*** San Diego Fanviews Here 10/9/09 ***

Yeah, at the show you could totally tell the sound guy brings Mike back up loudly as soon as the teacher butchers the song.

Little Wing: It is what it is, Ed and Matt letting their child/teen-year music teachers sit in with the band. The drums are awesome, that's not Matt -- he sat off to the side. And the drum teacher has actually posted in this thread! (again, awesome job man!).

While watching it live, as a guitarist, I just couldn't help thinking, "Oh man, he doesn't wanna solo .. NO MIKE DON'T PASS IT OFF TO HIM!!!" Ed's teacher was very content to embrace the "less is more" ethic of guitar playing, he was in his groove crunchin out muted chords and jivin' with the band. When Mike went up to him to pass the lead, i dunno, it's like he was warming up to it at that point when he needed to fire that rocket off. It's like he wanted to just jam for a few more verses to work up to a punch, and he didn't get the time. I recall Mike kinda being there with him and getting this "ruh-roh" feeling and takin the lead back, slowly interjecting some notes over him and then just takin it back...

It's just totally unfair to put him (teacher) in a dueling banjos scenario with a 20-year touring rocker shredding week-in-week out with numerous bands (Mike). The teacher was happiest just playin rhythm methinks and there ain't nuthin' wrong with that.

A bit awkward during the solo, but overall a very memorable and enjoyable moment!

Jesus...is the crowd even singing "Betterman"??? By the sounds of the bootleg I would say no, but having been there myself I know that wasn't the case at all as we were all singing at the top of our lungs!! I'm kind of dissapointed the crowd is not better represented on this bootleg. Still a great show and excellent bootleg non the less.

RM

This gig sounds like it was pretty awesome, seems like a long time since Shepherds Bush 11/08.

Must of been close on a 3hr set?

It's just the way it recorded. that's all. Somehow, it didn't pick up most of the audience, which sucks, because the audience was the best I've ever heard. Betterman shook the place!!!

At 2:28 ish -- is it fitting on 2 disks? Oh right, no piano intro and snipped intermissions? Think Audio CDs hold about 1:20 each?

Man yeah, sad to hear audience is mixed low -- blessing and a curse though. While I don't wanna hear those folks who "want to be heard..." I do want to hear us all sing, and Eddie was so proud of us all, braggin to his teacher mid-Betterman!

Man...what a pain in the ass. I loaded disc 1 and itunes didn't recognize the disk so I had to enter the names of the tracks manually. Then disc 2 went in and the same thing...only it mixed the two together until I went through and one by one labled the album title on the songs of the 2nd disc... San Diego, CA disc 2... and in the right order.

I'm not the most computer savvy person so it took a while for me to figure out how to do this. Frustrating man...but I was actually proud of myself. Anyways...it sounds great. No..we don't sound as loud as we really were...but I'm ok with the mix as a whole.

edit: BTW...SF and LA3 were recognized by itunes and were easy to load in. Anyone know why SD wasn't?

CitizenRick wrote:

Man...what a pain in the ass. I loaded disc 1 and itunes didn't recognize the disk so I had to enter the names of the tracks manually. Then disc 2 went in and the same thing...only it mixed the two together until I went through and one by one labled the album title on the songs of the 2nd disc... San Diego, CA disc 2... and in the right order.

I'm not the most computer savvy person so it took a while for me to figure out how to do this. Frustrating man...but I was actually proud of myself. Anyways...it sounds great. No..we don't sound as loud as we really were...but I'm ok with the mix as a whole.

edit: BTW...SF and LA3 were recognized by itunes and were easy to load in. Anyone know why SD wasn't?

haha! I'm soo glad you posted this. I had the same issue! I was bummed...I had to put in everything as well. I don't know, I think Kufala messed up, or something happened during the recording. Or iTunes failed to reconize the label. either way, i'm glad that was the only problem...I would hate for there to be 23 EMPTY songs. It is an extreme pain to put in song for song (especially when you have to click on the Track just to type it in....ugh.

I found something better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kci-fWUNQ5g

1Vedhead wrote:

I had 3rd row seats to this show and got some great photos that are posted here:
Enjoy!
http://alongtherail.blogspot.com/2009/1 ... tures.html

Thanks for the pictures! So whats the final verdict on the quality of this boot? I still haven't purchased it and probably won't if its as bad as some are saying it is.