Bad Religion
September 24, 2008
The Sound Academy
Toronto, Ontario
Setlist:
1) Introduction
2) 21st Century (Digital Boy)
3) New Dark Ages
4) Suffer
5) "That Song Sucked. Boo!"
6) I Want To Conquer The World
7) Let Them eat War
8) "Tunder Bay"
9) Big Bang
10) Stranger Than Fiction
11) "Escape The Law, Run Away With A Guy, Live In A Barn"
12) Anesthesia
13) Epiphany
14) Punk Rock Song
15) "Enjoy The Show From Any Corner"
16) Come Join Us
17) God's Love
18) News From The Front
19) "Where's Old Brunswick?"
20) Requiem For Dissent
21) Honest Goodbye
22) You
23) "Hockey Fans"
24) Walk
25) No Control
26) Before You Die
27) Flat Earth Society
28) Recipe For Hate
29) American Jesus
Encore:
30) "The Eagles Stole Our Idea"
31) Won't Somebody (Acoustic)
32) Dearly Beloved (Acoustic)
33) Bored And Extremely Dangerous (1/2 Acoustic)
34) Generator
35) Infected
36) Sorrow
The Show:
Without a doubt the best Bad Religion show I have seen. The band was in fine form and high spirits, the set was longer an had more songs, and was filled with highlights. The first stanza of songs were marred slightly by mic trouble, which produced interesting cracks of distortion. Jay flung himself around pretending to have been shot, while Baker pretended to "shoot" Jay and the crowd with his guitar and Hetson played a somber funeral dirge. The whole band seemed to be having a good time, and coming off a day off seemed rested. Baker as always, was solid and just played great guitar, but also did more talking than he normally does. Jay was on fire, jumping around and generally being even more high energy and aggressive than I have seen him. Hetson was jumping and bouncing around as always. Brooks was Brooks and Graffin was perhaps a little less animated, but added many melody variations, and I even caught a "Whatcho!" which was completely absent from the last couple shows.
Without a doubt performance highlight included News From the Front, m all-time favourite BR song and one I never thought I would ever get to hear live before this year. The whole crowd yelling "Re-qui-em" and pumping fists was as awesome I had expected it to be. As always the acoustic set was nice, Baker played a nice solo on Won't Somebody and while Greg fixed his in-ear monitors, Jay attempted to play two guitars at once. Bored and Extremely Dangerous was mind blowing, and I hope that it (along with News of course) stays in the set permanently. Finally in the finale the band included the traditional snippet of Rush's Tom Sawyer (they always play it in Toronto) but instead of as a coda to one of the songs they slipped it in as the last interlude in Generator. It caught me completely by surprise and I think was the highlight of the night for me. There were also a few inspired musical moments, like the end of Anesthesia where I could see Jay turn around looking stunned and awed and say something to the effect of "that was awesome!" to Baker.
Afterwards Hetson came out, and despite looking for Jay I couldn't find him. I couldn't get up to the barricade fast enough to snag a setlist, but I did spy one of Hetsons's picks and asked a security guard to retrieve it. As many you may have seen it has the Suffer Boy on one side and the Skanker Man (Circle Jerks mascot) on the other. I got an autograph and then it was off into the night.
The Recording:
Unlike my recording in Toronto two years ago, I tried to improve my atrocious rig a little. Moving from student to full time employee I decided to shell out all $40 for a cheap mic to replace my headphone strategy. Cheap mic to replace crappy headphones. Unfortunately, I either overestimated the dynamic range of the mic or underestimated the dB volume of the show. Brooks ruined this recording. Blame him. Guitars, vocals (with a couple slight exceptions) and bass are all captured quite well, but the stronger kick drum hits (which is most of them) put out too much energy and clipped the mic causing distortion.
I've pulled as many tricks as I know to reduce the impact of the distortion (getting rid of all the low end junk I could) and minimize the buzzing, but when the mic maxes out you not only get distortion, but you don't record the sound, so it is sadly impossible to improve the audio completely. The problem is most marked through the first couple songs (with band mic trouble) and the electric encore where the high volume levels were being set and reset. Fortunately, at the lower volume and without the bass drum, the acoustic section was recorded in excellent quality.
I'd rate the audio originally a C, and with the processing, I'd get it up to a B-. The acoustic section are A-, easily. Compared to my previous recording I'd say it is lightly poorer, however distortion exists on the beat, and so after a few minutes you accommodate to it a little more the the weird swirling reverb that seemed to take the vocals of that recorded at random. Still not good, but barely listenable, and as a memory of the great show I saw, I'll take it. I hope the completists enjoy it.
Mike Clay
MP3 Version
FLAC Version
If there is demand, I can up the acoustic section (with very good quality) alone.
Also, if anyone still burns and wants it, I can include full quality artwork.
Nice_Hulk
The Devil In Stitches
Location: Stockholm, Swe Status: Offline Posts: 242 |
How did you create that artwork? It looks so great!
01/15/2009 at 01:42
How did you create that artwork? It looks so great!
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MONOLITH
Infected
will outbid you Location: Finland Status: Offline Posts: 1594 |
Nice setlist! And coverart too!
11/09/2008 at 21:02
Nice setlist! And coverart too!
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Kerouac Cat
Generator
Child of the Broken Glass Location: Germany Status: Offline Posts: 4188 |
Dogbert, as fanatic as ever! ;) I still want to meet Brett and chat with him some time (and make him sign my ITU vinyl!). I just wish that Brett would sign some nice bands again... I love Epitaph, but lately, the bands on it haven't really been my taste. Oh well. Maybe in the future.
11/09/2008 at 14:27
Dogbert, as fanatic as ever! ;) I still want to meet Brett and chat with him some time (and make him sign my ITU vinyl!). I just wish that Brett would sign some nice bands again... I love Epitaph, but lately, the bands on it haven't really been my taste. Oh well. Maybe in the future.
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Marty
Admin
I'm with her Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Posts: 2796 |
[quote=Dogbert]Marty, I think another good idea to revamp this site would be to invite band members to sign up on the message board, specially Brett, Greg and Jay and have them, once in a while, answer pre-arranged questionnaires submitted by registered users.[/quote]
As a matter of fact, Jay already signed up. His comments (or any of the other band members once they sign up) in the news section are now highlighted with a different color.
About the questionnaires, great idea! We even have already been in touch with some of the ex-band member such as Tim Gallegos and John Albert :)
11/09/2008 at 02:43
As a matter of fact, Jay already signed up. His comments (or any of the other band members once they sign up) in the news section are now highlighted with a different color. About the questionnaires, great idea! We even have already been in touch with some of the ex-band member such as Tim Gallegos and John Albert :) |
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The Crotch
Hippy Killer
Location: Sascrotchewan Status: Offline Posts: 175 |
Ah, acoustic Dearly Beloved, how I missed you...
Excerrent work! Downloadin' now.
11/08/2008 at 19:42
Ah, acoustic Dearly Beloved, how I missed you...
Excerrent work! Downloadin' now. |
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Brett Religion
The Same Person
Location: Buenos Aires Status: Offline Posts: 1746 |
Yeah, my mistake, Ana, I'm sorry... By the way, how's your Brett fanboinness doing? Any sign of slowing down? Mine is as sick as it can get. Marty, I think another good idea to revamp this site would be to invite band members to sign up on the message board, specially Brett, Greg and Jay and have them, once in a while, answer pre-arranged questionnaires submitted by registered users.
11/08/2008 at 15:57
Yeah, my mistake, Ana, I'm sorry... By the way, how's your Brett fanboinness doing? Any sign of slowing down? Mine is as sick as it can get. Marty, I think another good idea to revamp this site would be to invite band members to sign up on the message board, specially Brett, Greg and Jay and have them, once in a while, answer pre-arranged questionnaires submitted by registered users.
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Kerouac Cat
Generator
Child of the Broken Glass Location: Germany Status: Offline Posts: 4188 |
Updated because Mike uploaded the FLAC version.
11/08/2008 at 02:59
Updated because Mike uploaded the FLAC version.
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Brett Religion
The Same Person
Location: Buenos Aires Status: Offline Posts: 1746 |
What the hell? Rehashing old news items???
11/07/2008 at 12:03
What the hell? Rehashing old news items???
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Gus
Guest
Location: Brazil |
Great show !! Greetings from Brazil. Hope they come back here next year. See ya.
10/12/2008 at 02:44
Great show !! Greetings from Brazil. Hope they come back here next year. See ya.
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Mike
Guest
Location: Canada |
FLAC Direct Download:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VSEM0SHF
10/11/2008 at 22:18
FLAC Direct Download:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VSEM0SHF |
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Mike
Guest
Location: Canada |
FLAC version now up at DIME
10/11/2008 at 18:47
FLAC version now up at DIME
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Guns
Man With A Mission
Location: Brazil Status: Offline Posts: 580 |
Brian plays a very nice solo in "wont somebody"
10/02/2008 at 23:49
Brian plays a very nice solo in "wont somebody"
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Mike
Guest
Location: Canada |
one of my favourite parts is when brian is describing his favourite painkillers (the yellows) and Jay mutters: "he started straight edge"
10/02/2008 at 20:21
one of my favourite parts is when brian is describing his favourite painkillers (the yellows) and Jay mutters: "he started straight edge"
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Julia
Billy Gnosis
Location: Austria Status: Offline Posts: 1001 |
Thanks. Sounds like a cool show!
10/02/2008 at 20:11
Thanks. Sounds like a cool show!
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atomic garden
Guest
Location: Canada |
pretty cool when Greg talked about how toronto leafs sucks this year. We will see if LA team will suck too...
Anyway, CH kick ass!!
Greg talk a lot in this show! thanx for the record! Mike
10/02/2008 at 19:26
pretty cool when Greg talked about how toronto leafs sucks this year. We will see if LA team will suck too...
Anyway, CH kick ass!! Greg talk a lot in this show! thanx for the record! Mike |
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delirium-
Modern Man
Location: Finland Status: Offline Posts: 355 |
Great! I didn't dl the mp3s, waiting for flacs :)
10/02/2008 at 18:32
Great! I didn't dl the mp3s, waiting for flacs :)
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Mike
Guest
Location: Canada |
And delirium I did include some artwork in the mp3 files and will include full size in the torrent. I wish I could post it I'm pretty proud of them!
10/02/2008 at 16:04
And delirium I did include some artwork in the mp3 files and will include full size in the torrent. I wish I could post it I'm pretty proud of them!
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Mike
Guest
Location: Canada |
Hey thanks for the kind words, I'm moving and the computer isn't up so just be patient. I can try to put the flac as direct download somewhere (i know DIME accounts aren't ubiquitous) maybe Guns can put it on the ftp?
10/02/2008 at 16:03
Hey thanks for the kind words, I'm moving and the computer isn't up so just be patient. I can try to put the flac as direct download somewhere (i know DIME accounts aren't ubiquitous) maybe Guns can put it on the ftp?
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che sus
Infected
Location: Göteborg Status: Offline Posts: 1519 |
Here's old Brunswick!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braunschweig
10/02/2008 at 14:10
Here's old Brunswick!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braunschweig |
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badrelgnsf
The Same Person
lost in ramble nation Location: Sacramento CA Status: Offline Posts: 2097 |
Great show great review as well, perfecto!
Let us know about the flac, !
10/02/2008 at 07:54
Great show great review as well, perfecto!
Let us know about the flac, ! |
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badrelgnsf
The Same Person
lost in ramble nation Location: Sacramento CA Status: Offline Posts: 2097 |
I could try to help it if I have access to flac... personally I love naming talking the band does, tenacious D lovers do this all the time!
10/02/2008 at 07:51
I could try to help it if I have access to flac... personally I love naming talking the band does, tenacious D lovers do this all the time!
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matthew kristof
Guest
Location: United States |
you always do a great job with your live recordings mike...a la greg graffin live and other br works. A+ work, man. you rock
10/02/2008 at 01:09
you always do a great job with your live recordings mike...a la greg graffin live and other br works. A+ work, man. you rock
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tommy
Lost Pilgrim
Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Posts: 37 |
thanks a lot!
10/02/2008 at 00:52
thanks a lot!
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Guns
Man With A Mission
Location: Brazil Status: Offline Posts: 580 |
I don't think "The Eagles Stole Our Idea" is Bad Religion song hehe, is just the band talking to the crowd
10/02/2008 at 00:36
I don't think "The Eagles Stole Our Idea" is Bad Religion song hehe, is just the band talking to the crowd
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matteobr85
Lost Pilgrim
Location: Italy Status: Offline Posts: 44 |
wow that s an incredible setlist as always,but what are the song 5,8,17,19,23 and 30?are only for thr toronto show?BR RULES 4EVERRRRRRRRRRRRR
10/01/2008 at 22:12
wow that s an incredible setlist as always,but what are the song 5,8,17,19,23 and 30?are only for thr toronto show?BR RULES 4EVERRRRRRRRRRRRR
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Guns
Man With A Mission
Location: Brazil Status: Offline Posts: 580 |
Thanks, I hope they play this set list on 4 oct
10/01/2008 at 21:29
Thanks, I hope they play this set list on 4 oct
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Kerouac Cat
Generator
Child of the Broken Glass Location: Germany Status: Offline Posts: 4188 |
Great work, Mike! Can't wait to listen to it. Will the FLAC files be available as direct download as well? Because I think that some here don't have DIME accounts.
10/01/2008 at 21:24
Great work, Mike! Can't wait to listen to it. Will the FLAC files be available as direct download as well? Because I think that some here don't have DIME accounts.
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delirium-
Modern Man
Location: Finland Status: Offline Posts: 355 |
Thanks a lot for recording, can't wait to see it at dime. Would be great if you include artwork!
10/01/2008 at 21:01
Thanks a lot for recording, can't wait to see it at dime. Would be great if you include artwork!
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