The Mars Volta
January 30th, 2008
Irvine, CA @ Bren Events Center - UofC
FM/SBD (103.1 KDLE) > Harman Kardon AVR30 > Analog Out > Sony 
RCD-W500C >Audio CDR.WAV > Pioneer DVR-RW DVD-108 > EAC > 
CD WAVE(Tracking-Flac.8) > (en/dw remaster) WAV via DB PowerAmp > 
SoundForge 9 > CD Wave Editor > flac > CDR

Disc One:
1. A Fistful Of Dollars intro    2:11
2. Roulette Dares   15:01
3. Viscera Eyes     9:08
4. Wax Simulacra   4:18
5. Goliath   13:05
6. Ouroboros   8:26
7. Tetragrammaton   15:33

Disc Two:
1. Agadez   7:04
2. Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus  22:07
3. Metatron   8:58
4. Drunkship of Lanterns  15:00
5. Ilyena    3:09
6. Day of the Baphomets   13:35

This is the very first time TMV has let a radio station broadcast a
complete concert. As such I guess it's one of those "first of's" so sharing it
seems like a good idea, even if there are a few flaws - First off, the radio
station had two major audio drop outs. Completely losing the signal from the
on-going concert - THAT SUCKED!

emperor nobody notes:
This was upped by nibbler in a kind of raw form, largely untracked and in need of a little massaging in the audiological dep't, so my roommate DW and I took turns with the headphones whilst we tweaked around with the graphic EQ in SoundForge until we found just the slight sweetening the bass and vocal presences needed.  Having never in my life heard this band I did my best with the track breaks, and having the timings from the mp3 rip someone had put onto the PB tracker surely helped me get it together.  The natural CD break just happened to be when the station lost the feed for the 1st time (it happens twice). The 2nd one I faded out and back up fairly inobtrusively, as these things go.

There's lots of station IDs and promos to use whatever wretched gizmo they are peddling to view the Mars Volta website, but I left these in because the band are still going behind the announcer during them.  To the guy's credit, he really did try to do it between songs... I've heard way worse.  Nearly all of the talking from during the 2 dropouts fluttered tastefully to the cutting room floor that dwells somewhere deep inside my computer.