moe. at the
Ogden Theatre in Denver..
Posted by: Chuck Miller on December 3,
2012
 moe. played two good shows at the Ogden
Theatre in Denver on 11-30 and 12-01, 2012. I
was the first taper into the venue both nights.
I was able to set-up dead center, in the same
spot, just in front of the soundboard both
nights. I'm very happy with the recordings I
made. Night one was better played, but I liked
the second show better. Mostly because of the
song selection on night two.
Just this week, I took delivery
of the first pair of Naiant AKG Active cables
made. So, this was a great opportunity for me to
test them. I used the actives both nights and I
made comparison recordings versus full bodied
AKG C-481 microphones on the second night.
Sources are noted below in italics.
moe. 2012-11-30 (Live Music Archive)
moe. 2012-12-01 (Live Music Archive)
AKG C 480B comb/ CK61-ULS source
moe. 2012-12-01 (Live Music Archive)
AKG CK61-ULS > Naiant AKG Active w/ PFA
source
Genesis
Revisited II...
Posted by: Chuck Miller on October 23,
2012
Steve Hackett's new album
Genesis Revisited II was released
yesterday.
The web site:
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/steve-hackett-genesis-revisited-ii-album-premiere/
is offering a free streaming preview. You can
hear all the songs on the album in their
entirety by following
this link! Who knows how long that free
offer will be available, so check it out soon!
I've done some listening and it
sounds very, very good. "Supper's Ready" with
Phil Collin's son Simon Collins on vocals is my
favorite track so far.
The web site says Hackett will be
touring to support the new album. I hope he
comes to the US. I'd love to see him play that
old Genesis material live.
Furthur
rocks...
Posted by: Chuck Miller on September 24,
2012
 The band Furthur led by Bob Weir and
Phil Lesh from the Grateful Dead played three
consecutive nights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre
this year. I saw the Saturday, September 22nd
show.
When the music started, the sound
from the PA system was crisp, clear and very
punchy in the tapers section. The first song, a
cover of George Harrison's delicately beautiful
"Here Comes the Sun" from The Beatles
Abbey Road album, was played well and
caught me a bit off guard.
The band is constantly
experimenting with song placement so, it wasn't
a huge surprise to hear "Sugar Magnolia/
Sunshine Daydream" close the first set. I
thought it worked very well as the first set
closer.
Hearing the first notes of
"Playing In the Band" at the start of set two
brought a smile to everyone's face. The band
left "Playing In the Band" unfinished and then
easily segued into "No More Do I" then into the
"China Cat Sunflower" > "I Know You Rider"
pairing. The line in "I Know You Rider," "I'll
shine my light through the cool Colorado rain."
brought the expected cheer from the eager
Colorado audience.
The first real highlight of the
show for me was hearing the interesting jam
during "St. Stephen" that teased "The Eleven"
before going back to "St. Stephen." I also
enjoyed hearing the second verse of "Dark Star"
played much faster than I had ever heard it
played. Somehow, I think it worked very well. A
great rendition of "Fire on the Mountain" came
after the second verse of "Dark Star" and closed
the second set.
The "Morning Dew" > "Playing In
the Band (reprise)" encore was simply a
beautiful way to end the night.
Furthur ~ 2012-09-22 (Live Music Archive)
Furthur - 2012-09-22
Gov't Mule at
the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver...
Posted by: Chuck Miller on September 18,
2012
 On
September 13, with the summer heat finally
starting to fade, I drove up to the Fillmore in
Denver for my first show at that venue in a
little more than two years. Gov't Mule and
Anders Osborne were on the bill. I thought the
Anders Osborne opening set was tedious. The
sound was not good and the songs just ran on and
on for me.
When Gov't Mule took the stage,
the sound instantly got better. The nicely
balanced, but punchy sound was a welcome relief
after the muddy and overly loud opening act.
Gov't Mule songs on the first set included the
classics, "Bad Little Doggie" and "Lay Your
Burden Down" and a new song, "Captured."
The second set had a dream set
list including, "Rocking Horse", Thorazine
Shuffle", The Creedence Clearwater Revival epic,
"Effigy", "Fallen Down", and "Blind Man In the
Dark."
Overall, it was a great night of
music.
Gov't Mule - 2012-09-13
Colorado
Springs Independent Second Annual
Indy Music Awards...
Posted by: Chuck Miller on September 10,
2012
 Stargazers Theatre hosted the Second
Annual Indy Music Awards on September 6, 2012.
The bands were chosen by a yearly Best Of...
readers music poll run by the newspaper. There
were three stages; one inside and two outside,
with the bands playing 30 to 40 minutes sets
each. The event was free to the public.
I saw The Grant Sabin Band
(second place Blues category) play first on the
KRCC (outside) stage. I'd never seen him before
and I enjoyed his mostly original all blues set.
I also saw Malakai (best Metal -
Hard Rock), Tony Exum, Jr. (best Jazz - solo),
Claymore Disco (People's Choice), The Flumps
(third place Indy Rock) and the Haunted
Windchimes (best Americana Band & best Album). I
really enjoyed the Flumps short set. But, the
highlight for me was The Haunted Windchimes who
closed the night.
The Haunted Windchimes set was
delayed more than an hour, so they were anxious
to play. Windchimes leader
Inaiah Lujan told the audience the band was
coming down off the stage to play acoustically
in front of the stage rather than wait for the
lengthy sound check. It was a very unusual thing
to do, but I thought it added an
interesting twist to the night of music.
It was a little hard to hear the
band with no amplification. So, the sound crew
put up two microphones in front of the band and
amplified those microphones through the PA
system. Due to the low sound volume, the
audience was very quiet and attentive, which was
a really nice bonus.
The Haunted Windchimes played a
short but sweet set including their songs, "Out
With the Crow", "St. Clair Sound," "Pine Six
String" and the show closer "Little Box."
I'm not completely happy with any
of the recordings I made, so I just uploaded
some of the pictures I took.
Grant Sabin (trio)
- 2012-09-06
Malakai -
2012-09-06
The
Haunted Windchimes - 2012-09-06
Cracker
(acoustic duo) in Green Mountain Falls, CO...
Posted by: Chuck Miller on September 6,
2012
 David
Lowery and Johnny Hickman played a Cracker
(acoustic duo) set at The Silver Tongue Devil
Saloon in Green Mountain Falls on September 2,
2012. The venue is what used to be the Pine
Gables Tavern.
I was very impressed with Ashley
Raines and the New West Review who played their
set between the Whistle Pigs and Cracker. Ashley
Raines voice and the way the band played
reminded me a lot of Keb' Mo'.
The Cracker set was marred by
on-stage monitor and PA problems. Lowery wasn't
very happy or talkative. But, Johnny Hickman
sang more songs than he usually does. It was
nice to hear more Hickman songs than usual.
I recorded all three of the
bands, but I'm not really happy with any of the
recordings. Setting up my microphones next to
the SBD, which was located on the far left of
the stage, was not the best idea. From that
position I could really only hear the left PA
speaker. I wanted the SBD feed for the Cracker
set, so, I set my cardioid microphones to X/Y as
I do for PA stack recording and hoped to make
the best of the situation.
As it turned out, unbelievably,
the left side of the PA system was out
throughout the whole Cracker set! Since my
microphones were positioned on the far left I
had to rely heavily on the SBD feed to fill in
the sound of the Cracker recording. The
microphone recordings are very, very distant
sounding. Unfortunately, the SBD feed was very
heavy on Lowery's guitar and lacking in
Hickman's vocal and guitar. That recording it is
not very unbalanced.
Cracker (acoustic duo) ~ 2012-09-02 (Live
Music Archive)
Cracker
(acoustic duo) - 2012-09-02
The Whistle Pigs
- 2012-09-02
MP3 player
added for listening to featured recordings...
Posted by: Chuck Miller on August 16,
2012
I have made The Haunted
Windchimes ~ 2012-08-04 recording available for
individual MP3 download and streaming on the
Recordings page. Give it a listen. I think
it turned out well.
Wendy Woo Trio
at the Hilton Antlers Plaza...
Posted by: Chuck Miller on August 13,
2012
 The
Wendy Woo Trio played another excellent show at
the Hilton Antlers Hotel Plaza in downtown
Colorado Springs on Friday afternoon. There
wasn't a big audience this year, but that didn't
stop the band from playing well.
I used the Audix Micro Series
omni-directional capsules again, and I was
rewarded with another very good recording. In
the past when I tried using omni's to record
this annual event I got a muddy and very
reverberant recording.
When I got a chance to listen
back to this year's recording, I was pleasantly
surprised not to hear a lot of slap back from
the buildings, stone and concrete surrounding
the stage.
Photos of the show are here:
Wendy Woo Trio - 2012-08-10
The Haunted
Windchimes at Acacia Park...
Posted by: Chuck Miller on August 7,
2012
 The Haunted Windchimes free Saturday
concert on August 4, 2012 in Acacia Park, was
very good. We got there early enough to see the
band finishing up the sound check. I set-up to
record really close to the stage and was
perfectly centered.
I used a pair of spaced Audix
Micro Series omni-directional capsules I
recently bought to record the show. I think the
recording came out very nice.
The sound was excellent and the
crowd was very respectful of the music. There
wasn't the typical loud audience chatter you
hear at rock shows at this performance. That,
plus perfect weather, a great band and setting
up close to the stage made for an excellent
recording with good clarity and plenty of bass.
You can stream my recording and download individual songs
in MP3 format here:
The Haunted Windchimes ~ 2012-08-04
My review of the show:
 The
Haunted Windchimes - 2012-08-04
Wilco at Red
Rocks...
Posted by: Chuck Miller on June 24, 2012
 Wilco rocked Red Rocks on June 23, 2012.
Dr. Dog was the opener. I really enjoyed the Dr.
Dog set. At times they sounded like Crosby,
Stills, Nash & Young. On other songs they
sounded more like the Beatles! They were high
energy and a great opener for Wilco. I thought
Wilco was very, very good. It was hot all day
waiting to get into Red Rocks, but when Wilco
started playing the heat didn't matter. They
opened with "Misunderstood", which is one of the
more intense songs they play. The dynamics of
that song go from a whisper to a scream. I
didn't make a complete recording of the concert,
as I had a recorder malfunction. There is a
recording of the show made by J. R. Ley at
CoTapers.com here:
Wilco ~ 2012-06-23 (Live Music Archive)
My review of the show:
Wilco
- 2012-06-23
Denver Day of
Rock - The Samples and Toad the Wet Sprocket...
Posted by: Chuck Miller on May 27, 2012
 I found a good spot to set-up and
record The Samples. It was up front and
centered. It was good that I got there early,
because it got crowded quickly. The Samples did
a short but well played set. I didn't get a
soundboard feed because the bass player was
multi-track recording the performance. It was
sunny and hot but not windy yet. My recording
sounds OK, but not great.
Samples ~ 2012-05-26 (Live
Music Archive)
My review of The Samples set:
Samples - 2012-05-26
After The Samples set I went over
to the Arapahoe 2 Stage to see Alicia Witt
perform. I got there just after she got started,
so I didn't bother recording. Her music was just
OK. She can sing and play keyboards well. The
songs weren't bad, but just not very exciting
for me. Denver band Strange Americans played
next. They were being filmed for an Altitude TV
show that will air on July 3. I liked The
Strange Americans much better than Alicia Witt.
Toad the Wet Sprocket played
after another Denver Band Air Dubai. I found a
very good spot to set-up and record TTWS. It was
up front, but not quite centered. There was a
bar tent to the left of my position.
Unfortunately there was a lot of chatter from
that area that made it into my recording. Toad
was very good. The recording is a bit muffled
sounding because of the wind, but still sounds
alright. That recording can be found
here:
Toad the
Wet Sprocket ~ 2012-05-26 (Live Music
Archive)
My review of Toad the Wet
Sprocket set:
Toad the Wet Sprocket -
2012-05-26
Unfortunately I didn't record The Railbenders
or Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers as I had
planned.
slight
re-design...
Posted by: Chuck Miller on May 15, 2012
I did a slight re-design
today. I split the Blog pages up and added a
Reviews page. I think that'll make more sense
eventually. I added the Quick links side bar to
the Blog page. I'm not sure if that's a keeper
or not.
the site went
live today...
Posted by: Chuck Miller on May 4, 2012
timebetweenthenotes.com
is up and running online. I still have a lot of
work to do. I promise to get more content up.
I'm happy to have an official presence on the
World Wide Web. I'm finding it to be more
time consuming than I anticipated to put the
reviews and projects up. But, I hope it'll be
worth it in the end!
I found a good
place to do the site hosting...
Posted by: Chuck Miller on May 1, 2012
May Day. It's May already!
We didn't even have winter in Colorado Springs
this year.
I've contacted a fellow
taper who has his own design and web business
about hosting the site. He's going to help me
get that done. I hope to go live with the whole
site sometime this week or next.
I really wish there was a
local show to tape this weekend. I only recorded
one show in April.
domain
registered...
Posted by: Chuck Miller on April 25,
2012
Wooo Whooo! I registered
the domain name today. :) Everything is set to
go except for minor editing and making sure all
the links go somewhere. I decided to do a photos
page called Images. I'll also include some
artwork and eventually concert posters.
getting closer...
Posted by: Chuck Miller on April 24,
2012
My site is quickly coming together. I hope to
have everything ready for going live in May. I
have tickets for Wilco and Furthur. I'm still
debating whether to do a photos page. I'm
leaning yes.
time between
the notes...
Posted by: Chuck Miller on April 18,
2012
The next big taping
opportunity for me is The Denver Day of Rock
on Memorial Day Weekend in Denver. There
are several bands playing on multiple stages at
the free concert in downtown Denver. The Samples,
The
Railbenders, Roger Clyne & the
Peacemakers and Toad the
Wet Sprocket are bands I plan to see
and record. Recording the last two bands I
mentioned will pose a dilemma for me, because
they are both playing at the same time on
different stages!
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