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| Matt's j-card |
"Live From The Now Frontier"
June 5, 1997
Album Network cassette
01 Cathy Faulkner, Larry Miles, Phil Mahoney - Intro
02 Queensryche - Interview
03 Queensryche - Questions For Queensryche
04 Queensryche - Reach (studio)
05 Queensryche - Interview
06 Queensryche - Miles Away (studio)
07 Cathy Faulkner, Larry Miles, Phil Mahoney - Segment Intro
08 Queensryche - You
09 Queensryche - The Voice Inside
10 Queensryche - Empire
11 Queensryche - Jet City Woman
12 Cathy Faulkner - Break
13 Queensryche - Bridge
14 Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
15 Queensryche - Sign Of The Times
16 Queensryche - I Don't Believe In Love
17 Cathy Faulkner - Break
18 Cathy Faulkner, Larry Miles, Phil Mahoney - Outro (live)
19 Cathy Faulkner, Larry Miles, Phil Mahoney - Credits
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| Sam's J-card |
Flac files of wavs, includes 300 dpi scans of the cassette and j-card.
One version from the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection, the other from Matt's Collection, brought to you by the Collective For Live Music.
While the Guinness Book of Records entry for "Most Isolated Rock Concert Location" goes to Metallica at Carlini Station in Antarctica in 2013, the title was held formerly by this Queensryche show from 1995. Queensryche performed at the Very Large Array, a radio astronomy observatory in the middle of nowhere.
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| The Very Large Array |
Well, not really the middle of nowhere, but on the Plains of St. Augustin in New Mexico at the Very Large Array. You've seen pictures of this place: More than two dozen giant radio dishes stretching out in three directions, covering twenty-two miles, picking up the ethereal electromagnetic traces of quasars, pulsars, and black holes. The site was chosen "because of their isolated location away from large population centers, and the partial shielding effect of the surrounding mountain ranges."
The closest town is Magdalena, NM, twenty miles to the east, with about 1,000 people. Another twenty miles to the west is Datil, a crossroads community with 54 residents.
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| Datil, New Mexico |
All of this is in Socorro County, which in 2025 only has about 16,000 people in a huge area that's larger individually than Rhode Island, Delaware, Puerto Rico, or Connecticut.
I created a graphic to illustrate the size of the place.
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| If Soccoro County were in New Jersey... |
With no one nearby, in a county the size of a state, with a population smaller than your average Rolling Stones stadium gig, where do you find the audience?
You bus them in: "two from Albuquerque, one out of El Paso, one out of Amarillo." It's a six-hour drive to Amarillo, so this wasn't a show for casual fans.
It really was the middle of nowhere. You can hear the desert wind whistle by as they do the interview segments. These days, the Very Large Array website says "There are no food options on-site at the VLA. Please bring adequate food and beverages for your visit. During April-August is generally the warmest months at the VLA, with temperatures ranging from 70℉/20℃ to 95℉/35℃. Please keep in mind the site is at 7000ft/2100m and adequate sun protection & hydration is recommended." That's now, it had to be even less accommodating a location in 1995.
The Album Network brought in a team of disc jockeys from around the country: Cathy Faulkner from Seattle's KISW, Larry Miles from Tucson's KLPX, and Phil Mahoney from New Mexico's 94 Real Rock (KZRR). Faulkner takes the lead role on most of the segments.
As to why they picked a radio astronomy observatory, the answer is "space aliens." While the band never comes right out and says they want to talk to the blubber-slime crab people from Epsilon Eridani, the "X-Files" theme music sprinkled throughout the special gives the game away.
It's a good show. I was not familiar with Queensryche before I chaptered Sam and Matt's cassettes. As one of the later "superfluous umlaut" bands, I had dismissed them as outside my post-punk area of interest. Big mistake on my part, it turns out. I missed a solid hard rock band.
I've included press coverage I found on Newspapers.com.
In the download are two versions, each with a unique j-card. One has ads, the other doesn't.
As it's a big file, I should mention MEGA sometimes stops in the middle of a download. Close the window. Click the link again. You may have to do this many times for a large download, but it will eventually finish the download. The problem does not happen every time. Sometimes it downloads without a problem.
Como es un archivo grande, debo mencionar que MEGA a veces se detiene en medio de una descarga. Cierra la ventana. Haz clic en el enlace nuevamente. Es posible que tengas que hacer esto muchas veces para una descarga grande, pero eventualmente completará la descarga. El problema no ocurre siempre. A veces se descarga sin ningún problema.
Comme il s'agit d'un gros fichier, je dois mentionner que MEGA s'arrête parfois au milieu d'un téléchargement. Fermez la fenêtre. Cliquez à nouveau sur le lien. Il se peut que vous deviez répéter cette opération plusieurs fois pour un gros téléchargement, mais le téléchargement finira par se terminer. Le problème ne se produit pas à chaque fois. Parfois, le téléchargement se fait sans problème.
Como é um arquivo grande, devo mencionar que o MEGA às vezes para no meio do download. Feche a janela. Clique no link novamente. Pode ser necessário fazer isso várias vezes para um download grande, mas ele eventualmente será concluído. O problema não ocorre todas as vezes. Às vezes, o download ocorre sem problemas.
