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U2 - 2011-05-21 - Denver, CO (FLAC - IEM-MATRIX) Venue: Invesco Field at Mile High
Location: Behind the stage. Gear: Receivers > Cables > Recorder Recorded at 24bit/44.1khz. Matrix of a mixmash of feeds (no audience source) Mixed, Produced, and Mastered by Hoserama/Sharebear Mixed in Neundo 4, using extra waves, ozone, harbal plug-ins Flac'ed using Trader's Little Helper Mix Version 11
Taper Notes: "Thanks to DS, JW, TD, ET, EN, and several other folks. It's been a good run catching up with old friends and making new ones. Special thanks to my girlfriend for putting up with my insane work/show schedule." "Here's my obligatory release from this leg of the tour. Time to recap, mix, and relax after the tour. First show of the US leg. Good solid show, although the leg would kick into a higher gear later on. Seat hopped to a nice spot, which did my good for most of the show. Weather was good thankfully. A bit more drums than I usually like, but that's what was coming through the cans. Did the best I could with mixing but can only do so much. Not my best sounding mix, but pretty solid overall in my book. Did some tricks to minimize the click, which helped. There's no helping the counts though, just get used to them after a while. U2 IEMs are not for everyone. If you can't stand the clicks/counts...then rock out to the audience sources. There's two very nifty sources out there.I left the stereo imaging the way it is to reflect my view from behind the stage. Usually I flip it, but left it this time. Please don't sell this recording in any way - no cash for blanks, 2:1s, or any other form of "getting paid for your time". Just share it freely. If you're going to destroy the sound of some ultra-spiffy high-end rigs by encoding and spreading them via poorly encoded mp3's, please keep them on your own computer and not dilute the tradepool. This means you! Please do not attempt to remaster/remix this recording and spread it around. There is little to no point of trying to compete with the original processing. It just creates problems with conflicting effects and processing errors. If you need to re-eq it for your own listening pleasure, that's fine, just don't spread it around. For the love of god, don't take mix this with an audience source and release it. There's enough ambiance in it. I initially aligned in an audience source, but kept lowering it, until I finally just scrapped it. Also, please don't torrent on other sites without at least dropping me a line and asking. I may want to just torrent it there myself." Enjoy folks!
Setlist: 01. Space Oddity 02. Even Better than the Real Thing 03. I Will Follow 04. Get On Your Boots 05. Magnificent 06. Mysterious Ways 07. Elevation 08. Until the End of the World 09. Band Intros 10. All I Want is You 11. Stay (Far Away, So Close) 12. Beautiful Day 13. Pride (In the Name of Love) 14. Miss Sarajevo 15. Zooropa 16. City of Blinding Lights 17. Vertigo 18. I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight 19. Sunday Bloody Sunday 20. Scarlet 21. Walk On 22. One Intro Video 23. One 24. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow 25. Where the Streets Have No Name 26. Encore Break 27. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me 29. With or Without You 30. Bono Talk 31. Moment of Surrender
Born in Los Angeles, Esther Williams grew up swimming in playground pools and surfing at local beaches. By age 16, she represented the powerful Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team and had earned three national championships in both the breaststroke and freestyle. She was on the 1940 Olympic team headed for Tokyo when World War II intervened, canceling the games – along with her hopes for the gold and international fame. Still, she was attracting attention in other ways. In 1940 newspaper sports reportage, swimmers were frequently lined up for cheesecake photos, flashing big smiles and lots of leg. With her stunning good looks and tall, well-muscled frame, Esther was a standout! It didn’t take long for legendary showman Billy Rose to notice the photogenic champion. Rose needed a female lead to star opposite Olympian and screen star Johnny Weismuller in his San Francisco Aquacade review. He invited Williams up for an audition and, so the story goes, Weismuller himself picked her out of a casting call of 75 hopefuls. Her performing career had begun. The Aquacade was a true spectacle – a Broadway musical in swimsuits complete with hundreds of swimmers, divers, singing and special effects. Williams was featured as Aquabelle #1, performing choreographed duet swims with Aquadonis #1 (Weismuller). In a memo to his publicity department. Rose explained that, “I want to pivot everything around Williams. It is up to us to make this girl known up and down the coast. With the possible exception of Eleanor HoIm (the 1936 Olympic swimmer who was also Rose’s wife), she’s the most beautiful swimming champion in the history of aquatics.” MGM executives who saw her in the Aquacade agreed. They offered Williams a screen test – paired with none other than Clark Gable. Gable liked her, the studio liked her, and she was signed to a contract. She made her film debut opposite Mickey Rooney in Andy Hardy’s Double Life in 1942. As Williams explains, “The popular Andy Hardy series movies were MGM’s tests for its promising stars such as Judy Garland, Lana Turner and Donna Reed. If you didn’t.*make it in those pictures, you were never heard from again.” The audience response to the athletic All-American girl was phenomenal, and the studio put Williams’ career into high gear. Midway through filming Mr. Coed with Red Skelton, they changed the name of the movie to Bathing Beauty and made Esther Williams the star, demoting Skelton to supporting lead. Bathing Beauty was Hollywood’s first swimming movie, and it created a new genre that was perfectly suited to Esther’s beauty and athletic skills. A special 90-foot square, 20-foot deep pool was built at Stage 30 on the MGM lot, complete with hydraulic lifts, hidden air hoses and special camera cranes for overhead shots. “No one had ever done a swimming movie before,” she explains, “so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.” Famous choreographer Busby Berkeley was responsible for the film’s elaborate water scenes – complete with fountains, flames, smoke and, as Williams herself admits, lots of pretty girls swimming around with bows in their hair. It worked. According to Williams, Bathing Beauty was second only to Gone with the Wind as the most successful film of 1944. During the mid-40s, the MGM musicals were the most popular form of entertainment in the world. By the tail end of World War II, Williams was a pinup favorite with returning Gl’s. Meanwhile, MGM’s publicity mill kept churning out headlines and photo opportunities – she once counted 14 magazines on a local newsstand featuring her picture on the cover. Esther Williarns was America’s sweetheart for more than 18 years, appearing in 26 movies from the early 1940′s to the end of the ’5Os, all but the last few for MGM. Although she had a few dry-land roles in such films as Take Me Out to the Ball Game, it was the lavish water spectaculars that made her a top box-office draw and that became her cinematic trademark. Like ice skater Sonja Henie before her, Williams was one of the few female athletes to successfully cross over to widespread entertainment success. Her movie career played a major role in the promotion of competitive and synchronized swimming, which she is credited with popularizing. As International Swimming Hall of Fame literature explains, “If swimming would make his daughter grow up to look like Esther Williams, then father was willing to pay for the lessons.” Although movie making was exhausting work – Williams estimates that she swam more than 1,000 collective miles while making her movies and was in the water so many hours each day that she took naps with her legs on the pool deck and her head floating in the water – she found time to marry three times (last to Fernando Lamas) and have three children (Benjamin, Kimball and Susan) during her second marriage to radio singer Ben Gage. I don’t know to this day how I managed to fit into those bathing suits when I was pregnant,” she says, “but I did.” She still refers to each child by the movie she was making before they were born. “There I was, diving off platforms with Ben in Neptune’s Daughter, going underwater in silver lame’ with Kim in Pagan Love Song and learning how to water ski with Susie in Easy to Love…and somehow I stayed a size 10 through it all.” Williams showed that she had a head for enterprise between those broad swimmer’s shoulders. “I got into business because I knew those musicals couldn’t go on forever. In fact, I was doing some department store modeling at the time, and I told my bosses to hold my job. This movie-making thing wouldn’t last. I mean, how many swimming movies could they make?” When someone came to her with the idea of putting her name on a line of backyard swimming pools, she agreed. Twenty-five years later. “Esther ‘Williams is the most well-known name in the above-ground pool business today.” says Jerry Herson of the Delair Group in new Jersey, the company that actually manufactures the pools and sells them from California to Maine. Then came licensing agreements with fashion swimwear manufacturers that ultimately led to her own Esther Williams Collection sold in department stores, targeting older women and based on the retrospective look of her full-cut movie swimsuit designs. There’s also a line of fitness swimsuits in the works, “I’m reading my mail carefully.” she says. “Somebody has to give a little thought to the woman who has nursed a baby and I want to apply my knowledge of what feels good in the water for that woman. I think there’s a void in the market right now for that kind of swimsuit.” Her appearances at openings and benefits usually cause a sensation. “When I go to business conventions for my products, it sometimes takes me over four hours to sign all the autographs and pose for pictures,” she says. “Everyone wants a photo for their store, and I never turn anyone down, no matter how long it takes.” ‘Williams has had a full life, as an athlete, movie star, mother, businesswoman. Spokesperson and an inspiration to millions. But the one thing that binds it all together, the one thing that keeps her going, is her connection to water and to swimming. “I think the joy that showed through in my swimming movies comes from my lifelong love of the water,” she explains. “No matter what I was doing, the best I felt all day was when I was swimming.” Then there’s her relationship with her children, all three of whom she taught to swim soon after birth. That’s part of her philosophy about the magic of water. “One of the reasons I gave them this gift of swimming so early in their lives was because I loved having them with me in the water. And when I saw them take to it, it was a shared joy that we had in common. Asked if she still swam, she laughed. “You know, I always get asked that. Of course I still swim. I’ll go in later when I have the pool to myself.”
Filmography Feature films Year↓ Film↓ Role↓ Notes 1942 Andy Hardy's Double Life Sheila Brooks with Mickey Rooney 1943 A Guy Named Joe Ellen Bright 1944 Bathing Beauty Caroline Brooks with Red Skelton 1945 Thrill of a Romance Cynthia Glenn with Van Johnson 1945 Ziegfeld Follies Herself 1946 The Hoodlum Saint Kay Lorrison 1946 Easy to Wed Connie Allenbury Chandler with Van Johnson and Lucille Ball 1946 Till the Clouds Roll By Herself 1947 Fiesta Maria Morales with Ricardo Montalbán 1947 This Time for Keeps Leonora 'Nora' Cambaretti with Johnnie Johnston 1948 On an Island with You Rosalind Reynolds with Peter Lawford and Ricardo Montalbán 1949 Take Me Out to the Ball Game K.C. Higgins with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra 1949 Neptune's Daughter Eve Barrett with Ricardo Montalbán and Red Skelton 1950 Duchess of Idaho Christine Riverton Duncan with Van Johnson 1950 Pagan Love Song Mimi Bennett with Howard Keel 1951 Texas Carnival Debbie Telford with Howard Keel 1951 Callaway Went Thataway Herself 1952 Skirts Ahoy! Whitney Young 1952 Million Dollar Mermaid Annette Kellerman with Victor Mature 1953 Dangerous When Wet Katie Higgins with Fernando Lamas 1953 Easy to Love Julie Hallerton with Van Johnson and Tony Martin 1955 Jupiter's Darling Amytis with Howard Keel 1956 The Unguarded Moment Lois Conway 1958 Raw Wind in Eden Laura with Jeff Chandler 1961 The Big Show Hillary Allen 1963 Magic Fountain 1994 That's Entertainment! III Herself
Short Subjects
Personalities (1942) Inflation (1942) Some of the Best (1949) 1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration (1955) Screen Snapshots: Hollywood, City of Stars (1956)
Hello from Seattle where starting tomorrow I again call the action and pitching changes for the mighty Mariners. In the meantime, I'm going to dip into the "Best Of" file.
This is one of my favorite all-time posts so I cart it out every couple of years. Certainly one of my funniest -- and I didn't even write it.
I've talked about the need for showrunners to hold down the budget. What I didn’t mention was how difficult that can sometimes be. Hollywood is notorious for huge mark ups. Studios charging their own shows outrageous rent for their stages and facilities, etc. And if God forbid you need a special effect look out. In writing rooms whenever we propose even the smallest stunt we turn to my partner, David Isaacs, who has created a great character – Mr. Special Effects. He will then describe what is required to pull the stunt off and how much it will cost.
Here is an example, in the form of a memo. And believe me when I say this is TYPICAL.
Report from TV Special Effects Department:
RE: Frasier
Situation: In a dream sequence, Frasier is on the air and his board explodes.
Proposal---If I'm to understand correctly from our conversation you all want the entire radio board to explode in Frasier's (Mr. Gramner's) face. filling the studio room with smoke. It's quite a coincidence since my dad created the same effect for Mr. Al Ruddy for an episode of 'The Monkee's. (For your reference it's the one where the Monkees try to outfox a Russian agent played by Mr. Lloyd Bochner). The good news is that with all the advancements in explosive delivery it's a much easier effect. (The real reason you never saw Mr. Mike Nesmith at any Monkees reunion is that he had four fingers of his left hand blown off. It's certainly not true that he was sick of being a part of a third rate Beatles knockoff. That and feeling responsible for Yakima Canutt losing a testicle on "How the West was Won" haunted my father till he fell to his death rigging Mr. Demetrious 'George' Savalas for a jump off the Brooklyn Bridge in 'Kojak.)
Anyway, the effect is fairly simple, but of course we want it foolproof and safe. (within reason) First of all we will rig a series of explosive charges across the board. That will control the blast as oppossed to one big blast which is harder to control. I will set off the charges in sequence from a specially designed phaser. That should supply our explosion and still create the effect. We also set a charge inside the board so that in the case of a fire breaking out from the initial explosion (small possibility) I'll blow that charge which in turn would smother the flames. That, of course, would also preclude a second take.
Now I'm to understand that Mr. Gramner would like to do the stunt himself (concurrent with an 'Entertainment Tonight' segment profiling sitcom actors who do their own stunts.) That's fine but we will take the precaution of covering his body in an inch to an inch and a half of Vaseline Petroleum Jelly under a flame retardant herringbone suit. (It's uncomfortable but the guy works, what, twelve hours a week?) That will protect him vis a vis a mistake in explosion deployment. (Just to warn you in spite of caution it can happen---Sometimes to a serendipitous result. My dad worked for Mr. George Roy Hill on 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KId." Liitle known fact, the boxcar being blown to smithereens was not in the script. It was what we call in the S.E. business a happy accident. Thankfully the only injury was a prosthetic arm that was mangaled up pretty good. It belonged to my dad's assistant 'Spider' who had lost his real arm and half a foot working with my dad on 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'. Long story)
So we will protect Mr. Gramner. Safety for the cameramen and crew are at your discretion. Should be a do it every day, piece of cake effect. Still it's S.O.P. for me to ask you one question that's in the order of a final safeguard. Was there originally an actor you really felt could have played Frasier in the event that Mr. Gramner was unavailable or... "a handful"? Have to ask. It many times makes a tougher call but I will remind you of 'happy accidents'.
I'm going to ball park a cost for you then come up with a final tally later. I know you have budget concerns but it's a heck of a stunt. Figuring explosives , equipment rented from the studio electrical dept., special costuming from the studio costume dept., crew, overtime, dummy board and console from studio props, studio fire chief standing by, and I figure you'll want to throw in pizza for a hard working S.E. bunch, I think I can bring the whole thing off for you, on the cheap, for about 110 thousand dollars. Again that's if we're not figuring on another take.
Once again, there's a big tragedy in the real world and only People puts it on the cover. This is just another example of People being the classiest and most reliable of the magazines you can buy at the supermarket checkout stand.
The annoying custom of stories without cover art continues, this time a teaser about a celebrity wedding without even a name on the cover. I didn't open the magazine to find out who and it wasn't on their website. If you care about this, you'll have to go find the magazine yourself.
The Sun has given us more bad things that will happen this year and credited some of their "most reliable" psychics. Of course they use everyone's favorite vague French 16th Century poet and prophet, Michel de Nostradamus, but also Black Elk, John the Baptist and Mother Teresa, a line-up they have used before.
No, Nikki, Psychic to the Stars, sad to say.
The stuff that is supposed happen: Al Qaeda nukes, a White House scandal and a Medicare meltdown.
As long as the Tea Party has its way, the third thing is an option. The second could also take place. The first one... not really believable.
We'll see. And I promise to report back on 1/1/2012.
Beauty and The Beast:Crazy, Stupid, Love. “Producer Denise Di Novi told ComingSoon.net that Watson is to star in new adaptation of director Guillermo Del Toro lined the” Beauty and the Beast. “That develops Di Novi It be the first undisputed leader for Watson would be;.Beauty and The Beast
Not Familiar With Kibby Lau: After the relationship crisis with Mavis Pan, breaks a new rumor girlfriend back for Raymond Lam. It was reported that the next day after his grandmother’s funeral, he went to a night club in Lan Kwai Fong and got acquainted with ‘blueberry’ Kibby Lau,Not Familiar With Kibby Lau
In January Cameron Claimed Royal Wedding: Phillips, 30, the 13th in line of succession is not a royal title, and Tindall, 32, was planned in Edinburgh Canongate Kirk in a private ceremony by the Queen, William, Kate Middleton and his bride went to wed a variety of other royalty and sports stars.
The couple, who largely avoided the limelight, not their ceremony performed live on television and crowds gather in the Scottish city in advance of the service have been told by the police, there would be little to see.In January Cameron Claimed Royal Wedding
I’m heading up to Seattle tomorrow to begin a nine-game stretch of broadcasting for the Mariners. There was a game earlier this week between the Pirates and the Braves that lasted 19 innings and lasted over six hours. That prompted this Friday question by Joe Knucks-all (yes, it’s an ode to Joe Nuxhall):
What's the longest game you've gotten to call, thus far?
Friday, September 25, 1992. The Mariners at the Texas Rangers. Sixteen innings, but first a little background:
This was the very end of the season. Both teams were already eliminated. So the game meant absolutely nothing.
The game was held in the old Arlington Stadium, a converted minor league park that was, to be charitable, a dump.
It must’ve been 100 degrees at game time and by the end -- 95.
We were doing the game on TV that night as well as radio. That meant the rotation was that I did the first half of the game on television then switched with my partner, the great Dave Niehaus and did the rest of the game alone on the radio. Did I mention sixteen innings?
Because this was the end of the year rosters were expanded. I believe we set a major league record for the number of players used in one game. The Mariners used 29, the Rangers only used 25. The Mariners employed eleven different pitchers. Between the two clubs there were 481 pitches thrown (I think 12 strikes).
We left twelve men on base. Texas left a staggering twenty. M’s second baseman, Bret Boone went 0-7.
You can’t believe what a mess my scorebook was. Completely indecipherable. Navajo Code Breakers couldn’t figure out who batted for who when.
But the incident I remember most was this: Our bullpen was down the leftfield line. Late in the game, maybe the 13th or 14th while play was in I look out and all of our relief pitchers and bullpen catchers are running out onto the field. WTF?! Seems someone discovered a big rat in the bullpen. So while members of the grounds crew removed the rodent we had a ten minute "rat delay".
We won the game 4-3. Omar Vizquel drove in the winning run and then was thrown out in a wild rundown. It was that kind of game.
And then when the game ended – 5:08 after it started -- I had to do the postgame show. That was another half hour. One of the features was the game re-cap. I think I said something like "A bunch of guys got into the game and made outs and didn't score, and we did that for like five hours, and then someone drove in a run. I'll have the out-of-town scores next!"
But I will say this, yes it was exhausting but also exhilarating. You get your second wind after about four hours. And the game takes on a life of its own. The adrenaline kicks in and suddenly it’s great fun.
And the way things are going this year, I’d gladly call a thirty inning game if it meant a win.
Publication: Weekly World News (via the Sun) Date: 8 August 2011
Weekly World News brings back the politically astute Space Alien who endorses presidential candidates. The being from another planet is backing Michele Bachmann for president in 2012. The alien has a pretty good track record, endorsing Clinton in 1992 and Bush in 2000, but it should not be forgotten the alien first backed Ross Perot and then changed his mind, so a Bachmann presidency is not a done deal, thank Odin, Vishnu and the little baby Jebus.
In the Three Wicked Step Sister tabloids, the most popular types of stories about the recently deceased are the secrets taken to the grave, people feuding over the will and the "didn't have to die" stories. Peter Falk gets the third type of treatment this week from the Globe.
It's always a treat when there is no Teen Mom story on the covers of The Only Ten Magazines That Matter, which was the case last week. This week is almost as good, since there is only one story and it has no artwork associated, a headline about Maci and Ryan and some nude scandal, though it sounds like he's nekkid instead of her, which is slightly unusual in these cases.
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My past has caught up with me. Great Big Radio is playing a two-hour restored broadcast of one of my radio shows back when I was Beaver Cleaver on B100 San Diego in 1976. So for those of you who gotta have the bump, have a love hangover, or want to win passes to see that great new movie ODE TO BILLIE JOE starring Glynis O'Connor at the Grossmont Cinema, tune in to Great Big Radio.
I'm on starting at 11 PM EDT and replayed at 11 PM PDT. You can hear it here. I was certifiably insane in those days. Enjoy.
