Re: I Know I Know but... Next Live Trax Please
My top tour priority for the next Live Trax is Summer 1998 - zero released shows, I think only one Warehouse track even (Say Bye tour debut from Hartford). Here is my top 5 wants from this tour. For the sake of variety, I'm only listing one show each from the guested shows.
Honorable Mention:
a. August 9, 1998 - Noblesville - a Sunday night old school banger. Last true classic performance of #36.
5. August 13, 1998 - Dallas. The Cricket Show. While this show might not the best performed, it is certainly unique and is a fun listen. Everyone is annoyed by the crickets. Dave talks about them many times. Carter walks off stage near the end of Jimi because of them. Dave and the rest of the group do an impromptu full band debut of Spoon without Carter. After this Carter returns, and they turn on all of the house lights for the rest of the show to draw the crickets away from the stage lights. Dave tells a story about this show during the 2003 Dave & Tim tour opener.
4. July 24, 1998 - Camden. Greg Howard guested on a few shows the kick off the tour. While the tour opener at VA the band feels a little tired on tape, the two in Camden are anything but. Seek Up > Rapunzel, 41, Last Stop, Seek Up is about impossible to beat as an opening 5 songs. That's before Greg comes out on Tree, DDTW, and OSW. This tour segment has a few blown out Bridges, and the set ending Recently > Bridge > Too Much and the encore of Typical > Greg solo > Tower ends the show as strongly as started. Tough call between this and the next night, the best solution is Encore Trax from 7/25 with Two Step, Lover, Nancies, Wynona (w/ Greg) and they might as well give us the night 2 Tree as well.
3. August 4, 1998 - Burgettstown. This is a scorcher! They played at Star Lake at the end of the Spring tour (the only show to have 9 BTCS songs played), then came back two months later on the Summer tour. This is one of those shows when you're listening that every song feels like the right song to play next starting with the Seek Up opener. Say Goodbye is starting to become of the set pieces of each night's show. The encore blows up in length due to Stefan meandering his Tower solo into a 10+ minute long Stir It Up jam.
2. August 7, 1998 - Antioch. Easily the most unique Bela Fleck guested show. He wasn't part of the opening band, just guesting because they were in the greater Nashville area. Fleck guests on seven songs - a few of his staple from the era: Graves, DDTW and Billies, but also a handful of unique ones - Crush, Pay For What You Get & the lone encore Say Goodbye (only time for each), and The Stone (only twice - Philly '99 being the other).
1. August 23, 1998 - Bristow. Lots of competition for this tour's guest show spot, especially from other Headhunter shows. Tim guests 8/18, 8/20 and 8/21, the 8/20 tape is incomplete (fading in the Seek Up opener). This show drips energy from the walls. Bill Summers guests on percussion most of the set and it's unique to listen to that much added percussion. When shows can wind down around 2/3 mark in the setlist, that's when they drop in Say Bye and Last Stop - both sound great with Summers. Give me an Encore Trax disc with Seek Up > Rapunzel, The Stone, Graves, and the Pig, Stir It Up > Tower encore from night 1 and it's a show that 55 Live Traxes later that might break the top 5.
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