OMFS! Best TMG show ever. ~ 90 mins. 2 encores. #1 = No Children & This Year (massive sing-along). #2 = Broom People & The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton + John crowd surfing across Ottobar to me. I held his hand and helped him down then he ran back to stage. He said "thanks for being one of the best crowds I've ever played to." Insanity. I recorded.

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Soooooooooo many thanks to the person who sold me their ticket!
Amazing show!
Megafaun was a blast!
Love the older tMG songs with the full band.
Can't wait to see them with Bright Eyes!



Edit: Anyone remember the setlist? / Was anyone taping?



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All in all an incredible night. He played "Alpha Omega" at my partner's request. He acknowledged when I requested "Scream Bloody Gore" ("I wish I could play Scream Bloody Gore that would be awesome!". Also I was the one that allegedly shouted "Moral Sabbath". (I was actually requesting "The War On Sadness" from pph's solo album).

Baltimore crowds really are the best. I've never been to a Baltimore show with a disappointing audience. It's one of the things that makes me still glad to live in this state.

Holy shit, that has got to be one of the most mindblowing shows EVER. Great set, John crowdsurfing was BAMF, and talked to John after words plus got one of John Ws drumheads. SUCH a great evening! Gotta love the Moral Goats

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Incredible show! Learninghowtobreathe was kind enough to give me one of his drum heads, and out of all the shows I've been to this was the best. Seriously one of the most amazing nights of my life.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/15/2011 02:44AM by Enid_Coleslaw.

Currently regretting not making the short drive to Baltimore for this. "Eh, one show on this tour will be good enough"= false. Oh well, DC was a good show, too. But no JD crowdsurfing. Jealous.

yeah, over the years i have seen several different types of goats shows. the first was john+peter playing at vinyl fever in tallahassee. there was the solo acoustic show in orlando last year... i think this really topped all for me.

my recording sounds great overall. sadly my mic inputs have been sort of acting up, and at times i lose one channel and need to adjust the plug. i try to monitor it during the show but you can only look down at the screen so much and not miss the entire show. i will clean it up and get it shared asap. and after this, i'm def buying a new recorder. tired of this crud.

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Megafaun was a blast!

haiku for a thought just a minute ago
crossing my fingers
hoping the band name
megafun does not exist

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absolutely the best show i've been to in a long, long time. the dc show was good but this was infinitely greater. megafaun were awesome, the setlist was amazing. family happiness was so intense. and john crowd surfing at the end just completed the night. a night that will stay with me for the rest of my life.

My god, also, Alpha Omega was awesome.

Did anyone record the setlist? I can't quite remember all of it. The whole night is such a blur.

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ditto on set list. and goddamn -- alpha omega? would have traded pittsburgh's golden boy for this.

JD also gave a really satisfying explanation of Never Quite Free that answered everyones questions about the song.

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Could I ask what the explanation was? I'm curious about his intent with that song.

I actually don't recall the explanation at the ottobar, but last night at the philly show he said something about how you can work for years to heal old wounds from your past - like a snake shedding its skin...but you will always have some remnants left behind.

Btw, the ottobar show was ecstatically awesomely great. Something about the small club and the energy of the crowd seemed to ignite john and the band - especially the dancing couple right behind me(i was at the stage front and center) - john said he loved to see the dancing, and that inspired the crowd all the more, and in turn the band..and a crazy near moshpit vibe pulsed throughout the show. Incredible show!

He talked about how everybody had some demon, and everyone had some wounds. And people turn to music (they either play music or come to shows) to open those wounds back up again and watch them bleed for a while. And we tell each other "oh, it's normal for yours to bleed that much, mine does that too"... But all in all, you can never really close those wounds. And then he started playing never quite free.

I know a bunch of people were interpreting that song as optimistic, but, well, he appears to have written it with different intent. Again, you can always take a song to mean what you want it to mean.

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I just saw the setlist posted on the setlist wiki website and cannot believe it is accurate....

Recording: http://np.cyanidebreathmint.net/2011/04/16/the-mountain-goats-april-14-2011-ottobar-baltimore-md/

full setlist:

01) Liza Forever Minnelli
02) Southwood Plantation Road
03) Dinu Lapatti's Bones
04) Estate Sale Sign
05) Minnesota
06) Family Happiness
07) Outer Scorpion Squadron
08) Cheshire County
09) You Were Cool
10) Alpha Omega
11) Going To Jamaica
12) You Or Your Memory
13) Seeing Daylight
14) For Charles Bronson
15) Prowl Great Cain
16) Age of Kings
17) Damn These Vampires
18) Never Quite Free
19) Palmcorder Yajna

--Encore 1--
20) No Children
21) This Year

--Encore 2--
22) Broom People
23) The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton

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GOING TO JAMAICA!? holy fuck. mannnnnn jealous.

Thanks breathmint.

My partner and I are poised to partake in the pleasure of perusing breathmint's recording before retiring for the evening. But before we relive the show, some thoughts. Oh my god, that was an incredible night! When JD heard my cry and played Alpha Omega, I melted. <3 I've heard a fair number of tMG shows from archive.org, but experiencing -this show- first-hand was beyond surreal, and I don't think it's just because it was my first time seeing them. Heck, I even enjoyed the opening act. I was the joyfully enthusiastic six-foot tall girl with the red bow and grey flannel shirt near the-center right of the front half, I may have seen/talked to a couple of you . Everything about the show just blew my mind, and Peter Hughes singing more during the second half of the night was very, very pleasing.

Edit: Hee, sounds good so far! Thanks, breathmint~



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enjoy all :]

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Thank you so much for making this available. Having a recording of one of the best concert experiences of my life is almost too good to be true!

Thanks so much breathmint! Yeah it was an awesome show!

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thank you oh so much for the recording breathmint. i have the memory of the concert and now i can listen to it anytime i want and that is just awesome!