Maybe I missed it but I’ve been a little surprised not to see mention here of an acoustic Liz & Dino dimeadozen torrent which popped up on Dec 13. This is one sweet show. Well recorded and performed, albeit with a bit of that trademark Liz voice quavering on the early tracks but wonderful nonetheless. I’ve uploaded an mp3 of the show’s Mesmerizing here, or at least I hope I have: http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...0838C210F3E4C76

That mp3 link should be good for seven days. Maybe somebody with compressing software and a premium uploading account somewhere can post the whole show.

Here are the dimeadozen lossless link and text info posted there:

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=125454

Liz Phair
Joe's Pub
New York City, NY
August 1, 2005

Source: Laptop HD->Sony D100->SF8(EQ,Comp)->cdr->EAC->wav->flac7
Quality: SBD EX+
TRT 69:00

01. Table For One [0:05:04.14]
02. Polyester Bride [0:05:16.42]
03. Never Said [0:03:34.46]
04. Don't Hold Your Breath [0:02:42.21]
05. Baby Got Going [0:02:35.09]
06. Extraordinary [0:03:51.53]
07. Uncle Alvarez [0:04:25.31]
08. Mesmerizing [0:04:41.43]
09. Somebody's Miracle [0:04:51.69]
10. Closer To You [0:04:42.50]
11. Everything To Me [0:03:34.15]
12. Divorce Song [0:03:32.51]
13. Supernova [0:03:11.12]
14. Fuck and Run [0:03:43.68]
15. Intro - Soundcheck [0:01:38.62]
16. Little Digger - Soundcheck [0:03:27.02]
17. Never Said - Soundcheck [0:02:23.05]
18. Table For One - Soundcheck [0:05:44.25]

Performers:
Liz Phair - vocals, guitar
Dino Meneghin - guitar, backing vocals

Notes: This is an early Christmas present for all you Liz Phair fans - a beautiful, flawless recording from her 2005 acoustic tour. This has never been circulated before now to my knowledge. Enjoy!

UPDATE:
Corrected CD tray artwork available here: http://rapidshare.com/files/10060948/Liz-P...b-tray.jpg.html

This updated artwork corrects the track name from "If I Ever Pay You Back" to "Don't Hold Your Breath," which apparently is the real name of the song.

Erebus, thanks a bunch for making this acoustic version of Mesmerizing available. IMHO, it is absolutely KILLER! She sounds great! GOT to get the rest of this show downloaded. Thanks again.

Thanks so much! Mesmerizing is good, Dino didn't butcher it badly.

Wow! Thanks, Erebus! What a great file.

I wasn't able to log in to the torrent site; I don't ever deal with those kinds of files so I don't even think I have the software to use whatever I might eventually be able to download. It'd be so very awesome if someone could post the whole show as separate mp3 files... Maybe I can work out a deal with someone?

Great to hear "Mesmerizing" -- her banter afterward makes me really wish I could sit down with her & talk guitar, maybe go over some of the older songs I know & jog her memory about things I haven't figured out. A boy can dream...

Hey, at the very least, could someone upload an mp3 of "Don't Hold Yr Breath" from that show? THANKS!

Big hug,

JE

Here’s the whole show. I was holding off, thinking it would be better for somebody to post a link to a zip file but whatever. Glad you guys are interested. Surprise surprise. The soundcheck stuff is informal and fun. Hope all these links work. Track 17 uploaded a little funkily. Lemme know if there’s trouble anywhere. I’ll be happy to reload.


01 Table For One
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...F88D4D179D0D9BF

02 Polyester Bride
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...977FD62207F4B22

03 Never Said
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...51AC0A778AF0CC5

04 Don’t Hold Your Breath
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...2F92853305B4736

05 Baby Got Going
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...CFF017D5F1410D3

06 Extraordinary
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...5FCC4423724AE76

07 Uncle Alvarez
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...6C695FD0DD09D38

08 Mesmerizing
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...0838C210F3E4C76

09 Somebody's Miracle
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...4ADC16A3B039E3A

10 Closer To You
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...44E33CE6EF20AA3

11 Everything To Me
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...3ACC1FF79704723

12 Divorce Song
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...0B7C2DD009689DD

13 Supernova
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...55E9BA647DAF560

14 Fuck and Run
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...F2B1E966EB997AF

15 Intro - Soundcheck
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...91AD66851ECBB77

16 Little Digger - Soundcheck
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...BEEEF08081C4AF1

17 Never Said - Soundcheck
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...1A6A5F072D1AD79

18 Table For One - Soundcheck
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...742805007C5F300

Erebus, you're the fu@king bomb!! Thank you!

You’re welcome XRay and everybody. It’s the least I can do. I’m just sitting around sipping beer and watching Australian Open tennis on TV.

Of course I encourage any who can to get the lossless files. Most often you have to persist when trying to get a dimeadozen account. Don’t try once and then come back ten minutes later or tomorrow. Rather, instead refresh and refresh, until you get through. They have a cap set on the number of members but there’s a high turnover so there are always new vacancies. And once you get an account, use it. Last time I checked they were routinely deleting accounts that showed no activity for two weeks. I always keep torrent windows open, partially to be a good dime citizen but also so I can maintain my active status and thereby retain a viable account. They only allow you to seed ten torrents at a time but I keep my eye on about sixty torrents to monitor leeching interest. Mostly Frank and the Pixies, but I also have a mega Tom Waits torrent I've kept open for over a year. Even got a Hank Williams III seed I nurture. I caught him in Reno this past summer. Imagine a semi-traditional country set followed by 'Fugazi meets vintage Sabbath'. Great speed metal drummer with a hot pink Riff Raff mohawk. Anyway, these days I mostly upload, but I do check about once a week to see whether there’s a new torrent for Frank, Liz, Kristin, Sam, or whomever. I used to be obsessive about it, checking the dime several times a day for new torrents, but over the years I’ve accumulated over a thousand bootlegs, about half of which I’ve never even listened to. A few months ago I finally realized that was ridiculous, so now I’m more measured with my downloads.

Wow, thanks for getting all of them! This is wonderful, I've had a Liz drought for a while, this is a nice splash of music.

Interesting. I was able to download and display the artwork, but when I saved to disk, it didn't seem to recognize the file as jpeg.

What I did to "work around" the problem was to screen capture the page using Irfanview and then save the screen capture instead.

I don't have bittorrent installed on my Windows or Mac boxes, but I do have it on Linux and I'll try to snag them later on. I'll report on that later. I have snagged all of the mp3 files.

Update: yep, I'm stopped by the need for the account to get the torrents. I'll keep trying...

I was a little confused on the sound check files being at the end. I would normally think that these logically occur at the beginning of the performance. Is it just me???

I am so glad that I noticed this thread.

Hope my comments add value--this is really cool.

I was able to get the artwork OK using a Mac. Pity that I already printed three copies of the earlier version that had the incorrect title for track four.

Regarding soundchecks, I've seen them arranged both ways. This way it kinda makes for an appendix or coda. To me it works well at the end whereas at the beginning it could be a spoiler. I like the glimpse behind the curtain and the way Table For One bookends the disc. Table is my favorite track from Somebody's Miracle. Both Liz and Dino sound like respectful, civilized human beings here, not sporting any kind of attitude. Overall, this show demonstrates the recent Liz to good effect. People with only a fringe awareness of her think she's been in decline but I think she's matured as an artist and as an adult. I've awakened the last three mornings with Little Digger in my brain. [edit: Didn't mean to offend any of the core fans here with that "fringe" comment. I realize that some who love Liz the most also think her last couple discs indicate "decline". If it's any consolation, the same kind of debates flare up over at Frank Black's fan site.]

Thank you so much!!

I think Somebody's Miracle the album would have worked better if it was done with just two acoustic guitars like here. I mean of course the songs still aren't amazing but they are made even worse by the production of the album. The only song that I can really think benefits from the production is Lazy Dreamer.

Very good stuff! Thanks Erebus! As far as the production of SM, I think the production of Got My Own Thing, Why I Lie, and especially Everything (Between Us ) is excellent. The strings on Everything ( Between Us ) are gorgeous.

A few more notes.

First, if any of you are thinking about moving these to your iPods, you'll need to edit the ID3 tags. I'm doing that now using Winamp. If you don't do this, the songs won't appear associated with "Liz Phair".

Here are the directions: Load file into Winamp. Use "I" command from classic file or do file properties. You'll see greyed out artist, title, album, year, etc. information. Fill in everything and hit the update button. You can probably do this with iTunes, but I like using Winamp (been using it a lot longer, and I created m3u playlist in the process). Oops, I had to re-edit the m3u file so that my iPod display doesn't display Liz Phair redundantly in front of each song. I wish iTunes was a little smarter about merging in information from m3u files and the ID3 tags. Argh!

Second, I edited the "download" that was supposed to be the jpg file. It turned out to be an html file, so there is some kind of html scripting to prevent the jpg from being saved to disk. Like I said, it didn't really stop me.

These files are awesome. Again, I'm trying to assist anyone that runs into the same minor issues that I'm seeing--hope this helps.

The link that says that it is a jpg file is actually html with embedded jpg.

I snagged the actual jpg file from Cache for my web browser.

I'm also using iTunes to update the artwork with the cover--this is why I wanted actual jpg file.

I did have a problem with the picture but I just dragged it into photoshop and re-saved it so it worked.

Many thanks E
I was able to get all the tracks excepy 4 and 12.. anyone else experience the same situation

I just test downloaded those two tracks and had no difficulty. I'm assuming you tried a second time?

edit: I should have asked: where does the problem arise? getting through to the yousendit page? getting the link there to start downloading? getting it to complete? having a complete, playable file after the download is indicated as complete?

Good show, thank you.

WOW! Don't Hold Your Breath Live!

thankyouthankyouthankyou

Thanks E. I got them today no problem

Good, Brynn. Glad folks are enjoying the show.

Thank you, great show.

Just wanted people to know that yousendit indicates these files will expire tomorrow. Thanks again for the interest in the upload.

It's a really great show. But did it bother anyone else that she kept calling Dino baby? It got annoying.

Yeah. But I did like her dirty mouth.

I'd like to hear Liz call Dino Baby as long as it occurs in 2007.

The sooner the better.

Ok, is anyone else CREEPED OUT by the audience guy who laughs near the beginning of Closer To You??? (right after she says that she plays it to give it life)

holy cripes, i missed this. can anyone upload some songs from it for me? please!!!

pleaaaaaaaase!!!

erebus, coolchic??

wawawa

I'll add it to my savefile account post it shortly

Here's the link to the show:

http://www.savefile.com/projects/1072113

CC, you're a treasure. W&A didn't thank you, but I do.

thanks

You're welcome!

FANKS!!!

This version of "Mesmerizing" is very reminiscent of her solo '95 tour performances. It's nice to hear Liz stripped down without Dino's craptastic vocals ruining everything.
I just wish Liz would go back to singing "Never Said" the way she used to.

Thanks for the mention at savefile. That was sweet of you.

No problem. You're the one who brought it to my attention, so you deserve credit where it's due.

Hey all,

I'm the one who made this recording. Sorry I didn't post about it earlier but the registration process here sucks and I gave up in frustration... Anyway I got it straightened out now obviously. Glad everyone is digging the show, it was a great evening and I only wish she had been able to play longer. I guess the MP3s are out there already but I really hope no one burns these to CD for trading - please keep the quality of the original recording and don't trade MP3 discs! The uncompressed full quality show is available on Dimeadozen.org via the Bittorrent system. Thanks and enjoy!

I'm going to keep on trying to join www.dimeadozen.org to get the bittorrents, but the membership was full when I checked.

Yeah, I've been trying to join for the last few days too, but it's always full.

The torrent is now on Demonoid.com also. You should be able to join fairly easily.

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1021342/2805452/

I just found this link: Review (scroll down a bit to find the part about Liz Phair) It's some review of Liz's performance at Joe's Pub and it said she played there two nights, not one...It's probably not true though...

ah, the file has expired, I'm too late!! noooooo!!!!!!

Maybe this will help.

When I saw that post, I immediately thought of your uploads.

Thanks, darling!

P.S., We just got back from SXSW on 6th street and I didn't have the time to track it down. I'll create a post with my recollections of the day.

Sorry is this acoustic version of mesmerizing still around somewhere? Can they please repost it please!? And does anyone have the acoustic version of Supernova? There was a copy of a bootleg on sale on ebay once I never bought and it had an acoustic version on it. I'd love to hear that.

click the link in post 44. The whole show is still up.

This show is also still available in lossless format at dimeadozen here:

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=125454

You do have to join dimeadozen, but it's worth it.

How did you convert the files to mp3?...because i found another torrent i would like to download.

I use Xact Audio Compression Toolkit to convert the .flac files to .wav, then I import the .wav files to iTunes and select "advanced" and then "convert selections to AAC."

If this doesn't make any sense, just type "Flac (or whatever type of file it is) to mp3" into google, and you'll get lots of hits. That's how I figured it out.