Man Or Astro-Man?
December 17, 2001
Liquid Joe's
Salt Lake City, Utah

Audience Recording, Taped and transferred by Jared Wright

Source: Audio Technica lavalier condenser mic > Sharp MD-MT15 minidisc unit > CD transfer with Pioneer PDR-509 CD-R deck > CD ripped to PC > possible track corrections in Sonic Foundry > final CD > WAVs with iTunes > converted to FLAC with Fairstars Audio Converter


01. Engines of Difference                                      4:45.71
02. banter: EEVIAC                                             0:50.25
03. Theme from EEVIAC                                          2:19.08
04. Escape Velocity                                            1:53.33
05. banter: snow chains                                        1:01.46
06. Onward Through This Bumblefuck of Wires*                   2:38.25
07. Many Pieces of Large Fuzzy Mammals Gathered Together at a Rave and Schmoozing with a Brick                                        3:09.06
08. Junk Satellite                                             3:09.66
09. banter: boring sound                                       1:05.48
10. Preparation Clont                                          1:41.02
11. band intro: Macintalk Fred                                 1:44.33
12. Within One Universe There Are Millions                     3:14.22
13. A Reversal Of Polarity                                     3:13.02
14. banter: next song                                          1:07.73
15. Classified                                                 1:38.43
16. Very Subtle Elevators                                      2:29.29
17. banter: velocity                                           1:09.32
18. Song for the Two Mile Linear Particle Accelerator, Stanford University, Stanford, California > Television Fission          4:39.73
19. band intro: Image Writer II dot-matrix printer             3:42.04
20. A Simple Text File                                         2:04.58
21. banter: not anatomically correct                           1:52.45
22. Trapezoid                                                  2:58.06
23. drum intro>                                                0:35.29
24. Name of Numbers                                            1:34.45
25. Interstellar Hardrive                                      1:28.64
26. La Grange > Interstellar Overdrive?                        8:40.30
total                                                         64:48.18

*new song, introduced as "Onward Through This Bumblefuck of Snow Chains"

Surface changes (file renaming, checksum generation, shntool check, text file updates) by Diana Hamilton prior to Live Music Archive upload 4/2006.

3-piece lineup: Birdstuff (drums), Coco the Electronic Monkey Wizard (bass and more), Trace Reading (guitar)

Interview from 12/11/2001 for context:
http://www.rockzone.com/interviews/moam.shtml

--From Jared's notes on original distribution seeded through DIME Bittorrent site, 4/2006:--

Here's another band that we've not seen much of around here lately. In fact, we've not seen much of them anywhere for a while. There was an update on www.astroman.com about a year ago, mentioning something about gathering footage for a DVD project... but, that's it.

I was pleasantly surprised how well this recording came out. I was right in front of Trace Reading on the right side of the stage (if you can call it a stage). That put me further away from the bass amps, so I don't get the bass distortion as seen in some of my other recordings. Coco's mic doesn't come in very well between songs, but that's no biggie. Again, I think this sounds great when cranked up! For extra fun, jump to track 8 and sit on your subwoofer... whoopie!

...They wrap it up with a cool version of ZZ Top's LaGrange that explodes into who knows what. If anybody is an Astro-Man expert and can fill us in, please do.

As with many of my personal recordings, this one has never been posted anywhere, so spread it around!

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     2:19.08       24538460    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t03.flac
     1:53.33       20010860    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t04.flac
     1:01.46       10868636    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t05.flac
     2:38.25       27930044    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t06.flac
     3:09.06       33353756    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t07.flac
     3:09.66       33494876    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t08.flac
     1:05.48       11578940    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t09.flac
     1:41.02       17821148    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t10.flac
     1:44.33       18423260    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t11.flac
     3:14.22       34273388    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t12.flac
     3:13.02       34049948    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t13.flac
     1:07.73       11990540    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t14.flac
     1:38.43       17388380    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t15.flac
     2:29.29       26351852    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t16.flac
     1:09.32       12246908    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t17.flac
     4:39.73       49387340    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t18.flac
     3:42.04       39170252    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t19.flac
     2:04.58       22010060    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t20.flac
     1:52.45       19862684    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t21.flac
     2:58.06       31413356    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t22.flac
     0:35.29        6242252    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t23.flac
     1:34.45       16687484    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t24.flac
     1:28.64       15673772    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t25.flac
     8:40.30       91798604    ---   --   ---xx   moam2001-12-17d1t26.flac
    64:48.18      685886680 B                     (totals for 26 files, 0.5945 overall compression ratio)
