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Band: Tool
Date: 2007-11-29 (Thursday)
Title: The Soundtrack For Somebody's Death
Venue: Prospera Place (capacity - approx. 8000) - Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Row 4 - dead centre (see seating map & ticket scan)
Source: Audience
Recordist: Seth
Lineage: Core Sound Binaurals > bass roll off battery box > Edirol R-09 (24/48) > Adobe Audition 3.0 (track splitting, fades, downsampling) > dBPowerAMP (flac 8)
Sound Quality: The mix in the arena wasn't great to begin with. The vocals were not up enough and this was one bass-heavy experience. I'm glad I used my bass roll-off. The SQ is nice but the audience was wild and it definitely comes through in the recording. I give it a VG+ to EX- mostly due to crowd noise. Because of high security, a mic cable that wasn't plugged in all the way, the setting of levels and insane pushing and shoving, the first 3.5 minutes are of very poor quality. The band also seemed to be distracted a lot but I guess it's understandable with the mini-riot that was going on. It truly is a miracle that nobody died.

Total .wav size: 1.03 GB
Total .flac size: 536 MB

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Disc 01:
01. Jambi - 8.33
02. Stinkfist - 6.22
03. Forty-Six & 2 - 7.41
04. Schism - 9.31
05. Title Track - calming the audience - 1.29
06. Rosetta Stoned - 11.22
07. Lights up - mini-riot - flying chairs.flac - 8.11
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Disc 02:
01. Flood - 15.28
02. Lights up & police action - various songs** - 10.19
03. Lateralus - (Sebastian Thomson from Trans Am joins on drums) - 16.08
04. Vicarious - 9.43

*between Disc 01 & 02 - changing SD memory card during incident - literally missed less than 10 seconds of non-music.
**various songs were - Wings for Marie & 10 000 Days (Wings pt2). During this time, the band was on stage but they seemed very distant and not happy to be there. They were talking and not paying much attention. Also during this time, some house lights went up and roadies in white medical coats set up a small drum kit (kick, snare, 4 roto-toms, a crash, ride & high-hat - wasn't miked well) in the front for Seb to play during Lateralus.


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In all my 30+ years of going to shows, this was one of the strangest shows I've ever seen.

It started with an email I received a few days before the show from the company that sells the tickets online. It basically told me that I better forget about bringing my gear in because everyone would be searched and if anything is found (even a cell phone!) it will be confiscated and not returned. See screenshot of email. Just before the show, I went up to the doors and watched as they frisked each person one by one. They looked in shoes, opened and smelled packs of cigarettes, made you open your coat, take off your hat, empty your pockets and physically searched you. Needless to say, the lines were HUGE. Watching this, I decided to take a chance anyway but did return my camera to the car as my gear was taking up all my hiding places. Sorry, no pics. After 35 minutes in line, I made it in but the security was intense. A monster of a huge security guy was walking back and forth right in front of my row and there were actual police everywhere. Not very conducive to recording.

There was an electricity in the air and an incredible amount of alcohol was flowing. At least 5 people spilt beer on me before the show started as they only sold open cups. Trans Am had opened for Tool and to my surprise, they were quite good. Unfortunately, I did not record them. The crowd was really starting to get antsy and you can clearly hear it in the recording. When the band hit the stage there was a rush for the front. My awesome 4th row center tickets were now irrelevant as without me moving an inch I was now in about the 10th row! The first 3 rows were absolutely packed and very quickly started becoming a dangerous situation. All that security disappeared and the chairs of the first 3 rows slowly started flying.

During Schism this craziness started really getting out of control and dangerous. People were getting hurt and the band could not help but notice. House lights came up and you'll hear Maynard ask if the crystal meth has worn off yet and then he really tried to calm down the audience creating the title for this show. When he asks if the people "over there" are having a good time, he's being quite sarcastic and was clearly mad. It got better for about 8 minutes but then started getting worse and worse and really reached it's peak while an overly crowded makeshift mosh pit and just insane people were shoving and pushing and chairs started flying. House lights came up again and security and the police were trying to get in there to help/bust it up but it was just too crowded for them to get in. The whole first three rows were literally destroyed and taken apart and thrown into the "moat" between the front row and the stage. The band did seem legitimately concerned and stayed on stage sitting on the risers, watching and talking amongst themselves.

The taper's curse is knowing you're recording while those around you are completely ambivalent chatting, screaming or talking to you and there's nothing you can do about it. You'll hear a lot of audience in this one...there's even some sounds that sound as if they may be me but they're not. You know I had people talk to me, step on my feet, ask me questions, spill beer on me, knock me over, etc. yet not a single peep uttered by me. It's tough being a recordist! Some interesting audience bits to listen for:
the guy asking for rolling papers, the guy who was trying to pick up a girl, the guy who spotted my mics when the house lights came up, the crowd reaction when a girl flashed the crowd, the apologizing guy who bowled a bunch of us over, a single cough from me and much more!


Remember that this recording was made binaurally. It will naturally sound much better with a pair of headphones & cranked up loud!

Peace & enjoy,
Seth


FFP's:
d01t01 - Jambi.flac:aa409a41191ac61203c3e1f6fd6ad97d
d01t02 - Stinkfist.flac:4df8b4a30c3f8a9b750f93e154603dfc
d01t03 - Forty-Six & 2.flac:752087451dc00c63957b77f355ddd7af
d01t04 - Schism.flac:837c4ef8c9e2cf13de390607d1a266e7
d01t05 - Title Track - calming the audience.flac:54de377a149bc088af2e345485e26805
d01t06 - Rosetta Stoned.flac:01d3744c1a770321a3fe6757be7cede7
d01t07 - Lights up - mini-riot - flying chairs.flac:6d0d5a6090b601cbae02d8d5c0263c0b
d02t01 - Flood.flac:f1f62d7d4ff46c7aec37013adcb4618f
d02t02 - Lights up & police action - various songs.flac:72fee72810022c631d3e0df4148316fe
d02t03 - Lateralus.flac:c52fb2c38f20c777a92f57348a0b16c4
d02t04 - Vicarious.flac:9902451636bc93f911184b5e97529983


First seeded on Yeeshkul! 2007-12-04
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