12-18-2017, 04:58 PM
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Shotgun versus Blue Water
Thematically, both songs cover the same subject. Which song is better.
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12-18-2017, 05:19 PM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
Blue Water though I like both a lot
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12-18-2017, 05:34 PM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
Blue Water
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12-18-2017, 06:07 PM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
Shotgun is a good song, but Blue Water is one of my all time favorites. Blue Water by a mile.
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12-18-2017, 06:11 PM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
Never really thought blue water and shotgun were the same thematically. Shotgun I always saw as like a guy (or a mom/dad) finding that his girlfriend or wife has killed herself and him asking like why didn’t she just talk to him (literally). I know this isn’t every version but I think the concrete lyrics it’s had since 2007 kinda portray this. I guess I never really thought about or understood what blue water is about which is weird. I love that song so much. Now that I think of it is it about someone cutting themselves lol? I don’t even know.
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12-18-2017, 06:45 PM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
Blue Water is the better song, but I would prefer to hear Shotgun full band in concert
although Blue Water in 2018 full band I am all for |
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12-18-2017, 06:53 PM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
I like Blue Water but always thought it was overrated because of it being a rarity.
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12-18-2017, 08:21 PM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
Blue Water is a fucking bore.
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12-18-2017, 08:29 PM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
Good songs on both accounts. I think I'd have a preference for Shotgun and that is primarily due to the combination of Dave's screaming and the syncopation of the horns. Good topic for a thread!
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12-18-2017, 11:23 PM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
Love blue water, it is like an acid trip combined with a connection to nature. The wetland version '96 with Warren Hayes is one of my all time favorites.
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12-19-2017, 04:05 AM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
I have always loved the simplicity of Blue Water. The lyrics are great, and the melody is awesome. It's a track Boyd can really breathe on, so that's a major plus. If you have never heard it, the version from the DMBLive series is really great, from the Bayou show. Boyd yells at a guy in the crowd lol, it's pretty funny. Also on the Forever Moore compilation there is a really good version. Shotgun I guess I would lean more towards as a what I would listen to first kind of thing, but it always depends on mood. That 2007 sampler version is just out of this world. The guitar riff, the whole band jamming away. It's great. Tough choice
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12-19-2017, 04:42 AM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
An early shotgun might beat a later blue water, but all the early blue waters were incredible. Love the '95 version with Boyd's extended solo.
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12-19-2017, 06:18 AM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
Blue Water, not close
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12-19-2017, 06:41 AM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
Love them both, but gotta go with Shotgun.
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12-19-2017, 06:51 AM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
Blue Water
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12-19-2017, 08:19 AM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
Both great, fairly different themes.
However, Shotgun's riff [+ the introduction of the Gryphon] is one of Dave's greatest. Which is no hyperbole. The Pink Floyd/existential vibe of BW is in a class of its own within DMB's catalogue but is for sure an outlier. Shotgun's riff and arrangement, on the other hand, is quintessential 2006 DMB and is unmistakably a favorite of his. That said, my hope and dream was that Shotgun's debut on 6.10.06 would follow the same trajectory as Blue Water and become the epic emotional explosion that I know it can be. It never quite fully realized that dream and for that I will never forgive it. While the intro/bridge /chorus instrumentation is gorgeous and I love it, I never really found that it matched the weight and the tone of the main riff and it for sure changed the whole vibe of the song. I don't know why I decided to unearth these ancient opinions of Shotgun on this random ass Tuesday morning but here we are. BW>SG
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12-19-2017, 08:20 AM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
2006 shogun overall but blue water jam kicks the shit out of anything shotgun has done
shotgun has regressed with each preformance. i've heard it just about every year it was played and it's only gotten worse and worse. one of the most overrated songs in the catalogue
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12-19-2017, 08:24 AM
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12-19-2017, 08:32 AM
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12-19-2017, 08:33 AM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
Shotgun.
I agree it has regressed, but I'd be more excited to get Shotgun at a show. Love the riff and horns. |
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12-19-2017, 08:37 AM
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12-19-2017, 08:39 AM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
Blue Water.
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12-19-2017, 08:41 AM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
I've heard both live twice.
I like Shotgun live better. But Blue Water is a solid song. |
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12-19-2017, 09:52 AM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
Have to go with Shotgun (but Shotgun is in my top 5 and I would pick it over a lot of other songs)
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12-19-2017, 10:37 AM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
what is the date of the last full-on Blue Water?
I truly love Shotgun, but might have to give the edge to the best of the Blue Waters. |
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12-19-2017, 01:47 PM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
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on the topic - Shotgun for me for sure, for the riff, drums, horn lines, lyrics etc etc etc (it's top 10 for me) but I can see why people love BW
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12-19-2017, 03:48 PM
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12-19-2017, 04:01 PM
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Which version? Want to make sure I'm lambasting the correct version 
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12-19-2017, 05:45 PM
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Re: Shotgun versus Blue Water
Best shotgun is Hershey 2012, most solid and cohesive lyrics with some epic wailing. Best blue water is LT20. I would put either version on par with each other.
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12-19-2017, 07:18 PM
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Most certainly referring to the 2012 performance from Hershey, PA... on the AFTW Bonus DVD |
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