Acid Mothers Temple April 24th, 2014 DC9 Washington, D.C. Source: Roland Edirol R-09 (onboard mics, low-cut on, AGC off) > WaveLab (Puncher (low density, 75% effect, 0% output gain) + SL-1 StereoExpander (100%) + levels normalized) > CDWAV (tracks split and saved as .FLAC level 8 ) > foobar2000 (ReplayGain) Location: First two songs: Table front of soundboard. Thereafter: Standing rear-left of soundboard. Taper: ZaPenguin (zappa.penguin(AT)gmail.com or http://db.etree.org/ZappaPenguin) SOUND QUALITY: A-/B+ - A bit of fuzz/saturation on the low end, but it's a nice, warm saturation, and could be a lot more annoying. A bit muddy but nothing's inaudible, and there's a minimum of crowd chatter (as is usually the norm for D.C. audiences!) THE BAND: Tsuyama Atsushi: monster bass, voice, cosmic joker Tabata Mitsuru: guitar, maratab Higashi Hiroshi: synth, guitar, voice, dancin'king Shimura Koji: drums, latino cool Kawabata Makoto: guitar, voice, speed guru SPECIAL GUEST: Cotton Casino: synth, wild dancing on all songs TRACK LIST: 01. soundcheck [4:28] 02. Intro Jam [8:21] 03. tuning [1:08] 04. Benzaiten [16:07] (I originally referred to this as "Unknown Song #1", hence "Unknown Song #2" later on) 05. tuning [1:21] 06. Unknown Song #2 [9:43] (featuring Cotton Casino on vocals) 07. Kawabata's Pink Reflections [3:31] 08. Pink Lady Lemonade [9:34] 09. Om Riff [11:20] 10. Cometary Orbital Drive > Speed Guru [12:56] MINI BIO: "Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. (and subsequent offshoots) is a Japanese psychedelic band founded in 1995 by members of the Acid Mothers Temple soul-collective. The band is led by guitarist Kawabata Makoto and early in their career featured many musicians but by 2004 the line-up had coalesced with 4 core members and frequent vocal guests. The band have a reputation for phenomenal live shows, and releasing frequent albums on a number of international record labels, as well as the Acid Mothers Temple family record label which was established in 1998 to document the activities of the whole collective." - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia which every 14 year old has edited. BAND PAGE: http://www.acidmothers.com SHOW NOTES: Cotton Casino as an unannounced special guest! Without a doubt a must-have for Cotton fans. I haven't had much time to sink my teeth into the "new" songs, so I can't offer much in the way of ruminations. This is without a doubt the shortest Pink Lady Lemonade I've ever witnessed - including the "Nocturne", it's not even 15 minutes in length. I daresay this was a slight disappointment (even if it led into a great Om Riff). It's early in the tour, so hopefully Pink Lady will only get better from here! Definitely a change of pace having the Acid Mothers start off on the East coast - will be exciting to hear them at the end of the tour in Philly to see just how it's evolved from these relatively-inauspicious, humble beginnings. Looking back on this show (as I write this paragraph in 2015), this may actually be the second-ever live performance of Benzaiten (the debut - assuming this song wasn't played in Asia before the U.S. tour - would be the night before at the Mercury Lounge) - really interesting looking, or listening, back on it. Gotta say, though, I think this song got better with age - the 2015 performances sound a lot more energetic, either due to the faster tempo or Satoshima's mutant drum approach vs KoShi's more jazzy stylings, or quite possibly both. REQUESTS & REMINDERS: Do not sell this recording. Do not buy this recording. Do not sell this recording, then buy it from yourself. CREDITS: Dynamite Children: Respect Torrented by the taper: ZaPenguin email - zappa.penguin(AT)gmail.com web - http://db.etree.org/zappapenguin (always woefully out of date) Band page: http://www.acidmothers.com App\Http\Controllers\Api\FileDownloadController::download(): Return value must be of type string, none returned