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Re: the 1996 tour may have been the band's peak performance. - daylight - 08-13-2016
andrew sharpe Wrote:Live Between Us is my favourite official live album, with honourable mention to Pearl Jam's Live on Two Legs, E-Street Band 1975-1985, Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison, and Bob Marley and the Wailers Live. Yes, I honestly feel LBU is that good.
For me what makes LBU so amazing is that it's pretty much uncut. Most live albums are edited, if not spliced together from many shows, if not mixed with studio performances like stupid Kiss. LBU is ONE show.
However I will say I have listened to hundreds of Hip bootlegs from all eras and I would say that show, although a standout, is not atypical in terms of performance. The truth is that the band are just killers live, and always have been.
As a follow up to this, I'm listening to Live from the Vault 6 today (Cleveland 1996) and it's a great companion piece to LBU. Pretty similar setlists but different enough that it's worth a listen. Kind of like a bizarro LBU. About half of Phantom Power is previewed in the 100th jam, not to mention a fair bit of Coke Machine Glow material.
I'd probably buy a bunch more shows from the mid to late 90s tours if they were available.
Re: the 1996 tour may have been the band's peak performance. - TheStruggleHasAName - 08-14-2016
andrew sharpe Wrote:Live Between Us is my favourite official live album, with honourable mention to Pearl Jam's Live on Two Legs, E-Street Band 1975-1985, Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison, and Bob Marley and the Wailers Live. Yes, I honestly feel LBU is that good.
For me what makes LBU so amazing is that it's pretty much uncut. Most live albums are edited, if not spliced together from many shows, if not mixed with studio performances like stupid Kiss. LBU is ONE show.
However I will say I have listened to hundreds of Hip bootlegs from all eras and I would say that show, although a standout, is not atypical in terms of performance. The truth is that the band are just killers live, and always have been.
I agree 100%. I wish I could listen to that whole show, too. It ended with Little Bones and Locked which are my two favourite songs ever. And they played Escape (pre-release) which is my third favourite!
Track listing:
"Grace, Too" – 6:18
"Fully Completely" – 4:11
"Springtime in Vienna" – 4:37
"Twist My Arm" – 4:05
"Gift Shop" – 5:09
"Ahead by a Century" – 5:25
"The Luxury" – 4:08
"Courage" – 5:08
"New Orleans Is Sinking" – 6:22
"Don't Wake Daddy" – 5:30
"Scared" – 5:00
"Blow at High Dough" – 4:54
"Nautical Disaster" – 5:31
"The Wherewithal" – 4:14
Actual Setlist:
Grace, Too
Fully Completely
Springtime in Vienna
Twist My Arm
Gift Shop
Ahead by a Century
The Luxury
700 ft. Ceiling
Courage (for Hugh MacLennan)
Daredevil
Flamenco
Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man
New Orleans Is Sinking
Don't Wake Daddy
Scared
Blow at High Dough
Nautical Disaster
The Wherewithal
Thugs
Everytime You Go
Fire in the Hole
Locked in the Trunk of a Car
Little Bones
Re: the 1996 tour may have been the band's peak performance. - mark - 08-14-2016
did an audience recording of this show ever surface?
edit: i just checked my old bootleg database site i used to maintain and it turns out it was recorded. does anyone have a copy?
• 11/23/96 - Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI
Sennheiser MKE-2002 > Sony D8
Re: the 1996 tour may have been the band's peak performance. - blacksox12 - 08-14-2016
mark Wrote:did an audience recording of this show ever surface?
edit: i just checked my old bootleg database site i used to maintain and it turns out it was recorded. does anyone have a copy?
• 11/23/96 - Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI
Sennheiser MKE-2002 > Sony D8
I do somewhere in my files. Pretty sure I downloaded it from one of the Hip boots sites. Know it was a MP3. It is excellent to hear the full show with all songs included. One of my favourites.
Re: the 1996 tour may have been the band's peak performance. - msjpearson - 08-15-2016
Any shows you'd recommend checking out? Searching YouTube.
Re: the 1996 tour may have been the band's peak performance. - darkest1 - 08-15-2016
The variable on the shows is always Downie... The other four are remarkably consistent.
Amazing they can have such a huge catalogue - love them forever.
I had a crazy weird dream about them last night and then woke up to this Eishockey Hits thing, and was trying to decide if I was still asleep