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spence
Member Username: Spence
Post Number: 243 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 12:34 pm: | |
On the flipside, what's people's favourite GB's live ditty then? Mine used to be Cattle and Cane. Now its a toss up between, Finding You and Spring Rain. |
Kurt Stephan
Member Username: Slothbert
Post Number: 174 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 06:07 pm: | |
Based on the show I saw last year, I'd have to say "Spring Rain," with--surprisingly--"The Clock" right up there too. |
Hardin Smith
Member Username: Manosludge
Post Number: 54 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 06:52 pm: | |
I don't have enough experience seeing the GBs live to have much of an informed opinion here, but I gotta say, the acoustic versions on the live disc are mighty fine, especially "Bachelor Kisses" and "Dive..." Even if GM sounds like he had too many Gitanes and RF rambles on a bit, the guitar interplay going on there is quite loverly! |
Mark Tuffield
Member Username: Mark_t
Post Number: 23 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 11:39 pm: | |
I really appreciate the “live” rendition of Part Company that features on the DVD. As recorded on SHF, I always think that the “strings” get in the way of, and indeed takeover what is otherwise a beautifully plaintive song. |
Hardin Smith
Member Username: Manosludge
Post Number: 66 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 12:00 am: | |
The Acoustic Stories section is a real treasure...Anyone know where it's set? Is that GM's house? Also, did the Cat. 5 typhoon hit anywhere near Brisbane? A colleague just called over the wall that one had hit... |
David Matheson
Member Username: David_matheson
Post Number: 64 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 10:41 am: | |
Throughout the nineties I dreamed that the Go-Betweens would reform one day. When I saw them play in Sydney in January 2001 they opened with Dive For Your Memory and all my dreams had come true. I'll never forget that memory. |
spence
Member Username: Spence
Post Number: 249 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 11:22 am: | |
David, nice thought that, glad it came true. I remember seeing GB's at the Forum in '97, it seemed like a dream then. I hadn't seen them since '89 on the last tour and I didn't think I'd be seeing them again. The place was packed, but it seemed a bit sad as there were no releases on the horizon, so it was a bity like going to see a tribute GB's, the whole thing seemed muted and dream-like, as if I'd just woken from a dream of watching them play a gig from my subconscious! |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 233 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 12:35 am: | |
I saw them two nights running in Dublin in that brief 1997 tour Spence and it was awesome. Both audience and band were blown away. |
Todd Slater
Member Username: Todd_slater
Post Number: 40 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 12:13 pm: | |
I saw them perform a great version of Lee Remick at the Tivoli in Brisbane in 2003 which was pretty cool. |
Donat
Member Username: Donat
Post Number: 126 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 11:32 am: | |
The acoustic session on the DVD was recorded at Warwick Vere's house, the owner of Rocking Horse Records in Brisbane. 'Twin Layers Of Lightning' live (with Amanda's beautiful oboe lines) is definitely up there for me. When The Go-Betweens were Warm Nights plus Grant in the late 90s, they used to perform jaw dropping versions of 'In The Core Of A Flame' - a lot more jumpy and urgent than the album version, with a dramatic pause after the line, "those who like diamonds, and those who like dirt." |