LR Solo Acoustic Songs Tour
 

LR Solo Acoustic Songs Tour - Europe Oct/Nov 2014.
While the members of The Dust are scattered to the four winds for a little while, I’m undertaking a solo acoustic tour in Europe. The plan is to play selections from the two albums, some covers and hopefully some of the new songs I’m currently working on, and to play them as most of them originated – on acoustic guitars, in stripped down style. Guitar and voice, little or no fuzz. Anyway that’s the plan right now, this will be a further ‘acoustic experiment’ for me. We’ve sought out small capacity, intimate venues with good acoustics for these shows. Hope to see some of you along the way–
LR NYC Aug2014

Here are the dates, info links coming soon:
Oct 18 PT Lisbon – St George Church Lisbon – ZDB show
Oct 19 PT Braga – Salão Medieval da Reitoria da UM - GNRation show
Oct 23 UK London – Café Oto (Link: http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/lee-ranaldo.shtm)
Oct 24 IR Dublin – Bello Bar
Oct 25 IR Waterford – St Patrick’s United Church
Oct 27 GR Athens – Ls Parnas
Oct 28 IT Milano – Biko
Oct 29 IT Roma – Chiesa Evangelica Metodista
Oct 30 FR Vendôme – Rockomotives Festival / Chapelle St Jacques
Oct 31 FR Nantes – Soy Festival / Le Chateau des Ducs de Bretagne
Nov 1 FR Toulouse – Les Abattoirs
Nov 2 FR Grenoble Le Ciel
Nov 3 MC Monaco Villa Paloma at NMNM

You lucky European motherfuckers! :eek:

The Cafe Oto gig is on my birthday, also known as Weird Al's birthday. Also known as Pele's birthday. Also known as Dale Crover's birthday.

If you're going I'm cycling to Cafe Oto and wait for you outside so I won't disturb the acoustic gig. I promise to take my shoes off too.

Dale's birthday, all right! Pelé, on the other hand, has become an unsufferable asshole - not as bad as Maradona, but still...

Why are so many artists keen on doing an acoustic record and tour?
Acoustic songs are often pretty boring.
I hope Lee proves me wrong on this one.

It's the take my bedroom to the stage thing.
And in your bedroom you sleep, fuck and play boring sad songs.
Most people aren't Annie Sprinkle so it leaves you sleeping while Lee touches his acoustic.

it is a cheaper tour. acoustic guitars, some strings, wireless mike, done. much easier logistically than taking a full electric band.

unless it's going to be the same as the J Mascis solo tour, which set started pretty much acoustic, until he pressed his pedals

is there any chance some more dates will be added, closer to the more important countries of Europe? :D

See you at OTO!

Monaco, fancy!

Maybe Steve is busy

Looks like itll be a great little tour!

Why does Ireland get two gigs? You need come up north in England, Lee! Please add Manchester or Birmingham next time :)

Maybe they only accept acoustic Lee in that County cuz of all the Crystal

the Union Pool date now has support by Tall Firs and Metal Mountains

Cool poster. 'sup with Lee and Italy anyways?

You lucky Middle European motherfuckers! Too often people here in Northern Europe get nothing...

He likes me. I'm a good guy.

...except for a truckload of those "black metal" numbers. Sad, indeed...

Yeah! Thank god we have Circle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mmzhkvwneQ) and Pharaoh Overlord (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HJXfO626wE)!

Yeah, no, y'know, I wasn't being facetious - I DO think that's unfortunate. But hey, more power to ya...

When/where is Lees solo acoustic recordings coming out?

Appartently it'll be digitially available 13/10, with a CD- and LP-release shortly thereafter: http://www.elsegell.com/home/en
Love the cover btw!

nice concert in lisbon. with acoustic guitar he's kind of a story teller. but in some moments some electric exploration would be welcome. the church where he palyed has a great acoustic , i think he didn't need the guitar amplified, or to much amplified , sometimes the sound was to loud and mess with the acoustic.
he's was very talking, between songs he explained there meaning, talk about his career, was like a friend who came to our house with a guitar.
in the first set a minimal experimental exploration with margarida garcia (electric upright bass ) + manuel mota (guitar), great portugese improvisers who knew to explore the sound in the context of the place.
They played one dark bluesy composition, with a nice balance between silence and noise.
here are some nice photos :

http://www.faroutandbeyond.com/

hi all! how you've been! it's been some time, since i typed something here. glad to be back again. hope you're all o.k.

amazing 2 shows in Ireland. thanks very much to whoever organized it and also thanks to Lee for coming to play. really intimate acoustic session with tiny bit of fuzz. it is always pleasure to see Lee playing. he's pretty much alive, still kicking nice gems. seriously true artist now. i am glad i could say halo to him.

i liked both gigs, Dublin one was in a little venue/bar and Waterford in church, which was really cool. i have recorded both gigs. if any interest let me know and i will gladly upload them on here if you want.

here's Dublin's setlist (24/10/14)

TNC
OTW
K/H
ANGLES
LNOE
HOME
AMB
REVBL
RISING TIDE
LECCE
HAMMER
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XTINA
SHOUTS

Waterford set was little bit different, some different songs and different cover. i will post it later. sorry, just woke up so...

Hello! Good to see you back here :)

I'd really love to hear both recordings that you made...

hi Stu!! hows things?

unedited WAV 48kHz/24bit files. enjoy! feel free to edit it and up it on Dime. seems like my acc. was closed. :-( my fault.

Files (1.51 GB total)
Lee Ranaldo, 24-10-14, Bello Bar, Dublin, Ireland.wav
https://www.wetransfer.com/downloads...6120410/af1e4e

Files (1.41 GB total)
Lee Ranaldo, 25-10-14, St. Patrick's Gateway, Waterford, Ireland.wav
https://www.wetransfer.com/downloads...6124156/3d1937

Will be deleted on
2 November, 2014

uhmm, i think second recording turn out to be better, probably because of church setting and its acoustics. needs a bit of amplification i think, whereas first one needs to be normalized. recorded on Zoom H2.

Hey thanks for posting the recordings. Shows so far have been really fun, given I've never really done this before! That church in Waterford had such great acoustics, that was a really fun show. We've been recording most of these shows as well, but certainly great to have these recordings too - thanks for posting and nice t see you---
Lee

Hey Lee,

great to see you replying here, are there any plans with the recordings you've been doing? Live album, DVD,...?

I've seen the OTO gig on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBgjG...yJ-fLMACGQus9g

seems I was wrong before and this looks pretty cool

thanks Lee!
such a gentleman.
hope to see you live soon.

richard.

have to mention--by the way-- i can see how song Rats (acoustic version) fully fit into these sets as well. such a great riff.

Yes it was my intention to work up that acoustic version of Rats, and maybe Wishfulfillment and a couple others but life got in the way - the month before this tour started was crazy w a bunch of unexpected things... Hopefully I'll be able to pull them out in the future... I hope to do some US dates at some point... The 'second half' of our tour starts tomorrow here in Athens!

We've been recording many of the shows - but as the 'Acoustic Dust' album just came out (selling CDs at the shows, vinyl hits Nov 10) I'm not sure there's any other immediate acoustic release plans...

LR

got the cd on the show. very good recording. shoot....did not know about vinyl version coming out!

Wishfulfillment? that would be just too much to take. don't spoil us that much Lee. ;-)

thanks for responding Lee, hope to talk to you again someday in Belgium ;)

Lovely show in Milan, even if the location wasn't as special as in other dates of this tour.



Such a gentleman indeed, as greenlight said.
Oh, I forgot to ask about this after the show, but what about those TV cameras (I saw them going inside while I was waiting in line to get in, but I didn't notice them near the stage till the very last song)? I saw RAI's (italy's national public broadcasting company) logos on them, so perhaps they were there just to get some short footage for a TV News program.

For those interested in gear/his setup for this tour, here's what (I think) he used on stage:

Radial - J48

Tech 21 - SansAmp Para Driver DI
TC Electronic - Polytune mini
Ibanez - AD80
Sarno Music Solutions - Earth Drive
TC Electronic Ditto - Looper x2

Lee At Grenoble on November 2nd ! Good very very good show
Thanks Lee!!!!!!!!


Key/Hole
Tomorrow Never Comes
Shouts
Angles
Last Night On Earth
Stranded
Karenology
Home Chds
Ambulancer
The Rising Tide
Revolution Blues (Neil Young cover)
Lecce, Leaving
Off The Wall
Xtina As I Knew Her
Late Descent #2

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