Cowboy Junkies 2001-02-11 @ Capitol Theatre - Port Hope, ON

As I wrote back in June, 2006 in the download description of show 2, I have, over the years, experimented in different ways with expanding my duties as archivist. Cowboy Junkies played three shows in Canada in February, 2001, and I blended soundboard and audience tapes of each show to achieve a rich true-sounding live recording. The mixing was done with Saw Pro, blending about 65 percent to 70 percent of the soundboard source and the rest from the audience source. By expanding the waveforms to the smallest time platform, I was able to align them perfectly, a neat trick when neither source has time-code. I had to time-align each track to compensate for "drift," caused by having the audience recording about 100 feet back from the stage. The results came out quite well. Michael liked the tapes, but ultimately it was decided not to pursue this on a regular basis. I think this show, from February 11, 2001, was my favorite of the three shows the band performed that weekend. It was an interesting blend of songs. "Powderfinger" opened, promising a truly special evening. "Close Your Eyes" had just started to appear in the setlists, but it was then, and remains to this day, a rare tune for the band to play. "Escape is So Simple" is, of course, a song that can send me over the edge, a hauntingly beautiful tune that is one of Michael's best songs.

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Foolishness (2008-03-07)

You can decode the Lossless audio FLAC files into WAV files with
your favorite decoder ( see
) then write them to a CD with no gaps
between the tracks (i.e. Disk At Once) for a complete "Live"
show.

When you finish downloading this Torrent you can decode the FLAC files into a different folder to make the CDs. That way you can continue to seed the show for awhile.
I'm at the end of a long, very slow pipe and I stupidly put up all 25 shows at the same time. So when one show completes I pause it so the others will speed up. I didn't expect that there would be so many people who hadn't gotten the shows from http://www.4thellamas.com/index.htm .
This was an experiment for people who were on dial-up and couldn't download easily from the site. I do leave the second machine in the other room seeding all the shows, but it isn't as fast as this one. I'll keep seeding, but help with that from the faster machines out there is appreciated.
Thanks.
These shows are out here because the band gave permission.