have ever heard.
It is from the tour supporting "Millions Now Living Will Never Die"
and even has an early version of "The Equator" from "TNT." This version is even better,
IMHO. Back when I got this show, I was trading with DAT-Heads who didn't have CD burners,
so my copy is XLII from the DAT. I hope that someone will SHN this show if they have
the DAT! But, here is my version. Originally, I made a 1 CD 74 Minute version of this.
This show originally clocked in around 81 Minutes, so I edited the WAV's so that it would
fit on an 80. I took the liberty of shortening up the "looped" recording after
"Cornpone Brunch" (the yelling voice backwards and forwards) as well as starting a
fade early on "Grazing In The Grass" while Tortoise was breaking it down at the end.
In my opinion it does not detract from the show.

Tortoise
1996-08-xx 
Peel Sessions - London, England

lineage: FM>ANA(?)>CDR>EAC>Steinberg Wavelab(EQ + track editing)>SHN>shntool(SBEfix)>WAV>FLAC

1. Wait
2. Vaus
3. Tame
4. Tin Cans And Twine

notes: I added ANA (?) to the lineage because from the sound of this, i'm 99.9% sure it's an analog source. This session is worth having because of "Vaus" alone. I also edited the cuts. On the original, it would cut in right in the middle of John Peel talking before the music started. I found it quite annoying. I also did some EQ'ing in Steinberg WaveLab.

 - choob

notes(jd):
- SBE on all tracks fixed using shntool v1.2.3
- FLAC Compression using FLAC v1.1.0m (Level 8 )
- Renamed files for brevity
- No other edits were performed on the original fileset
  
For the details on FLAC and the software needed to decompress these files go to:
http://wiki.etree.org/index.php?page=FLAC

FLAC Fingerprint:
tortoise1996-08-xxt01.flac:477052dde2b21f49bcc39ebc84c3829f
tortoise1996-08-xxt02.flac:73f83e1983b43628ed92dae9464b523b
tortoise1996-08-xxt03.flac:658c29c819d3fa68a723803a44b344b4
tortoise1996-08-xxt04.flac:7fc19ee77a0450e1b1bb7bc0a007d75f

WAV md5:
4ba98e99dd2d90e294d63eb742a87dd6 *tortoise1996-08-xxt01.wav
e70b0e55d46ad58a3641aa334bcf03d6 *tortoise1996-08-xxt02.wav
0623fc0a85e452a1243593c0d1291c0d *tortoise1996-08-xxt03.wav
192d168f92bdfdc8b8d2671bd2be6226 *tortoise1996-08-xxt04.wav

shntool output:
    length     expanded size   cdr  WAVE  probs   filename
     6:22.71      67551836     ---   --    -xx    tortoise1996-08-xxt01.flac
     4:34.14      48366572     ---   --    -xx    tortoise1996-08-xxt02.flac
     4:47.06      50640956     ---   --    -xx    tortoise1996-08-xxt03.flac
     4:40.68      49551980     ---   --    -xx    tortoise1996-08-xxt04.flac
    20:25.09        206.10 MB                     (totals for 4 files, 0.5374 overall compression ratio)


SHNID	Artist	Date	Venue	City	State
21319	Tortoise	1996-05-25	Bimbo's 365 Club	San Francisco	CA
??->DAT->XLII->HD via BIAS Peak LE on Mac G4 400->WAV->SHN
21430	Tortoise	1996-05-25	Bimbo's 365 Club	San Francisco	CA
?->DAT->XLII->HD via BIAS Peak LE on Mac G4 400->WAV
25430	Tortoise	1996-08-??	Peel Sessions	London	England
FM>ANA(?)>CDR>EAC>Steinberg Wavelab(EQ + track editing)>SHN>shntool(SBEfix)>WAV>FLAC

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