Collected Animals • Avey Tare at The Mothlight (Asheville, NC) - April 4

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Post **Posted:** Thu May 11, 2017 2:46 pm

i hope he records this shit!!! DAMN!!! YALL ABOUT TO JINX IT I WANTED RECORDED 2011 JAMS

Post **Posted:** Sat Mar 09, 2019 7:04 pm

Red light water show reminds me of playpen

Post **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2020 9:12 pm

Avey just dropped a soundboard recording of this show

[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/anmlcollective/avey-tare-live-at-the-mothlight-04-04-17[/soundcloud]

Post **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2020 9:40 pm

O M G
Betty was a Doctor, huh

Post **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2020 10:26 pm

oh this is so great but i gotta say the archivist in me is annoyed by Sew Happy being separately titled from HORS_...

Post **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2020 10:44 pm

This Midnight Special is legendary and I’m so fucking happy we have it in better quality now, bless

Post **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2020 4:20 am

did he hear our cries for OG midnight special? spoiling the fans as always, thanx ave'

sew happy is totally the cousin of tomboy

Post **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2020 7:08 pm

Damn, that Uncle Donut is insanely delightfully unhinged!

Post **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:18 pm

https://aveytare.bandcamp.com/album/liv ... ril-4-2017

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Post **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:44 pm

Thanks JFW7! Buying that pronto

Post **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2020 9:21 pm

i know there have been big fans of this boot from day one but i gotta say that a lossless soundboard elevates this to absolute top tier

Post **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2020 9:43 pm

Post **Posted:** Sat Mar 21, 2020 1:13 am

cody wrote:

sew happy is totally the cousin of tomboy

Absoltely

I am loving this so much, very glad it's on bandcamp

Post **Posted:** Sat Mar 21, 2020 6:07 am

I will buy this for one thousand dollars.

This is the greatest thing that's happened this year.

Post **Posted:** Mon Mar 23, 2020 6:26 pm

this is a legendary show, the sound quality of this recording is amazing, the songs all sound MUCH better than the studio versions, I'm so so so so so glad this exists right now THANK YOU AVEY

Post **Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:12 pm

Post **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:15 am

I remember chatting with Dave on IG about this show and this is when he gave me the names to the songs! I was sew happy when I saw him drop this and honest to god I wish this would go vinyl! There’s literally 3 different versions of see happy/hors and everyone of them are so damn good!

Post **Posted:** Sat Apr 04, 2020 9:13 pm

it's funny, i was insane about the original midnight special boot and thought the studio version lost some of the magic, but listening to this soundboard version makes me think the low quality boot kind of added to the mystery because the soundboard and studio versions sound more similar to me.

Post **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2020 5:31 pm

You're not wrong. Still much prefer the Mothlight version but they sound a lot closer than I would've wagered.

Post **Posted:** Mon Apr 06, 2020 2:19 am

That's what I've been saying, half the "magic" you get from boots is because it's lo-fi and blown out and you fill in the gaps in your head

Post **Posted:** Tue Apr 07, 2020 3:59 pm

yeah ngl I feel like this just solidified my belief that the album version of all these songs was all i needed. really awesome performance but this fandom is funny because we pick weird favs and obsess over the really deep cuts like this and PBvsGR demos, when to me the studio versions really are more preferable and more rewarding over a bunch of listens. like Sew Happy here sounds way better lofi or studio - to me

Post **Posted:** Tue Apr 07, 2020 4:08 pm

yall talk this mess...but taken boy...that's not unfounded demoitis

Post **Posted:** Tue Apr 07, 2020 4:54 pm

preacherben wrote:

yeah ngl I feel like this just solidified my belief that the album version of all these songs was all i needed. really awesome performance but this fandom is funny because we pick weird favs and obsess over the really deep cuts like this and PBvsGR demos, when to me the studio versions really are more preferable and more rewarding over a bunch of listens. like Sew Happy here sounds way better lofi or studio - to me

i can understand the argument about listening preferences. i personally don't love soundboards because the crowd noise is an important part of a boot for me and not hearing it makes the pacing weird. same for the demos, combined with have a slightly improved energy / lack of commitment since it's not a true performance maybe?

a really important point though is that people obsessed with the grim reaper ATP boots and the mothlight recordings as soon as they came out, so having a higher fidelity version available a few years later was like magical wish granting. combine that with the tiny glimpse into PB songwriting with the slight lyrical changes on the demos (seriously you never ever hear him changing words!) and it's a no-brainer for why the fandom is so interested. i don't think you see the same universal devotion to high-quality soundboards of other arbitrary shows that the band's released.

Post **Posted:** Wed Apr 08, 2020 9:57 pm

I feel like I have reverse demoitis with this - when I heard the original boot I enjoyed it but didn't listen too much or get attached, but now listening to this Midnight Special I feel like that strummy visiting friends/always you quality to the live version was totally lost in the studio in a way that changed the entire song for me. and Sew Happy is pretty much a completely different song from HORS and I prefer it. kinda wish this boot was just the album tbh

Post **Posted:** Thu Apr 09, 2020 5:15 pm

the studio lost the vocals of the original midnight special. unironically, check out the midnight special from brooklyn recently. holy fuck, he recaptured the mothlight beauty and went further with it, making it like 10 mintues AND he screams ITS THRILLING ME NOWWWW like he does. in studio it's a nice chilled out atmospheric song but originally the way he performed it was just so cathartic which i think is the case for a lot of ac's mellow songs, like 2004 loch raven was chill but had the werewolf vocals over it the entire time.

Post **Posted:** Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:35 pm

Taken Boy was 10000% better at Mothlight over studio, for sure. No argument there.

Post **Posted:** Fri Apr 10, 2020 4:22 pm

coral lord wrote:

Taken Boy was 10000% better at Mothlight over studio, for sure. at least one argument there.

having heard studio taken boy first, i find the mothlight version's beat too distracting (too overpowering in the mix, but i'm sure a live mix is harder to really tweak) and makes the song seem more static, linear & almost unfinished to my ears.

Post **Posted:** Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:45 am

You're right. Out of all the songs here, Taken Boy sounds the most 'bare idea sang over a loop'. I would say everything from this set except Midnight Special sounds better in studio

Post **Posted:** Sat Apr 11, 2020 7:36 pm

If the finished product of Taken Boy didn’t sound even more bare to me, I’d agree with you!

Post **Posted:** Mon Apr 20, 2020 3:43 pm

When that beat comes

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Post **Posted:** Fri Jun 19, 2020 3:10 am

This hurts. Such a sad day for independent art.

Post **Posted:** Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:45 pm

Fuckkkkk

Post **Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2021 9:16 am

Listening to this again now I've turned the corner from being absolutely cunted by Covid and I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes, what a joyful and intense performance of Midnight Special this is. So lucky to have this, these scratchy, brooding chords that swell up perfectly with the vocals. Christ to fuck. Yes.

Post **Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2021 10:22 am

one of the goat live albums from any artist

Post **Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2021 11:01 am

Happy to hear you're recovering Stan! And yeah this performance is a complete classic, especially live this version of HORS

Post **Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2021 11:56 am

this and the panda boots from 2013 and 2017 are my favorite AC-related things in the 2010s. funny how that works.

Post **Posted:** Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:00 am

Uncle Donut is scary, at its scariest here

"I'm gonna get outta here man this place is fuckin CRAZY"

Post **Posted:** Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:45 am

Fovrodi wrote:

Uncle Donut is scary, at its scariest here

"I'm gonna get outta here man this place is fuckin CRAZY"

Put this on got real high and took my dog for a walk, I wanted to run with him at the end like we used to and Uncle Donut was playing while we ran, perfect song for it lol

Post **Posted:** Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:52 pm

What's your dog name