ELLIOTT SMITH September 21st, 2000 Prime Club Köln, Germany Source: Analog audience recording (stereo) {recorded by buenaventura}: Sony ECM-717 mic (probably) > Sony WM-D6C Stereo Cassette-Corder > 1997-2001 European TDK CDing-II 90-minute analog audio cassette master {from the buenaventura collection} > AKAI DX-W1100 double cassette deck > Zoom H2 > WAV (16/44) > SHNtool (stripped headers, fixed SBE) > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 (audio cleanup) > SHNtool (fixed SBE) > CD Wave (track splits) > TLH (WAV > FLAC8) FLAC master, 28 March 2021, by elegymart: Time [71:14] 01 Color Bars 02 Clementine 03 Division Day 04 Christian Brothers 05 Coming Up Roses 06 Cupid's Trick 07 Needle in the Hay 08 Waltz #2 (XO) 09 LA 10 Bled White 11 Stupidity Tries 12 Ballad of Big Nothing 13 Son of Sam 14 Junk Bond Trader 15 Everything Means Nothing to Me Encore 1: 16 Angeles 17 A Fond Farewell 18 Say Yes Encore 2: 19 St. Ides Heaven 20 Between the Bars {aborted} 21 Alameda Band: Elliott Smith – electric & acoustic guitars, vocals Shon "Goldenboy" Sullivan - keyboards, electric guitar, backing vocals Sam Coomes – bass guitar, backing vocals Scott McPherson - drums Notes: THE BUENAVENTURA LIMITED SERIES, VOL. 36 With much gratitude to the generosity of buenaventura, we continue to bring you this limited series with more wonderful material to counterbalance the so far terrible '20s. This limited series was so coined because there wasn't a deluge of tapes coming through for this, and the scope of it is still undetermined. To date, loughney may have uploaded more from buenaventura's collection than there have been volumes in this series so far, but there are still a few more to upload for the time being, and so here's another intermittent share. This time out we land on a spot along the European leg of Elliott Smith's "Figure 8" tour. After playing Amsterdam and Brussels, this was the fourth of sixteen dates with Oranger opening to be played on this leg, with France and the UK to follow respectively. Shon Sullivan, who would form Goldenboy after Elliott's nickname for him, took over from Aaron Embry on keyboards and second guitar. Aaron had been playing in the band along the U.S. dates prior to this. Sam Coomes from Quasi had been the stalwart anchor in Elliott's band for a good while at this point. It's no secret that Elliott was disenchanted by being on a major label like Dreamworks at this time. He parted ways with his management. His chemical abuse increased, raising his levels of paranoia that the label was entering his residence and taking items from there and that they had a van following him. Much of this got worse after the tour, but there's no indication in this set that any beginning of a downward spiral impacts the performance in any way. All the songs in the main were performed as per the set list for this night. The encores seemed to have been determined on the spot. Elliott switched it up every night of this tour, but there are no rare one-off surprises performed here like some of the other nights. Sound-wise this one is a bit punchy on the bass drum, but it's a decent recording nonetheless. Light ticks in the transfer process that were mostly audible during the acoustic numbers from the first set of encores and other quieter lulls during the show have been cleaned up. Only major flaw here is the missing section in "Junk Bond Trader." Elliott went so far as to say he'd end his life if Dreamworks didn't allow him to break his contract, and "Junk Bond Trader" is about working in an uninspired environment making uninspired music, so if any song was going to lose its bridge to tape flip at the show, it seems rather symbolic it'd happen on this number. Enjoy, elegymart App\Http\Controllers\Api\FileDownloadController::download(): Return value must be of type string, none returned