Steven Wilson - 2018-04-27 - Boston, MA (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Steven Wilson
April 27, 2018
Berklee Performance Center
Boston, MA

Lineage:
CA-CA11 (Omni) > SP-SPSB-8 > Teac iXJ2 > Lightning Adapter > iPhone 6S (Twisted Wav App) > WiFi Transfer (File Browser App) > Wavelab 6.1 > CDWAV > FLAC 

Steven Wilson - vocals, guitars, keyboard
Nick Beggs - bass, chapman stick, vocals, percussion, guitar, keyboard
Adam Holzman - keyboards
Craig Blundell - drums
Alex Hutchings - guitar, vocals

Disc 1
1. Truth (Intro Video)
2. Nowhere Now
3. Pariah
4. Home Invasion
5. Regret #9
6. The Creator Has A Mastertape
7. Refuge
8. People Who Eat Darkness
9. Ancestral
10. Arriving Somewhere But Not Here

Disc 2.
1. Permanating
2. Song Of I
3. Lazarus
4. Detonation
5. The Same Asylum As Before
6. Heartattack In A Layby
7. Vermillioncore
8. Sleep Together
9. Even Less
10. The Sound Of Muzak
11. Song Of Unborng

Comments: This is one of two recordings I made of this show. The sound quality was really awesome where I was sitting/standing. However, there are a few spots that had to be patched from the other recording. There are two patches of about 10 seconds in "Nowhere Now" and one in "Pariah" where there were skips in the recording (which really shouldn't happen on a digital recording). Also, the first minute and a half or so of "Arriving Somewhere But Not Here" was patched. The iPhone refused to recognize the mic's when I started recording for the 2nd set. I had to reboot the phone, which I probably should have done in the first place as that was probably the cause of the skips as well. Live and learn! This is why I usually run two rigs when I am doing experimental stuff like using my iPhone as a recording device! (The other recording was recorded using an iPhone as well, but that was from a clean reboot and didn't have any problems).

I decided to post this one over the AT831 source because I believe that most people will like this one better. I actually like the other one more, but the part where we were forced to stand didn't come out as good on that one, and the sound is more consistent throughout on this one. I think they both sound great overall, and I might be inclined to post the other want later if there is a demand for it. Overall, I enjoyed this show more than the Albany one. Usually, The Egg is the venue of choice but for whatever reason I think they sounded better here, and the show flowed better as well. There was a tight time constrain at Berklee, and Steven's between song banter benefited from the brevity! This is a full eleven minutes shorter with the same amount of songs. "Heartattack" in place of "Raven" saves 4 minutes but the other seven came from the shorter speeches. In fact, the "Permanating" intro was only about 2 1/2 minutes here compared to about 6 1/2 at Albany (for a 4 minute song).