Elliott Smith

Elliott Smith
August 12th, 1998
Maxwell's
Hoboken, New Jersey

Source: ecm 909a mics > sony wm-d3 pro walkman
Lineage: Cassette (M) > SoundForge 6 > FLAC (Level 5)
Taper: Chris R. (the.word.yes@gmail.com)

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Tracklist:
d1t01 Happiness
d1t02 Bottle up and Explode!
d1t03 I Didn't Understand
d1t04 Waltz #2 (XO)
d1t05 Pitseleh
d1t06 Sweet Adeline
d1t07 Bled White
d1t08 Say Yes
d1t09 Division Day
d1t10 Tomorrow Tomorrow
d1t11 Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands
d1t12 Isn't it a Pity (George Harrison)
d1t13 Independence Day
-tape flip-
d1t14 Clementine
d1t15 Thirteen
d1t16 Oh Well, Okay
d1t17 Between the Bars

Randomly Selected Show Transcript:
Guy in Crowd: "Play that one about Amanda!"
Girl in Crowd 1: "What?"
Girl in Crowd 2: "Who's Amanda?"
Elliott: "That songs not out yet. Its not even done yet. Really. I don't know. I don't know about that."
Girl in Crowd 3: "You said you wanted to play new songs!"
*Everybody Cares Everybody Understands*

Transfer Notes:
There was no clipping done in the transfer.
There are several places where the reverb gets out of hand. not sure if it's a product of a bored soundman or just weird acoustics.

Aduio Errors (all present on master):
Volume Drops
d1t01: 0:00 - 0:15
d1t06: 1:38
d1t11: 0:26 - 0:27
Pops/Clicks/Chirps
d1t02: 0:05 (right channel only)
d1t08: 1:43
d1t12: 1:36

Links:
Sweet Adeline - http://www.sweetadeline.net
Sweet Adeline's Show Info - http://www.sweetadeline.net/81298.html
SomeSongs.net - http://www.somesongs.net

Elliott Smith
September 10th, 1998
Tower Records
Seattle, Washington

Source : General Electric hand-held tape recorder
Lineage: Cassette (M) > FLAC (Level 5)
Taper  : Renae (rely23 on the blamonet.com boards)

tracklist:
d1t01 Independence Day				(04:13)
d1t02 Waltz #2 (XO)				(04:11)
d1t03 Bottle Up and Explode!			(02:50)
d1t04 Pitseleh					(03:43)
d1t05 Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands	(03:05)
d1t06 Tomorrow, Tomorrow			(03:08)
d1t07 Oh Well, Okay				(02:11)
d1t08 Baby Britain				(03:00)
d1t09 Division Day				(02:13)
d1t10 Sweet Adeline				(02:57)
d1t11 Happiness					(03:27)
d1t12 Amity (tease) > Angeles (false start)	(00:36)
d1t13 Angeles					(02:50)
d1t14 I Didn't Understand			(02:40)
d1t15 Bled White				(02:44)
    -tape flip-
d1t16 Say Yes					(02:28)
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				Disk 1 Total	(46:16)

Notes: An average quality audience recording with an incredible setlist. It's one of the few shows where Elliott played Tomorrow, Tomorrow. He played it live fewer than 20 times, and never after 1998. He said he forgot how to play it (which seemed to be shorthand for "I don't want to play that song anymore"). This show also has one of the few perfomances of a solo acoustic Sweet Adeline that I have ever heard of. It was a common song in full band setlists on both the full band XO and Figure 8 tours, but alas, didn't carry over into his solo acoustic sets too often. Also of interest is Happiness, which was recorded for XO but didn't make the album cut. At this point it was still being called "Toms Start" on setlists and the like. The title of the song didn't begin appearing on setlists as Happiness until late 1999 (10/14/99 is the earliest setlist with this song title I know of at this time). Track 12 contains a little acoustic Amity tease, the only recording I know of where Elliott played any part of Amity acoustic.

Interesting Taper Story: "i went through the line and didn't have anything for mr elliott to sign, so i had him sign the blank cassette case. i'm pretty sure he knew i'd taped the set... i had every intention of giving him a copy next time i saw him. but that occasion never happened."

Transfer notes: No editing was done to the show what so ever aside from DC offset correction. No fade in/fade out added for the tape switch which occured after Bled White. 

Recording oddities/notes: There's a weird noise at the beginning of Baby Britain. I think it sounds like a bird (which would be quite odd for an in store performance), my fiance thinks it's an audience member "meep"ing.

Relevant Linkage:
http://www.sweetadeline.net - Official Fansite
http://www.elliottsmith.com - Another great fansite
http://www.somesongs.net - shameless plug for my own site

SHNID	Date	Venue	City	State
70509	1998-08-12	Maxwell's	Hoboken	NJ
ecm 909a mics > sony wm-d3 pro walkman > Cassette (M) > SoundForge 6 > FLAC (Level 5)
70516	1998-09-10	Tower Records	Seattle	WA
General Electric hand-held tape recorder > Cassette (M) > FLAC (Level 5)

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