Mike Gordon
2008-09-04
Park West
Chicago, Il

Source: Schoeps MK4(cardioid, 6' high, ortf) fob/dfc>NBox+>V3>MTII @ 24/48 (cf card)
Transfer: CF card>hdd>r8brain (dither/resample to 16/44.1)>cdwav>tlh (flac level 6)>foobar2000 (Live Show Tagger)

One Set:

01. Intro/Mike on Phone
02. Andelmans' Yard >
03. Dream Jam* >
04. Dig Futher Down** >
05. Cruel World
06. Ain't Love Funny >
07. Dog Jam^ >
08. Kryermaten^ >
09. Ain't Love Funny >
10. Plate Jam$
11. Dream Jam
12. Andelmans' Yard# (acoustic, unmic'd) >
13. Morphing Again# (acoustic, unmic'd)
14. Andelmans' Yard >
15. Traveled Too Far
16. Things That Make You Go Hmm%
17. Sound
18. Andelmans' Yard+ >
19. Voices >
20. Bird Jam*** >
21. Voices>
22. Another Door&
23. Andelmans' Yard++ >
24. Alphabet Street

Notes:

Mike Gordon's Magic Hat Summer Variety Show

* with stilt dancers
** with flag dancers/spinners
^ with jugglers
$ with plate spinner
# with shadow puppet show
% with Dizzy Lizzy on Hula Hoop
+ with 4 acrobatic dancers on stage
*** with acrobatic dancers in elevated cage
++ Mike has a rose placed in mouth and it gets sliced off with a bullwhip
& with 2 aeralists above stage

This show was weird. Theres no real way to explain what was going on, so Ill do my best, and you can decide for yourself if this show is worth it. So basically, Mike is on the phone with Julie Mordaunt (??) for most of the show, and in between songs he is talking to her (they were separated on stage by a false wall). He starts telling her about dreams hes having, they weave in between songs, with different jams based on the themes, with acrobats, jugglers, plate spinners, hula hoopers, puppets, and dancers in various costumes coming and going from the stage. So the stage banter you hear is Mike and Julie (??) talking on the telephone while all this madness surges and devolves on stage. If you have ever been to the Park West, its a small venue in Chicago, with a small GA pit, then bowl seating with tables. It cant be bigger than a few hundred people. I was recording on the floor at the back of the pit. There is alot of reaction from the crowd (see the Dog Jam), but the tape is fairly clean of chatter. I did my best with the tracking, though its not really abundantly clear where the breaks are in this stream of consciousness of a show. I was asked to run about head height by staff, the sound would have been better if Id run higher, but cest la vie.

Im pretty sure I was the only taper there, though I cant be certain. Ive also never seen this recording surface anywhere else, so Im pretty sure this is new to circulation. I dont recall how many of these "variety shows" Mike did that summer, but it was only a few. This was the only one I caught. If you have questions about the tracking, feel free to voice them. If you want to be critical of my tracking, pause, look at the person to your left, and tell that guy, not me.

mgb2008-09-04s1t01.flac:117437ad5b952eafbbb08bf228cf7409
mgb2008-09-04s1t02.flac:705a29a4a5064988b046bdf11dc70346
mgb2008-09-04s1t03.flac:9cb75547597d9118a6589133bb98b032
mgb2008-09-04s1t04.flac:d64ca522a4319201cf748dbfa3c58b94
mgb2008-09-04s1t05.flac:cc5e665271f3b299e31f0c2f06178257
mgb2008-09-04s1t06.flac:d9de800a34c84a79b851e3af69a835e5
mgb2008-09-04s1t07.flac:d1da57c632712a7931be16a724855d54
mgb2008-09-04s1t08.flac:60da1fbc0b331aa83c7b1c58d72f9ab9
mgb2008-09-04s1t09.flac:3cf3b45955711acc50a9623f9a8fa44d
mgb2008-09-04s1t10.flac:2f4488e95c3f469368081b503ceb7f54
mgb2008-09-04s1t11.flac:4b407b9f9d23d118c930d740b289454e
mgb2008-09-04s1t12.flac:cea7c3623b7cb7e36bb76b42c3968fca
mgb2008-09-04s1t13.flac:744c4623416a3bd85c6bdf3714caf966
mgb2008-09-04s1t14.flac:7df603bb8791c944f7bfb993c1906bc6
mgb2008-09-04s1t15.flac:b4ef0cc327fcb934be6db497bf4167bf
mgb2008-09-04s1t16.flac:fea31c292c55555a4de0f30570829295
mgb2008-09-04s1t17.flac:1d0f18a0391bf6bb015b652bd1d9b6ba
mgb2008-09-04s1t18.flac:108852436e05a81e409c265fad3a9f05
mgb2008-09-04s1t19.flac:6e7f25121a0d870487dd0d0aa2889478
mgb2008-09-04s1t20.flac:6c1758a636fce375459e5b8a4ace9276
mgb2008-09-04s1t21.flac:91b02fe0b099db0aae9294fed8435983
mgb2008-09-04s1t22.flac:d6d79a312e4ed1d6d97f79fcb0126a8b
mgb2008-09-04s1t23.flac:81c8311ab39cb12eec1e969b70027c76
mgb2008-09-04s1t24.flac:32774363571feaec8687f0604a8a01c5