Upcoming shows professionally recorded! Options

[Pokey]

Looks like TGF are going to be having their next set of shows professionally recorded and available for purchase according to facebook:

The Gracious Few
Surprise announcement! We are exited to let you know that TGF will be recorded on each stop of the band's upcoming tour leg, starting in Seattle and ending in Ventura , by Abbey Road Live. These are high quality, limited edition double-disc sets. Best of all, if you go to the show, you can pick up your CD set as you leave, encore and all! And if you are not going, you can still have it shipped home to you. Since these are so limited, we are offering these for pre-sale at www.abbeyroadliveus.com. Jump over and your copy today, as it is sure to become a collector's item!

[Bob]

I got my Seattle and San Fran discs today and agree with SctSamadhi, nice packaging, but it would have been nice to have the track listing on the discs or in an insert. I'm ripping the discs now and will let you know how they sound.

I too received my Seattle, WA show discs today. The packaging IS top notch, though it is a bummer that there's no tracklist. We're all TGF fans though, so when ripping the discs, it'll only take a few seconds per song to code it in.

I'm a little bummed about the recording quality though... KM's voice warbles in and out through several songs (the end of The Few in particular) and I'm not sure about the drums, but at least in Appetite they don't sound as good as they could.

I've only gotten 4 songs in... I too will be ripping them and putting them on my iPhone for further dissection.

Even with all my naggles above, I still absolutely love having a record of the show and for $20, I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

Hopefully each show has been purchased by someone so we can judge the quality of each concert. If there's one that sounds better than the Seattle show, I'll buy it just so I can have the best possible quality concert recording.

Maybe we should upload a snippet of the first song of each concert to judge quality? That's not too terribly wrong, is it?

Update: Setlist:

Appetite
The Few
Tredecim
TROY
Silly Thing
All I Hear
Crying Time
Guilty Fever
It's No Good
Closer
Great Houses Do Fall (Front Porch)
Honest Man (Front Porch)
Nothin' But Love (Front Porch)
What's Wrong
Nothin' But Love
Honest Man
Sing

This post has been edited by Bob: Dec 13 2010, 10:41 pm