Red Mosquito

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Please don't list your favorite performance of each song. This thread is for one performance, of one song, above all others, that is your all time favorite

I'm sorry for derailing you thread.

Blood - Berlin '96, I first heard it on a fan made tape when I was in high school. I think it was called Full of Code.

I thought Long Road in Chicago 2009 was very moving. I believe it was for a friend of Jeff's who had died. He was even on the awful poster for the show. Anyway, Ed absolutely poured himself into it. I'm sure other performances of that song rank higher (maybe the one he did in S.D. for his theater teacher), but in the 39 shows I've been to, it's the first performance that came to mind.

daft twat wrote:I thought Long Road in Chicago 2009 was very moving. I believe it was for a friend of Jeff's who had died. He was even on the awful poster for the show. Anyway, Ed absolutely poured himself into it. I'm sure other performances of that song rank higher (maybe the one he did in S.D. for his theater teacher), but in the 39 shows I've been to, it's the first performance that came to mind.

THis was really great.

I love this thread. PJ love melts my simpleton heart

daft twat wrote:I thought Long Road in Chicago 2009 was very moving. I believe it was for a friend of Jeff's who had died. He was even on the awful poster for the show. Anyway, Ed absolutely poured himself into it. I'm sure other performances of that song rank higher (maybe the one he did in S.D. for his theater teacher), but in the 39 shows I've been to, it's the first performance that came to mind.

That was a wonderful performance -- that whole show had a somber mood that was uncharacteristic of shows at that time, between starting off with "Long Road," the "Needle and the Damage Done" encore for Michael Jackson, "Come Back" and "Man of the Hour" -- there was definitely a theme of mortality running through that gig.

Tough to pick one single favorite performance but one that's made every playlist of mine since it's been out is "Let Me Sleep" from the PJ20 soundtrack. I know they had a small crowd and camera crew in tow but I still love the spontaneous, intimate feel of that performance -- it's extremely rare that we get to hear the band so unproduced, and as a result it hits me on a gut level that none of their other live performances do. For as much as Jeff, Stone, and Matt kind of come across as the anchors that prevent Ed and Mike from floating off into realms of arena rock comedy, over the years they've really proven that they excel as a sort of scaled back version of the band on their own terms -- "Masters of War" from Bobfest '92, "YL" from TFC, "Long Road" from the 9/11 show, this. Might just have to play this one today -- along with that Chicago show!

Not a deep cut by any means but DTE from Lo2L is still my favorite.

doone wrote:Not a deep cut by any means but DTE from Lo2L is still my favorite.

Oh yeah that's a good one

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

doone wrote:Not a deep cut by any means but DTE from Lo2L is still my favorite.

Oh yeah that's a good one

Prefer DTE from Champaign '03 - "let's go!"

Alive from Pink Pop 92. Check out the video on youtube

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LooseGroove927 wrote:Alive from Pink Pop 92. Check out the video on youtube

Strat wrote:

daft twat wrote:I thought Long Road in Chicago 2009 was very moving. I believe it was for a friend of Jeff's who had died. He was even on the awful poster for the show. Anyway, Ed absolutely poured himself into it. I'm sure other performances of that song rank higher (maybe the one he did in S.D. for his theater teacher), but in the 39 shows I've been to, it's the first performance that came to mind.

THis was really great.

I love this thread. PJ love melts my simpleton heart

Agreed. Great thread, Ruddo!

Has chud posted that brain of j video yet?

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Has chud posted that brain of j video yet?

AL

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Has chud posted that brain of j video yet?

Classic chud.

Porch from Atlanta '94... the jam is SO intense, and Mike fucking nails every lick he plays!

"I think you won... but I enjoyed the fight... 1-2-3-4..."

Iholdthepain wrote:Porch from Atlanta '94... the jam is SO intense, and Mike fucking nails every lick he plays!

"I think you won... but I enjoyed the fight... 1-2-3-4..."

It's mind blowing. Everyone is up for it and deliver in spades. Dave A is immense.

Hail, Hail or Grievance from Letterman

Jeremy from the '92 VMAs. It brought me from a guy that didn't care one way or the other about them to a full-out fan. And I've never looked back.