Smashing Pumpkins - 2007.11.18 Nokia Theatre - Grand Prairie, TX, USA taper: Karl Frinkle (specialK) email: specialk@karlfrinkle.net url: http://karlfrinkle.net source: Sound Professionals Premium AT Slimline Cardioids (3-Wire Hyperplane mod) > Hyperplane 3-Wire Mini Battery Box > M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96(@24/48) location: section 309, row CCC, seat 7 (way back there) transfer: M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 > USB > WAV > Wavelab (mastering) > CD Wave (splitting) > FLAC modifications: magik disc 1 - 122:07 - Smashing Pumpkins intro United States Bullet with Butterfly Wings Drown Bring the Light Tonight, Tonight Tarantula Disarm Lucky 13 talking That's the Way (My Love Is) Hummer 1979 talking Perfect Today Stand Inside Your Love Superchrist Doomsday Clock Heavy Metal Machine encore break Pomp and Circumstances talking Cherub Rock outtro and talking The Review: A special thanks to Stephan for going to this show with me. We got to our seats a song or so into EITS's set. Show started earlier than I realized but EITS were really bad, in my opinion. Between the two of us, we had three audio rigs going and on video rig. The Pumpkins came out shortly before 9:30 opening with United States, which I think is a pretty rocking opener. They played a pretty solid non-stop set with a little bit of witty banter here and there. Over all, I think the set list was OK. I was really hoping for Starla or Gossamer, but I will not complain. It had been eleven years since I had last seen the Pumpkins and I was really not familiar with much of the material, so it was quite fun listening to many of these songs for the first time. It was nice to hear a few `golden oldies' off of the S.D. album (but no Gish alas). The set itself was a little shorter than I had hoped. If you remove all the banter and encore break, it almost becomes a 105 minute show. All in all, we got three decent audio recordings and a nice video recording (Stephan did all the hard work on that one). The Recording: The recording came out decent, sounds a little distant but I will not complain. I faded out the beginning of the encore break on track 20 after Heavy Metal Machine was over. I had to start a new track at that point or my MicroTrack 24/96 was going to start a new one for me. I kept all of the encore break in the recording as well, which starts on track 21 with a fade in. Billy does a small amount of talking at the end of the outtro track so I decided to leave that in as well. Over all, the recording is decent. I am sure there are several out there better than mine, but hey, this is ok. App\Http\Controllers\Api\FileDownloadController::download(): Return value must be of type string, none returned