phonophilia

This is the beginning of Defiance, Ohio starting to play at the Dry River Radical Resource Center.
Also of note is that I used EQ and Compression in Soundtrack Pro to make this sounds a lot better.

Though he now lives in Seattle, Desert Rat is a Tucson native. This is his song about his home town.

The final encore song at a show at Plush in Tucson, AZ. this was a really fun show. lots of energy on stage.

Here is an excerpt out of of many recordings at a Capricorn party at my house on January 13, 2007, in Tucson, in which I try out an Mbira, or thumb piano as they're also called, made by my friend Sophie.

This is from a show at Dry River in Tucson, january 10, 2007.

live at Club Congress january 10, 2007

live at Club Congress in Tucson, january 10 2007

This rendition of the song features Salvador Duran on guest vocals and the Electric Apes, a horn group from Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
The interesting thing here is that they layer on some lyrics from a Manu Chao song in the middle.

An amazing show happened in north Portland. Over 30 bands played - for one minute each. Tons of people showed up, all smashed into a small, hot basement. I recorded the first 27 bands, and some other sounds. I found that I got pretty good recordings of some bands from outside, crouching down by the one window to the basement that could be opened. In this way I could avoid the moshing. Moshing with a minidisc recorder is not a good idea.