The Mars Volta - Live in Houston, Texas
September 17th, 2009 @ Verizon Wireless Arena
Setlist
Notes
Arguably the best Pridgen show of the Octahedron era. I actually liked Son et and Inertiatic on this tour as they added a bit of spiciness to the keys to give them a choir feel to it. Otherwise it is a solid show with nothing too flashy, but what is there is well executed. They dropped Cygnus early on, and honestly I think it was the right call. Pridgen never did Cygnus well and honestly this tour benefited from the shorter and simpler songs. Thomas does Eunuch better than in 2008 although that is not saying much.
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Show Recording(s)
Recording Information:
Taper: Adam Lancaster
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2 Source Mix
*********************Source 1: DPA 4061 mics (matched pair) > 9v batt box > Edirol R-09 line-in (WAV @ 24 bit, 48 kHz)
Source 2: Church Audio AT831 > 9v batt box > Edirol R-09 line-in (WAV @ 24 bit, 48 kHz) (NOTE: partial recording due to battery failure)
Location: front of stacks, stage right, approx. 30 feet away
Transfer: SD card > card reader (USB) > WAV
Mastering: Wavlab 3.04a (EQ, dynamic compression, matrixing, dithering and resampling to 16 bit, 44.1 kHz) > CD Wave Editor (track splits) > FLACfrontendNotes:
* The final matrix is approximately a 50/50 mix of the two sources, however the second source (AT831) is an incomplete source due to battery problems. The first 15 minutes have both sources, followed by about 8 1/2 minutes of just the DPA source. Then another 10 minutes with both sources, followed by 3 minutes of just the DPA source. Then there is another 5 minutes with both sources, and the rest of the recording after that is just the DPA source.Do not sell or convert this recording to mp3 and redistribute.
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Tour Era
Since its inception in 2001 The Mars Volta always seemed to be building and growing; longer songs, more members, bigger set pieces, more equipment, and more bad online flash games promoting their albums. When Octahedron was announced it was the first time in eight years that the band had taken a step back and scaled down. Band members Adrián Terrazas-González and Paul Hinojos had also been removed from ... read more