Low - live at Greenwall Music Workshop, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
April 6, 1999

Setlist: I Remember, Starfire, Weight of Water, Missouri, Don't Understand, Words, Shame, Lord Can You Hear Me, No Need, Immune, Soon

Encores: Over the Ocean, Will the Night

Quality: 9.5/10 (9/10 if you're picky, I suppose)

Taped by PS

The recording path was as follows:

2 AKG C535EB microphones -> TLA tube mic preamp -> rackmount Sony DAT recorder

I've seen this recording incorrectly listed as a soundboard. The mics were set up directly in front of the soundboard, so you *could* say it's a FOB -- but either way, it's an audience recording.

Transferred from the original KAO DAT master at 44.1kHz. Fades were done using SoundEdit 16, and no other changes to the audio were made. The recording peaks at about -2.7 dB (in "Soon"), so about 2.0-2.5 dB of gain can potentially be applied without causing any clipping. The large dynamic range of this recording means that, in some passages, the levels are fairly low; however, I decided not to apply any dynamic compression or other treatment to the audio, though others are welcome to attempt it if they like.

Back in 2000, this show was treed on the Low mailing list (though not from SHNs) as "Nobody's Looking at the Sky".

It was a good show -- sparsely attended, since Bennington is a small college. I was in the opening band, Transport to Summer (whose guitarist and lead singer has now founded Duluth's own Fair-Weather Friend). The good folks in Low seemed pretty tired from touring, but as always showed their class in giving us a very nice set, mostly taken from their then-new album. My only regret is that, given how quiet and respectful the audience was, I didn't request a song like "Coattails" or "Two-Step". The only real oddity in the setlist is the fairly uncommon "No Need".

By the way, the sign that Mimi and Alan refer to before "Shame" -- "It says 'kick me' on it" -- actually said "Over the Ocean". Come the encore, the folks holding up the sign got their wish.