Comfortably Dumb

Yup the name pretty much sums it up, lol.
I drove nearly 500 miles (roundtrip) to be an hour or so late for LAWN tickets.
I pulled into the lot & was barely able to make out SHEEP playing in the distance.
My section was as far away as one could possibly get, and yet still be ‘in’ the Verizon Music Center (outdoors).
So broke, or would have bought better tickets & real equipment, instead of settling for the only thing I could find locally in my price range. The day before the concert, finally mustered up 50$ for a deck; I search and searched, could not find a stereo cassette deck. Opted to settle for mono; couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t even try to record.

The lineage for the images is more impressive than the lineage for the sound:
HP3.1megapixel – 300+ images of the backdrops &/or teleprompter @ anywhere from 3x-5x zoom & a few with no zoom
RCA (cass-mono) ->SonyHiFi90 ->Home Stereo (headphone out) ->pc (mic in)

I took a blanket, claimed up 9’x9’ of lawn, laid the recorder down under it (with built-in mic uncovered) & stood there the entire time with my feet spread apart with deck between… helped a bit, don’t hear any rustling or loud clapping directly into the mic. I change batteries, when I flipped the tape and end of DSotM.
Still very distant, in many places the audience is quite louder than Roger.
In Breathe the band was adjusting volume & the deck was getting warmed up, hence it’s barely audible. But if you can get past the few first minutes, it gets better… at least a ‘1’ on the 1 to 10 scale, perhaps higher, you be the judge.

No art yet, I doubt anyone will want to burn to cd, most will download for the pictures, and delete the music if a better source (any other) surfaces.

Added:  04.07.2007