Greta Van Fleet, le 2019-05-13 à Atlanta, GA (Fox Theater), USA
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CA-14 > CA9100 Preamp > Sony PCM-M10 // MrFender
Greta Van Fleet
Anthem of a Younger Zeppelin
2019-05-13
Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA

Recorded by MrFender
A Better Than Nothing Production

CA-14 (Cards) > CA9100 Preamp > Sony PCM-M10 (24/96) > Audacity (split & down sample to 16/44) > TLH (Flac Level 6)

No other processing, fades, etc. Raw music as recorded.
Opener "Ida Mae" (Recorded)

The Cold Wind
Black Smoke Rising
Highway Tune
Edge of Darkness
Flower Power
Watch Me
The Music is You / You're the One
Age of Man
Watching Over
When the Curtain Falls

Encore
Safari Song W/Danny's Drum Solo (Crossroads lyrics at start)


Taped at the Fabulous Fox Theater on Peachtree Street from the lodge, 2nd of two nights in town. There's a little distance to the sound but not too bad, the Fox is just always to tough for me some reason unless I'm on the floor in front of the board but I like the view from the balcony. There is one issue with Age of Man - at about the 54 minute to the 58 minute mark (essentially all of the song), the recording sounds like a skipping record and is pretty much unlistenable. I didn't format the memory card prior to the show and the recorder has a problem of messing up the last few minutes of a file if you don't format it in the recorder itself. (For the unitiated, the file size for recording at 24/96 is just over 2 gigs/hour of recording so most shows are 2 - 3 files on the card). As this was a shorter show, the second file was not at capacity as the first file and so it does not have the error.

Are they the future of Rock? Maybe. Sure they take a lot/steal from Zepplin but is that a bad thing these days? In listening to this again after a few months, there's too many "Mamas" in the singing/lyrics, lots of idle time between songs, short set (barely 1:30), etc. Full house for the show with almost every age group covered. I haven't seen teenagers and 60 year olds in the same crowds at a rock concert like this ever. As soon as they took the stage the entire crowd got on their feet and stood for the entire show. In all the concerts I've been to at the Fox, I've never seen this. Usually the crowd is up only for some occasional clapping and the encore. I don't think I've ever heard that kind of shrieking/screaming at this type of show either. Not saying they are the Beatles but I've only heard that kind of shrieking noise when they show the old Ed Sullivan episodes with them on.

We'll see if they can keep this going, grow muscially and not succumb to history of sibling acts (Kinks, Everly Bros, Oasis, Black Crowes, etc).


Enjoy,
MrFender