Media: 1 cdr (80 min)
Source: Audience (Master DAT)
Date: September 8, 2002
Venue: Tweeter Center
Location: Camden, NJ
Name: Sonic Rage
Catalog: Blue Fish Archives (BFA-DT080902)
Equipment List: Sony PCM-M1, Core Sound High End Binaural (HEB) mics. Digital transfer with Sony PCM-R500 Professional DAT via OpCode SonicPort. Minor editing with Cool Edit Pro, track flags with CDWav .shn conversion with MKW, posted via PowerPost
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IMPORTANT!!
Feel free to remaster the show but DO NOT trade the altered version. Only trade the raw version so the next person can adjust the show to their liking. What you prefer to hear in a show is probably NOT what the next person want to hear and nothing ruins a recording more than multiple remastering. That's as bad as mp3 compression.
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Setlist:
New Millennium
Strange Deja Vu
War Inside My Head
The Test That Stumped Them All
Surrounded
Misunderstood
Lie
Peruvian Skies
Instrumedly
Lines In The Sand
Learning To Live
Additional Comments on show:
From Blue Fish:
A good audience recording. I was located about twelve rows back on Myung's side, pretty much directly in front of the stage PA stack. The mix was about the same as most Dream Theater shows, dominate vocals and drums, good guitar and keys and the usual disappearing bass. The audience noise is not bad. There are a few close whoops and cheers but for the most part it is the usual for an audience recording. Unfortunatly, security let the mullett heads flood down to our section during the encore so there is much more screaming and talking at the end of the show. The band put on an good performance. It seemed to me that the band was pretty much going through the motions but they sounded tight as ever. For example, not once did Petrucci come over to our side of the stage. Maybe I am a little spoiled from being at the last two Beacon Theater shows but I just did not see the spark ignite this night. The <I>Instrumedly</I> was incredible! During the middle of it Portnoy said something about the World Cup and Petrucci and Myung started kicking a soccer ball around without missing a single note of what they were playing. Amazing! Overall, a pretty good sounding recording capturing a standard performance during the last days of the tour.
Grade: A-/B+
