Blue Oyster Cult – Atascadero, CA (02/10/02)

Blue Öyster Cult
2/10/02
Bonnema Brewery
Atascadero, CA

FOB, Right; Neumann AK-40’s (x/y) >LC3 >KM-100’s >Beyer MV-100 >SBM-1 >Sony TCD-D7
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o. (DAT Was EQ’ed When Transferred To CDR) Level Knob Got Bumped Briefly During ‘Cities On Flame’.
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.28.
FLAC >WAV >Audacity (Smooth Out Level Imbalance In ‘Cities On Flame’, De-Amplify Selected Close-Proximity Hand Claps, Smooth Transition Between Disc I And Disc II) Fix SBE’s >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53. Recorded/Transferred, Audacity Post Production, Tags, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr (Re-Master April 2024)

Disc I:

  1. Burnin’ For You
  2. OD’d On Life Itself
  3. ETI (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)
  4. Pocket
  5. Buck’s Boogie
  6. Cities On Flame
  7. Quicklime Girl
  8. Perfect Water

Disc II:

  1. Unknown Tongue
  2. Astronomy
  3. Godzilla
  4. (Don’t Fear) The Reaper

Encore:

  1. Dominance And Submission

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
Enjoy! Share freely, don’t sell, play nice, don’t run with scissors, etc. 😉

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
I recorded this at the short-lived Bonnema Brewery in Atascadero. It had been a restaurant and was converted to a bar / restaurant / brewery with a small stage and an even smaller airplane hanging from the rafters. I recorded BOC and also The Fixx at this venue. The brewery only lasted a few years until the owner went bankrupt and the place closed down in 2005. It’s back to a restaurant now with another name.

The Jungle Book (1967)

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Is there anybody who sees the above cover art, or reads the title and doesn’t immediately start singing “The Bare Necessities”? I don’t think I want to know if the answer is “no.” The Jungle Book is a delightful film. I got this Blu-ray addition when my daughter was quite young. She immediately loved it and it became a staple of her television watching for a few years. If you’ve ever been a parent you know the joys of finding something your kid loves that won’t drive you completely insane after more than a couple of watches.

You can read my full review here.

Vera: Set 3

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We subscribe to the BritBox streaming service. As you might guess from the name Britbox serves up lots of British television. The Brits are great at crime stories. My favorite type of crime story is what I’ll call cozy mysteries. These show solve mysteries – usually murders (but not too gruesome murders – in exotic locales and are led by usually gentle, kind detectives. They are the kind of show you can turn on after a long day at work and just kind of drift off into them.

Vera is one such show. I reviewed the DVD of Set 3 many years ago and you can read that here. It does make me want to go back and watch some more of it. I know there are many more series of it on Britbox.

Top of the Lake: Season One

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Jane Campion has made some interesting films like The Piano (1993), The Power of the Dog (2021), and the criminally underrated In the Cut (2003). In 2014 she wrote and directed Top of the Lake a wonderful little mystery set in rural New Zealand. It stars Elisabeth Moss as a detective investigating the disappearance of a little girl.

They made a Season Two, but I’ve yet to watch it. I think I may need to rewatch Season One and then give the next one a go very soon.

You can read my review here.

Enough Said (2013)

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James Gandolfini will always be known as Tony Soprano. The role was iconic, the show (The Sopranos) changed television, ushering in the age of Prestige TV. Gandolfini was perfect in it.

But James Gandolfini was an actor. Of course. He may have completely embodied the brutal, murderous gangster who also needed a therapist, but he was not Tony Soprano.

There is no better way to understand that than to watch Enough Said, a lovely romantic comedy that understands the nuances of life and relationships.

Writer/director Nicole Holofcener has made a career of making these small little films that feel lived in and real. This is a lively movie and you can read my review here.

Sesame Street: Be a Good Sport

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When my daughter was little she absolutely loved Sesame Street. At the time we lived way out in the country, in the middle of Tennessee, and we had terrible Internet. So I used to request Sesame Street DVDs to review (and entertain my kid when nothing was on).

As I found out it is difficult to review Sesame Street. The show is funny and clever. It is wonderful for kids and there is enough pop cultural references to keep parents interested, but it is also extremely repetitive. There isn’t a larger storyline or big plot twists…

Anyways I said a few nice things about this one which ties together a bunch of sports-oriented stories. You can read it here.

Don Jon (2013)

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I very much like Joseph Gordon Levitt, the actor. He’s been in some delightful movies. Don Jon was his feature-length debut as a director. He also stars as the titular Don a man who loves having sex with women, but actually kind of prefers sex with himself whilst watching pornography.

Scarlett Johansson stars as his eventual girlfriend who is addicted to the unreal lives she finds in romantic comedies. The film draws direct parallels from the unrealistic fantasies one finds in porn to the unrealistic fantasies one also finds in romantic comedies.

It is a pretty okay movie. The actors are good and it looks good, but it is too blunt with its themes and the ending feels way too easy.

You can read my full thoughts from 2013 here.

Call of the Wild (1935)

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I should really watch this one again. When I originally reviewed it in December of 2013 I had only watched a few movies from the 1930s. I knew who Clark Gable was and had probably seen a couple of his films, but I wasn’t really a fan. I don’t suspect I even knew who Loretta Young was back then.

I’m now much more familiar with all of those things so I suspect I’d like this film a lot more now. I didn’t dislike it then, but I can tell in my review that I more or less dismissed it. I certainly acted like 1930s films were all kind of boring and now I know that was one of the most exciting decades of film history.

East West 101: Seasons Two & Three

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There was a time back around 2013 when I was regularly reviewing DVDs of non-American crime dramas. They were released by companies like Acorn and MHZ. I was reviewing them so often that I seriously considered making it my beat, so to speak. Like I thought I could just be a reviewer of non-American television.

If I’m being honest I don’t really remember East West. I have the vaguest of memories of reviewing it, but reading my actual review doesn’t stir anything up. That’s not to say it is a bad show, as I did give it a good review, but at the time I was watching a lot of crime dramas and they do tend to blend together.

Anyway, you can read that review here.