The Mars Volta

Bill Graham Civic Auditorium · San Francisco, California, United States

Mainly clear · 45°F Moon phase: Last quarter

Opener: DJ Nobody, Peanut Butter Wolf, The Eternals, DJ Dennis

Notes

Ask anyone about legendary Volta shows of this era and of course you are going to hear about their NYE performance. Featuring acoustic performances of their more mellow songs and the debut of Since We’ve Been Wrong nearly 18 months before we’d hear it on Octahedron. This show is a beast. The boot is sadly a little rough around the edges sonically, but still worth your time. Fun fact there was a website that would show you the flyer for this show and played about 30 seconds of Metatron which was our first exposure to that song

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Source 1

Taper: Unknown
Source: Schoeps CMC34->Aeta PSP3 (Rolloff @ 80khz)->R-09 (@24bit48khz)
Lineage: USB Card reader -> cep (fades, downsample/dither to 16bit 44.1khz, hardlimiting on balloon pops, copy/paste (see notes)) -> flac frontend (lvl8)
Location: ~30feet Left Stack

FLAC > WAV with xACT > Audacity to re-track > WAV > FLAC (lvl4) & 320kbps MP3 with xACT – 2020-12-27

Taper Notes:
* Balloon pops were hard limited only when they occurred during actual music. For ambience, full-on-poppage was maintaned during track 2.
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FLACMP3

Source 2

Taper: brian2otis
Source: Giant Squid Omni Mics > Battery box w/bass roll-off > iRiver H100 w/Rockbox installed
>Split into tracks/normalized/EQed using Cubase LE
>Exported to .wav
>Flac using FLAC Frontend

FLAC > WAV with xACT > Audacity to re-track > WAV > FLAC (lvl4) & 320kbps MP3 with xACT – 2020-12-27

Taper Notes:
* First ever acoustic set
* Debut of acoustic versions of Televators, Asilos, Vermicide, Miranda.
* First live performances of Miranda, as well as the debut of Since We’ve Been Wrong.
* Thank you very much to CassandraLA from the Comatorium for creating the awesome cover art!
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