You're welcome. We should also give thanks to Hell and High Water for hosting the site and registering the domain through all these years (as well as maintaining the gigography!)
I'd like to direct some thanks to Kuk91 for ferreting out so much good stuff (and posting so many great pics), as well as quite a few others who contribute to keeping the site alive. We are just about the only remaining PJH fan site nowadays.
Regarding YT videos, I do ignore linking to some of the more egregious examples of YT smart phone video, but if the user was close enough I'll link to them even if it was fairly shaky.
Back in the "day", tapers lurked in the back with surreptitious camcorders on tripods. Those are exceedingly rare now, so most bootleg video is handheld smart phones and usually not so good unless they're very good at being steady and/or very close. Of course the other alternative is webcast video which is orders of magnitude better quality than it was 10 years ago.
By an incredible stroke of luck, my 2011 Warfield video was decent because I scored a front row balcony seat in the presale and used my camera (not smart phone) propped up with cardboard shims and duct tape that I brought to the gig for that purpose. I put the camera on the balcony ledge with the shims and held it in place with the duct tape. You laugh, but it worked well. There was one gap where I had to swap out the battery for a fresh one. Hell and I were both there with our newly acquired Zoom H2 recorders (builtin mics only) and recorded the audio for the gig that way, but amazingly we both managed to loose our recordings while trying to figure out the awful H2 user interface! Moral of the story: practice before the gig. Luckily the NPR broadcast from the soundboard served as better audio anyway. I convinced a dime user to sync the NPR audio to my video and it went up on the Zomb tracker. We documented the audio as "multisource" (my native camera audio, a dime audience audio and NPR soundboard), but in fact the NPR audio (128 kbps) was what was used. It was upped on Zomb to avoid trouble on dime (who are notoriously picky about sources).
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