Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Seattle 2017-10-11, Neptune Theatre

01 [Intro, the band takes the stage]
02 Not All Our Tears
03 Salt of The Sea
04 Around My Smile
05 Sleep
06 Day Disguise
07 That Spider
08 [unplanned intermission - Hope quits the stage and doesn't return for nearly an hour. Colm
comes on stage several times to explain and to reassure the crowd Hope will return.
The intermission segment is reduced here from approx. 55:00 minutes down to 3:45 to include recordings of
Colm* & Hope speaking]
09 Trouble
10 I Thought You'd Fall For Me
11 Suzanne
12 Into The Trees
13 Liquid Lady, + Hope speaks, including thanking the crowd for staying during the long
unscheduled "break."
14 Let Me Get There
15 Primitive (The Groupies/Cramps cover), plus Hope speaks to the audience,
plus hands a glass of wine (she had two)to a guy at the front & clinks glasses with him!
Encore:
16 Antiquity
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*One other thing Colm said that didn't get recorded, but which I wrote down
right after he spoke is: "Alright, she's comin' back in a couple of minutes.
She's a bit upset, but she's okay." But it turned out it was a lot more minutes than a couple before
Hope got herself back in a state to continue.

This recording proves I was among those who had FAITH Hope would return
(as Colm promised she would) - as she did, and in a good mood, to do
another eight songs. I was also optimistic 'cause I'd heard of a number of
gigs where Hope had exited stages mid-set, but in every case I'd heard of (post 1990s, that is)
she always came back to finish the show. The only cases I know of of Hope quitting mid-gig
and NOT returning all date from the 1990s. Perhaps she's mellowed some with age.

Hope removed her ear bud monitor during That Spider, and walked off before it finished, making a sideways
back and forth cutting motion with her hand as a sign to the band as she walked off.
The band then brought the song to a neat close.

Hope's exit was apparently due to a number of
stressors: A technical problem with her monitor ear buds. Plus, Colm
explained from the stage they were all traumatized by the Sonoma wildfires
that had killed many people and were still burning, the damage of which
they saw up close that week. Colm said the fires came so close to their
own tour bus (they played a Sonoma gig Oct. 8, the very night news broke
of out-of-control wildfires there) their bus was "nearly engulfed by flames." Also, he
said they had to fire their sound crew the day before 'cause "they were
useless." This followed a reportedly disastrous Portland show with
serious sound and lighting problems. Hope added she'd also just had
a "run-in" with someone and the experience "threw [her] off guard."
Thankfully, Hope came back to finish the show in fine form
(Oh, ye of little faith who gave up and left...you lost out)!

I succeeded in recording all the music of the show - except the first
song,"Not All Our Tears," which is incomplete. Its beginning and end are intact but
there are three spots in the middle where portions of the song are missing. That's because
I got "busted" by security for recording. There were signs at the gig forbidding photography
and video recording, but they did not mention audio recording. Hope hates the distraction & irritation of
camera flashes and phones being held up high in the air in front of her. I pointed this out to the guard
who did not accept my interpretation of the sign, insisting there was "NO RECORDING."

I removed two short portions with the guard's loud voice telling me to put away my recorder.
The other missing part is the short time between when I turned off my recorder for the guard's
benefit and turned it back on again for mine and yours! Ha. I hid it in my shirt pocket for the
duration of the show as it discreetly recorded. You can hear three abrupt jumps where the
recording of the first song jumps ahead to a later part of the song suddenly. I'm not sure how much is missing
but I'll guess it's 30 to 60 seconds worth.

We know the title of the first song, a song I've never heard before, because someone obtained
a printed stage set list from the first gig of the 2017 North American tour, the one at Sonoma,
CA Oct. 8 with this song title and posted it to the setlist.fm site. The Seattle gig I saw followed
the Sonoma setlist exactly except the last song performed at Sonoma ("The Hiking Song") was omitted in Seattle.

In some ways, this recording sounds better, imo, than the same songs sounded at the venue. That's
because the sound mix at the venue had the bass way too prominent in the mix and it drowned out Hope's voice
and the other instruments too often. Luckily, my recorder corrects some for overwhelming bass.
Plus I further reduced the low end using Audacity software and boosted the higher frequencies
to bring Hope's voice & the guitars out more.

Colm, when he's not playing drums, plays guitar on several songs on this recording. Most notably,
he plays lead guitar on the song "Day Disguise." And he, not Hope, plays glockenspiel on "Suzanne."
I believe Hope plays glockenspiel on the other songs.

The cover of "Primitive" is a song I've never heard HS&TWIs do before.

I've already upped several songs from this gig to my youtube Channel where you can check out what
they sound like (at yt's mediocre 128 kbps bit rate). Here's the link for the new song, "Not All Our Tears"
https://youtu.be/YIaoETcfrSA . You can easily find the others on my Channel.

Hopefully, other DIME members will attend some the other shows of this current tour and obtain and share
intact recordings of the new song, "Not All Our Tears."
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Recorded in WAV with a Zoom H1 recorder at 44 Khz 24 bit