Hope Sandoval

AUDIO of the complete show recorded at The Neptune Theatre by me. 01 [Intro, the band takes the stage] 02 Not All Our Tears, starts at 0:16 03 Salt of The Sea 4:56 04 Around My Smile 9:47 05 Sleep 15:39 06 Day Disguise 20:16 07 That Spider 25:40 08 [@29:52 - unplanned break - Hope quits the stage &doesn;'t return for nearly an hour.Colm comes on stage a few times to explain&reassure; the crowd Hope will return.The "break" is reduced here from approx. 55:00 minutes down to 3:45 to include recordings of Colm & Hope speaking] 09 Trouble 33:26 10 I Thought You'd Fall For Me 39:24 11 Suzanne 44:31 12 Into The Trees 49:24 13 Liquid Lady 57:29, + Hope speaks, &thanks; the crowd for staying during the long break. 14 Let Me Get There 1:03:56 15 Primitive 1:10:59 (The Groupies/Cramps cover), +Hope speaks to the audience,plus, after the song she crouches&reaches; across several feet of "no man's land" empty security area in front of the stage to hand a glass of wine (she had two) to a guy in the audience ,& clinks glasses with him!* Encore: 16 Antiquity 19:55 ........................................................................ After completing her singing parts during the song "That Spider," Hope removed her ear bud monitor while the instrumental section at the end continued, and walked off the stage before it finished, making a sideways back and forth cutting motion with her hand as a sign to the band as she walked off. The band then brought the song to a neat close. Hope's exit was apparently due to a number of stressors: A technical problem with her monitor. Plus, Colm explained from the stage they were all traumatized by the Sonoma wildfires that had killed many people and were still burning, the damage of which they saw up close that week. Colm said the fires came so close to their own tour bus (they played a Sonoma gig Oct. 8, the very night news broke of out-of-control wildfires there) their bus was "nearly engulfed by flames." Also, he said they had to fire their sound crew the day before 'cause "they were useless." This followed a reportedly disastrous Portland show with serious sound and lighting problems. Hope added she'd also just had a "run-in" with someone and the experience "threw [her] off guard." Thankfully, Hope came back to finish the show in fine form (Oh, ye of little faith who gave up and left...you lost out)! I succeeded in recording all the music of the show - except the first song,"Not All Our Tears," which is incomplete. There are three spots in the middle where portions of the song are missing. That's because I got "busted" by security for recording. There were signs at the gig forbidding photography and video, but they did not mention audio recording. Hope hates the distraction & irritation of camera flashes and phones being held up high in the air in front of her. I pointed this out to the guard who did not accept my interpretation of the sign, insisting there was "NO RECORDING." A complete version of "Not All Our Tears" someone else recorded in L.A. is here: https://youtu.be/zkFH9aRgUSk I removed two short portions with the guard's loud voice telling me to put away my recorder. The other missing part is the short time between when I turned off my recorder for the guard's benefit and turned it back on again for mine and yours! Ha. I hid it in my shirt pocket for the duration of the show as it discreetly recorded. I'm not sure how much is missing but I'll guess it's perhaps 30 seconds, approximately. We know the title of the first song, "Not All Our Tears," a song I've never heard before, because printed set lists used on stage have turned with that song title. A lyrics search of lyrics one can hear in the song turn up no known song, so it may be a new, original song by the band. Colm, when he's not playing drums, plays guitar on several songs on this recording. Most notably, he plays lead guitar on the song "Day Disguise." And he, not Hope, plays glockenspiel on "Suzanne." I believe Hope plays glockenspiel on the other songs. Hope seems to forget lyrics during "Antiquity." At one point in it, she starts to sing a line, then stops and goes silent while throwing her hands in the air, as if to say "I forgot the words." She didn't have a screen on stage scrolling lyrics this time The cover of "Primitive" is a song I've never heard HS&TWIs; do before. The on stage photos in the slide show are all from various 2013 shows except Seattle. Only the new thumbnail shows Hope in Seattle as I acquired that pic one Seattle pic only after I'd created the slide show. Close-up pics of Hope on stage here are by Luz Gallardo, Hope's official photographer on this tour. Luz also took all or most of the publicity-style off-stage photos of Hope here. I've upped a number of songs from this gig to my youtube Channel as individual songs if you ant to look them up on my Channel Thanks go to Daniel BadApple Ramirez & Vanessa for sharing their L.A. show pics used here.

• published: 21 Oct 2017
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