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There's Not Enough Hours In A Day

Once upon a time, not too long ago, I took a day out in Boston. Gomez played a show at the Paradise last night. Despite not having listened to the new album, How We Operate, very much, I recognized almost everything that they played. At the title and first line of this post might indicate, I've been listening to "Whippin Piccadilly" a bit too much the last day or two, so I was very happy to hear them close with a good amped-up version of that.

The show got off to a rough start with two broken microphones, an acoustic guitar that just refused to be amplified, and a couple of broken strings. Fortunately, the techs helped out pretty quickly with the first two, and Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball were able to improvise their solos to make up for the missing strings. After the first 3-4 songs, it seemed to go much more smoothly. Someone was up front with a pretty good recording setup - a good condenser mic on a stand a few feet above the crowd, right in front of the stage. He told me that he's going to post it on archive.org, so keep an eye out for it there.

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