Red Mosquito

Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:

TremorJam wrote:I don't know what it is about last year's bootlegs, but they were pretty hit or miss for me. I have a hard time even wanting to listen to them. There's a few that are pretty damn good, though. Pemberton and Telluride are excellent. One I was enamored with on first listen, Quebec City, I tried to listen to it again and cringed when I heard how horrible Once sounded and can't quite get past it. Some shows were fast and others plodded along. Forgotten lyrics and poor enunciation drives me crazy. Ed really should think about using a teleprompter..

As far back as 2003, Ed was regularly fucking up songs like Hail Hail and State Of Love And Trust every night and nobody ever told him to shape up. But then in 2005 he was singing them right again, so he must have re-learned them again in rehearsals. He just forgets shit.

cutuphalfdead wrote:corduroy
given to fly

ridleybradout wrote:I'd like to hear a version of Swallowed Whole with the correct lyrics once before I die.

Spoiler: show

twice

Spoiler: show

in the same day

lecherouslittlestump wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:corduroy
given to fly

One of the few modern (although it's over 10 years old at this point) versions of Corduroy is this version from Reading 06. Something about the crowd's reaction when the riff kicks in, the fact that it was their first festival since 00 (I think), the opening line "the waiting drove me mad" etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeMjkCs ... freload=10

Watching this, it's sad to see how far EV's voice has deteriorated these last 10 years.

ridleybradout wrote:As far as trainwrecks go - Life Wasted has been nearly every attempt since 2006 - yet they still persist! Even f*cked it up for the TMR record

tragabigzanda wrote:

darth_vedder wrote:I don't mind Corduroy live, sans the call and response. That is effing terrible.

re: Matt... evenslow / trag... did you see my post on pg. 1? Curious to see if y'all hate all Jack songs with Matt or just like recently?

The "tribal" songs (IMT, WYA, GTF) have sucked since the moment Matt joined. Most of the other ones -- the straightforward rockers -- were awesome for Matt's first several years.

Kevin Davis wrote:I think "trainwreck" is a huge overstatement for most of these. The only PJ original with an overwhelmingly unfavorable trainwreck-to-total-performances ratio is "Hitchhiker." Most of these are just songs that just never quite caught fire live, or songs that have lost nuance over the years, or songs that were better with other personnel. Not really what I think of when I think "trainwreck."

Kevin Davis wrote:I think "trainwreck" is a huge overstatement

Kevin Davis wrote:I think "trainwreck" is a huge overstatement for most of these. The only PJ original with an overwhelmingly unfavorable trainwreck-to-total-performances ratio is "Hitchhiker." Most of these are just songs that just never quite caught fire live, or songs that have lost nuance over the years, or songs that were better with other personnel. Not really what I think of when I think "trainwreck."

TremorJam wrote:No Way sounded alright in Milwaukee when they performed Yield. The last time they played it was at LA2 in 2013 The other worst show of the last few years...