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Lethrneck4 09.20.2007 05:29 PM

MISSION OF BURMA - new haven, CT and nothampton, MA
 
the mighty BURMA are playing toads tonite, ill let ya know how its gonna be in advance...awesome! theyre also playin Pearl Street in northampton,ma tomorrow night, hopin to catch them then also. has anyone seen Burma recently? its been a few years for me (BLASPHEMY!), haha but i cant wait for tonite. i havent heard any of the songs from The Obliterati live yet, im sure they have even newer songs to play also...but i hope they play a lot of old songs.

BURMA!:cool:

drrrtyboots 09.20.2007 05:39 PM

I saw them back in January last and they were amazing, of course. They're still playing really great sets of plenty plenty plenty of old and a couple of new songs. And, as always, EARPLUGS.

dazedcola 09.20.2007 08:05 PM

hell yea man, im going to be at the northampton show tomorrow night. Im gonna be taping too. Tell us how the show was tonight when you come back.

Lethrneck4 09.21.2007 01:34 AM

just got back...fucking awesome. 2 sets...lots of old songs, some obliterati and OnOffOn songs, and 3, what they called "world premiere" songs, haha...oh yeah, all 3 of those were sick too. they didnt give names for any of the new songs, but the first was really spacy and trippy, esp for burma. the other 2 i remember were a lot heavier. millers got a great fuzz pedal and ive never heard a tremolo sound as great as his did tonite. i got a bunch of pics ill post below. fucking awesome to hear Dirt and thats how i escaped my certain fate, i love those 2 songs. i also got a good video of Trem Two ill have up on youtube soon, ill psot the link here when its up. cool to here you are going to the northampton show, i may take the hour drive up....taping too huh? ill need a copy of that, if you please....

i have no idea what the setlist was...i remember certain fate, mica, trem two, dirt, donna sumaria, they kicked out hendrix's spanish castle magic, academy, lots more, im too stoned to remember them, haha, maybe someone else willl











 







 









 









 

Lethrneck4 09.21.2007 01:36 AM

 

 

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Pax Americana 09.21.2007 12:56 PM

Jealous. I've never had the opportunity to see Burma, and they're one of my favorites. Nice pics, by the way. Clint looks like he needs some anti-perspirant like now.

Lethrneck4 09.21.2007 02:19 PM

heres the link to the video i shot last night of Trem Two, came out great

YouTube - MISSION OF BURMA - Trem Two - New Haven, CT - 9/20/2007

SpectralJulianIsNotDead 09.21.2007 05:16 PM

Sweet man.

I wanna see Burma so bad.

Any idea what fuzz pedal?

Lethrneck4 09.22.2007 02:00 PM

saw Burma again last night in Northampton, another great show, even better than the Toads show the night before. setlist was pretty similar from what i remember, they even play The Setup which is such a great live song, so energetic and explosive, i love it..i actually found this article written by burma guitarist roger miller about his fuzz box and tremolo, pretty interesting story, its below...

hopin dazed was there to tape that greatness....


Vacu-Fuzz and Vacu-Trem
I have always been involved with fuzztones (brother Ben Miller used an "Arbiter Fuzz-face", the type Hendrix used, in Sproton Layer). When I came to Boston, I had an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi unit. It broke, and when I tried to buy a new one I found that they had altered the components: now when you hit the pedal, the volume dropped. I was at a loss in early Burma.
Lou Giordano was a big fan from early on (I believe it is his semi-afro-haired sillouette on the back of the Acad/Max single). He was in an MIT band called The Vacuum Heads (no air-heads in that band). They were so-so, but we all liked Lou's attitude. (He later produced the TAANG! tapes for release, and is a well-known producer: LIVE, Bob Mould, Fiona Apple, etc.) When he heard what I was looking for, he delved into his MIT electronic engineering chops and took apart a Big Muff Pi. He then proceeded to hyperize every component and enclose it in a metal box that could withstand a direct hit from a bomb. (Big Muff on steroids). It was, and still is, an amazing box. Smooth, yet producing exquisite feedback when wanted.

Tremelo units have always been less required: I'd used them off and on in bands I was in for their shimmering quality. My Peavey Amplifier had built in tremelo, and early on Clint wrote "Tremelo", thereby making a tremelo effect mandatory (we couldn't do the song without it's pulse). When the Peavey amp mercifully died, I chose a 50 watt Marshall amp - which had no tremelo. Again, Lou Giordano to the rescue. In the same type of "hit me with a bomb, I couldn't care less" metal box, he built a hyper tremelo unit. The two parameters, speed and intensity, were both maxed out. My later song, "Trem II", was at a slow speed setting w/the intensity on full (becoming a strong on/off pulse). Lou had maxed the speed and intensity so far out that at levels of "11" or higher, it sounds as if 3 or 4 chords are piled on top of each other about 1/16 step apart. Possibly used that effect on "Sing Along." In early 1990 I asked Bob Weston to modify the unit: he altered a foot pedal to function as a speed control. It is difficult to deal with live (I'd rather run around), but it has interesting potential in a studio setting.
It is worth noting that, in keeping with a certain post-punk minimalism, both these effects only modify gain structure: tremelo turns volume off and on, and distortion unit piles one gain on top of another gain.

(RM)

drrrtyboots 09.22.2007 02:05 PM

Roger Miller's sense of style is stunning. He's worn those pants both time's i've seen them and even the matching shirt. Waaay ahead of its time...

Lethrneck4 09.22.2007 05:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drrrtyboots
Roger Miller's sense of style is stunning. He's worn those pants both time's i've seen them and even the matching shirt. Waaay ahead of its time...



haha, i said that to my buddy last night....he wore the pants last night in northampton thay matched the shirt he wore for the new haven show, hahaa...i thought only i noticed that;) :D

drrrtyboots 09.23.2007 10:23 AM

No way, i'm a huge fashion enthusiast when it comes to old men and their ear-shattering bands.

dazedcola 09.23.2007 11:26 AM

hey friday night was a great fucking show.They seemed really on their game, every song rocked the room.Was really happy to see Nancy Reagan's head, dirt, spider's web and academy fight song in the set.

I taped the show up in the middle front, leatherneck were u taking pictures that night too? were you moving around earlier trying to get shots? If so you walked right past me.

anyway heres the show, pass it around and enjoy

Track 1
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ddq90l
Track 2
http://www.sendspace.com/file/xotkke
Track 4
http://www.sendspace.com/file/8jweh2
Track 3
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3c4zac
Track 5
http://www.sendspace.com/file/uikcnt
Track 6
http://www.sendspace.com/file/0pxknu
Track 7
http://www.sendspace.com/file/zk4ynp
Track 8
http://www.sendspace.com/file/vs1d5c
Track 9
http://www.sendspace.com/file/xod3hs
Track 10
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ls4jcf
Track 11
http://www.sendspace.com/file/vlud90
Track 12
http://www.sendspace.com/file/hevar8
Track 13
http://www.sendspace.com/file/lp9xhp
Track 14
http://www.sendspace.com/file/tt90r4
Track 15
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ruakcy
Track 16
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3r2lab
Track 17
http://www.sendspace.com/file/v9jnsl
Track 18
http://www.sendspace.com/file/it611o

Lethrneck4 09.23.2007 11:44 AM

hey man, glad to hear ya taped te show..nah, i didnt end up taking my camera to the northampton show, i always seem to get shutdown takin pictures there by security, didnt want the hassle that night. i was off to clints side for the whole show. wtf was that room? ive been to a bunch of shows at pearl street, always upstairs though. great show, great night, kinda bummed to see so few people there, in burmas home state. they didnt let it bother them though. the fans who were there were great, very into the show and full fo energy. thanks for tapin it, cant wait to hear it

Lethrneck4 09.27.2007 11:00 AM

thanks again for uploadin the show dazedcola, sounds great

sonicl 09.28.2007 06:19 AM

They're playing in the UK in November. There are tickets on sale for dates in Bristol and Glasgow, with three or four days between the two. Hopefully a London date will get slotted into those few days.

LittlePuppetBoy 09.29.2007 03:34 PM

can they please come to Canada?


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