Line Out - Comments on Poor Tom

Comment by Tante

Tante — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:32:18 -0800

Let's talk "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" as in the meanest man in the whole darn town...if I could stop time in a bottle, someone would bring Jim Croce back to the stage. He couldn't sing all his stuff even before the plane crashed. Too many musical crashes.
Tante

Comment by Dougsf

Dougsf — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:24:08 -0800

Here's a Line Out appropriate one: Jawbreaker never played Eye 5 live, or at least they didn't play it outside of a handful of early shows. Great early song for them, too bad.

Comment by Monty

Monty — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:34:12 -0800

"Wang Dang Sweet Poontang."

Did the Nuge ever do that one?

Comment by Dougsf

Dougsf — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:56:14 -0800

It would have been interesting if the Beatles had continued as a touring band after '66.

Given the post-Revolver material, they probably would have either taken a different musical direction altogether; or given their resources, crafted themselves into quite an elaborate traveling show.

A shame most of their best material never got to be played for an audience. At least not by the Beatles, anyhow.

Comment by McGraw

McGraw — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:04:16 -0800

As Trent well knows, the Kinchafoonee Cowboys are not afraid to run with B.B.L.B., among other select nuggets. Do you think "Black Betty" was ever done live? If so, it could not have approached the recorded version.

Comment by shitbrain

shitbrain — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:55:23 -0800

Robyn Hitchcock, "Autumn Sea".

Comment by jen

jen — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:55:31 -0800

long ago i read something michael stipe said about playing "flowers of guatemala" live and seeing people crying in the audience. i've seen them six times since then and never heard it, and doubt i ever will.

Comment by Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:34:08 -0800

The Beatles did play "Paperback Writer" live. Have you seen the Beatles Anthology? There's footage of a televised concert from Budokan in 1966 with them playing. George plays the chords underneath the vocals so the guys can get the harmonies right. They don't, and a few seconds later you get all three of the then-remaining Beatles talking about how shit their playing had become at that point.

Comment by Matthew J. Crane

Matthew J. Crane — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:37:38 -0800

Well, the Jimi Hendrix Experience performing "1983(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)" would have been pretty cool...

Probably fits into the too difficult to perform category.

Comment by Mattydread

Mattydread — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:34:18 -0800

Um, it was actually FORTY shots. Bonham had four quadruple vodkas for BREAKFAST. 16 shots shouldn't kill anybody in good health, especially not a big alcoholic man, as long as you pass out and stop drinking.
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Comment by trent moorman

trent moorman — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:26:18 -0800

I knew he kept drinking after the 16 shots. But 40 shots, sheesh. Someone told me he had the equivalent of 2 gallons of vodka. That's a lot of vodka.

Comment by Dougsf

Dougsf — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:11:00 -0800

Kelly, #8: Interesting. I haven't seen that since it aired, and didn't remember that bit.

I'm glad the peoples stopped touring. We've got a handful of brilliant studio records for it.