Rasputina @ the Linda

[amezri]

After work today (don't want to talk about that mess), I met up with queenmaab. Headed downtown to the venue and stopped along the way for dinner. Giant plate of nachos! Seriously.

We waited about an hour before doors opened and we could get our tickets from Will Call. Not really a bad line that early though, so we also scored some really good seats. smashedrecords showed up shortly after... while I was being interviewed by Times Union for some site feature. I'm sure I was a total goon.

Picked up a copy of Melora's solo album, Perplexions, before the show started, as well as a sport bag/backpack. So much for being careful with my monies? I also didn't know about the new band members -- Daniel De Jesus in 2nd chair and Catie D'amica on drums. Where's Jonathon?! I did love Catie's outfit though - so cute!

I should have taken notes. I can't even remember what they opened with... besides songs listed below there was "Oh, Bring Back the Egg Unbroken," "Oh, Injury," and "In Old Yellowcake." The did two songs for the encore: "Rusty the Skatemaker" and... I didn't recognize the second one. There were a couple funny moments (aside from Melora's stories) when either Melora and Daniel lost their place and Melora had to stop and correct. Once, Daniel responded with, "Yes, boss" XD Oh! And at one point, Melora's mic tipped down and none of them could really stop to fix it (during "Cage in a Cave" maybe?) so Ben, who does actually work there, jumped up to fix it. Heh.

Overall, it was a really fab time and it's always great to Rasputina perform. I kind of wanted to stay and see if Melora would come out to sign stuff, but for whatever reason I didn't want to deal with the crown. Meh. Whatever.





I managed to record some audio with my camera before the battery died. I didn't realize the sound would be so... good. Really should have brought a spare battery. Oh well.

The tracks I managed to record are in this zip file:

• 1816, The Year Without a Summer (partial)


• Bad Moon Rising


• Saline the Salt Lake Queen


• Rose K


• Hunter's Kiss


• Watch TV


• American Girl (first 30 seconds.. before camera died)

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*yoinks zipfile*

Thanks!