This show is not on the archive and really should be. If your recording is listenable you should upload it there- Secretly Canadian has given full permission to upload but prefers lossless recordings. I'd love if Josh Van Horne would put this gem of a show up from the uncompressed cam audio. There are only 69 live recordings up there from a man who played so many shows and won't be playing anymore. It would be a shame to lose all that music and only the tapers can keep it alive. The dark sounding parts of this show are spine tinglingly moving. Didn't it rain , didn't it rain.....
Hey, the video is all I had and it's a miracle that it survived 10 years and many different hard drive transfers/computer crashes. Wish I had uncompressed audio, but this 240p video is as good as I can offer. Cheers.
My old band opened this show, which to this day is one of the coolest shows I've played. It was one of the best times I saw Jason Molina. Got to hang out with him a little while before the show itself and he was a really genuinely nice, if somewhat shy and awkward guy.
OH MY GAWD! My friend and I saw this show. I taped the audio with my Sony walkman. The sound isn't bad. I never thought anyone had video. The show originally had been set for the nearby Twisters club (maybe it was called the 929 Cafe by then) and my friend and I ran into Molina outside the venue just as he was packing stuff back in his car and he let us know that for some reason the show had been moved to the VCU Commons. Our loss has left me gutted but this lifts my spirits. Thanks so much.
Perfect set. This is the good stuff. Ring the Bell to Don't This Look Like the Dark. Can't believe he didn't make it. Can't believe he didn't become the biggest act and sell out stadiums. Nobody comes close.
Sometimes, when you lack the motivation to go out & check out a band you havent heard of, watch this. There's always a chance it could be a Songs: Ohio. And that you might be missing the unchecked genius of a JM.
It's an interesting line up for sure. I once saw MECo. as a 3 piece, with Pete on Drums & Michael Kapinus on keyboard/trumpet, that was kind of cool to see something different.
Makes me wonder how many students in that audience, wish now, they had been able to feel the vibe of that great performance. Didn't know what they had right there with them.
@@christerry4795 really -- I'm 63 and that was an absurd statement -- Sound like the other writer was the one "feeling the vibe: - and so can only old people "get it." because they are wise or have figured it out? Haha. I wish. I was so moved by great music in my teens and 20s and I got the message behind the song. We shouldn't underestimate a listeners abilities == if it's good. and this is.
It was called Nanci Raygun by this point, because right before the last song Jason says for everyone to join him after the show for a party at Nanci Raygun. Apparently VCU wanted 10% of the money they got for merch, and Jason said fuck that.
I hope Alejandro Escovedo lands on this video some day. I feel like he'd definitely appreciate it. R.I.P. Jason. We're still wearing grooves in your albums buddy.
I know it's been 7 years... but you can find websites that will download youtube videos, search "download youtube" or something in google, think you can do just audio too.
Genius. The cutting irony of playing at a University of smart people (debt slaves), and saying that he'll donate 10% of his sales that night to the university... to dead silence.. says it all to me.
Is your audio better than the video's (which is pretty good)? Can you sort it out out with Josh Vh? Jason is precious. He should be heard with the best fidelity.
You song writing capabilities are awesome, but the live performance is lacking personnel connection with the masses. You speak to a very small but comfortable market. But there is diffidently talent there and heart.
''...lacking personnel connection with the masses.'' and you talk of market? What the hell is this about.... Being there and singing with his heart and soul, is more then enough, dont you think? These are things we all have, that is our connection. We are all connected. Stop it with the masses bullshit.
