the Mountain Goats
03-21-2009
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, Washington, DC

Recorded and transferred by Thomas Hartnett [t_hartnett@hotmail.com]

Source: AUD>Core Sound Binaural Microphones>Sharp MD-MT866
Transfer: Sharp MD-MT866>Audacity 1.2.5>Fission 1.6.2>MacFLAC

01. [Hi, We're the Mountain Goats]
02. Proverbs 6:27
03. Island Garden Song
04. [Tuning/The Day the Aliens Came intro]
05. The Day the Aliens Came
06. Mole
07. [Cassettes/Going to Mexico intro]
08. Going to Mexico
09. Hello Sarah
10. You or Your Memory
11. Cobscook Bay
12. [Stalling for time/Sign of the Crow 2 intro]
13. Sign of the Crow 2
14. [Ox Baker Triumphant intro]
15. Ox Baker Triumphant
16. Woke Up New
17. The Recognition Scene
18. Alpha Desperation March
19. Hello, Old Rabbit
20. [Moon Colony Bloodbath banter]
21. Emerging*
22. [Surrounded intro]
23. Surrounded*
24. Columns Pillars Steps*
25. This Year*
26. No Children
27. [encore break]
28. International Small Arms Traffic Blues
29. [Striking songs from the list]
30. Dance Music
31. Sept 15 1983
32. Broom People

* = with John Vanderslice

Notes:
A solo show from the 2009 Gone Primitive solo tour with John Vanderslice. The first song ended up being an Amazon.com bonus track for their then still unreleased album, The Life of the World to Come, while "Hello Sarah" is a previously unreleased outtake from the early cassette days.

Unfortunately, it seems as if the microphones lost contact with the recorder for a second or two during the climax of "Broom People." I have left the silence intact; I may at a future time attempt to repair this by creating a matrix recording with another existing source.

During the transfer process, I used Fission for both normalization and splitting tracks. I also cut some of the applause during the encore break, during which time I had needed to swap out minidiscs. No EQ, compression, or any other audio tampering has been used on this recording.

If anyone has any comments or questions, I can be reached at the e-mail address above. Thanks!

-Thom