I Dream of Being a Master-booter
Roughly following Gavin's advice, I am prepared to make my own clandestine recordings of the new Decemberists shows. I got one of those flash memory digital recorders from OfficeSlax (I had a big old gift card, so it only cost me $11), and did some tests. I talked a little. Played some guitar. Recorded music from a stereo with and without a microphone, etc. The device in question is tiny--it looks sorta like a little teeny cell phone, so hopefully I won't get noticed. Maybe the microphone clipped to my body will be invisible? Anyway, the tracks clean up real nice in GarageBand, so hopefully I'll have some decent quality shows to offer the other Brigadeers. I just have to decide whether to use the High Quality setting (88 mins) or the middle quality setting (2+ hours). Every live show I have now fits on 1 CD, so that means they're a bit under 80 mins. But I might want to record the whole evening, since Rachel's band, Norfolk & Western is supposed to be there, too.

It was Gavin's joke, BTW.