Hello fellow Mountain Goats fan! If you ever come across a full recording of John Darnielle & Tobias Wolff in conversation at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco on 24 February 2009 …would you let me know? (I was there, & I got to ask a question! :)
John Darnielle’s solo show at the Swedish American Hall the next day (25 February 2009) was also pretty great, but I only recorded two songs.
And here’s one of my favorite TMG shows — Boston in 2005. Shearwater opened, and then came back for the last few songs; this recording is good, but still doesn’t capture how great “Oceanographer’s Choice” and “See America Right” sounded with like 10 people on stage playing. https://archive.org/details/tmg2005-10-27/tmg2005-10-27t14.flac
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(oh wait! I was wrong! it was the first opener — The Prayers & Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers — who joined TMG on stage for “See America Right”. that is all. 🙃
this really is my favorite performance of that song, though. so good! https://archive.org/details/tmg2005-10-27/tmg2005-10-27t17.flac )
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I've been trying to listen to all these beautiful recordings you've referred me to and I'm still working on it, but here's the Q&A show from 2/24/09 and here's the concert from 2/25/2009. The interview segment is super interesting, lots of stories I haven't heard before. And I shant spoil the gimmick for 2/25 but he explains it just before Jenny and I gasped! What a scamp. I am scouting a couple songs for potential use later in the year. Would you guys get mad if he breaks a guitar string halfway through Dance Music
This 2005 show you've sent me is really awesome too! I almost want a video of Oceanographers because he mentions jumping really high after the song haha. The performance of Against Pollution too is also awesome-- that one someone did take a partial video of, but no air time.