[audio] Devo live in Napa Valley, 15 January 2012

Devo live at the Uptown Theatre, Napa Valley, California, 15 January 2012.

I was lucky enough to record a bunch of shows for Devo during their California tours of 2011 and 2012. They're a great bunch of guys, they had a great tour crew, and the album that they'd recently released and were touring in support of, Something for Everybody, is an amazing album and is still in high rotation at my house 10 years after its release.

This concert was when Devo was in their hard rock phase, due primarily to Bob1 turning up the distortion knob on his distortion stomp box to maximum. It's not really a sound that suits them I think.

But the good news is that his guitar is buried in the mix more so here than the other Devo recordings I made, and the synths are more prominent as well, which makes for a more pleasing combination. This is my favorite recording that I made of them because of that.

If you want to hear Devo sound like a heavy metal band, go find that abomination of a recording of them at The Observatory in Orange County as recorded by Moshcam. It's all over YT. I have no idea who mixed that recording or why they thought it was a good idea to make Devo sound like Meshuggah.

Personnel on this recording:

Mark Mothersbaugh: vocals, synths, guitar

Bob Mothersbaugh (Bob1): guitar, vocals

Jerry Casale: bass, synths, vocals

Bob Casale (Bob2): guitar, synths

Jeff Freidl: drums

(0:00) Don't Shoot (I'm a Man)

(5:25) Peek-a-Boo!

(8:33) What We Do

(11:47) Goin' Under

(15:26) Fresh

(18:15) That's Good

(22:05) Girl U Want

(25:25) Whip It

(28:20) Planet Earth

(31:15) planetary interlude

(34:00) Satisfaction

(37:30) Secret Agent Man

(41:13) The Uncontrollable Urge

(45:00) Mongoloid

(49:54) Jocko Homo

(55:20) Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA

(1:02:28) Gates of Steel

(1:06:30) Corporate Anthem

(1:07:43) Freedom of Choice

(1:13:25) Beautiful World (with Booji Boy)

Mirrored here- The only flyer I could find on the internet is this low res version-

[video] The Mattson 2 live in San Francisco, 17 January 2016

I caught the guys while in SF for a weekend in January at a gorgeous hall called The Chapel which is actually a renovated church in the Mission District.

The Mattson 2 live in San Diego, 28 June 2014

My recording of jazzy surf rock duo The Mattson 2 at the Summer Fun on the 101 festival in Leucadia, California, 28 June 2014-

[video] Mattson 2 live in San Diego, 19 Nov 2013

San Diego surf/jazz/rock fixture Mattson 2 played 91x's Mike Halloran's locals-only night at The Griffin, and I was there to capture the event.

Mike himself has been a long-time enthusiast and historian of the local music scene in San Diego, and is a luminary in the annals of San Diego radio.

After having played for over an hour, Mattson 2 were finished with their set, until Mike jumped on the mic and egged them on to do their interpretation of 'Ask' by The Smiths.

internet broadcast of my live recording of Bestial Mouths this weekend

Ok, I'm very excited about this.

I recorded Bestial Mouths last weekend in Los Angeles, and I'm super stoked that they've given me permission to broadcast/shoutcast it on my mixlr.com channel this coming Sunday.

http://mixlr.com/humorless-productions/ is my Mixlr page, and the time will be Sunday, 10 March at 4pm west coast time, which is 7pm east coast time, and I think midnight in London and 1am (Monday morning officially) in Berlin. As far as I know, it'll be a one-time-only broadcast and won't be available (download, stream or otherwise) once it's aired.

This is my first time using Mixlr, but I've done some tests and everything has worked just fine. 

Basically, it's a site where you can make a playlist (a la iTunes) of Soundcloud tracks and broadcast them to whomever wants to listen, and every broadcast has it's own IM/chat capabilities. So I'll just throw the recording in the playlist and let 'er rip.

You don't need to register an account with Mixlr to listen to the show, but you do if you want to join the chat room. Registration is free.

The audio is high quality, proper live album, not some crappy bootleg. If you're not familiar with any of my other live recordings (industrial, breakcore, idm, more…), jump over to mixcloud.com/humorlessproductions and check some out.

Bestial Mouths will be playing SXSW the following weekend, so hopefully this broadcast will add to the giant hype snowball that's been generating around them, and help push them through the Austin show and the release of their album and beyond.

I also grabbed a couple songs on video from this show, and have synced up my high quality audio to them. I may be able to convince the band to release them prior to the broadcast as a teaser, but we shall see.

Have I covered everything? I think so.

Please tune in, and spread the word. Thanks.

Brian. Humorless Productions.