YRGM, Tattoo & ATBL - 03-28-2012 Washington, DC Soundboard quality

[VAiN]

[Diamondjimi]

Great find dude!

[Cato]

VAiN for mod!

[ELVIS]

Dave is singing YRGM as if he were being recorded for something, but the band sounds asleep...

[ELVIS]

Tattoo sounds like total shit...

[ELVIS]

ATBL is weak as well...

That was not a good night...

[loucap81]

Pretty sure this is an IEM recording because you wouldn't have that background static on a soundboard. Also, the guy who possesses this (billyshears) is the same guy who teased us with a similar recording for Charlottesville 5/3/08, so what are the odds that he has contacts in both Charlottesville and DC that could get him soundboards. He probably lives somewhere in Virginia between the two cities and has a scanner device. I tried prying the Charlottesville show away from him in 2008 but to no avail.

As far as Elvis' points are concerned, I followed VH for a four show stretch from Atlantic City 3/24 to Pittsburgh 3/30. True it was not a great week for VH, Dave in particular. Something was definitely wrong with him in Atlantic City and he did very little engaging of the crowd and struggled with the lyrics, even for Dave standards. Reading 3/26, he was back to his usual showman self but his voice was probably the worst it was all tour. From the get-go it was obvious he was fighting through something, with "Tattoo" being especially painful:

http://minus.com/lPnYiepEv6Vxw

I thought DC and Pittsburgh were solid, although not awesome shows by usual standards. However, they were very much improved from Atlantic City and Reading. Dave's voice definitely got a lot better in DC two days after Reading.

[minkahed]

The sonic quality is certainly not bad, but maybe the cancellation of concerts that were planned were due in part to Dave's deteriorating voice ?

I don't know, he doesn't sound all that good here, and alot of the you tubes vids I've seen, thus far.

He should see someone and fast if he wants to continue.

Dammit ...