| Author | Message | ||
     spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 243 Registered: 05-2005 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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." |