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Another free concert in Steamboat Springs! I must admit, I’m not a Los Lonely Boys fan. I just don’t like the “Texican” sound I guess. I try to record everything I can in Steamboat Springs mainly for archival purposes. Somebody always asks enthusiastically “Did you tape that show?!” and I like to make that person happy.

I was quite surprised with the turnout. Despite a wet, soggy, muddy, Howelsen Hill many came from the baseball games and condos to come see them. It was quite odd to me.. It seemed as if every kid in on every triple crown team was singing along, knowing all of the lyrics.

The sound system was a bit muddy and there was a pretty awful humm coming through it the entire performance. It was not the same rig they have been using so far this season. I hope they get the go back to the other one, the recordings sound much better with it.

You can download a flac copy of the recording via bittorrent or you can grab ipod ready mp3s from the LMA.

When I heard from Joe Kboudi that MoFro was coming to play the Steamboat Springs free concert series, I was stoked! This guy reminds me of when I was a Florida redneck hagging out at the fish camp with my buddy Darren in Bellview about 20 minutes from Lochloosa, JJ Grey’s hometown.

The show at Howelsen was kickin and the recording sounds awesome! You can obtain a copy of it in high quality flac format via bittorrent thanks to cotapers.org. If you prefer to listen now streaming or grab a mp3 copy for your ipod check out the concerts entry on archive.org.

As usual I plan on recording as many of these free concerts as I can for your listening pleasure. I hope you enjoy.

Here is a track for my podcasters.

The free concert series is here! Last night it got kicked off to a great start with The Wailers jamming all your favorite old school Bob Marley and the Wailers music. The stage was set up nice and the sound system was super tight. I love it when It’s loudy and last night it was. From an audio nerd standpoint the show was fucking awesome. I taped it about twenty feet from the stage in a sea of lambsbread, sandy bare feet and an occasional body surfer. Honestly there was body surfing.. crazy. The fiah was everywhere and the crowd was mostly cool but lacked um.. something. Oh Yeah! I remember now (short term loss) someone fucked up and forgot to file some something so there was NO BEER! I know.. you just can’t believe it, however it is true.

“The permit was approved,” said Dan Hartman, acting director of the Colorado Liquor Enforcement Division. “It was just that the applicant put the wrong date on the application.”

I hope somebody got shit canned for that one. WHO SCREWED UP ON THE BEER? We deserve to know. I know one thing for sure.. If you are throwing the party make sure you have beer. If there is no beer and the Wailers are playing for free in Colorado be prepared for the medical cutchie to get passed around a bit. Thats what happened.

Super phat props to everyone who hung out with me that day. Lock for the electricity, Ken for the PBR’s, Rhys for sneaking the PBR’s in, Gene and Becca ( <- donno spelling sorry) for the jedi services, and Tery for everything.

Some bumboclots to be mentioned.. The guy who threw the bottle from the first row and it went real fast right at me, the VERY ANNOYING radio announcer that came out halfway through the show and started screaming “DO YOU WANT MORE” like we were stupid enough to believe it was going to end then, Oh and one more.. Whoever that guy was with the video camera running around like he owned the place shoving everyone else around and generally not being mindful. Oh and the guy who fucked up on the beer.

If you would like a copy of the show, you can download it via bittorrent thanks to cotapers.org

If you need some Wailers right now, listen below.

When I last blogged SkiJam I mentioned I would “be back to comment on the rest of the evening when time allows me.” Well the car got smashed so I took a few days to deal with insurance and stuff but now I’m back.

I sat down this morning and gave my Zilla tape a listen and cut tracks. Then it hit me, this band is BORING. “JAMATHON” ends the run with a trance band with a drummer and a mac book. The sound was very reminiscent of another drum based trance band that played around Steamboat Springs around 2002 called Earthtone. While everyone in Steamboat seemed to enjoy Earthtone we all knew it was due to the few cute girls they would prance on stage and all the mushrooms the band would hand out before the show. While I was wavering during the Zilla performance I looked around the room at all the underage drinkers, one gave me a shot of his Jager. This was the highlight of the set for me.

As I listened to the recording attempting to cut songs into tracks I noticed a pattern. All the songs sound the same! So I just cut it into chunks like an idiot. No clue of what the songs title was, or when it ended, or the next song started. I was just glad to get through it without needing some uppers.

So here it is, for those of you who were too wasted to remember the performance you enjoyed so much at SkiJam, grab it via torrent thanks to our friends at cotapers.org

If you need instant trance satisfaction check out the podcast.