Rainer Maria "CT Catholic" from Long Knives Drawn Live at Club 770 Madison, WI Mar 24, 2006 PODCAST EXCLUSIVE!

During the opening sets, the stage lights were unusually bright for Club 770. If you've seen some of my other clips from there (particularly Of Montreal and Divide By Zero) you might have noticed the dark red cast that is ever-present in them. For MadisonFest, the lights were on, bright and full-spectrum, which was too much for Rainer Maria. They spent a few minutes at the top of their set finding out that Club 770's light don't really "dim," per se, they just go on or off or turned in a different direction. They ultimately found a solution that worked to a) not blind them, b) allow their drummer to see what he was doing, and c) not have them in full upstage darkness. Kyle Fischer wound up almost completely unlit, unfortunately, but I think I tweaked the clips enough that you can still kind of see him.