Yeah, this month it’s another UStream recording, but this one’s got more robots! I’ve been changing my entire live setup to try and bring back the robot drummer, so this month’s recording is the first step in that direction. Sure, I’d love to use a real drummer, but I’m working on that!

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Matthew Ebel Live via UStream, August 2010 – 63.6 MB MP3

(Also available as individual tracks.) – 63.8 MB ZIP

More technical woes hit me in July, devouring two live-with-a-huge-audience concerts before I realized what the weak link was. Fortunately, I had two audiences for this recording. One online chat room full of people, and one enormous cat getting comfortable right on my sustain pedal.

The robot revolt wasn’t through with me yet, however… I apparently overloaded my USB bus by running both UStream cameras and all my MIDI controllers on the same hub. Halfway through the concert, things started to go very, very wrong.

We all make mistakes, I guess, and these are some I can learn from!

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Matthew Ebel Live via UStream, July 2010 – 54 MB MP3

(Also available as individual tracks.) – 54 MB ZIP

What the heck could make me travel to New Jersey twice in one year? My awesome fans, of course. This time it was the crowd at FA United in Mt. Laurel that invited me out to rock the convention. Unfortunately, the robots gave me a bit of trouble during the live recording, but in the end I managed to salvage enough to put together this month’s release.

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Matthew Ebel Live at FAU 2010 – 80 MB MP3

(Also available as individual tracks.) – 80 MB ZIP

Once again it’s house concert time, only this time it’s not a house. In fact, it’s something I’d never heard of before. Anyone ever seen a yurt? Well, now I have. And I rocked one. Victoria and Carrie both graduated from Nursing school and wanted me to play their graduation party. In a yurt. How could I pass that up?

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Matthew Ebel Live from a Yurt – 103 MB MP3

(Also available as individual tracks.) – 103 MB ZIP

In the early part of April I was flown out to the Buckeye State for back-to-back house concerts. I recorded both the Marple house concert and the Parker house concert, but this one just turned out better (read: my voice sounded a lot better on the second night). Even though there were a lot of technical difficulties with the recording (like forgetting to turn on the crowd recorded, for one), I think it really captured the vibe of the two Ohio concerts very well.

Many, many thanks to the Parkers for flying me out to their part of the world and the Marples for loaning me a keyboard and a place to sleep both nights. As I’m fond of saying, I have the best fans ever invented!

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Matthew Ebel Live at the Parker House – 103 MB MP3

(Also available as individual tracks.) – 103 MB ZIP